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The process of immigration has as many perspectives as it does joys and challenges. While we often read, watch, or hear about immigration from the perspective of immigrants themselves, the story does not start or stop with them. This paper uses José Martí's "Our America", Ernesto Galarza's Barrio Boy, and Jesús Colón's "Grandma, Please Don't Come!" to examine how the experience of immigration shapes the perspectives of those both inside and outside of the experience itself, and how these…

The Spanish Conquest of the Aztec Empire in the early sixteenth century has been recounted by two primary documents. The True History of the Conquest of New Spain and The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico both share some similarities and differences pertaining to the author's perspective on what truly happened such as the way the Spaniards were welcomed, outlook on culture, and interpretation of the war. This paper will compare both accounts of the encounters between the…

69 years had passed, but not forgotten, the time of the Dutch Colonization. After a terrorizing 347 years, Indonesia is finally free. Free, but affected. Dutch had left an imprint in Indonesia in so many ways you can't even imagine. The tactics of the Dutch on taking over Indonesia were very intelligent and the impacts it had made in Indonesia both intellectually and economically were very drastic. To discuss in-depth about the thesis above, the following topics would be explained in the…

Realizing the potential of the spice trade, the journey to find the quickest route to the “Spice Islands” was off to a go and the British, Dutch, and Portuguese were off to the races. Similarly to the British, Hollands government encouraged rival merchant companies to unify in order to create a government-run monopoly. Their only goal: to make money. With a stable financial backing and a stronger fleet, the Dutch quickly rose to power in the Asian trade market and was considered the first truly…

foundation of new colonies. In Frontier of Possessions, Tamar Herzog, a historian, professor of Latin American presents an account of the conquest from a different perspective, one that proposes that the acquisition of the territory of the New World by Spain and Portugal was a result of “interactions of many actors that caused territorial division in both Iberia and the Americas” (Herzog, 6). Hence, I conquer that one of the reasons of the conquest was the desire to…

Immigrants from all over have come to the United States for better life chances such as work, school, and to escape violence. Many people perceive the United States as the greatest country on Earth because of the many job opportunities and great schools housed there. Because people are migrating to new lands or countries, I believed that it must be hard for immigrant youths to excel or adapt to a new culture. I believed this because I previously worked at an elementary school where there were…

Moving into a new country is a frightening experience, especially if you come illegally. The short stories¨The Trip¨ by Laila Lalami, the poem¨Exile¨ by Julia Alvarez, and the article¨ Outlaw:My life as an undocumented immigrant.¨ by Jose Vargas, all outline the experience of being an immigrant in a country. In all three of these pieces, we view characters who are moving to a new country and facing challenges of immigrating. The main characters in each story are facing challenges of moving to a…

Double-Consciousness Essay After relocating to a new country, immigrants are faced with a plethora of issues surrounding their identity. The incoming pioneers are at a crossroad between their native culture and the culture of their new home. This tends to make immigrants either remain unchanged, acculturate themselves into the new culture while preserving the old one, or change their whole image as a person. In Zadie Smith’s novel White Teeth, Samad deals with his double-consciousness by…

Foreign-born Americans, as well as the generations before them, have been the main driver of U.S. population growth and the epicenter of national racial and ethnic change, since passage of the 1965 law that changed the nation’s immigration policy. It is projected they will remain as such over the next 50 years. This comes as a surprising, yet fearful revelation in a country that has seen an increase in immigration tension and alienation. A recent survey done by the Public Research Religious…

Today are more than eleven million of immigrants that live undocumented in the United States. In fact, all those immigrants have to deal every day with an insecure situation that affects their whole lives. The author of Undocumented Dan-el Padilla Peralta described with interesting details his undocumented life. He came from the Dominican Republic to live in the USA with his family. Dan-el faced with a different reality from his family life in the original country. Being undocumented in the…