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American Dream: The Solution In the book Always Running: La Vida Loca Gang Days in LA by Luis J. Rodriguez. The author explains the american dream that’s in Crisis by explaining from his personal experience. Rodriguez starts his story from when he was came into LA as an immigrant along with his family. While him and his family stayed in LA that was infested with with gangs in the 50-60’s. Rodriguez started getting involved with gangs at a young age so he can be protected and to belong somewhere…

The idea of the America Dream is the driving reason why immigrants make the tough transition to America. The American dream is the concept that anybody can have social/ economic mobility, if they put in enough work to move upward in society. The film, “My American Girls: A Dominican Story” directed by Aaron Matthews, tells a story about a first-generation immigrant family from the Dominican Republic, who has come to America so that they can construct a home and raise their daughters with an…

The vast immigration to this country characterized by many as a melting pot was defined by the lives and cultures of immigrants who affected the society of America. The cultures of the pilgrims changed the governing spectrum of the land, while the spaniards brought with them the religion of their forefathers through missionaries. And more recently today hispanics bring with them cheaper labor, while all immigrants bring with the the loved ‘cheap labor’ and despised jobs by society which promote…

The Current Refugee Crisis The amount of people the have immigrated or are attempting immigrate to Europe or many other countries in the world has increased drastically over the course of years. In the New York Times article, “Desperate Crossings” is a story about people from Eritrea, Africa who are trying to flee their home country and go to Italy, Greece. The authors Paolo Pellegrin, who did most of the photography, and Scott Anderson, who did the articles text, travelled with Bourbon…

Argument analysis After jeff’s sessions speech about rescinding DACA and his words about how DACA “Denied jobs to hundreds of thousands of Americans”, DACA became a trending, hot, and divisive topic that social media and people talk about. In this argument, I will analyze two of the op-eds written about DACA and how it affected the current situation of immigrants in the united states. The first op-ed is “NO, DACA immigrants aren’t stealing American jobs” written by Bryce Covert published in the…

Dream to Reality The American Dream has been a phrase used since the beginning of the United States. Immigrants travel to the U.S. in search of freedom, jobs, and a reasonable way of life. However, this is not always the case. Immigrants are treated very poor. They live in the slums, do the most dangerous work and are not treated as American citizens. This way of life is seen the most in the meat packing industry. This industry was the lowest of jobs that no one wanted but the immigrants were…

thought. He used people for his needs, pressured them about Christianity, enslaved many and most importantly, genocide. The rulers of Spain, King Ferdinand of Aragon and Queen Isabella of Castille sent Columbus and his crew to find the riches out in the new world. In 1942, he sailed the ocean blue with the Santa Maria, Pinta and Nina. Columbus set sailed from Spain and planned to make it to Asia because he’s heard that’s where all the gold and spices are, but landed west of his intended…

World Literature has many things to offer as a college class. For instance, a student has the opportunity to obtain knowledge of different authors and their culture as well as the impact their works had on literature, however, some works has bigger impacts than others and therefore are critical to be taught in a World Literature course. If I were a World Literature instructor, The Iliad, The Prince and Don Quixote would be the three works that I would have to include into my curriculum. These…

The exoticization of Spain present in Debussy’s La soire ́e dans Grenade recognizes and incorporates the native sounds and rhythms of Spain with an emphasis of importing Andalusian classical music. With La soire ́e dans Grenade, Debussy tries to paint a picture of exotic Spain for Western audiences by drawing influence from increase cultural attention of Iberian Andalusi (Islamic) heritage present in Granada. Interest in Iberian Andalusi tradition began with the publication of Antigüedades árabes…

Hemingway App makes your writing bold and clear. America isn’t a promised land, nor is it a hodge-podge of everyone who wanted a different life from the norm. It’s a hypocrisy, from the roots to the leaves. The first time I realized this was the summer of my sophomore year of high school. The day in question, August 9th, didn’t start out any different for me. I woke up to the early morning peeking and browsed the internet, as any teen with a free summer day on their hands does. I had only just…