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Facing The Unexpected In Underground America Narratives of Undocumented Lives, Peter Orner (the editor), tells the stories of twenty-four different undocumented immigrants. Each one had their own unique reasons for coming to America. Albeit their reasoning for coming differed, all were centered around the intention of bettering their lives. Following their arrival, the immigrants found their new lives to be filled with substantially more hardships than they ever imagined was possible. The…

is an entertaining place with lots to do. Los Angeles was not always called “The City of Angels”(Hively). Los Angeles was called “El Pueblo del la Reina de Los Angeles”, or “The Town of the Queen of Angels”(Hively). This was around the time when Spain still believed that they still ruled California, but there was hardly any Spanish settlers. “Spanish rule was overthrown in 1821 by Mexico, which then claimed California but had little luck in attracting settlers”(Hively). Then after that there…

The Container: Critique “What’s happened? Have we stopped?” “The Container” written by Clare Bayley and directed by Tom Wright gives us the story of five immigrants who struggle to get to one destination to achieve the same thing, a better life. Produced in 2007 by Tom Wright and acted by William El-Gardi, Mercy Ojelade, Deborah Leveroy, Chris Spyrides, Edward Mostafa and Doreene Blackstock who bring the story to life by giving us a better understanding of their character role by showing us…

Cabeza de Vaca’s Miraculous Journey Imagine that you get stranded on an uncharted island. Twice! It is 1527, a soldier by the name of Cabeza de Vaca took charge. His leader, Panfilo de Narvaez, and many of his crew drowned on a ship set for New Spain. While shipwrecked on an uncharted island, he and his remaining crew built 4 rafts. Only Cabeza’s raft made it to shore on yet another uncharted island. Cabeza, along with a small portion of the remaining crew were captured by Natives and made…

The prescribed text “Go Back To Where You Came From” by Ivan O’Mahoney follows a documented journey of six participants with conflicting views on refugees and asylum seekers. The related text “Neighbours” by Tim Winton, explores a short story on the process of discovery of a young couple’s experiences as they move into a new multicultural neighbourhood. Through human experiences and sudden and unexpected discoveries, individuals are challenged and new perceptions and understandings arise.…

Europe is facing a crisis unlike anything it has experienced before. Millions of people, whether war refugees, economic migrants, or otherwise, are flooding into Europe and pushing it to its limits both economically and socially. The situation on the ground is very dynamic, with refugees typically coming from the countries of Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan. However, Italy in particular, has seen a sharp increase of refugees from northern Africa. The migrants entering Italy are primarily from…

Montejo 's men were exhausted, demoralized, and having found no loot after all their efforts, his conquistadors deserted him. In the year 1540, Montejo, whom has now aged into his late 60 's, passed over his rights to conquer the Yucatán by the King of Spain over to his son, Francisco…

Monarchy was interested in sailing westward in the Atlantic in search of a water passage that would be a shorter route to Asia from Europe and also in search of gold. Why would The Spanish Monarchy hire an Italian explorer to do such an important job for Spain? The Spanish Monarchy hired Columbus for many reasons, however, some of the most important reasons being that he was a skilled traveler, to help with affairs with different countries, and that he was of their religion. Therefore, even…

Sandra Cisneros and Reyna Grande through their subjective narratives emphasize the important contributions that migration played about their family relations and the development of their personal identity. Both authors touch upon similar themes relating to transnationalism and liminal identities, however they greatly differentiate when discussing the factor of citizenship and mobility. Cisneros is born in the U.S. while Reyna Grande is born in Mexico and later migrates to the U.S. as an…

In this essay, I will be summarizing James Fujitani's argument regarding the rejection of the Ming with the Portuguese effort to establish diplomatic relations in 1519. Back in 1517, the Portuguese fleet arrived off the coast of Guangzhou. This was a great moment of symbolic importance to the Portuguese, with making the first official contact between the East Asia and Europe of the early modern period. However, just a few years later, in 1521, these relations broke down by many false rumor…