The Emigrants

The name “Puritan” originally was an affront given to the group of people who desired to “purify” the Church of England by traditional Anglicans. The Puritans criticized the Church of England and did not agree with their beliefs and practices. At first, the Puritans did not wish to separate from the church they only desired to transform it. After their failed attempts of trying to recruit the assistance of the archbishop and writing a letter to Parliament, they decided their only option was to…

Battle of Pearl Harbor Relations were strained between the United States and Japan after this historical day. Neither side looked at each other the same when Japan led a surprise attack in Pearl Harbor. “As costly as it was in the lives of our men and women in uniform, in military assets, and in esteem and pride, Pearl Harbor was a watershed moment for America.” On December 7th, 1941 (at approximately 7:48 a.m.) was commemorated as “a date which we will live in infamy”, said by Franklin…

This does not mean that Pain wants America and Britain to forever be at war, but he is saying that in order to bring overall peace, America needs to be its own nation in order to thrive on its own and prevent further fighting. This will prevent emigrants from going to their colony of bad governing and constant fighting. One of his reasons is that the British has a monarchy rule with an unfair kind, and America wants to be a democracy. Paine does not think that the king has the right to tell…

Karl Heinrich Marx was a philosopher, historian, revolutionary, and social scientist. His socialist thinking emerged from the 19th century. Marx’s ideas gained popularity after his death in the socialist movement. Also, his ideas have been modified for future generations and has brought change to political circumstances. Karl Heinrich Marx born in Trier, Prussia on May 5, 1818. He came from a long line of rabbis from both sides of the family. In 1818, Heinrich Marx, Karl Marx’s father,…

Introduction: Jhumpa Lahiri deals really with generalizations in her “Interpreter of Maladies” in which many of her women characters depicted in diasporic situations. Her women characters, which are related to husband and wife roles within marriages, are sympathetic in description and they are found as stereotypical of Indian culture by the American readers. Married woman characters of Lahiri often deal with confusions of marriage such as; relation to cooking, working outside the home, and…

Human migration is an ancient phenomenon that started along with the subsistence of human beings on earth. It influences human life and the environment around as well; hence it is known as one of the three basic components of population growth of any geographical area (The other two are Mortality and Fertility). Moving from one place to another for many reasons including, for a better living conditions, food, employment, education, business etc. have been taking place since the beginning. When a…

create new frontiers through natural beauty. However, another reaction to the age of Romanticism was the emotion of nostalgia, with a constant and continual praise of nature and the frontier. These ideals are displayed in Albert Bierstadt’s painting Emigrants Crossing the Plains (1867) where settlers are depicted moving towards the west into a large horizon. Bierstadt captures the passion towards moving west and the amount of untouched wilderness in order to establish a longing of the Romantic…

Though it might seem that their family was leaving danger and troubles behind, in reality many new “life struggles” were just beginning. My interview with Asraa has allowed me to see that here in the United States she is faced with a myriad of issues and challenges such as language barriers, cultural differences and discrimination within society. Asraa’s family moved to the United States with a group of other families from Iraq. They all share a common starting point. Asraa says that it has…

Constance Baker Motley was born on September 14, 1921 in New Haven, Connecticut. She was the ninth child in a family of 12 children. Her parents were emigrants from the island of Nevis in the West Indies. Motley attended New Haven’s integrated public schools and soon became a keen reader. She was inspired by books concerning civil rights heroes and at the age of 15 she decided to become a lawyer. Due to her family's economic situation, she could not afford to attend college immediately after…

characteristic for [the novel] is an eternal re-thinking and re-evaluating. That center of activity that ponders and justifies the past is transferred to the future” (Bakhtin the Dialogic Imagination, 31). Jhumpa Lahiri was born in England to Indian emigrants, and was raised in Rhode Island primarily as an Indian and not an American. Her father worked as a librarian and her mother a teacher; therefore, literature became a natural calling for Lahiri. Through “Interpreter of Maladies, Lahiri…