The Emigrants

The Oregon of today is far different from the Oregon of the past; while today’s Oregon is progressive thinking and much more open to people of all kinds, it has definitely not always been that way. Prejudice and racism have been a steadfast piece of Oregonian culture since before Oregon was even a state; from the language used in the provisional legislature, which banned permanent residency of people of color, to the territorial draft constitution, it was obvious that, according to the residents…

I’ve usually learned in hard way because frankly, I love to challenge myself to expand my personal capacity. Although I had already talked to one of my classmates about having interview with her as a Caucasian woman, I decided to do it with my cousin’s friend, Jacob, who I met in my place for the first time during Thanksgiving holidays. Interviewing Jacob about his interactions with other cultures has made me realize that I have a lot to learn about the meaning of the privilege and holding it.…

When I ask my grandfather what nationality he identifies with, his response is always Kenyan-Goan, instead of Canadian. Yet, he chose Canada as the place to bring his family. Canada is still young compared to the rest of the world, and in this sense lacks cultural definition. Like people, places have their own distinct identities as well, and Canada’s identity is rooted in being a place for those who lack place. Which happens to be the case for my Goan ancestors, their identity is characterized…

Double consciousness encompasses more than just one group of people. The process of partitioning someone’s mind causes a huge strain on any individual. I believe that always focusing on one side causes them not to accept themselves as who they are. We see double consciousness in Asian American culture through “The Woman Warrior” and we see it in Dominican American culture through ‘Oscar Wao” Double consciousness is a term first coined by W.E.B DuBois in In “The Souls of Black Folk”. The term is…

As Nathaniel Hawthorne began to pen The Scarlet Letter, the gender roles of America had began to change in ways that had never been seen in its history. Just two years before the publication of his novel, women from all walks of life had gathered in Seneca Falls, New York to discuss their rights. This conference was the origin of the feminist movement and the culmination of years of small steps for women in their quest for further rights. This fight for additional rights started with Anne…

The United States experienced a flood of immigrants from all over the world, during the 1860’s to the 1920’s, which can also be called the colonial era. The immigrants that entered the United States had many intentions to improve there life. Whether they come for another chance at life, or they come to escape battles, The United States was the go-to option. The United States is home to the American flag, which symbolizes freedom and protection, which is exactly what these immigrants wanted and…

We are born to be free. Freedom does not consist of possessing, but it is actually being without. Not mutual benefits, but violence, greed, hatred, abomination, and much more is what an individual or community does not need. An average American citizen in the United States would define freedom has an individual being able to do anything they feel that does not involve crimes. They have all the rights that are in the Amendments. They are just natural. Therefore, everyone is equal and have the…

2000 Word Pre-Essay The American Dream There is so many things that people don’t know about the American dream because a lot of the facts about the American dream because some but one in the 19th century dream places help the society about the determined Germans fled the failed revolution in the 1840s lots of people have noticed that the despite of the American experience is one sociologist of success and families everything that is in the American dream is all true and when it is true…

Gwen McFerran Mrs. Cullen AP World History May 8, 2017 Living in West Berlin vs East Berlin: Thesis Paper The Berlin Wall was built in the August of 1961, when the East German soldiers constructed more than thirty miles of a barbed wire barrier through the center of Berlin, Germany. The citizens of East Berlin were forbidden to pass into the Western side. Soon this barbed wire would be replaced by concrete. (Taylor, 458) East German authorities revealed that this wall would protect their…

In the year 1837, a radical movement in the British colony of Lower Canada took part in an armed rebellion to attain by force what they had failed in attempt to secure by lawful political action. The primary goal to which the rebellion was focused had been given several names by historians such as democracy, political freedom and representative government. The uprising took arms in attempted efforts to discontinue the appointed minority 's control of the colony 's governing institutions and to…