...During the year 1675 different events happened that make this year an important year and important line of demarcation in North American history. These events would impact English North America’s future development and relationship with its mother country in many different ways. Bacons Rebellion and King Philips War were very important events that made this year an important year. Because of these wars English North Americas future development and the relationship with its mother country will be impacted. The King Philips War was fought because of land that was being taken over by the Puritans. King Phillips War was a devastating win for the English during this time; the war caused numerous deaths, ranging between “1000 to 1500 deaths, 10 percent of adult males were dear.” About a dozen of towns are destroyed, and over fifty were attacked during this war, because of this the economy of New England was decreasing drastically. New England needed the support from its mother country because of attacks from Indians, and this would start to impact the future development and relationship between the two....
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...and Lyrics: Ruben Blades (Looking For America) I’m searching for you, America and fear that I will not find you your footprint has been lost in the dark. (Line 4) I’m calling you America but you are not answering me. You have been made to vanish by those who deny truth.(Line 8) Surrounded by shadows we deny all that’s true until there is justice we will never have peace.(Line 12) Living under Dictatorships I search for you and I cannot find you. Your body tortured is nowhere to be found. (Line 16) If one’s dream is everybody’s dream to break the chains and begin our journey Let’s be confident Let’s go ahead, my race, Let’s preserve time for those to come.(Line 24) You’ve been abducted, America Your mouth has been gagged and today it’s our turn to bring you freedom. I’m calling you America our future awaits us and before it dies on us we will find you.(Line 33) I’m searching for you America. I’m calling you America Oh, Oh Fighting for our race and our freedom And we will find you among the darkness, You’ve been vanished by those who’re afraid of your truth. While we search for the truth Searching for our America Mama and papa’s dream And it’s our turn today to set you free. (Line 43)“Looking for America” 2013. Ruben Blades website. June 19, 2013, 05:05 http://www.rubenblades.com/lyrics/?currentPage=5. When listening to the lyrics of this song it reminds me of people like my mother and father who to me relate more to the...
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...Tan in 1989. The story brings up the themes parenting and relationship between a mother and her daughter. Also about the difficulties for a Chinese mother to raise an Americanised daughter. The main character is a Chinese-American girl called Jing-mei. The mother has great ambitions for her daughter and believes "that you could be anything you want to be in America". The daughter likes the American lifestyle while her mother wants to keep the Chinese way of lifestyle and living. Summary The story takes place in America. Jing-mei's mother has arranged piano lessons for Jing-mei, because she wants her to become a prodigy. However Jing-mei feels like she is trying to make her into someone she is not. Jing-mei lies about practice times and she does only what she has to do during the lessons. At a talent show she plays the piano awful because of her lack of participation in the piano lessons. Still her mother insists on continuing the piano lessons. Jing-mei screams but her mother drags her to the bench to play. On Jing-mei's thirtieth birthday her mother gives her the piano as a present Characters - Jing-mei Jing-mei and her mother are struggling to accept and understand each other. Jing-mei wants be her self and is obsessed with the American idea of being anyone you want. She does not want to follow her mothers’ footstep, but in stead make her own. She won’t change just to make her mother feel proud or happy. She says, “I won’t let her change me, I promised myself. I won’t...
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...America is one of a kind, unique in that it has been successful where other countries have failed in bringing together people of different races. It owes part of this success to being inescapably English in language, ideas, and institutions. History has shown us that the United States has been accepting of people from all over the world. It has peacefully produced a multiethnic society by creating a new American culture that unites us all. Therefore, it should be mandatory for new immigrants to learn English because it’s the common ground and unifier of our diverse community. Non English speakers in America are also burdened with many challenges, limitations and negativity. While ethnic and racial issues arise in nations all over the world, the U.S. succeeded at peacefully bringing together people of different races, religions, and backgrounds into one culture because we are unified by the English language. America has become a melting pot because we’ve forged a new culture that unifies people from all different backgrounds. According to Arthur Schlesinger, in his article “The Cult of Ethnicity” the point of America wasn’t to preserve old cultures but to forge a new, American culture, and there lies the secret to how America prospered. As Hector St. John de Crevecoeur admired the diversity of the settlers in America in the 18th century when, he realized that “here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men” (Schlesinger 1). America has avoided ethnic tension...
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...MULTICULTURALISM Exiled in America Vanessa Armendariz SOC/315 09-27-2012 Tadizia Dennis-Jackson Exiled in America A woman who was hurt and was taken her largest possession in just seconds was a heartbroken experience, not only that but a life changing one for Sergia Santibañez. She was separated from her five children and sent to her homeland Mexico. The video clip I chose to express myself with is “Exiled in America” by Angela Torres Camarena. This video clip is about a mother who lived in America for 25 years and soon was deported to Mexico, leaving 5 kids of hers in America. “Exiled in America” explores immigration United States, focusing on detention and deportation from the point of view of those who are affected most, their children. The problem here to me is that these good families are being torn apart, families that come with a purpose to find a dream and to pursue it. Not everyone is the same, not everyone kills, and not everyone does illegal acts by using the government help. Me as a perfect example I can tell you that my mother as an illegal single mother, living here for over 25 years. She never asked for food stamps or welfare. And where am I today, working with a successful company and being able to have the opportunity to sit here in class and graduate. I am not being a bad reputation of a Hispanic I am proud one. The problem here is that in 2007 they presented The Child Citizen Protection Act. This particular act is for those whom are being deported and have...
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...The Lies of Meritocracy in America America is seen as the land of opportunity where an individual can go as far as their own merit takes them. The opportunities to be successful are endless and one just has to work hard to achieve them. This is based on the idea of meritocracy where individuals are only measured on the basis of their intellectual contributions, “divorced” identity, social status, gender, race, religion, and other characteristics. But this is only an illusion a so called myth that individuals are brought up to believe. In “Horatio Alger”, Harlon Daltons is able to break down this myth of meritocracy that include how we are judged solely on merits, have a fair opportunity to establish those merits, and how merit will bring success. Ruth Conniff in “Women Losing Ground” is able to support the myth of meritocracy that Dalton has established by explaining how women are still suffering from this myth that America has created. Dalton and Conniff are able to debunk the myth of meritocracy and help those that believe in meritocracy understand the inequality the myth has created in American culture. The idea of meritocracy is stating that an individual will not get judged and that “each of us is judged solely on her or his own merits” (Dalton (Alger theory)). But “sometimes we are judged on a different scale”... “favored...and ignored all on the basis of our race” (Dalton). How does this compare to only being judged on his or her own merits because all that is viewed...
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...Malaia Simms 2/14/14 Pd. 9 Mrs. Hatlen Dear The Federal Government of Untied States of America, My Name is Betty Johnson and I am 30 years old. I am writing to you because I am very concerned with the future of the citizens in this country. Throughout my life poverty has been Americas "Darkest Secret". I never Really hear news Reports on the growing percentage of Americans living in poverty, or the ways the government is trying to fix this issue. I grew up in Detroit, Michigan where more than a third of residents live below the poverty line (Sasha Abramsky, "America's Shameful Poverty Stats"). Throughout my childhood I have watched many friends' families struggle financially. Sometimes my friends would go without eating for a couple of days simply because they could not afford it. I would offer them food but they would kindly decline because they were so embarrassed because of their situation. They would wear clothes that wouldn't fit them because they couldn't afford to buy new clothes. They would miss school to watch their little siblings because their mom was a single parent and had to work all day everyday just so she could feed them. They didn't even apply to college because they knew they had to immediately pick up a crapy job so they could help their mom pay the bills. The list goes on. All of this is happening under your supervision and it doesn't seem like much is affectively fixing this issue. America's lowest percentage of citizens...
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...immigrated to America with great success, and therefore has big expectation of her daughter. Tan herself is also the daughter of a couple who emigrated from China which explains why she writes about this topic. The narrator is first-person which gives the impression that Tan is telling her story. The story is set in Chinatown, America during the late 1950’s. Amy Tan doesn’t tell us a lot about the setting other than the narrator lives with her mother and father in an apartment. They don’t have a lot of money. The mother works as a cleaning lady, and earns her money from cleaning people’s houses. It also shows how little money the family has that the mother has to clean a blind retired piano teacher’s apartment in order for her daughter to get piano lessons. Even though they don’t have a lot of money they seem to be quite happy with their situation. This may be because the mom came from China where she lost everything because of the war, so the little they have is still a lot more then what she would have in China. Most of the story takes place on the floor of the apartment they live in, either in their own or else in the apartment of the protagonist’s piano teacher Mr Chung. The narrator is a girl. She has short hair, because her mom thought it would help her get to be a famous child actress. She’s properly in her teenage years, because she is rebelling against her mother, which is a very normal thing to do when you’re in the teenage years. Her relationship with her mother gets bad...
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...maternity, they are the United States and Australia (Vahratian, 177).The United States of America is a leading power of the world and it maternity leave is unpaid. Since the FMLA is a federal law, some states in America have chosen to change this act. California, New Jersey and Rhode Island these states offer paid maternity leave (“The Family and Medical Leave Act - Wage and Hour Division (WHD)…"). Out of fifty states in America only three give mothers paid maternity leave. However, in these states there are problems with the legislations; for example, in California, the act provides paid leave for four week antenatal (before birth) and six to eight weeks postnatal (after birth). However, 52% of women continued to work until the birth of their baby, thirty-two percent took antenatal leave and return to work. The rest of the women, 9% left their jobs, 5% cut their hours and 2% were fired (Vahratian, 177). Women who work in low wage and part-time are vulnerable because they are not eligible for the...
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...harsh ocean air, whipping our hair around and slapping out face. Sleep is very uncomfortable, we had to supply our own blankets, which are damp from the ocean air. The hard floor has really not taken well to mother, she is much pain. We receive very little water and food, definitely not enough to survive on. Many wondering if we will parents watch as their children parish from hunger. A few desperate souls attacked kitchen workers and they paid the ultimate price for trying to take food to feed their families. Father never dare cross a crew member, he knows the punishment would result in a beating and even being thrown overboard. As I gaze around our ship, we are almost elbow to elbow and I can’t wait to hit land. Tomorrow is my 14th birthday, and I hope to see the great Statue of Liberty as my present. Mother said going to America will give us a better life, and that we will be back to our home in a few years. Observing around I wonder if everyone will be able to find work and a place to live, with so many people I am scared. Often, I can’t help think about all we left behind; the beautiful fields I love to run through with friends, the family parties, and friends. We had no choice but to move, for the safety of us all. Neapolitans and Sicilians were being murdered by the Italian Army of occupation, therefore...
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...Ichiro’s imagined dialogue with his mother speaks the frustrations of a second generation immigrant conflicted with his duty to family and the expectations of young American men. Ichiro questions his decision to side with his parental nation rather than the one in which he grew up. In a broader context, the story speaks of a generational clash seen uniquely in immigrant youth. Okada’s modernist approach to the issue highlights the conflict in immigrant communities at home. Ichiro lacks the self-confidence and maturity to answer the two questions with how he actually feels. Ichiro expresses his wish to serve in the United States military but suppresses these wants to satisfy his mother. This prevent him from developing his own identity separate...
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...Chinese-American girl, who has been battling constantly with her mother over her identity. The struggle between mother and daughter begins when they move from China to America. Most of the time is spend with watching Shirley Temple movies and reading stories in magazine about perfect children. To success with making succeed in making their girl a prodigy they even cut her hair, to make her look like a famous star. One night the mother is watching a show on Ed Sullivan a show with Ed Sullivan with a little Chinese girl playing the piano. That’s when the mothers mother’s ambitions start to grow. She arranges piano lessons but the girl lies and takes advantage of the fact that her piano teacher is deaf. In the meantime her mother does not know about her lack of participation. Unfortunately her mother enrolled her for a piano show. It started out fine, but because of her being unpracticed she embarrasses herself and her family. Even though this happened, her mother insists on continuing the piano lessons only this time the wants to see results. The girl does absolutely not want to play the piano and she goes as far as saying she is not her mother’s daughter. The harsh statement makes the piano discussion go away. But then at the main characters character’s thirtieth birthday, her mother tries to give her the piano back as a peace offering. It works and they forgive each other, even though she is still unable to fulfill for mother hopes. B. Family, generation, cousins, brother-in-law...
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...the colonists because this argument made them reevaluate their view of the British Empire as a protective mother country. It also attacked mutual feelings which were felt amongst colonial Americans; placed those feelings into words and documented them. Colonists whom remained loyal to British reign believed that Britain was a mother country and that Britain had America’s best interest heart. These accusations of over-empowerment enlightened the American people to make independence reality. According to Paine, some beliefs that America had ‘flourished’ under the control of Britain arose. Paine used the metaphor” a child has thrived upon milk, that it is never to have meat”, meaning that the country although began by Britain (colonists were of English decent), had all characteristics and strength to be able to flourish without any European assistance. On the argument of protection, Paine encouraged that Britain weren’t protecting America from any of its own enemies or problems, but furthermore protecting itself from its own enemies and problems (ex. French and Indian War). “But Britain is the parent country, say some. Then the more shame upon her conduct. Even brutes do not devour their young, nor savages make war upon their families.” (Paine, Thoughts on the Present State on American Affairs). This quote depicts the non-unity that Great Britain shown toward America, and...
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...country of origin, you might find yourself in great trouble, as the culture will have a greater influence on your child than you will, and what will you do about it?. These issues are displayed in the short story “Where the Gods fly” by author Jean Kwok. The short story deals with a family who has emigrated from China to America. The mother struggles as she tries to give her daughter a greater life than she had. The mother and father work at a factory in Chinatown to provide for the family, while their daughter Pearl goes to school. Pearl is given a scholarship to a ballet school, but as time progresses, Pearl becomes disconnected from her parents, as ballet becomes a bigger part of her life, and soon becomes the only thing that she wants to do. This leaves the mother feeling distraught, as it was only her intention to allow Pearl to dance, so that she would not have to be at the factory after school. The mother does not have an understanding of the American culture and therefore refuses to integrate into the society, but Pearl is becoming popular and becomes embedded in the Western culture which is almost completely incomprehensible to the mother. The mother wants to reunite...
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...first arrive in America to seek out the American Dream. They have to become accustomed to a different lifestyle and culture. For most immigrants assimilation is very difficult, however, the transition is significantly easier for their children when they grow up in America. For the children, the American culture may be the only thing they are familiar with, whereas the parents try to keep their native culture and find that assimilating into and adapting the American culture to be very difficult. Gish Jen’s work, “In The American Society,” discusses a Chinese-American family and how they try to adapt to the American culture. Edwidge Danticat’s short story, “New York Day Women,” discusses the story of...
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