...My life story began on July 13th 1992 in Poland. I was born in the North-Eastern city of Olsztyn, where most of the residents are mostly Polish and some German. The region I'm from is little bit mixed due to the extensive cultural history, and the political reasons of and after world war two. At age of sixteen I made a decision and followed some of my family members and started a new chapter by moving to California. Moving from Poland to United States was one of the biggest, and ironically the fastest decision I had to make. Due to the fact my mother have moved to Bay Area prior; me and my brother stood with an opportunity to start something new and move to United States. Because my brother Lukasz Already started his Law School education he decided to stay behind and continue with his life in Poland. I on the other hand took the opportunity and applied for green card and moved to San Mateo to finish my High school education....
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...The president quote validated the foundation of the United States, which was built in base of emigrants from different countries like mine. The reasons why people have to leave their home country are different such as politics, education and economy. Like others I moved to the United States because of the lack of opportunities for the reasons that I mention above. First of all, the politicians made the governance of my country difficult at that moment, because they did not agree with the politics of the current president at that time. I thought that politics were fair and helped poor people who were the majority of my country at that moment (80% of the population). As is in any poor country the corruption was one of the biggest problems of the government at that moment. Secondly, the political problems made it difficult for the economy of the country, which created a high inflation, high rate of unemployment and high volume of criminality. This political situation created an atmosphere of instability and problems for the country preventing investments and consequently the creation of jobs was zero. Subsequently, the families had just enough money to feed their children and could not think about higher education, lacking the possibility to achieve goals for themselves and for their children. Most of those families did not have a choice other than just to emigrate to another country. I chose the United States because this is the land of opportunity despite having...
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...diversity?” The paper is organized into five sections: What I Knew, What I Want to Know, Literature Review, My Search, and the Conclusion. The sections What I Knew and What I Want to Know provide background knowledge on why this topic is one of personal importance and why I fell others should see its importance as well. The two sections also address what subjects will be spoken of and researched in the paper. The Literature Review is divided into three sections: What is Diversity, How Does Diversity Affect Individuals, and How Can Acceptance of Diversity be Promoted. Each of these sections provides research on their respective questions, mostly focusing on religious and racial diversity. The My Search section contains information from a personal Interview with Dominik Unger, a previous political refugee. Finally, the conclusion contains personal...
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...Growing up my parents always taught my brother and I to embrace our Mexican culture. I might have been born and raised in America, but I would always be Mexican first. My parents in raising my younger brother and I were kind, but firm. They instilled in us the values of hard work and the importance of education at a young age. My parents both having not finished high school knew the struggles they went through without an education. They wanted my brother and I to have a proper education, so our lives would be open to more opportunities. Education is an aspect that can set you apart from someone else. It might be what gets you that job or that promotions you’ve been wanting. Especially, as a Mexican-American in the Unites States we often face discrimination. People call us “lazy, uneducated, and how were stealing American jobs”. However, that's farther from the truth. My family immigrated from Mexico to the Unites States in search of a...
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...miles from home at age seven? Leaving your home, language, and culture can be challenging between states let alone entire continents. Both Firoozeh and her family had to adapt at alarming rates. In the short story Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas, she highlights specific incidents in her life as a young girl to show that it is not easy being a foreigner in an unfamiliar country. A stretching problem throughout the entirety of the text is that Firoozeh’s family has little to no knowledge of the english language. For example, when Firoozeh is asked to show her complete knowledge of the english language, all she can say is a few colors, “...proudly recited all that I knew: “White, yellow, orange, red, purple, blue, green.” When enrolling in her new...
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...I have encountered many obstacles in my life that have shaped me into the person that I am today. Being from a low income, single parent household presented a lot of challenges for me. My mother has always encouraged and instilled the idea that college is the best and only option for me to make something of myself and be a better version of what she could have been if she had the support system that I have. I was born and raised in Jamaica, there it has always been a struggle to afford school uniform and lunch. Despite this struggle I’ve never missed a day from school or used my struggle to justify anything that have presented a set back in my life. The disadvantages that I’ve faced have never stopped me from excelling in school or from putting...
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...Education Changing with Immigration Rachel Villarreal Vasquez PPA 604 Urban Planning/Redevelopment Professor; Lum July 12, 2014 Education Changing with Immigration Controversy about changes in our education has surrounded the United States for a number of years. But immigration has changed the way we teach our children in the United States today, in the past, currently and trending we are beginning to cater to our environment. The education in the United States is no longer the leading one in the World. The United States was known for producing the most educated college students placing them in the highest ranked jobs. Yet, personally immigration did affect the way that education was presented to me, my family and my community. A perspective personal journey of the education lived by an American born child to an immigrant Mexican Mother and an Indian Father whose own foundation is built on education which can and will empower millions of children. Free access to education had always been the key to the success of educating men, women and children. Yet, I can still remember the personal experience that left its long lasting effects, as it has for many others equally. The changes that happen from generation to generation as education changed due to the immigration of people into the United States. As presented in the following article, “At the dawn of the twenty-first century, immigrants were coming to the United States in near record numbers, reminiscent of the great...
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...October 1, 2014 Dear Sarafina, Hello my dearest pen pal. I hope this letter finds you well and in good spirits. Since we are still in the getting to know you phase of our correspondence I thought it would be a good idea for us to relay some information about my heritage and cultural history as you have done for me about yours. I thoroughly enjoyed reading about the Italian history through your eyes, experiences and historical research. Are you ready for a historical walk through of my African-American culture? Although I reside in the United States now my history starts in Africa where my people were sold off and enslaved to the white Americans. The first African slaves were brought here to the United States in the Colony of Jamestown Virginia in 1619. Slaves were brought here to help aid in the production of mass crops such as tobacco. Slavery continued and ultimately ended on December 18, 1865. During the slavery era there were things that aided slaves like the under ground rail road. This was an avenue that helps slaves escape to freedom. One of the most famous escaped slaves was Harriet Tubman. She escaped in 1849 and was one of the most celebrated and effective leaders of the Underground Railroad. President Lincoln was a key element when it came to dealing the freeing of the slaves when he released the emancipation proclamation in 1863. Although Lincoln accelerated the movement of freeing the slaves he knew it would take a constitutional amendment to let the...
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...specifically with generational poverty, it is much more difficult to overcome then people think and is more associated with the society we live in then with the actual person or family experiencing it. The main reason it is so difficult to overcome generational poverty is because the education in these impoverished communities is significantly lacking. If you look at the distribution of finances in this country it is clear as day that the money is distributed to the wealthy communities first because they are the ones that contribute to the economy of a certain area the most and in order to make those communities desirable, they need to have good schools, jobs, etc. Often it is not the teachers that are the problem in these schools, it is the limited resources they have to work with and if a community doesn’t value the education of the youth, the youth are not going to value education, which leads to the increase in dropout rates in impoverished communities. These rates go up significantly when a child is from a single-parent home as the children often feel as though they need to pull their weight within these homes and when this lifestyle is generational the family lacks the understanding of the importance of education, which can add to the pressures of needing to make money rather than going to school....
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...Their journey began by moving to Holland to live with a family member when she was four. The reason for doing so was to establish residence in the European Union. They would then move to the United Kingdom in order to do the paper work for immigration to the United States. She said going about immigration this way made the process easier than trying to immigrant straight from Ghana. Her, and her family, finally immigrated to the United States by the time she was six. They immigrated to Maryland. This is where she would live until she finished high school. She would then move to Washington to further her education in the field of Psychology and also marry her...
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...How many times has one been on their way to the store or on their way to work and saw a person on the side of the road holding a sign saying “Out of work, homeless, single parent, need food, etc.?” There are so many it raises questions on whether all of them really need the help or if they are just using us. Ever wonder how many people are considered to be in the poverty class? According to the United States Census Bureau, in 2013 there were 45.3 million people in poverty (1). Most people do not become poor by bad habits but by being born into it. Isaak stated, “More children are born into “poverty” in the United States than in any other developed country, millions of workers are without health insurance, and there is an alarming increase in the number of teenage suicides” (111). The ones that are born into it normally stay in it because everything is a continuous cycle, to get a decent college education, money is required, to get a good job that pays well having an education is mandatory. If the money is not there to give how are we supposed to succeed and get further in our career? For example: a...
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...When my career started college was not a goal for me to complete. My initial intentions were to advance my expertise and leadership abilities for one enlistment, get out, and continue my life as an average, yet essential piece of the civilian workforce. My priorities would soon change, when I started to meet mentors who genuinely cared for my future goals and development. My Air Force career began as a member of the Civil Engineer Squadron, as a Pavements & Heavy Equipment operator. For the first year of my career, I did my best to mature and mold myself into a valuable member of my organization. At that time, I could honestly say I had no mentors to emulate, which made it difficult to adjust to the life of an Airman in the United States Air Force. This gap would soon be filled by a SSgt that just so happen to share the same follow-on assignment to Aviano Air Base. Italy....
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...years old and my father taking all the kids from our neighborhood to the park with his buddy from work. My father was pushing me on the swing next to his friend and one of the other kids from the neighborhood and realizing they were the only guys that spent time with their kids. I always remember that my father was a big part of my life and it was not just with me but all the kids from the area. He always made me feel protected and ever so loved. My father is a very strict and serious looking Mexican man and yet always caring in a way that I did not realize until I was older. As I got older I learned a lot from my parents that definitely made me the way I am today. I remember spending many of nights having family dinners and study time for my little brother, my father, and me. Both of my parents worked over time every week at different factories. That is why my father and mother made sure to push how important an education was going to be for our futures. My family is the most important thing to me in my life but it took years for me to remember that again. The Younger Years To help form my mind around how I wanted to be when I grew up I always looked towards my family. My father never made it past third grade growing up in Mexico and working on the ranch with his family. My mother is the youngest after eight boys who were raised in Puerto Rico in a small poverty-stricken neighborhood where she went to school and took care of the house with her mother. Then both of my parents met...
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...Moment in My life America has been always my greatest adventure and my greatest fear. Like others international students, I was very nervous about the culture, the people, and the country itself because I have never traveled to a foreign country before. How people are going to take me? Will I be ignored by people because I am from different cultures? Will I be able to make friends? Will I be able to adjust to that new life? The question that was stuck in my mind, but I didn’t have any definitive answers. This all started when I was only sixteen years old. I have been hearing that there are many events in life, which can change their life in a way that they have never expected before. I have never trusted those words until now. As for me, I think the major event that changed my life is when I moved from Bangladesh to America for better education. On a Sunday morning, I was playing outside with my cousin. Suddenly, my father calls me inside, gives me a bunch of papers and offers me to go study abroad for my higher education. Studying aboard was my childhood dream; however, before that, my parents never wanted me to leave my country. My mom is the one who always stop my father for giving me permission to study abroad. After all that , when my father finally decided to let me study abroad in the United States of America, I was very excited and I agreed right away. Coming to the United States of America was a big change in my life. I wanted to come to the United States since I...
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...Demont Campbell AP English 4 Borderlands / La Fonterra After reading this poem I have opened my eyes to more than staying one typical direction. I believe a lot of people have tunnel vision and don’t take the time to look at the whole picture. I have become interested in prose after reading this book because it reads just like music. It has an easy rhythm I guess you could say. Honestly I don’t think this poem is for everyone especially at a high school level because it has to deal with such a contrasting subject. This book has shown me the hardships that people have to go through and that everyone should have human rights. Borderlands/La Fonterra, Gloria Anzaldua paints a moving portrait of the search for her missing identity in a world that refuses to allow one. The physical borderland between the U.S. and Mexico helps create the psychological "fence" that a she is put through when she is denied a culture and a place in society. "She has this fear that she has no names… that she has many names…that she doesn't know her names." This quote shows the rich nature of her writing and the amount of energy she feels while writing this poem. Anzaldua, who as both a woman and a Chicana, grew up in an atmosphere of oppression and confusion. "It's not a comfortable territory to live in, this place of contradictions,", "Hatred, anger and exploitation are the prominent features of this landscape." It is also a landscape where the question "Who Am I?" is not readily or easily answered...
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