Coming to America

The first thing I remember is I am finally free. When I first came to America from Korea, it was the longest flight. Knowing that I would fall in love with this new country, I would never leave. I am nine years old in the airport, mesmerized by all of the shiny billboard and mega- televisions. I hear people speaking, but I do not understand. At that moment fear comes to the new immigrant, me. I am like a newborn baby, trying to grasp everyone’s motion and gestures. It is very overwhelming for…

During the 1800s many immigrants boarded ships to come to America where they could live a better life. Many immigrants came to America in hopes of more money and a better lifestyle. They were driven out of their country because they were not making enough money to support themselves or their families. In the letters from the immigrants it states that they were better off in America, also they had bad living conditions in their home country, they had many people stuck together into one room to…

America was the place to be during World War 2, but only so many people could go. Refugees everywhere like Germany, Syria, Japan, and etc wanted to come to America. Unfortunately, America turned a lot of people were turned away because the more came the less jobs there were to go around. The reason more people couldn’t come to America because they were in depression and jobs were scarce for many people. Some Americans thought refugees coming into the U.S most people they did not have…

To me Jhumpa Lahiri’s story about her struggle to mingle into American society, coming from an Indian background, is very much similar. To really experience and to get know what she felt like one should really have been through that and been to places where no one is concerned about your existence. Well, if you ask me, I have been through it many times and every time I got into that situation, it felt like I was doomed and was on the cusp of choking myself for some reason. I bet, growing up,…

In the past few years, every time I came back to America from my vacation in China, as soon as I got out off my airplane cabin, such special scent would immediately greet me -- along the long hall way, where passengers lined up with a myriad of luggages, I would be quickly wrapped around a scent of fatigue…

the same time. Many immigrants coming to America in the 1920’s and 30’s were from Europe. They came to America to escape persecution and seek freedoms and new opportunities America had to offer. The immigration for some was very turbulent and somewhat strange like in the story Son from America by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Immigrant came to America in the 1920’s and 30’s for many reasons, some of witch were to obtain higher opportunity and persecution. But coming to America also involved a lot of…

anti-immigration movement. Samuel Morse was religious and a political activist. The arguments that Samuel Morse espoused were he did not want immigrants coming to America, he felt as though they were taking over America and Samuel Morse wanted to do something about it. Samuel Morse did not approve of their religious practices or ides that they were spreading throughout America. Samuel Morse tells us about his consistory theories and how if an immigrant came into office there would be…

Immigrants coming from other countries to America in the 1900s had a hard time becoming successful because they did not have an American culture. Also, many immigrants did not have the right skills for most jobs, and they were racially and/or culturally discriminated against so that they could not find decent places to live or jobs with fair hours and fair pay. The influx of immigrants into America in the early 1900’s brought many different cultures, but these cultures were not accepted into…

I was born and raised in El Salvador a small country in Central America. I came here when I was only eleven years old. Coming to the United States changed my life completely. I had to learn a new language, culture, and environment. I was so happy to come here because I wanted a better life for me, but I never knew all the obstacles I was going to face by leaving my country. First of all, my biggest obstacle was learning English at the age of eleven. My first day of school in Robert Finley…

I remember when I first came to America. I was ten. I was more frightened than I was excited. I was afraid to walk on the unknown road. I quickly realized that I had to adapt to the new culture, but I never imagined that it was going to be harder than anything I had faced before. The core of my problem was the language barrier. Apparently, it’s hard to understand the culture when you can’t understand their language. Anyway, I started school immediately; I had to attend a private school, since…