The difference of me from other immigrants that i had my childhood in china, teenager life in Mexico and become an adult in U.S. ... With these dialects I could communicate with everyone in china, but I did not took these dialects as a big deal until when I went to Mexico with the age 11. ... When I had free time I would stay in my house read and write Spanish, because I wanted no more satirize, no more unwelcome, no more compare. ... In Mexico people would take advantages from the people who did not know Spanish. ... Thanks to these translators to make our community and life more better and...

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I thought the Mexicans just migrated to the U.S. because their government was bad to them. And then I found out that they moved to the U.S. because of water and jobs and better resources. ... Over the past century, Mexican migrants were negatively selected: those who left Mexico usually had less education and fewer skills than the average Mexican, and most of the Mexicans who arrived had their first US jobs in seasonal agriculture (Martin 1993). ... She came because of my mom came and the reason that my mom came was because my dad died and she wanted to forget everything bad like all the mem...

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• Grade Level: High School

Other want to opportunity to study and have a great career be a doctor or a lawyer but can't back home. ... -Mexican border its only Mexicans trying to cross but no. there are Cubans, Salvadorans, Honduran, etc. ... -Mexican border. ... That's what I think unjust. ... Some people take this lightly, but I do not. ...

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We can all sit around and complain all we want that they should be the ones learning our language, but the population is only going to increase, and it is going to become more difficult. ... That is why I feel that it should be crucial for the American K-12 education to start teaching children as much English as well Spanish from first entering grade school to graduating high school. I will be focusing on three main aspects on the importance of knowing a second language; where our country currently stands compared to other countries, why being bilingually disadvantaged is occurring, and the b...

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Their motivation had taken after a French privateer apprehended a Spanish ship loaded with Mexican gold and silver. Spurred by desires of great wealth, Francis I, sent Giovanni da Verrazano to discover a northwest passage through the North America to India in 1524. ... The French Empire, although it wanted the American gold and silver, they were mostly interested in searching a westward route to Asia....

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• Grade Level: High School