Fighting to hold the tears back, I sat restlessly in my seat with a cold blanket hiding my face. A long eighteen-hour flight lay ahead of me, during which time I could absorb the fact that I had just left my friends, my family, my country, my home. I was torn between sadness at leaving my whole life behind and a feeling of anxiety and excitement at starting a new life in an unknown world. .
For twelve years, South Africa had been my home. By attending a private Catholic school with only seven hundred students from kindergarten through grade twelve, I grew up with the same friends and classmates in each grade since the age of five. We knew each other so well that we were like family, and I blossomed in this sheltered environment. .
This sheltered environment was shattered on the 22nd of July 1997, when my family received a large, white, official envelope from Philadelphia that changed our lives forever. After reading the contents, my parents informed me that we won green cards to the United States in an international lottery. "It is a chance of a lifetime," they said, "an opportunity to leave a crime ridden country.".
Within a month of landing in the United States in August 1998, I started public school as a tiny eighth grader in a monstrous building. I felt overwhelmed by the fact that there were more than three hundred students in my grade alone. For the first time in my life, I felt an outcast like an alien from an unknown place. My classmates just viewed me as this strange small Asian girl with a "British" accent who emigrated from Africa. I yearned to return home, hoping that this was simply an unpleasant dream. The realization that this was my new life felt like a hard slap in the face. Immediately, I was faced with the challenge of finding new friends, adapting to a public school system, and a whole new different culture. .
I quickly learned to embrace the challenge, knowing that I could not live in the past.
People go to the movies instead of moving! Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adventures for everybody in America, while everybody in America sits in dark room and watches them have them!" ... Motion pictures are made up moving: camera moving, actors playing, landscapes changing, etc. ... Life goes on moving. ... Imagination is moving, especially when the movie is touching, moving. ...
Let America Be America Again Langston Hughes The Poem "Let America Be America Again" is a very emotional and moving poem. It was most likely written around the same time slavery ended in America. ... The poem speaks of America's dream for freedom and for all to be equal. ... America is supposed to be a land of freedom and opportunity but this was not the America so many experienced. ... The character does say though that "America will be" to him meaning he is determined to live in the America that this poem speaks about the one where he can live free the one without greed th...
I am writing you this letter because I have decided to move to America. ... Because of this if I am to move to America, I will have to become an indentured servant to a master in America to pay for my passage to America. With this knowledge, I plan on going to America to become an indentured servant. ... Mother, Father, you may not agree with my decision to move to America, but I feel it is what I should do. ...
People have to move from Sweden to America and the same way people have to move from the Americas to Sweden. ... For them moving to the Americas it would not be a big surprise as they would probably think that they are getting special attention. ... This is why they claim to be part Canada to be part of America. ... In America the culture is easy influenced by external factors. ... This is probably because of the high internationalization of America. ...
At the time men were shipped off to Europe to fight in the war leaving many industrial jobs opens for African Americans and women to carry on the American dream and to support in the war effort. ... The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People helped lead the cause for African Americans against racism and helped African Americans gain positive job opportunities. ... By moving to the north African Americans were hoping to gain loyalty from the country by working in factories that produced war-time materials. ... Many African Americans were forced to being cooks, laundrymen...
Americans are people from all walks of life. ... Acceptance of other people and respect for their heritage is changing both an American's individual identity and America's cultural identity. ... What makes a person living in America an American is that person's belief in the American dream and what America stands for: equality, rights, and freedom. ... In a melting pot, immigrants to America and are culturally melted down and molded into Americans. ... In the past fifty years, American culture has slowly started moving towards a culture that is best represented as a stew...
From being American born to immigrating in the later years of your life, it is not difficult to make America your home; if you really want to. As a child moving to America , and being around completely different peers I living two lives, and it felt impossible to enjoy both. ... In the article "Two Ways to Belong In America" we see how two very similar people adapt to America in completely different ways. ... Both sisters, born and raised in India, moved to America to study. ... Many immigrants, including myself at one point, agree completely with Mari in not wanting to leave their e...
With globalization, moving labor in developing countries became the usual practice for big corporations in the 20th century. ... American prosperity was built on the backs of middle class families, with one or both parents working in manufacturing and living their American dream. ... While offshoring stimulates the economies in developing countries, it is robbing middle class families in America of their American dream. By definition, "offshoring" is the practice of moving labor outside the country," according to Encyclopedia Britannica. ... This means that when manufacturing jobs are moving ...
During the 1760's and 1770's, the British undermined the success of American colonists with high taxation and a strong military presence. ... The years following 1783, welcomed an America free of British rule and taxation - an isolated America with few enemies and vast natural resources. The Treaty of Paris entitled America to large new land masses as well as rivers and fresh water lakes. ... The next 50 years following the end of the war saw a myriad of American sentiment towards Native Indians. ... Constitution itself did not outright endorse slavery in America moving forward, ther...
African-Americans Migration to the North Lifestyles of African Americans have changed drastically since the beginnings of time. As you all know, life in the south for African Americans was harsh. ... This was a reconstruction for all black Americans. ... For the African American society, change was great. African Americans changed their lifestyle for the better by moving to the north. ...
