were we going mom? What were we doing? " It’s gonna be alright hija‚” she soothed me. I stared out the window‚ brown and green blurs passing in and out‚ knowing something big was to come. I am one of 12 million immigrants who live in the U.S today. The reality of living life as an immigrant is worse than what people imagine. You are constantly living in fear and struggle‚ but it’s still better than going back to a country that is full of violence and no opportunities. Many people think of us as criminals
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The Life of an Immigrant By Katie Purpura APUSH BALKANATOR During the time‚ of the end of the Civil War and the beginning of the First World War it was described as “the war between capital and labor”. It was filled with bloody violence and extensive property damage‚ a situation that continued well into the 20th century. The Jungle focuses on the life and times of recent immigrants to the United States from Eastern Europe. Upton Sinclair wrote his book “The Jungle” not only to speak for "the
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Life’s hard. You go through your day hoping be on hope that when you get home you’ll be welcome with a warm smile and a loving embrace. Some people don’t get that or at lest not all the time. Some people find that it’s better to run from life‚ ether with a bottle or with a knife. Some people‚ these people don’t see the love and warmth around them. They only see the things that make them sad or mad. They don’t see their friends or their family. These people find that as they look around‚ they
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“Hard Life” This is a story I’ve been avoiding for a long time. I call this the story of my life. I’ve been through a lot in my life. It’s been filled with a lot of dramatic things most people would never imagine. I never felt it right to verbalize these happenings. Now‚ I feel it’s time I express these occurrences through a story. It all starts with my mother and father. I never really knew either of them. I lived with my mother‚ but I never really knew her. We were very distant people living
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A hard life Middle school will probably be the 3 hardest years I have ever had to deal with. Those years are difficult for anyone that age but with a bad combination of braces and glasses things were not that wonderful. Having bad fashion sense did not help the fact either and being in the band was a real kicker. Life in middle school was the worst and I would never want to experience it again‚ even if you tried to pay me.
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Jobs are hard to find since many jobs require high school and college diplomas which many immigrants do not have. My grandparents‚ my uncles and my mom did not know any English‚ so getting a job was difficult. Who would want to hire non-English speaking immigrants? They had very few options. The only option that they had was housekeeping at motels and hotels which required no or very little
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Immigrant life in America is filled with obstacles such as abuse‚ discrimination‚ and poverty.They’re constantly neglected and aren’t provided with any opportunities to be successful immigrants.They struggle with assimilating and having to change their identity in order to be a successful individual. For immigrants life in America is filled with obstacles‚ shame‚ and discrimination that limit their success in life. In “Always Running” Luis J. Rodriguez discusses his mother confrontation to discrimination
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Motivational Speech Life is Hard‚ Life is Difficult Everybody wishes for good life. It may be at different levels. One person may define a good life one way and another may describe it another way. For one person a good life may be just having three meals a day and a roof over their head. For another it may be having a huge mansion and a couple of million dollars in the bank. There are different levels and meanings to what a good life is. But whatever your definition of it‚ there is perhaps
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of how hard life was in Mexico.There is hardly any work and people have very little to eat.I was about 13 when he told me that story.I was very interested in the story and he saw that was getting a little upset.Then he told me how he came here so he can start a family so they can have a better life.He told me he wanted to see me do things with my life and how he wanted me to graduate from school that he didn’t have the opportunity for.That story was stuck in my head just thinking of how hard it must
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Life Being Hard Many of us come to a point in life where we feel like giving up with our lives‚ we feel confused and hopeless and we ask ourselves‚ “Why does life have to be so hard?” We all face tough and difficult challenges in life. Some become difficult to overcome‚ especially when the odds are stacked against us. Going against all odds‚ is something we’re capable of doing. To overcome challenges‚ one needs to have that “never quit” attitude in life. If one develops it‚ one will overcome a
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