Crossing the Border‚ Reaching the Light An illegal immigrant is defined as anyone who migrates to a country for permanent residence without any form of identification. The number of illegal immigrants in the United States was estimated at 11.5 million in 2011‚ according to the Pew Hispanic Center. Of these 11.5 million immigrants‚ 58 percent came from Mexico‚ 23 percent from other Latin America countries‚ 11 percent from Asia‚ and 8 percent from Africa‚ Europe‚ Canada and elsewhere. How do they
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Prior to this‚ I had been deported twice. Crossing the border was very dangerous‚ but I had to do it because in Mexico we are very poor. My father passed away 21 years ago‚ and my mom was left a widow with 11 children. My oldest brother moved out of the house‚ so I had to step up and help my mom raise my siblings. Where I’m from‚ there aren’t many jobs available‚ only on the fields and the pay wasn’t enough to support us. I didn’t want to cross the border‚ but I had no other choice. I ask for your
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Many non-U.S. citizens find a way to cross the border and live a better life in the States. Crossing the border comes with a price‚ the people who successfully cross the border are known as undocumented‚ illegal immigrants or aliens. Once an undocumented immigrant has crossed the border‚ they have a target on their back by ICE. ICE‚ meaning immigration and customs enforcement deports any undocumented immigrant back to where they came from. Each immigrant that gets deported aren’t given a chance to
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The extract begins with a scene of relief and joy‚ a large contradiction to how it ends where there is sadness‚ anger and fear. The writer seemed to have purposely used this contradiction as a way to contribute to the mood of the passage and of its readers; to give a sense of how easy feelings change and how our mood depends greatly on our environment. We can observe these signs of relief and joy mentioned earlier through the way the writer describes how the patients in Ward Fourteen behave. Even
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There is a big controversy on whether or not children born outside the United States‚ and brought here illegally by their parents‚ should have rights or not. Kids of these illegal immigrants should have at least some of the rights U.S. citizens have. The children did not choose to come here‚ they cannot leave anytime they want to‚ they may end up homeless if they cannot work as they get older‚ and they definitely should not be punished for something their parents did. The parents who came to America
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“You see the real question is: can people change?” How does Border Crossing answer this question? Change is something that is common for most individuals‚ whether it presents a positive or a negative outcome. Pat Barker’s text Border Crossing deals with the idea of people changing and is shown by her use of different characters‚ the representation of settings and her central idea of crossing borders. All of these aspects in Barker’s narrative make the reader look back at their own understanding
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How does Barker convey Burns’ experience/regeneration in Chapter 4? The extract opens with Burns standing by the window‚ looking out on a bleak and depressing landscape‚ “sky and hills together in a wash of grey.” The pathetic fallacy reflects on Burns’ mood; downcast‚ depressed. He feels the need to escape; but is trapped. A sense of darkness and connotations of conflict seem to surround him‚ both outside‚ in the form of the stormy weather‚ and inside the hospital in the form of the crowded room
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Exile and Crossing the Border I thought exile used better story telling skills because of the metaphors and great descriptions. ”I let myself lie back‚ in the deep waters…” Wasn’t her swimming‚ she felt like she was. Exile was a better because it tells a story with metaphors and that’s more creative. The poem said: “I let myself lay back‚ in the deep waters‚ my arms out like Jesus on his cross‚ and instead of sinking down as I’d always done‚ magically‚ that night‚ I could stay up.” This
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How does Barker present the effects of war on men? In the novel Regeneration‚ Pat Barker examines how the war altered and affected the men involved. Throughout the book‚ she explores how the horrific experiences of the war caused breakdown and mental illness for many soldiers by including characters that display a number of different neuroses. As well as this she closely looks at relationships and how they were altered over the course of the war. The most prominent way Barker presents the effects
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Suffering‚ in the novel Regeneration‚ is presented as painful and extensive inner conflict that is present in individual patients subjected to treatment in Craiglockhart. Sassoon stated‚ “It was like being 3 different people and they all wanted to go different ways”. This highlights the fact that Sassoon is at war with himself‚ as he does not know which path to take due to his mind set on different objectives. It also shows confusion and misunderstanding‚ much like a child‚ this can show demasculinisation
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