YOUR TITLE GOES HERE Anna Quindlen’s problem was that America had its struggles. Like people with welfare or starvation. She analysing that America isn’t that great for others who are in needs. Some are homeless,but others are rich. Anna had said that “The Agriculture Department estimated in 1999 that twelve million children were hungry or at risk of going hungry.”
Journalist Anna Quindlen in her article, “The C Word in the Hallways”, argues that children with mental health issues should receive help instead of stigmatization. She supports her claim by utilizing quantitative data when illustrating what happens when a mentally ill child doesn’t receive correct help, then guilting the audience when explaining how society views mental illness, and finally commanding the audience when describing how society should fix its issue on how it perceives mental health. Quindlen’s purpose is to criticize society's outlook on the issue of mental health in children in order to change the way people view mental health. She establishes a critical tone for parents and healthcare providers. Anna Quindlen begins her
Imagery of the bass, the river, and Sheila Mant One of the main themes of this story is that sacrifice. The narrator of this story is not given a name but he is fourteen year old. The narrator has a major crush on a women- seventeen year old, Sheila Mant. The narrator finally, and I say finally, asks Sheila on a date via the narrator’s boat.
The Promise of America Within the illustration, the poem by Emma Lazarus, and FDR’s speech the promise of America is shown. Each source has their own take on the promise of America brought to immigrants, but they each have one thing in common, the Statue of Liberty. She brings the immigrants hope in the New World. She is a beacon of peace for the rest of the world. She is a symbol of freedom, being an immigrant herself.
However, it is possible for them to find common ground based on them both being able to see the difficulty as well as willingness for immigrants to adapt to American culture. Also, they both are able to see the importance of American values and beliefs. Both Chavez and Marcus discuss the effects that assimilation could have on immigrants. Marcus mentions self-fulfillment and how it is hard to attain “without a robust culture that provides structure, meaning, and purpose…”
Nativism was often a response to the ever growing presence of immigration in the west. In My Ántonia, the author shows her admiration for immigrants—as well as their determination—for the numerous barriers that they had to cross to succeed, often more so than the native-born American
Anna Mow once said, “’Peace is an attitude, the kind that doesn’t create dissension. We create hostility when we turn away from what the other person is saying instead of listening to understand. The primary task is to perceive the perspective of those who differ with us’” (Long 146). Anna Mow covers a great point.
Response to “Our Fear of Immigrants” In “Our Fear of Immigrants” Jeremy Adam Smith takes a neutral stance on the immigration and anti-immigration argument. Smith begins by telling the story of a 4th grade class at Jefferson Elementary School in Berkeley, California who try to fight back against immigration laws after a classmate of theirs was deported back to his home country. Smith then goes on to compare the 4th graders to the adults of their town who fight for stronger immigration laws asking his readers what qualities the children possess that the rest of the citizens do not to make them react so differently.
Challenges of Immigration: The Shimerda’s Struggle Willa Cather’s novel, My Ántonia sheds light on the topic of immigration. Immigrants have many different reasons for why they might migrate to the United States. Some were trying to escape something from their old country such as avoiding a war, trouble with the law, or shame as is the case of the Russians Pavel and Peter. Reasons for immigrating could also relate to chasing the American dream as is the case with the Shimerdas.
Unfortunately, there are many situations that force people to immigrate to other countries including religion, economics, and political situations. 2. Thesis: Even though immigration process is very difficult, we are so happy we moved to America. 3. Preview Statement: The speech
eMaria-Gloria Contrada Introduction to Literature Professor Obuch 9 October 2014 Paper I Often when first-generation immigrants come to America, they make little effort to assimilate into American culture and do their utmost to retain their customs and languages. In contrast, many second-generation immigrants find it necessary to discard the culture that had been preserved in the home for biological descent does not ensure feelings of cultural identity.
With this example of personification, Sanders asserts that rather than just moving from one place to another, migrants tend to bring their traditions and ideas, which negatively affect the new place; Sanders convinces the audience that the transportation of ideas is not beneficial to the place. By using appropriate and elaborate figurative speech, Sanders is successful in expressing his stance in favor of settling in one
Anne Bradstreet writes, “If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.” This quote summarizes much of what she and fellow writer, Phillis Wheatley’s, lives were like during their fights for social change. Throughout their lives, these women were forced to endure challenges and injustices on levels unimaginable to many members of today’s society. While Bradstreet and Wheatley did much to contend these challenges, such as directly addressing the masses in their writings as forms of protests, their differences are precisely the elements that both unite and distinguish them from one another. In Phillis Wheatley’s “On Being Brought from Africa to America,”
Their essays approach the subject in two remarkably contrasting ways. Quindlen describes the past tensions that have arisen because of immigration and how they have been conquered in the face of tragedy and sorrow. Kennedy tells of how immigrants have altered America in many unfathomable way. He describes the impacts that immigration has had on our culture. Both essays tell of how immigration has enhanced our
Mira feels betrayed by her country. She believes the laws should benefit immigrants who been in
