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Compare And Contrast Tom And Crooks Immigration

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Despite Tom holding much better position in life, both Tom and Crooks held a certain bitterness to the world. But what Tom had was success in his American Dream… and he didn’t even need to work for it. Crooks worked for his dream, but in the end, he didn’t get much out of it besides a crooked back. It should be pretty clear now that the American Dream doesn’t live up to what it is imagined to.

Essay Three - The Sad Truth of Immigration to The United States

Sometimes, to have the American Dream, people have to move to the United States. They have to sacrifice everything - their homes, their families in their home region, and their lives. And what do they get in return? The return is quite poor - hard work, a hard life, and a societal resentment; yet somehow these people still show optimism in their lives while travelling to America, and while in America. Why? Why do these people give up everything for the American Dream if it’s such a falsified one?

Life is never always completely easy. But there is a difference in the challenge of everyday life for everyone. Many people in the world, often in Hispanic regions, (such as near the Mexican and United States Border) have a very, very hard life. (Not to say that people don’t live through hardships …show more content…

A dream of equality - a dream where everyone can be content… but sadly a lie covered in shadows, corrupt politics, discrimination, and cruel cerebral matter. It’s one that’s controlled by the higher-ups in society.... people in power. People who have lots of money. People who need not worry about discrimination. While some things are achievable, success isn’t a guarantee for everyone - nor is it the fair “ hard work = results no matter what” pay off it should be. But for me, there’s a glimmer of hope. Someone who can bring real democracy. While the world will never be perfect, so many things have a chance at being fixed by someone - and that someone is Bernie

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Many readers of this story can understand that life may be across the border into the United States, but they fail to comprehend to what extent the life is better and Urrea gives a detailed narration that tries to show the difference. Urrea does this well by giving brief overviews of the lives of these men in their home country and what they expect to get once they cross the border. The desperation of the men seeking to cross the border can be quantified in pesos and the men find that they cannot earn enough to cater for their basic needs such as shelter, food and clothing (Urrea, 2008). With the lack of such basic needs the men even find that catering for their children’s need for education is far beyond their reach. Urrea highlights the desperation of families in Mexico and how not only the old suffer, but also the young who miss opportunities because their poor societies have little to offer them.

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Immigrant, Harry Bernstein, in his memoir, The Dream, recounts the many struggles that he and his family endured while living in poverty in England and later on settling into their new and strange home in Chicago. Harry Bernstein's reason for writing this moving memoir is to show how anything is possible if the correct amount of zeal is applied. He creates an exciting atmosphere with the use a relate-able mood using an ethos rhetorical strategy. Adults and teenagers are able to relate to this piece of writing by applying ourselves to the struggles that he went through and relating them to our own lives.

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Many people seem to think that Bernie Sanders won’t be able to make America great again; however, he has been in public office for more than 30 years. He has seen some of the greatest down falls that America has been through. He knows his facts and he knows his country. Not anyone can really say that he doesn’t know what he is doing, because he surely does. Bernie wants every American that there is to stand together with him, so that he can fight for the support of free health care, free college tuition, and getting our middle class Americans out of

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One must speak out what his inner self wants to prove and find. This is what Equality’s dream is, to find the past forgotten knowledge and share it to his people. Controlled by his society he is forced to keep his thoughts to himself. Later on, Equality realizes that a person who keeps his thoughts to himself all the time has nothing to think about except his own thoughts. In order to achieve his dream, Equality learns that he must chart the uncharted and stomp out of his fears.

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When one in-visons the golden and all-powerful idea that is known simply as The American Dream it is only human to immediately think of the “grand” result of achieving the stereotypical dream, portrayed in a vast majority of pieces of media are the struggle and often overlooked deception that gaining and earning this idea of the dream costs. In most cases (and always in the cliché), the end all result of “working one’s entire life to earn the American dream” is seen as an ultimate bliss or euphoria because it means that one is earned the life they now have by putting in blood, sweat, and tears. Those claims quite possibly and a lot of the times accurate but what is almost always ignored is the journey to the dream. This journey is the complete opposite of the dream

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