Personal Narrative: My Immigration To Middlesex
Before I come to Middlesex, I lived in Jordan after I left my original country Iraq in 2010, I finished my high school diploma in Jordan but when we moved out to U.S, I attended Lowell high school in 2013 of course I went to it because of my little English. The language was one of the difficult barriers I had to face, I graduated in 2015, and I have been here in the U.S for two years. When I came here I spoke very little English, I could understand about 60% when I have conversation, when I talk with my friend in the school. In Jordan I had taken philosophy course, one of my favorite subjects, and we learn that the language is the tool or the facility that we use to express our smartness in order to express ourselves as human being totally
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Personal Narrative: Coming To America As Immigrants
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Personal Narrative: Immigration To The United States
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Personal Narrative: My Immigration To America
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Personal Narrative: My Move To America
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Personal Narrative: My First Generation Immigrants
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