The Latin Deli, And Two Ways To Belong In America

America has always been perceived as a land of opportunity and freedom for the many immigrants who traveled to this wide unknown land. America seemed to be consistent in becoming a country where everyone was accepted however, this was contrary for African Americans. After America gained independence and slavery was abolished, the divide between Whites and African Americans still stood. Many African Americans were not given favor for jobs, schooling, and many other opportunities. This journey of pain and perseverance is portrayed through the Langston Hughes poem, “ Let America Be America.” Hughes uses the inequality that still stands in the “free” America to voice that everyone should be equal. Hughes uses various allusions to portray the didactic meaning of the poem that the statements of a free America for everyone, is far from the truth.

When thinking of America the first thing that might come to mind would be “Freedom” or “American Dream/Promise”. Although in some cases they both fall in the same place, as portrayed in the speech. The illustration portrays the immigrants that are sailing over to America. While the speech tells you about how we should view America and its values.

All humans, each and every person, have their own unique opinion. As immigrants migrate to America, they face many challenges: financial, social, and political. In Funny in Farsi, author Firoozeh Dumas tells a memoir about her coming to America from Iran, and enduring many trials while trying to acquire acceptance of the fellow Americans around her. Someone is no longer considered an immigrant when they are legally documented and contribute to the society. When immigrants are treated like an outcast, it does not give them a positive outlook on their success of achievement. Oftentimes immigrants come to America and expect so much of our country and are occasionally discouraged because their expectations were not

Mukherjee’s sister doesn’t believe it’s fair that the U.S. can try to punish her, when she’s always acted as a great member of society in the United States. She believes the treatment of immigrants like herself in the U.S., is often unfair and full of criticism. Her main focus is returning back to India when she retires, because she identifies with her home country. It’s there when she can feel accepted and fully comfortable in her surroundings. The U.S. doesn’t give her that vibe, and as conflict about immigration continues to worsen here, it only pushes her closer to India’s way of

In some of the pieces of literature like “I, Too, Sing America,” “America and I,” “The Bill of Rights,” and “Veterans Day: Never Forget Their Duty” the authors have different ideas of what it means to be American. They also express their ideas using different strategies: negation, classification, and function. With these ideas and strategies a more complex definition on what it means to be American was developed. Being an American means being patriotic, having freedoms, and believing in a dream of something amazing.

In ?Unbroken,? Louis Zamperini, a delinquent runner, has to use his faith and free will to get through his hardships in life, particularly when he faces the Japanese concentration camps. Driven to the limits of endurance, Louis looks upon his hopes and dreams whilst he gets stuck with two other soldiers in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. He faces the brutality of the camps, the hardships of immigration, agonizing suffering and his faith/free will tempting him. Louis? character starts to evolve as he enters the war and finally sees the chaos and viciousness that is enthralled into the war itself.

Both during and after moving to a new country, immigrants face many hardships. The process of obtaining citizenships is difficult in itself, but even when citizenship is earned there are still challenges. One major difficulty some immigrants may face is dealing with xenophobia. Immigrants who experience xenophobic prejudice can find adjustment to a new life very difficult. In contrast, those who are treated with kindness and as equal citizens find assimilating to a new culture easier. The way immigrants are treated in America impacts their success as citizen. In addition, one of the ways a former immigrant might feel like they have become a “fully-fledged citizen” is when they feel as though they belong and are integrated into the country they’ve come to.

America is a country with a history founded on people looking for a new start and emigrating from the old world to fulfill their dreams. Immigration is not always happiness, rags to riches, and the American dream. Major immigration periods happened from 1607, 1820-1870 and again in the early 1900’s. Immigrant numbers were growing so exponentially that the National origins Act of 1921 and 1924 was enacted to put a quota limit that blatantly discriminated against immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe. Immigrants that made it in faced many hardships such as learning new languages, abandoning family, and accepting the American values. But the perilous, extensive uprooting may not have been worth it in the long haul. While moving to America proved itself worthy for those escaping persecution and tyranny, it caused problems in the long run for others due to the isolation and poverty.

“It was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.” This quote by Zinedine Zidane shows how hard The Americans Dream is to immigrants. This essay will explain a little about immigrants coming to the United States looking to achieve the American Dream and their struggles and accomplishments. Also this essay will talk about two speeches from the mid-1900’s for both Martin Luther King Jr. and President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Immigrants have many ups and downs through their live in America.

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair begins with Jurgis’s and Ona’s wedding day at Chicago’s meat packing building. The beginning of the book is based on flashbacks for the couple, such as from when they meet in Lithuania to deciding to move to the United States in hopes of a better life. Not only does the newly wed couple decide to go but other family members decide to go too. Once they arrive to Chicago they realize that America is not exactly how they envisioned it to be. Not long after hunting for a job they all finally find one. However, not long after one of their family members dies and the others become unemployed, therefore making it very difficult for them to make ends meet.

Nelson Mandela, former President of South Africa, once said, “For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others”. This means that being free is more than not being physically locked up, but to go beyond the physical. It is about living life in a way that helps others achieve the freedom that they deserve. In the novel, Among the Hidden, by Margaret Peterson Haddix, Luke Garner is a third child and because of the Population Law he is illegal and doesn’t have the freedom that his brothers have. Similarly, in “Two Sisters Two Americas”, by Brooke Ross, Veronica Saravia came to the US without permission, making her an illegal immigrant, yet her younger sister, who was born

The American dream is something all people look forward to, even now, but it has been a long time since the dream was alive. Thomas Paine believed that America was an equall place where everyone get along, but the 1920s proved his ideals wrong. During the 1920s materialism, greed, and a corrupt government ruined the dreams of america and thomas paine; the book The Great Gatsby portrays thhis time period and proves that Thomas Pain was wrong about America.

America is a grand country praised as being “beautiful for spacious skies/For amber waves of grain/For purple mountain majesties/Above the fruited plain” (“America the Beautiful”). The citizens of this country enjoy the rights and liberties granted under the shield of wonderful America. However, “the land of the free and the home of the brave” (“The Star Spangled Banner”) may not be as golden as it appears. While this country is said to be the land of equality, not everyone is truly treated equivalently. Racism towards both other citizens and immigrants is very much alive in modern day society, as well as being prevalent in history. Both Manifest Destiny and Imperialism exemplify the discrimination

They say there is freedom and peace in “America”, but is there really? I can not answer such a question. However, I have my own opinion; which it is different from your typical red-blooded American because I am an immigrant. My experiences as an immigrant have changed my views on the “freedom” in America. America is made of immigrants, who bring varieties of things, traditions and communities. Together we must stand for a better life and live by the American dream.

Chris Gardner states, "Maybe happiness is something that we can only pursue, and maybe we can actually never have it." All views of the American Dream are directly associated with happiness; however, the conditions needed to make a person happy change over time. Originally the American Dream focused on freedom, rights, and opportunity. The expectations of the dream are evolving into achieving an acceptable career with a steady income, living in a decent home, and having enough money; society refers to these new expectations as a middle-class lifestyle. I believe that the changes to the American Dream are improvements due to modernization, understanding the means to get there, and a realistic outlook on the subject.