Essay On My Journey To America

Bill Mehlinger shares how he learned to accept the refugees. His grocery store business was doing poorly. With help from one of his employees, Hong Diep Vo, Mehlinger got the idea of making his grocery store fit the needs of the refugees. He got all kinds of ethnic food and started selling them in his store. It was convenient for the refugees because they do not need to go very far to get their food. Then his business was doing better than before. This shows how something new can change your life forever. It proves how diversity serves the goals and interests of everyone. ‘ “If it wasn’t for the refugees knowing us and knowing we go out of our way for them, we’d be gone,’ Mehlinger said” ‘ (175). Furthermore, the old Clarkston Baptist church undergoed the same experience. ‘ “ We realized that what the Lord had in store for that old Clarkston Baptist Church was to transition into a truly international church and to help minister to all these ethnic groups moving into the country,’ he said” ‘(176). As the cliche, “what comes around goes around” greatly applies to this experience. The church was on the verge to becoming broke and there was less people going to church. Then the noticed that they needed to cater to all the refugees in Clarkston. And in turn, the church was filled with people. They believed that the church was a place for everybody and they embraced the new

I laughed when I saw that one of the items on the list was teaching refugees where Nebraska is on a map, because I personally joke that my homeland flies under the radar with the majority of Americans in general. However, some of the items on the list seemed like universal common sense, such as what a birthday is or why we wear seatbelts. But then I had to chide myself and realize how important it is to help someone with grace, without belittling them into feeling inferior for not knowing something. This interpersonal skill translates from teaching immigrants to interacting with anybody, from my youth group students to my roommates. Some of the necessities refugees need cultural brokers Pipher elaborated on include the intricacies of: housing, orientation/transportation/driving, health care, and mental

Following the Civil War, Confederate soldiers return home to “cope with the consequences of their defeat.” (Goldfield, ed., The American Journey: A History of the United States, 451)Upon their return, they notices the downfall and destruction of their homes and towns, economic devastation, death, and poverty. Transforming their “struggle into a symbol of courage” (Goldfield, 452) they sought for redemption, Reconstruction. Having to seek shelter with their families, the ex-confederate soldiers feared the revenge of the former slaves for the many years of slavery and mistreatment. They believed that improvement of African Americans as a direct challenge to white superiority. They could learn to accept the destruction of families, farms, and fortunes, but not racial order. White southerners were determined to keep control over their governments. “The war may have ended slavery, but white southerners were determined to preserve

Coming to AmericaThe year was 1948, and my grandmothers aunt and uncle came for a visit from Chicago to Germany to see their family. They had no children and had come to ask my grandmother if she would be interested in coming to Chicago to possibly live there w ith them. The idea of going appealed to her very much since her home city, Saarbrcken, was still partially destroyed from the WWII bombings. She always had the wanderlust in her blood coming from both sides of her family, so thinking about the towering skyscrapers, the bustling city streets, and the glamorous movies from America was quite enticing to my grandmother. With all off these wondrous thoughts swimming through her head, she enthusiastically agreed to go.Now, it was time to prepare

My journey began from Hlamphei to United States. I lived in Hlamphei for ten year and life is so difficult and hard because their is no job to get money. Their is no bathroom and fire to use for cooking also their is not renting house, the house where we lived was so dirty and there is no light. I never went to school because it cost too much to pay and we need uniform so instead of that I just help my parents. We planted crops but it is very hard to take care of because from my house it is so far and we need to walk long distance because we always need to pour water and get some of crop to cook. Also we have farm and I feel so sad for my parents because they use cows to farm and it was so muddy. We clean dishes and wash clothes at river because their is

Life set out many pathways and opportunities for your better future so that you could be a better person and could have better life, coming to America from Pakistan was a life changing experience for me. At the age of 15 when I first came to America it was A hole new experience for me I was able to experience those things that i never even thought in Pakistan. I meet new people and they all are really good and they love to help each other. When I came to America i saw a lot of advancement in technology everywhere, which showed me how intelligent people are here and that made me more excited to learn new things here in America.

I was born and raised in Vietnam. At the age of thirteen, my family decided to move to America for living. The story of my life has no different than other immigrant students. The story of how parents decided to give up everything that they had built for years and came to another country for a fresh new start. The story of how people like me, immigrants, got mocked and discriminated for our broken English. The story of how I cried mostly everyday because I did not fit in within the society. And the story of how I struggle to find something that my family originally came to this country for, the American Dream. The story of my life is not original, at least not anymore, since there are a lot of people in this nation have the same story as I

Life is about making choices, but some of them can even change our life. Two years ago I decided to come to America for my higher studies in Western Kentucky University. Although I knew it was really a challenge to me, this significant decision that I’ve made was going to change everything about my life and me. There are many things in life that can change the course of a person’s life. It can either make a positive impact or a negative impact on a person’s life. It’s always best to have the positive impact though. For me I have had a positive experience that has changed my life forever and that is coming to a different land and culture.

Imagine getting sent to school not knowing how to read the signs. I was walking and I noticed trees and people mowing there lawns. People were getting there kids ready to go on a school bus. The wind was blowing hard and it felt like it was going to snow. I kept on walking and as I was walking through the streets I noticed people staring at me.

Idaho is my fifth state I reside. When every time I move, It is not easy to recognize that I live in the same country. I have experienced St. Louis to New York and I spent most of my high school in Manchester, New Hampshire. Also, I went to college in North Carolina. Those places were all unique and interesting from my perspective.

Every year hundreds of thousand, legal and illegal immigrant from around the world come to United States. These immigrant have many different motivations, some enter the United States hoping to get a chance for a better life, and other are refugees escaping war and prosecution from their home country. Many people believe the United States is a best place to go because there is more freedom, protection and benefits. Some believe the large number of immigration is affecting the current citizens of the United States. Others believe that immigration can be dangerous to the environment which blame as crime, poverty and overpopulation. In fact there would be no America if not for immigration because everyone and even the “Native American” is an immigrant from other country who first settle here on

There are many significant parts of my life that have had a huge impact on my personality, but there is one that has not only affected me, but has changed me for the better. My personal life changing experience was coming to America. For me, this bridge between my old life and new life is a shaky bridge that I attempted to cross and entered a whole new realm of life which changed everything. The decision about coming to America has taught me how to respect other people, be more responsible, and be more loving towards various friends and families. It has also helped me adapt to the new life that I’m about to begin. It was so unexpected. Out of nowhere my parents broke the news: “We’re going to America!” Living in a big town of Bhopal,

I grew up in an environment where I was sensitive to the needs of those immediately around me; my family, my neighbors, my classmates but my world was a very narrow one. This course has taught be to look at the world as my neighbors and feel a responsibility to the health, safety and welfare of all. I used to believe there was nothing I could do about the famine in Africa or the genocide in Croatia but I now realize that ANY small step I take is a step toward a path leading to action and understanding. One of my closest friends is a Major in the U.S. Army and she has been to Croatia, Iraq and Afghanistan; I am blessed to have her in my life because through her eyes and her stories, I am more in touch with the trials of our modern day world. “Lao Tzu said, “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step” (Loeb, 2010).

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From 1991 over one-sixth of Bhutan’s people flee their country and take a shelter in Nepal, India and other countries around the world. The large populations of Bhutanese refugee are called lhotshamps, an ethnic group, who were forced to leave their country in the early 1990s. Among 105,000 Bhutanese I’m one of them. I was born in a hut made of bamboo, food rations, and dirt roads. We are hostile, unsettled, unsure of who we are and what future held for us. I often think can we ever able to get rid out of the tag called “refugee” would my life ever changed, while ongoing tussled between mind and outside world finally in 2008 United States open a door for us to settled in the United States a “promised land” with full of struggle in 2009 we came here at Grand Forks. As I was growing up in the refugee camp I have seen a countless number of violence, crimes, injuries, and rebuff that words can’t be described. Most importantly death of people from a disease that can be a cure if, we have enough facilities such as, advanced medical training and hospitals. Although during my early childhood I have seen so much of maltreatment and practices, I always thought of having a career in health-related profession because I wanted to invest and improve the lives of individuals so that their children don't have to orphans, forced to work when their parent died, nor they have to beg for food. When I was 10 years old, my friend and I were trying to climb up the mango tree and I step in