...Change Is Good I walked around uncertain surrounded by so many people that I could ask for help, yet I would still be as lost as an ant in a greenhouse.I tried to understand people but I was only twelve, nervous and unable to speak English, that was my first day in middle school in the United States. Five years ago, I moved to the United States from Iraq for a better life, for a new life. Before I was born my parents were working their hardest just for the slightest possibility of having the chance to move out of the country. After eleven years, we got the acceptance legal papers to emigrate to the U.S.A. I said my goodbyes and left behind my friends and most of my family members.The goodbyes were very sad and difficult, but moving to...
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...Moving to the United States was the hardest decision of my life because I wasn’t ready to start a new life in another part of the world with another culture, different school, and friends. Although, the first couple of months I was really sad because most of my family live in Mexico. However, months later I wasn’t feeling sad anymore I resilience myself because I was having fun at school with my new friends, and teachers. So, now I am really happy with my new life and of course I still miss my family in Mexico and my friends, but I know I make the right decision of my...
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...Growing up, I felt a feeling of resentment toward my parents, who only seldom brought up the “what if,” of my whole family moving to the United States before they actually made it into reality when I was 7. I cried restlessly both day and night from being homesick of the land I’ve grown to know for the 7 beginning years of my life, until it forced my mom to lie to me that, “this whole thing is just a vacation.” And with that thought, I’ve been on vacation in the United States for 10 years. My parents had previously held prestigious positions in their respective career fields in South Korea. They were in their early 20’s with ambition and dreams much bigger than I could ever imagine. I couldn’t wrap my head around how ambitious someone would have to be in...
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...In life we all go through many different changes,drastic changes that really affect your life completely.At some point we face difficult situations,that we struggle to deal with.At 8 years old I had to face my biggest challenge which I called “the big move” where I moved out of my birth country the Dominican Republic to the United States.I never expected that coming here would be as hard as it was when I first came.I faced many challenges, having to learn a new language, leaving my family,and a new school.When I first got to the United States I was in complete denial, I did not want to e In the United States because I was not used to it.Things started to happen which made it worse instead for me to get used living in the United States. When I was 8 years old my dad brought my mom,sister and me to live in the United States.At first I was excited,moving to a new country a new beginning.Living In the Dominican Republic has always been a struggle for my family since I was born,my mom struggled to get us a better life as babies for my sister and me.My first thought when I was told we were moving was that is a great opportunity...
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...My parents moved to America when I stayed at home in Europe with a foster parent I was three years old … 50 years later. We were sailing on a ship in the ocean with many others for a long time and we are traveling to New York I have one kid that I adopted, his name is Frederick and I take care of him I am Charles. I work for a ship merchant and want to go to America for a better life and find new treasures. Frederick is very easy to take care. Kind, helpful, trustworthy is what he is. Travelling across the ocean was a little bit unsettling but we made it. New York is pretty interesting, I see a house for sale but it is very small. It was very gloomy and dark. Everything is made out of brick and the roads are made of brick to. New york is very...
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...I have always enjoyed helping poverty-stricken people ever since Me and my family moved to the United States when I was 11 years old. I always wanted to do something positive for my community that would make my parents proud. It was a sunny morning of Russellville, as I was getting ready school. We lived three blocks away from the middle school, I would to and from school on the cracked sidewalks of the school and vivid green grass. It was a going phenomenal we all liked being here and enjoyed meeting new people and their culture and their traditions. Then couple later I knew my way around town, I found city park two blocks north from my house. So, I would go to the park after school ended. One day as I was walking towards the city park I saw...
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...It wasn’t too bad though I’ve been living in the United States for almost two years now so, I already got used to live here. I already learned the language, where to go, how things work so now life is pretty much easier. I can consider myself even a little bit happier I think. But it wasn’t always like this. Everything started with a simple sentence that my dad told me, “We’re going to move, prepare yourself, we’re going to the United States”. At first I could not believe that we were going to a place so far away from home and so different, I couldn’t believe what was happening, I’ve always considered my life so perfect, why move? That is when a long period of sadness started in my life. The moving day finally came, we packed up a few stuff that we had in our huge house, I couldn’t take everything that I wanted so I felt pretty sad because I had to left even my things that my friends gave me that I treasure the most . After a few hours we were finally done so we went to the airport and after about 4 hours waiting we were already flying with the US as our final destination. “Do you think we’re going to be okay?” I asked mom. “It’s gonna be alright I...
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...I was raised in a country that has always been buried under corruption and where the impunity is a common habit. Moving from Mexico to the United States was what changed my whole perspective on everything. I knew that my only choice was to advance forward and attempt to build the best of it, and I was sure that I had what is necessary to take down all the difficulties. With this in mind, I knew with all my heart that I craved to begin to advance into my personal greatness, and that I was obligated to be willing to progress against the furious tide. I knew that I needed to start building up a future, so I could help the people I left behind in the place I grew up. That is when I started to get involved in my community, so I could grow as an...
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...PERSONAL NARRATIVE 1 When taking a look at how my life has changed over the past five years I can truly and honestly say that I would never have expected the things that have happened. Back in June 2007 I was separated from my husband and moved into my own apartment. I was in the United States Navy for six and a half years at that time. My divorce was finalized in January 2008 and I deployed to Afghanistan in March 2008, for eight months. After coming home from a long deployment, I had orders to move to Lemoore, California. This area is nothing but farm lands and I did not like that at all. I was born and raised in Southern California and enjoyed the fast-paced life that I was living. It is amazing how things have changed. In July 2011 I was honorably discharged from the United States Navy and I moved back in with my mother and two younger sister. Growing up we lived in a condo in Diamond Bar, California, but that all changed over time. The same time that I got out of the military, myself, my sisters and my mother had to move out of our condo and into a two bedroom apartment. Talk about a huge change in life. This move has not been easy for any of us. There is no privacy and we all have to share the living space. I share a bed with my middle sister and my mother shares a bed with my youngest sister. I never thought that I would be unemployed for this long, but it has been over a year since I got discharged. It seems like nobody is hiring right now...
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...books including a 9 New York Times bestsellers. Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates begins in 1785, with the newly established United States trying to maintain peace, grow the economy, and promote the state of the American power across the world. American ships, the Dauphin and the Maria were captured sailing in the Mediterranean Sea by the Barbary Pirates from the North African Coast to enslave crews and the ships and contents within as prizes. Thomas Jefferson and John Adam, key individuals in early foreign policy and United States politics differed on their stances on how to solve the situation; Adams preferred to pay the ransoms and negotiate peace, whereas Jefferson wanted to solve the problem by force. The young United States government struggled to pay expensive tributes that the Barbary States demanded in exchange, but the crews of the Dauphin and the Maria were released after a decade of enslavement. Yet the failed policies of George...
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...University of Tennessee, Knoxville Trace: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange Masters Theses Graduate School 5-2010 Bharati Mukherjee and the American Immigrant: Reimaging the Nation in a Global Context Leah Rang University of Tennessee - Knoxville, lrang@utk.edu Recommended Citation Rang, Leah, "Bharati Mukherjee and the American Immigrant: Reimaging the Nation in a Global Context. " Master's Thesis, University of Tennessee, 2010. http://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_gradthes/655 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at Trace: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange. It has been accepted for inclusion in Masters Theses by an authorized administrator of Trace: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange. For more information, please contact trace@utk.edu. To the Graduate Council: I am submitting herewith a thesis written by Leah Rang entitled "Bharati Mukherjee and the American Immigrant: Reimaging the Nation in a Global Context." I have examined the final electronic copy of this thesis for form and content and recommend that it be accepted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts, with a major in English. Urmila Seshagiri, Major Professor We have read this thesis and recommend its acceptance: Lisi Schoenbach, Bill Hardwig Accepted for the Council: Carolyn R. Hodges Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate School (Original signatures are on file with official student records.) To the Graduate Council:...
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...missing from the fence, you can bet that the two men are out there putting it back together piece by piece. Frost presents to the reader the ideas of barriers between people, communication, friendship and the sense of security people gain from barriers. Robert Frost was born March 26, 1874 in California. He became interested in poetry after moving to Massachusetts at the age of eleven. His first published poem was My Butterfly in 1894. A year later, Frost married Elinor Miriam White. They moved to England where Robert met Ezra Pound, a poet who helped get the word out about Frost’s talent. Three years later Robert and Elinor moved back to the United States where Frost was already known after having published two collections, one named North of Boston. Mending Wall was part of this collection. During his writing career in poetry, Frost won four Pulitzer Prizes. After running a farm in New England, Frost’s writing became heavily influenced by the beautiful landscape around him. His writing often included nature. He appeared to write about situations individuals find themselves in no matter the time period. Robert Faggen states, "As a narrative poet, Frost is considered accessible for students and poetry readers of all ages. A close analysis of Frost's poems, however, reveals that Frost indeed is a deceptively simple poet. While Frost's poems initially seem to be fairly straightforward, they really are quite complex in terms of their poetic form and, hence, meaning". Mending Wall...
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...ANECDOTE WHITEPAPER Three journeys: A narrative approach to successful organisational change INTRODUCTION Early on in Anecdote, we did a trainingneeds assessment for part of the Australian Defence Force. Our discovery phase involved two teams; one team adopted a structured interview technique and the other used anecdote circles to collect stories. After our first day in the field we met with the structured interview guys to compare notes. “On first blush,” they said, “it seems like most things are in order. They are adhering to OH&S processes. Sure, there are some areas for improvement but generally things are OK.” As they were providing this assessment, those of us on the anecdotes team just looked at each other in astonishment and replied, “So, you didn’t hear about the soldiers who are showering in their own urine because their recycling system is broken or hear about the workshop where everyone wears protective footwear because some poor fellow lost his toes in an accident but no one wears protective eyewear because they have never had an eye accident?”. We had heard story upon story of major transgressions that weren’t picked up in the structured interview approach. This experience confirmed our assessment that a narrative approach is great for yielding new, and otherwise hidden, insights. A number of years and many clients later, we have seen that there is something even more important narrative techniques provide: a resolve among people to do something about the situation...
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...Daniela Escudero Eng-101 Prof. David Schleicher Narrative Essay 5/27/2014 Moving to America Transformed My Life In the past I came across many changes but leaving my country was the toughest change in my life. I had to learn how to live away from people I love and how to start a new life in a new country. Immigration is a life changing experience; learning a new language, adapting to the culture and lifestyle changes are all strenuous things that were thrown at me once I became a part of this country. Even though moving away from my family and friends was a difficult decision, it changed my live for a better. It taught me how to deal with change, how to become an independent and responsible person, and how to feel this country my home. I never imagined living in another country. I remember as it was yesterday when my mom said, “Daniela, I know you do not want to leave Colombia but I have to take you with me, you are my youngest child and I will not let you here” I started arguing with her, saying that how she could do that to me when I already had plans to start college and that I was happy in my country but at the end I gave up and decided to come to America. It was February 10th, 2010, when I left Colombia and was forced to leave my friends, my grandmother, my school, my language and culture to move to this big new country to start a new life. As I took my last look at my home, I remembered all the fun times I had with my mom and sister and friends...
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...challenges that he experiences as he flees from his war torn country of southern Sudan. The book paints a vivid picture of the epic journey that the main character in the story, Valentino faces from the time that he flees the country to the time that he finally reaches what he thought would be the “Promised Land” in Atlanta, United States of America. He was soon to realize that even in America, life would not be a bed of roses but it would be marred by unexpected acts of violence and racial discrimination (Dave 28). One striking thing in the narrative is that the author brings out the culture of the Dinka people. For instance, polygamous nature of the Dinka people is clearly illustrated. The myth regarding the origin of the Dinka people is as well demonstrated (Bess). In regards to this origin, the Dinka people are given a choice by God to choose between the cattle and the “What is the What”. They choose the cattle which they understood better rather than “What is the What” which they did not as demonstrated in the line, "—you didn't tell us the answer: What is the What? My father shrugged. —We don't know. No one knows” (Dave 64). Through the narrative, a reader is informed on the historical background of the south Sudanese people. The relative geographical locations of the three African countries of Sudan, Ethiopia and Kenya are well described, painting an unforgettable picture in the mind of the reader. The diversity in different cultures comes out clearly in the book...
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