Immigration is the international movement of people into a country that they are not natives to. This topic is a common subject in many texts. Even though they might talk about the same topic, not all texts portray the subject of immigration the same way. The texts, “Red Umbrella”, and “Band-aid for 800 Children” both have immigration as the main subject and they portray the subject in both similar and different ways.
Both texts portray immigration similarly and differently. One example of how they are similar is they both are based on true events. “Red Umbrella” is about a family during the Cuban revolution, and, “Band-aid for 800 Children” is about someone today that takes care of the kids that were born in the U.S but their parents were
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Recently illegal immigration has become a very pressing issue among people. Many people around the borders are being greatly affected by the issue and think immediate action needs to be taken to put a stop to the issue. The Documentary Border War: Battle Over Illegal Immigration takes a stand on the issue using many examples of pathos, ethos, and logos to try and persuade people that illegal immigration is a very serious issue and we need to put a stop to it. This documentary follows the lives of people who have been affected by illegal immigration, and explains how they feel about the issue. Another way that people can look at the issue of illegal immigration is through the eyes of the immigrants, and the reasons why they might be trying migrate to another country. The documentary Wetback: The Undocumented Documentary focuses on the issue from this point of view. This documentary uses pathos and logos to show the lives and hardships of those people who are trying to migrate to a new country. Although Wetback used many examples of pathos and logos to show the struggles of the migrants, Border War did a better job showing pathos by following the lives of people who were affected by the illegal immigrants they were also very persuasive with ethos by following credible people.
On Angel Island, the United States of America took it upon themselves to record and examine all of the people emigrating from their homelands. Most of the people immigrating to America through Angel Island were Asian in origin. Upon arrival to Angel Island, a medical inspection was one of the first examinations that the immigrants were put through to determine whether they were fit to enter the United States. The medical examiners inspected every immigrant for signs of disease or being unfit and detained them for further examination. If immigrants were found to have something that was able to be easily taken care of, they were treated. If, upon further inspection, an immigrant was found to have a chronic illness, they were then marked as unfit and denied entry into the United States.
There are millions of people who attempt to cross the border every day. These people cross the border from different countries to the United States to live a better life, to provide for their loved ones, and to live the American Dream. The American Dream is to be able to spend time with family while paying the house bills and the car bill all while having a job. People migrating to the United States could be an advantage and a disadvantage in the United States. In “The Crossing” by Ruben Martinez the social issue is immigration. Immigration is a problem in this story because we see a lot of immigrants trying to migrate to the United States. Ruben Martinez mentions in the short story “The Crossing” This desert is armed with Mexican and American
The similarities between the two are that they are both about immigrants and the different diversities of america. For example the both talked about blacks and how they were treated. The also talked about how blacks made america what it is today. The also talked about what it is to be an American and what an American Identity is.
Immigration has enriched and highlighted many of the five themes we went over as a class. It has added many details to immigration that we never touched before such as the process and the history of immigration. Even though we have gone over a bit as a class, but it as just a little knowledge spread apart throughout all five themes. Only later on learning about immigration, everything became clear. Like how there were restrictions in immigration caused by the world war and still how the civil rights movement led to removal of restriction for immigrants. It likewise became clear on how certain groups of immigrants led to the development of America such as the Chinese immigrants. But even upon contributing and the removal of immigration restrictions
Immigration is one of the most trending topics in the presidential campaign, generating furious debate over the situations that America faces. Whether it be deporting illegal immigrations, granting them a form of amnesty, or building a wall between the United States and Mexico, the immigration process is constantly deliberated. A total of 300,000 jobs were created in the December of 2015. However, there is a constant argument about the income distribution, with the amount of jobs that are supposedly being lost to immigrants. At the top of the social classes, wages are increasing. In the middle and bottom strata, wages are stagnate. However, there is more complexity in order to understand how immigrants are truly impacting our economy and our lives.
With the rapid economic development, more and more people try to immigrate to America and trying to learn English. Some parents would like their children just speaking English. However, there are some parents tend to keep their native language and teach to their children, in order to keep their culture alive. And in my opinion, parents should keep their old language alive.
In today’s society, people believe that immigration is a great issue. American people try to accuse them of something that they may or may not of done. Americans tear immigrant families apart that have done nothing wrong and been here for years. These problems today relate to the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller. In the play, girls accuse innocent people of being witches to free their name of witchcraft. Immigrants are being accused of several different reasons to get them out of the country, the question is, when will it stop?
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Immigration has been a topic that has caused multiple discussions on why people migrate from one country to another, also how it affects both the migraters and the lands they go. Immigration is the movement from one location to another to live there permanently. This topic has been usually been associated with sociology to better explain how it affects people, cultures and societies. Sociology has three forms of thinking that are used to describe and analyze this topic. There are three forms of thinking that are used to tell and describe immigration to society; structural functionalist, symbolic interactionist, and conflict theory. Each of these theories uses different forms of thinking and rationality to describe and explain socio topics.
With the recent Paris attacks and rumors of foreboding ISIS attacks, the topic of immigration comes up quite often in conversations. Topics such as how the immigrants should be dealt with, what exactly are the benefits and/or detriments of immigration, Donald Trump’s immigration plan, et cetera are usually discussed. With immigration gradually becoming a trending issue, various people have expressed their thoughts through means like social media and news sites. Joining this movement, this will be another text on the topic of immigration. The benefits of immigration will be presented, false information will be proven wrong, and why some people oppose immigration will be explained and discussed.
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United States is a typical immigration country. There are many people come from different countries around the world who immigrated to the United States. As a new immgration of my self, since the day that I came to the United States, cosmopolitansim’s problem is the one that I deal with every day, and it is also the problem that I have been thinking a lot. Acoording to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, “Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty”(A2). It is because of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the new immigrants could integrate into the new environment well, and not feel that they are not belong to this place. On the other hand, new immigrants in early period and the immgrants of some other countyies were not lucky because they need face the problem of discrimination, especially illegal immigrants. As the novel of Little Bee that we just read, is written by Chris Cleave. It’s about the main character Little Bee, a little girl was born in Nigeria village, and the greatest happiness of her life was playing on the swing with her friends. During the escape, her sister was killed by thugs. In order to hide the refugee status, she conceal her real identity when she was in UK, just call herself “Little Bee”. In the UK, she met Sarah again, a Britis...
The biggest difference between the two texts is that one is about gangs and racism while the other is about the way a boy’s perception of his father changes as he grows up. However, both texts cleverly use techniques to convey messages that are relevant to our society.