Sofia Pennia Ela-1 11/16/16 Immigration- Language,Communication, False Hopes Imagine moving to America and dreaming about riches, an easy life, no worries, safety and freedom. I hate to break it to you but… that is not that easy. To make the transition easier, it would be beneficial to learn English. This can be accomplished by forcing oneself to communicate with other Americans in English. Another way is to embrace the American culture. Finally, lose the false hopes. The streets are not lined in gold and money doesn't grow on trees. If you follow this you are sure to succeed! “ A sizable number of immigrants (45%) came to America with no knowledge of English.” (Bittle 47). Many immigrants say that they can read sort-of or …show more content…
Most immigrants have to learn a new language and a new way of life. The jobs they must take are often hard, with long hours.”(Maestro 15). For many immigrants they imagine an amazing country with no problems and low work hours. “‘There’s the assumption that when you come here you will become wealthy very fast and very easily. I have to work 12, 16 hours a day to make a living. [In my birth country] . ..they work, like, from nine until two and then go home.’” (Bittle 44) As you can tell this is not that case at all. For most immigrants it is very difficult, it's like they are starting over on a clean slate. But, to be successful you will have to start out at the bottom and live in a small cramped apartment with many people, work long hours with little pay. The internet is growing and always improving in the world. So more and more people everyday get to experience movies, but these movies and the internet are feeding them false aspirations. So when people come here they believe that they will have an easy life, even though it is the complete opposite. “‘When I came here, the first thing I imagined … the great life. When I recently arrived here, I wound up … in a two-bedroom apartment where 12 people were living… I said, ‘What have I gotten myself into?’ With time, I wound up renting another apartment. I didn’t imagine it would be like this.’” (Bittle 45). If many immigrants were not feeded this false information …show more content…
You understand that you should learn English and communicate not just with immigrants from your home country but other people from America too. Would you still want to come here? Even after hearing all of that? Many immigrants come to America not knowing this, leaving them unprepared for the difficulties that they will face. So as you can see and imagine if immigrants came over and knew these simple three things; learn the language (English), communicate with all Americans including fellow immigrants in English and get rid of all false hopes and face reality. Than they will be set and be able to tackle on America and end up on
Eugene V. Debs, the United State’s most influential union leader and avid socialist gives light to many issues including presidency, systems of society, and most importantly the unemployed in his speech “The Issue”. Debs was imprisoned in the 1890s for illegally encouraging a railroad strike, he also was sentenced to 10 years for his discouragement to the United States’ involvement in World War I. Debs has been a remarkable figure in the socialist party and had influenced so many. In Eugene Debs’ speech, Debs’ uses rhetorical appeal to relate to and convince his audience of the “issues” in the United
Pollan’s article provides a solid base to the conversation, defining what to do in order to eat healthy. Holding this concept of eating healthy, Joe Pinsker in “Why So Many Rich Kids Come to Enjoy the Taste of Healthier Foods” enters into the conversation and questions the connection of difference in families’ income and how healthy children eat (129-132). He argues that how much families earn largely affect how healthy children eat — income is one of the most important factors preventing people from eating healthy (129-132). In his article, Pinsker utilizes a study done by Caitlin Daniel to illustrate that level of income does affect children’s diet (130). In Daniel’s research, among 75 Boston-area parents, those rich families value children’s healthy diet more than food wasted when children refused to accept those healthier but
Lost in America is a text on how the generations before us were set with a language barrier. Breaking this barrier could a have benefited us in countless ways. It starts from beginning to end, talking about how we begin to change our aspects for foreign countries. Douglas McGray states that students did not study abroad in the world war generations. America basically shuts its door on trying to learn different languages. This hurts us in the wars and foreign affairs. As time went on, this problem begins to get fixed and languages begin to enter the “American,” language. He writes “Lost in America,” with the experience and knowledge through other people. Every person learns through two ways: Through Experience or someone else’s experience. Douglas
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Author Douglas McGray, in his article “Lost in America,” fights for the expansion of foreign language education in schools by focusing on the present and potential future effects the issue will have on the state of America’s world relations and world business market. To efficiently communicate his message for expansion, McGray publishes his article in Foreign Policy Magazine—a publication known for its political demographic. He publishes his article there with the intent to persuade his intended audience, lawmakers, to pass additional policies and laws expanding foreign language in schools. McGray compiles evidence from history, research, and some of his own thoughts on global education in America. He includes several rhetorical choices such
Is the American educational system preparing students to deal with the problems in an increasingly interconnected world? Douglass McGray, editor and contributing author for Foreign Policy Magazine, dove head first into this topic. His article “Lost in America”, published in 2009 in Foreign Policy Magazine, dwells on the idea that American students are not being taught the proper lessons to be able to lead future global markets. This piece was aimed at the creators of each state’s curriculum (the educational legislators) to try to persuade them to fill the gaps in America’s educational system. McGray uses statistics and export opinions to appeal to the logical minds of every board of education in America. The nature of McGray’s job, his impressive
In the article “Lost in America”, Douglas McGray focuses heavily on the problem of isolationism in the U.S education system in order to prove that changes in the education of young Americans must be taken. McGray’s purpose is to persuade his audience to integrate multicultural education into the American academic system and curriculum. So, that future Americans will no longer be isolated from the world’s many cultures and America will not fall behind other nations. This article is directed at the people having control and authority over the education of the young generation, including instructors, academic curriculum planners, and legislators.
In the past, a person that wants to be American must get rid of their own culture to become assimilated. My cousin Julissa told me the first thing she done to assimilate in America is to know english because that was e...
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The article recounts the observations of an inclusion teacher who worked with a Language Arts and Social Studies teacher to make literacy a primary focus across the curriculum. The author touts the use of metaphors as a means to help educators better plan and analyze their educational strategies. He points out that metaphor is useful because it helps us use what we are familiar with to explain concepts that are difficult to understand. Specifically, the author relates how his team compared literacy to a path, a bridge, and a window in their planning meetings. In their meetings, the team planned specific literacy strategies to be implemented in both Language Arts and Social Studies. Using the same strategies in both classes was their path
Emotions are understandably raw. We are well aware of the limitations of our Republic’s president, and some of us would have expected today’s outcome given the political rhetoric of our leaders over the past couple of days.
Language is primary media of understanding and getting integrated with any new society. An web article of CBS news has researched that in Georgia, advocates say some Latino immigrants get
Things may not seem very bad in the United States, but in the middle eastern area, refugees are struggling to find a home due to wars that lead them out of their homes. The rich countries like Arab are not accepting refugees to their country. The world is struggling as well on what we should do about this complication. How they should feed, house and care for these largely populated refugees. The rich countries should let the refugees come and rest in their land or the rest of the world should take action world should take action for what has become a big problem. In the article, Our technological advances haven´t helped solve refugees dilemma¨ by Newsela, analyzes the use of social media and how the refugees use it to survive. Also how the
Using programs such as Rosetta Stone can help you accomplish this task. Once you learn English, you can start broadening your social horizons. Having many friends in a community is one of the best things you can o to help yourself fit-in. Your new friends may be able to recommend social gatherings and popular attractions to help you ease into this new place as well. Having American friends can also help you pick up on the feats of America, which will make becoming naturalized a lot easier. Being socially active and naturalized could help you in the future to earn a career and
Language is a very powerful thing. It is the way that people communicate with each other. For a foreigner living in America I think that this is essential. This is why I believe that if a foreigner only attempts to learn English, then they are already assimilating to American culture. Whether or not they choose to change their whole lifestyle into an American way of life, if they take on the English language then they are assimilating to a certain extent.