Before reading What the Moon Saw by Laura Resau, I would of described an immigrant as someone who came from a different country to the United States for employment, freedom, education, or in hopes of achieving the “American Dream.” To begin with, I believed that immigrants came to America from many parts of the world and shared physical features and fashion choices that are native to their nationality. Additionally, their health and fitness depends on the situation that they come from and the conditions they face during transportation to the United States. Similarly, the type of religion that they practice varies greatly on their beliefs and the place where they come from. The type of work that immigrants preform before they come to America …show more content…
This is due to the fact that I learned more about how many husbands and fathers leave their families in order to come to America for work, sometimes remarrying and starting a new family. For example, the way Clara’s father left his parents and didn’t write or visit them for almost fifteen years. Similarly, how Pedro’s father ran away, “found an American wife and had a kid and forgot about Yucuyoo” (111). Secondly, I gained the knowledge that after leaving their original location, while some immigrants remember their roots and culture, some proceed to forget and move on. For instance, Clara’s father tried to incorporate Yucuyoo culture into his American life by staying close to nature and continuing to appreciate the beauty of the world around him. He did this by taking hikes with Clara and continuing to speak his native language in addition to English, among other activities and actions in his daily life. Additionally, I learned how most Americans come from and have immigrant roots. Before reading What the Moon Saw, I had always pictured immigration as something that belonged to a group of people instead of something that everyone carried with
Good morning/ Afternoon Teacher I am Rachel Perkins And I was asked by The Australian Film Institute to be here to today to talk about my musical. My musical One Night The Moon which was the winner of the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Cinematography in a Non-Feature Film in 2001. I am also here to talk about how distinctive voices are used to show the experiences of others. The voices of Albert and Jim are two characters that give us two different perspectives this is due to their views. Albert one of the characters in my film is an Aboriginal character played by Kenton Pell who is hired by the police as a tracker. Albert is a very deeply spiritual person this gave him a spiritual voice throughout the play but when he get 's kick off the land and banned from the search the gets frustrated which gave him this really emotional voice. This event has a greater meaning which I will elaborate on later and now Onto Jim. Jim is your 1930s white Australian that owns a farm and is going through tough times because of the Great depression. Jim does not allow Albert to find his daughter, This is due to his racist and prejudiced views of black Australians. Jim has an authorial voice because he see’s himself as inferior. Near to the end of
The reading Crossing the Border Without Losing Your Past by Oscar Casares discusses how even though people cross the border from Mexico, they still consider themselves Mexicans. Casares makes it evident how important it is to those people crossing the border to keep their culture alive and to still practice the traditions and ways of life from their home country. I think it was interesting to read about how even though immigrants assimilate into the American culture, they are still tightly connected to their country’s origin. I do not think immigrants are given enough credit because of how much they have to adjust to a new way of life while still keeping their culture’s traditions alive. I believe that they quickly adjust because they do not have a choice due to the way Americans act towards others and just the American culture itself. In essence, immigrants have a lot of pride in who they are. Also, many
Have you had a time in your life, where everything just seemed to be going wrong, and life was hard. Then all of the sudden you actually have a good day. You made it through when times were bad. In the novels Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson, and Shooting the Moon by Frances O’roark Dowell the theme getting through the hard times so you can see the good ones, is shown by Jacqueline and her family not being treated fairly, Jacqueline leaving her home, and Jamie's brother going to war.
Immigration has existed around the world for centuries, decades, and included hundreds of cultures. Tired of poverty, a lack of opportunities, unequal treatment, political corruption, and lacking any choice, many decided to emigrate from their country of birth to seek new opportunities and a new and better life in another country, to settle a future for their families, to work hard and earn a place in life. As the nation of the opportunities, land of the dreams, and because of its foundation of a better, more equal world for all, the United States of America has been a point of hope for many of those people. A lot of nationals around the world have ended their research for a place to call home in the United States of America. By analyzing primary sources and the secondary sources to back up the information, one could find out about what Chinese, Italians, Swedish, and Vietnamese immigrants have experienced in the United States in different time periods from 1865 to 1990.
After reading The Book of the Unknown Americans, I realized how difficult immigrating to the United States can be. I am an immigrant also, so just reading the story makes me relate to many problems immigrants experience relocating to a different country. Immigrants often face many issues and difficulties, but for some it is all worth it, but for others there comes a point in time where they have to go back to their hometown. Alma and Arturo Rivera came to the United States to better their life, but also so that Maribel could attend a special education school. While Arturo had a job things had gone well for the family, but once Arturo lost the job and passed away the two of them had to go back because they felt that that was the best option for them. Reading this book made me realize how strong an individual has to be to leave their own country and relocate somewhere else not knowing if this will better your life or cause one to suffer.
Sometimes we all feel as if no one person could or would ever truly love us as we deserve. This is the case in the Moon for the Misbegotten. A young, not so attractive, wants to be loved but fears that if she did love, her life would not be as it is now. She fears change and not because she wants the life she is leading but because it means she would have to free herself from who she pretends to be.
The author is trying to convoy that life is lived in many different levels of understanding and meaning, and how there are advantages and disadvantages no matter which way a person lives their life. Ingram wonderfully displays the mass differences in worldviews and hopes to establish less confusion when attempting to share those views with Immigrants. The author is not trying to push worldviews upon anyone, however she is exploiting the vast ways people can learn and discuss different worldviews without causing discrimination or confusion. Being open minded to worldviews can allow you to gain perspective as well as experience when trying to understand other perspectives that may seem unfamiliar to
Reflective of her post-colonial and post-feminist context, Rachel Perkins utilises her filmic medium in ‘One Night The Moon’ (2001) in order to create distinctive voices for the purposes such as the space between men and women, black and white and the different ways of knowing and seeing. Echoing Perkins interest in interrogating the spaces between men and women, Indira Gandhi, the first and only women prime minister of India, uses her 1966 ‘True Liberation of Women’ speech platform to give voice to an emerging feminist movement, as well as to raise awareness of the discrimination, including stereotyping, suffered by many women in order to promote the resilience and skills of Indian women. Hence, it is through distinctive voices that both Perkins and Gandhi uniquely position their audiences to reflect upon the factors
“Immigration is the term utilized to describe the action and process by which a citizen of one country relocates to another country after petitioning for residency into that country.” (Martinez). An immigrant, also known as an alien, is person or people who come from a foreign country. Aliens are broken down into two main categories: the legal aliens and the illegal aliens. But what are the differences between the two? Legal aliens owe allegiance to the country. In America, aliens have the opportunity of becoming legal by either having a green card or becoming an American citizen and having dual citizenship. Green cards holders are permanent residents who have been authorized to live and work in the U.S. legally but they are not American citizens. To become a citizen, you must be legal, know fluent English, have a clean record, and go th...
Immigrants have always been an important part of United States’ population. Each year, there are hundreds of thousands of immigrants, from all around the world, including legal and illegal, come into the United States for job opportunities, new life, or the American Dream. “Immigrants have contributed significantly to the development of the United States. During the Lincoln administration, immigrants were actually encouraged to come to America, as they were considered valuable to the development of the country.” (Soylu & Buchanan, 2013). They believe that the US will give them more freedom, protection, and opportunities, which sometimes it becomes the major issues for immigrants. That’s why “the U.S. population is becoming more racially and
The early settlers of America and today’s immigrants have a lot more similarities than one would assume. Both groups had to endure several challenges when trying to enter the United States in search of a better and easier life. They had to worry about hydration and physical endurance while also risking having their families split up, getting sick, and even dying. That is where the similarities end though, as today’s immigrants must go on with their lives in extreme powerlessness, something the early inhabitants avoided by establishing their own authority. Today’s immigrants are restricted from the most basic of necessities and have to face hostile and belligerent groups of people, among other things. Today's immigrant's experiences are much
Raya’s essay is an informative account of life for a multicultural American, because it is told from an actual multicultural author’s viewpoint. It gives the reader a sense that the information is accurate. It would be harder to accept the viewpoint if the author were for example, a white male writing about how a Mexican, Puerto Rican woman feels. As Connie Young Yu points out, information retold by someone who didn’t live the experiences is most often falsely perceived. Yu uses the example of white American historians writing about the lives of Chinese immigrants. Yu says that there is no accurate account for the lives of the immigrants, because they didn’t document their lives themselves. The little information that there is in history books only tells about their obvious accomplishments. There is no official understanding of their personal lives or feelings (Yu 30).
Who is an immigrant? An immigrant is a person who has a citizenship in one country but enters another country to set up as a permanent resident. Sometimes countries are suffering greatly from lack of leadership, internal strife or war, and a collapsed economy. This is the case in Somalia, as well as in Syria, Libya, and Yemen. Syrian people are moving to Europe in order to find a peaceful home. Mexican immigrants come to the US looking for jobs. The people then move to new countries where they don’t speak the national language. In America, when the immigrants come, there are many difficulties: cultural differences regarding time and scheduling, transportation issues, and language difficulties.
It is through the events in the journey of life that shapes and molds who we are as people. As for me, immigrating to America was one of those milestones that have shaped who I am. Those who have had the opportunity of moving from a different country to America know what a privilege it is. I felt the same honor to know that I would be journeying to the land of opportunity. Without hesitance, I spent the last two months packing and making the final preparations before moving to a new continent. Although it was a bittersweet time, leaving my beloved family behind, I knew that I couldn’t resist the treasure that waited for me in the new land. Coming from a developing nation the high level of sophistication that greeted me on arrival to America made feel like I was in paradise.
I. From Luther Wright (www.videoflicks.com): Portrait of Jennie is one of the most hauntingly romantic films I can recall ever watching. The stunning black & white cinematography often emulates the surface of the artist's canvas, while the music score weaves a tender, other-worldly tapestry of its own. Jennifer Jones is perfectly cast as the lovely, yet strangely sad and from-another-time Jennie Appleton. Joseph Cotten draws the viewer's sympathy as the struggling, starving artist, Eben Adams. Ethel Barrymore's portrayal of Adams' friend and mentor, Miss Spinney, adds strength to the film, and the first lady of the American film, Lillian Gish, offers Adams gentle and comforting grace as Sister Mary of Mercy.