Searching For A Better Life

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Immigration, the passing or coming into a country for the purpose of permanent residence. In 1979, my parents emigrated from Vietnam to American to find a better life and to raise a family. In Vietnam, with the strict communist government, education for my parents was very valuable. They lived in the slums of Vietnam, allowing them no means or opportunities to receive any kind of education.

Having the luxury of being born into an American society where education isn’t a social class away, I realize the adversity that my parents had to go through. Whether it was surviving the passage from their homeland across the unforgiving Pacific Ocean or the mere shocking reality that they arrived in a new country, not knowing the language, people or customs; no amount of gratitude, physical or mental, could be repaid to them on my part to express how fortunate I am that they took that risk to unselfishly search for a brighter future for my siblings and I. The obstacles they conquered in order to reconstruct their lives here in the United States really make me cherish all they have given me. T...

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