Literature has an amazing ability to portray all sorts of ideas in precise, captivating words. The stories that are told through literature have the ability to motivate and inform in a way readers could not have fathomed. Writers bring together their opinions and the...
As of lately, immigration has been an ongoing issue within our community. Although our country claims to offer immigrants as much opportunity as possible there are many cases in which immigrants aren’t being offered as many opportunities as they claim to receive....
Work boots covered in cement against a wall, the sounds of cracking bones, and clothes drenched in sweat is what I see and hear every day when I come home from school. My parents clicking the button to a screen that speaks about immigrants contributing nothing to...
Being an immigrant myself I feel as if I am not allowed to fail. As any typical teenager, I get fed up with school and want to drop everything at that exact moment. However, I am not a typical teenager; I am one of the many undocumented immigrants who know failure is...
As tensions towards immigration rise, it’s more than important to view future, past, and present immigrants as human beings with their own aspirations. Immigration is constantly viewed as a personal benefit to Americans, and in doing so, their own goals and dreams are...
Many immigrants have to face the horrible reality of most low income communities here in the United States. The reality is that drugs are everywhere and nothing more than a cakewalk to obtain. For that reason, many immigrants that come to this country suffer from drug...
Immigration is a controversial issue that many people have a strong opinion about but never consider all that they have accomplished. Immigrating to a new country and starting new is not the easiest but like anyone else, the goal they have is to become someone better....
For American people, sports have always been the perfect escape. Whenever the country seems divided, sports exists as a source of unification for U.S. citizens. One source of division in particular, immigration, has always been abridged through outlets such as...
My parents learned to perfect their English from the television and from middle schools that ridiculed their broken speech of a new learned language. My parents were the first out of both their families to immigrate to America with a new dream in mind. We wanted to...
I immigrated to the United States from Japan when I was 5 years old and moved to New Jersey with my parents and my twin brother. At that age, the U.S held the same appeal to me as the New World held for prospective immigrants of long ago: it was a place of adventure...
