Under the Chinese Cultural Revolution, Hung Liu, along with thousands of educated Chinese citizens, was sent to a forced labor camp for “re-education”. She worked there for four years. She then got a degree from Central Academy of Art in Beijing, China. Hung Liu emigrated to the United States in 1984 and got an MFA in Visual Arts from University of California, San Diego. Affected by her experiences growing up during China’s Cultural Revolution and her move to the United States, Hung Liu’s recent exhibitions showed both adversity and perseverance.
2.) Anchee Min wrote this book to inform people about the hardships she has faced during China’s Cultural Revolution. This book has been compared to the Diary of Anne Frank for its similarities. 3.) Red Azalea was published in 1994.
The thousand piece of goal Thousand Pieces of Gold by Ruthanne Lum McCunn, shows a girl named Lalu, also known as Polly, was sold to the bandit by her impoverished family. Then Chen, the bandit sold her to a Madam from Shanghai who transported Lalu to America. Finally she was sold to a man named Hong King who owned a saloon in Warrens. Throughout the story, Lalu's sense of home was changed. When she was in China, her home was with her family in a farming village.
“in a month, I earned approximately $1040 and spent $517 on food, gas, toiletries, laundry, phone, and utilities”( 75 reading across the curriculum, pages 395-426, paragraph 65). Although she has low wages but she still had some money at the end of the month. Conclusively, Barbara was successful, she cooperated with her co-workers, she
350,000 women were in unions in 1914, but 600,000 by 1918. Although many women found themselves earning good wages for the first time during the war, women were always paid less than men, and were not promoted as often as their male colleagues. The war did lead to real changes in social attitudes. Women had more freedom after the war. Their clothing became much simpler, with shorter skirts and sleeves.
The substantial increase in population due to immigration that occurs during this time goes on to affect the nation in positive and negative ways. Some of the adverse affects of such a rapid growth in population were overcrowding in cities, lack of jobs, and occasional food shortages. But the hard working spirit and work ethic that the immigrants brought, along with a determined will to succeed, were an overarching positive were crucial to the country becoming what it is today. In the late 1800s, people in many parts of the world decided to leave their homes and emigrate to the United States. Immigrants entered into the United States through several
Joy Kogawa’s Obasan was a journey though history as we saw how the Japanese immigrants suffered during World War 2. Naomi was the protagonist and the narrator of the novel, Kogawa chose the narrator to be the protagonist as well because it lets the reader know what the character was really feeling and experiencing. Naomi’s uncle died at the beginning of the novel and her family moves back to Japan. Naomi is sent to Alberta to work on a beet field in the internment camp. The characters in Obasan were being forced by their aunt Obasan to keep their culture while society was telling them to change and fit in.
THE CHINESE AND THE TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD My name is Chin Lin Sou. I was born in China in 1837. I came to California as a young man because I had heard you could make enough money in a few years to live very comfortable in my country for the rest of your life. When I got to California I found that the Chinese men were despised by most white men. They compared us to women because we were small and had long braided hair.
Melissa had changed her everyday environment from a negative one to one of meaning. She no longer felt insignificant because she knew Issaiah needed her. For the first time she was able to have a real love experience. On the other hand, they had financial troubles. Even with getting $400 a month, approximately $130 in food stamps, and Melissa’s paycheck it was difficult to get by.
During this time of mass immigration millions of people came to America for a better life. These immigrants had been persecuted in their homes and wanted a new start where they wouldn’t be persecuted anymore. Immigrants heard about these amazing things going on in America and decided to make the long grueling journey overseas to start anew. When the immigrants finally arrived in America some of them realized that those stories might have been exaggerated a little bit, because life in America during that time wasn’t a easy one but it wasn’t a bad one