English 1010 The two poems “The New Colossus” and “The Unguarded Gates” are considerably the same in that they are explaining how immigrants are coming to the “enchanted” land. But as Emma Lazarus writes “sunset gates shall stand”, Thomas Bailey Aldrich writes “ is it well to leave the gates unguarded” exclaiming how he is weary of letting immigrants trample over the land he considers pure. Thomas Bailey Aldrich’s poem “The Unguarded Gates” gives off that he is a white supremacy. In the second stanza he says “Oh liberty white goddess, is it well to leave the gates unguarded?” worrying that immigration will only bring “unknown rites and gods” into his pure land. To me this sounds as if the land he is used to is only of white people set in their own ways and he doesn’t want poor and non-whites in to “trample” on their customs.
He said though he had never experienced prejudice directly, it still affected him the same. He had to learn a lot and it was difficult for him to learn the language similar to his grandparents. Living in America he learned about racism and cultural differences. The values he learned as child, he could not understand why people in America did not follow especially with having nothing to lose. Here he felt like he had three identities, but like others and his grandparents in Thailand he felt that he should also ignore people who were prejudice because he had that choice.
I’m just plain tired of them, and I’m tired of having to act like I should apologize for it!” (208) That rant showed how he has a lot of aggression towards those people, and that he can’t seem to look passed their race. If Kevin weren’t racist, it would have a very positive affect on his life. He would be able to cooperate better with people of different races, as well as becoming a more peaceful person overall. That being said, in terms of the story, it wouldn’t have such a great affect. Without Kevin being racist, the authors would definitely need to find another character with this trait, as it is very important to the
People are taught to feel ashamed of their looks so that they would never question getting cosmetic surgery to fit in. However, if everyone were an ugly, perhaps no one would be considered ugly. However, the pretty society has perfectly good reasons for their laws. For one thing, the previous society, now known as the “Rusties,” is remembered as a wasteful culture, one that nearly destroyed the planet. Pretties live in isolation from nature so that they will not destroy it.
These people insisted on reforms that they felt would return them to “normalcy”, like immigration restrictions and prohibition. Sinclair Lewis’ excerpt in Document A highlights this growing rift between classes. His portrayal of Babbit, a middle class man, as a conformist with no ideas of his own displays Lewis’ dissatisfaction toward Americans who blindly conform to traditional ideologies (Doc. A). Contrasting this bleak view of the middle class is Joseph Stella’s The Bridge (Doc.
CD Docs The opinion towards England changed from America admiring them and following them blindly to genuinely not caring. They were very angry with the war and not being reimbursed and the taxes. Franklin says that England will have to use weapons and military force in order to get America to start paying taxes. Their attitude says that they would rather wear ratty, old clothes until they can learn how to make their own rather than pay extra taxes on clothes made in England. Dickenson wrote everything as “a farmer” so people could see he was normal, just like them.
That is all a stereotype that was given to Nicholas and his friends just because they spoke English with a little accent and where tan. Just because it was a historical factor for most immigrants from Central America to be gardeners working illegally for cheap they would segregate and discriminate anyone who kind of fit the description even if it was not
It said that “Vargas is incredibly brave to risk everything he has accomplished in this country in order tell the truth and to shine yet another but still much needed light on the pressing need for comprehensive immigration reform in this country” (O’Connor 388-389). This quote mean that because he is an immigrant doesn’t mean he stop reaching his American dream striving to what he want to become that’s why without people like him our country will be poorer. Esther Cepeda believes that Jose Vargas is in wrong doing for being an undocumented. It say in her essay “it’s almost impossible to not be deeply disturbed by self-promotion disguised as sacrifice, the blatant criminal activity and distasteful comparison to the experiences of African American in their struggle for equality” (Cepeda 391). This quote is trying to say is that there are Americans with the struggle that José Vargas has that didn’t get the same equality that he has.
However, there was a solution to the problem and a few people figured this out. A few caring Marines worked alongside this Marine and took extra care to teach him better English. This is a was a wonderful solution to the problem, and should be used in any other cases like this. Another diversity issue I noticed was with the issue of the "don't ask don't tell" regarding gays in the military. The issue was that if you are gay, don't tell anyone about it or you will be kicked out.
As a Japanese American he was always being discriminated, and denied privileges that Americans got. He took the hard route and wanted to prove that he was a true American citizen. He was willing to give up so much for America, knowing the message he would be portraying while being in the army. He is respected for standing up for his country and putting his life on the line to show his true