Points+of+View+(a+collection+of+essays)

= Points of View  = These non-fiction pieces of writing represent student responses to integrated Humanities units this past year.

Immigration


Introduction
      During the time period 1890- 1910 a lot of people emigrated from Europe to North America.    This happened because for many Europeans during the time period 1890 conditions seemed hopeless for them. No matter how hard they worked or how much they tried, things did not go well for them. The Europeans wouldn’t get enough money to live their lives.     When the Europeans heard of America they thought that they would get a better job, better education for their kids and a better place to live their life. So many Europeans deiced to start a new life in America, a place which they called their new home.     It wasn’t easy leaving the friends and country behind, some of the Europeans even had to leave their family behind, but if they wanted a better life they had to give up something, and that was what they deiced to give up. When the Europeans arrived to America, they saw a land field with peace, freedom and the opportunity to earn a living. The Europeans didn’t always feel welcomed, some people thought of them as being different or unusual. But after some time more and more people started to immigrating and people stopped referring to them as different or unusual, they thought of them as people like them, (the Americans). <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">  <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left"> On their way to America they Europeans passed a statue, that statue was called The Statue of Liberty. To the Europeans the statue of liberty represented peace, love, hope, and friendship. On the statue there was a poem that meant a lot to the Europeans, the poem went like this: <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">   <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: center">“Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she With silent lips. “Give me you’re tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: center">The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” By: Emma Lazarus. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">  <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left"> This poem says that no matter who we are or where we come from as long as we are in the same golden land we are still a family. The Europeans had a tough life, until they reached their golden land. No matter what people thought of them they stuck to their own thoughts. Although it wasn’t easy getting to their new country and adapting and basically having to change their lives, the immigrants got over it and now have a new life in what they call the golden land. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">  <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left">-Lihi B-

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