An immigrant is a person who travels from one country/ region to another.
AN immigrant might leave there native country because of war or crime rate in there homeland.
Our country can offer freedom(ie: Religion, who to vote for), a democracy.
I believe that our nation has been affected for the good, i think that without other countries we wouldn't have as much of the good foods that we do now! i also think our country would be so bare, because we would only be American, and not have any different cultures.
I personally don't have a huge connection to immigration, my mom and both of her parents were both born in the USA, and the same with my dad. My great grandma on my moms side was born in Hungary. I don't have any friends who are immigrants, but i do know a couple people who immigrated. Our cleaning lady since before i was born immigrated here from Russia. A few of my friends families are immigrants, one of my best friends whole family was from Iran but then they immigrated.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
book prt 3
Quote #1: Narrator said. Page 112.
Our new home was a two-bedroom apartment on the sixth floor of a six-story brick building in a culdesac off Flatbush Avenue called Westbury Court.
This deals with the number 5 question, because they are working a really long time and very hard, and all they can afford is a 2 bed apartment.
How does reading this quote make you feel.
I can kind of connect this to a different book i read one time, it was about a family who moved from New York to New Mexico, and since everything was cheaper in New Mexico they didnt work very hard and they were a very wealthy family.
So how i connect those two books are that they are the opposite, but still somewhat simmilair.
We're really spies from space.We have spy stuff inserted in our heads.
When i read this part i was really supprised,i didnt know what to think, i didnt know if they were sarcastic or what. I kind of believe it but i kind of dont really know what to think.
I liked this quote because it makes me think outside the bok. It makes me feel like you never really know somebody until you actually know somebody.
If someone just told you they were from space, how do you think you would react...
Our new home was a two-bedroom apartment on the sixth floor of a six-story brick building in a culdesac off Flatbush Avenue called Westbury Court.
This deals with the number 5 question, because they are working a really long time and very hard, and all they can afford is a 2 bed apartment.
How does reading this quote make you feel.
I can kind of connect this to a different book i read one time, it was about a family who moved from New York to New Mexico, and since everything was cheaper in New Mexico they didnt work very hard and they were a very wealthy family.
So how i connect those two books are that they are the opposite, but still somewhat simmilair.
We're really spies from space.We have spy stuff inserted in our heads.
When i read this part i was really supprised,i didnt know what to think, i didnt know if they were sarcastic or what. I kind of believe it but i kind of dont really know what to think.
I liked this quote because it makes me think outside the bok. It makes me feel like you never really know somebody until you actually know somebody.
If someone just told you they were from space, how do you think you would react...
Saturday, February 21, 2009
book post #2
Quote 1:"My father quit school in 1954 at the age of 19 the apprentice at a local tailor."
This goes with number 5 because not finishing high school,or not going to college can be very tragic later on in your life. A lot of times in this case your life is not very good, because you could not get a good job because you don't have a degree or anything...
Do you think this family is screwed up at all???
----Daughter
----page49
Quote 2:"Death is a journey we embark on from the moment we are born."
----Bob
----Page 73
This quote kind of goes with question 5 because if somebody dies that is a huge deal, and something you have to deal with for a long time... But this also belongs to number 4 because death is a challenge they go through, and it is an obstacle you think about your whole life....
How do you think death has affected this family?
This goes with number 5 because not finishing high school,or not going to college can be very tragic later on in your life. A lot of times in this case your life is not very good, because you could not get a good job because you don't have a degree or anything...
Do you think this family is screwed up at all???
----Daughter
----page49
Quote 2:"Death is a journey we embark on from the moment we are born."
----Bob
----Page 73
This quote kind of goes with question 5 because if somebody dies that is a huge deal, and something you have to deal with for a long time... But this also belongs to number 4 because death is a challenge they go through, and it is an obstacle you think about your whole life....
How do you think death has affected this family?
Monday, February 16, 2009
brother im dying #1
Quote 1: Who said this: Doctor. Page: 37 We'll only do the biopsy now! This applies to Question 2 because it seems like to me that everything bad happened once they came to America. The Biopsy, having to work so much hours a week,and the daughter being pregnant. So that doesn't seem to me like they have had a very good time in America...
I can connect this to most people who immigrate to America. Most of the time they have to work very hard in the beginning of there time in America.
Do you think after reading about all the families problems this family will ever get through all this mess?
Quote 2: Who said this quote: Daughter. Page 45 I had calculated that from 1981-2004 working an average 10 hours a day everyday including holidays but not Sunday's he'd spent nearly 75,000 hours driving the streets of Brooklyn.
My quote deals with question #5 because if the father had to work 60 hours a week to keep his family worm and to provide food on the table, that is a really big thing the family would have to deal with! I think that after a while of living in America the family will still be able to provide, while working less hours.
What other Hardships do you think this family will go through during the course of the book?
I can connect this to most people who immigrate to America. Most of the time they have to work very hard in the beginning of there time in America.
Do you think after reading about all the families problems this family will ever get through all this mess?
Quote 2: Who said this quote: Daughter. Page 45 I had calculated that from 1981-2004 working an average 10 hours a day everyday including holidays but not Sunday's he'd spent nearly 75,000 hours driving the streets of Brooklyn.
My quote deals with question #5 because if the father had to work 60 hours a week to keep his family worm and to provide food on the table, that is a really big thing the family would have to deal with! I think that after a while of living in America the family will still be able to provide, while working less hours.
What other Hardships do you think this family will go through during the course of the book?
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Museums
Immigration Museums
By Ben Stein
The purpose of going to the Jewish immigrant museum was to learn about how Jews immigrated to America, and to learn a little about certain people who helped America grow as a country that happened to be Jewish. Throughout my years of going to temple, I learned a lot of the facts we learned at the museum. Some interesting information I did learn was that the first Jews to immigrate came in 1654. During the Civil War Ulysses S. Grant had submitted that Jews should be illegal in Tennessee and in Kentucky. Right away the current president Abraham Lincoln canceled it because he thought it was to racial and he didn’t approve. This was a very big controversy, they even had a code for it. It was called order number 11. Another very big obstacle in the Jews way was the KKK (Ku Klux Klan). They were not the biggest fans of Jews. They killed a lot of Jews, but they didn’t only assassin Jews, they killed African Americans, and Catholics. Another huge event in the Jewish culture was that many Jews were kosher back then, so they only ate certain meats. In the grocery stores kosher meats were 18 cents per pound but regular meats were 9 cents per pound. So 20,000 Jewish women protested by throwing the meat in the streets, and stealing the meats. The kosher meat didn’t go down dramatically, but it did go down to 14 cents per pound. Some very famous Jews that have lived in America were: Baseball player Hank Greenberg, mathematician Albert Einstein, comedian and actor Jerry Seinfeld, and to some belief author Dr. Seuss, or to his birth name Theodor Geisel.
Quote: I come from two very different worlds with two very different mindsets. By Rishtka Daryani from High Tech Middle.
I chose this quote because a lot of the time I feel like I am from two worlds. At one point I can try to be funny. Other times I can be serious, when I play sports and I get in the mode I can be very serious.
Picture: The picture i chose was,the picture Boy from Poland made in Chicago in 1999.
He’s just looking into a window, he looks confused. I chose this because at one point in there life everyone is confused, everyone wants to know where there going in life. I think that is what this artist is trying to say.
By Ben Stein
The purpose of going to the Jewish immigrant museum was to learn about how Jews immigrated to America, and to learn a little about certain people who helped America grow as a country that happened to be Jewish. Throughout my years of going to temple, I learned a lot of the facts we learned at the museum. Some interesting information I did learn was that the first Jews to immigrate came in 1654. During the Civil War Ulysses S. Grant had submitted that Jews should be illegal in Tennessee and in Kentucky. Right away the current president Abraham Lincoln canceled it because he thought it was to racial and he didn’t approve. This was a very big controversy, they even had a code for it. It was called order number 11. Another very big obstacle in the Jews way was the KKK (Ku Klux Klan). They were not the biggest fans of Jews. They killed a lot of Jews, but they didn’t only assassin Jews, they killed African Americans, and Catholics. Another huge event in the Jewish culture was that many Jews were kosher back then, so they only ate certain meats. In the grocery stores kosher meats were 18 cents per pound but regular meats were 9 cents per pound. So 20,000 Jewish women protested by throwing the meat in the streets, and stealing the meats. The kosher meat didn’t go down dramatically, but it did go down to 14 cents per pound. Some very famous Jews that have lived in America were: Baseball player Hank Greenberg, mathematician Albert Einstein, comedian and actor Jerry Seinfeld, and to some belief author Dr. Seuss, or to his birth name Theodor Geisel.
Quote: I come from two very different worlds with two very different mindsets. By Rishtka Daryani from High Tech Middle.
I chose this quote because a lot of the time I feel like I am from two worlds. At one point I can try to be funny. Other times I can be serious, when I play sports and I get in the mode I can be very serious.
Picture: The picture i chose was,the picture Boy from Poland made in Chicago in 1999.
He’s just looking into a window, he looks confused. I chose this because at one point in there life everyone is confused, everyone wants to know where there going in life. I think that is what this artist is trying to say.
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