The Wretched And The Beautiful And Time Capsule Found On The Dead Planet

Within Ellis Island by Joseph Bruchac, On Being Brought from Africa to America by Phillis Wheatley, and Europe and America by David Ignatow there are different views of what the American Dream is and what it means to immigrants. Each author writes about their own experience of immigration and life in America, which shapes their view of the American dream. The common theme between the three poems is the variable nature of the American dream and how it has different meanings for each person coinciding with contradictions between leisure and suffering.

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How could a man live with himself after the deaths of millions at his

"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" America is supposed to be a good place for immigrants. In the book The Jungle immigrants are treated horribly. They are exploited and taken advantage of very easily. In my essay I will be explaining to you how immigrants were taken advantage of in the book.

Immigrants have been dreaming about the promise of America for hundreds of years, but only the people who are brave enough have continued on coming to become a true American. Many different ethnicities have traveled into America to live their American dream, which is to have a job, house, a family of their own, and to have Freedom. Many people could either travel by train or boat. The poem “The New Colossus 1883” by Emma Lazarus tells a main idea of the Statue of Liberty represents freedom for many immigrants.

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Conversely, Native Americans were very kind and friendly to people. During the first encounter with New World, Native Americans kindly welcomed Europeans in their home lands. Additionally, thanks to the native people many of the Europeans were able survive in the new environment. Unfortunately, the gentleness of these persons was immediately considered as weakness. Indeed, as stated in Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Christopher Columbus kidnapped some of the Native Americans and brought them to Spain so they could be introduced to white man’s way (Brown, pg.291).

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These issues escalate the conflict into an unwarranted war waged on the aliens. The movie goes on to show how this conflict is solved, and all it takes is a person to take on the role of a bridge between the two cultures and approach the other side with an open mind. Despite being a movie about an interaction between unlikely sides, Arrival has an important message to deliver about any intercultural communication for those who are willing to hear it: Do not let your fears dictate your actions, keep away from preconceived ideas, and keep an open

For instance, John Lawson writes, “The Indians are really better to us, than we are to them. They always give us food at their homes, and protect us from hunger and thirst. But we do not do the same for them …… If we thought about it we would realize that even with our religion and education, we have more evils than these savages do.” (Document 6)

A wise man once said, “There is nothing in the world more beautiful than a gold nugget.” This was the mindset of all of those people who traveled from far and wide just for a shot at finding that “gold nugget” during the California Gold Rush. There was exponential and colossal beauty seen in gold, which did not reference its external or physical appearance, but the beauty was so prominent because of the meaning the gold represented. When a man would find gold, every risk he and his family had taken, from the long journey to California, to being oppressed by other cultures, to even risking an early death would finally be worth something. The locating of gold was so powerful to a family because it promised new beginnings, a new life, wealth, and hope for the future.

In Anglo-Saxon culture, gold was one of the most valuable possessions a person could own. Gold and treasure was a sign of wealth, honor, respect and power. To the Anglo-Saxons, people lived their lives to become more honorable in the eyes of their peers. People valued others who had more treasure as it was a sign of their accomplishments. The role of wealth, treasure and gold in this poem is important to the power and the honor of the individual.