Personal History
...America and my grandfather said that you had to be careful about what you said and to who you said it too. This shows that America is a good place for emmigrants to come to live and have a better life because of personal freedoms. "America offers numerous possibilites for advancement that are unparalleled in the rest of the world." This freedom is what allowed my grandfather to move to America and be able to share his story with me. When my grandmother even though she is dead now, met my grandfather they talked about leaving Zembla and they were able to. My other grandparents of my mom are from Ireland but my grandfather died when I was little. My grandmother moved from Ireland when she was a little girl and worked in a laundry in New York for a long time before she moved here. It was very hard for immigrant workers and Irish people because of prejudices that she experienced. Like being called a Mick and spit at. In the essay "America, the Beautiful?" by the author John Shade it said how "immigrants have always had to struggle to find their place in a land that, on the one hand, offers a space for these tired, huddled masses, and on the other seems to expect that these harsh conditions continue for at least a little while longer. My grandmother would agree with this because she had to struggle the same way and she was a women. My dad and mom grew up in the same place in Alhambra. They met in school and my dad became a construction worker and my mom works at a clothing store in a big store in the mall. My dad worked really hard to become fourman and he did it. Now he is a boss of a lot of workers and he gets paid better. He wanted to give me and my sister a chance to go to college like he didn't have. My mom also beleives this is true; and that I should gradu...