[PDF] Remade In America An Immigrants Journey To The American Dream eBook

Author : Fabian Bello
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,95 MB
Release : 2023-07-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780984688760

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When Fidel Castro assumed military and political power of Cuba in 1959, the future of millions of Cuban citizens became unsure. The Cuban Revolution set in motion an immigration train for the Bello and Machado families that lasted more than thirty years and spanned three generations. Fabian Bello was born in Havana, Cuba and immigrated to the United States with his parents and paternal grandmother just 25 days after his third birthday. Although he was a young child when he arrived in Florida, being raised in a family that escaped communism influenced the way Fabian perceives the world and has given him deeper insight and appreciation of the unique values and opportunities available in the United States of America. In (re)Made in America, Fabian recounts the struggles his family endured, and the price they paid to leave Cuba and start new lives in the United States of America. He relates the trials and triumphs of growing up in a new country and finding his professional path in life and business. Fabian also delves into the pressing issues of our time and explores what it means to value and live the American Dream.

Author : Sal DiMaria
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 33,94 MB
Release : 2020-05-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1984579681

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Immigrant: A Journey to the American Dream is the story of all immigrants who left poverty and hopelessness behind and came to America, dreaming of a better life. It is the life story of little Totò, a poor Sicilian immigrant, who comes to America in his late teens and, through hard work and determination, goes on to live the American dream. The book proceeds from his childhood to his first experiences in American factories, time in the US Army, and his successful academic career. On the whole, Totò’s boyhood is not a happy one after having lost his mother at the tender age of three. Virtually left to fend for himself, he turns into a delinquent little boy—skipping school; stealing from his family and neighbors; and going around the countryside, looking for and exploding live ordnance left behind during WWII. To get him off the streets, his parents send him to a boarding school run by the charitable Dominican monks. When the family immigrates to the States, he finds work at a hosiery mill and then at a steel plant while learning English at the local evening school. He is later drafted in the US Army where fellow recruits make fun of his foreign accent. What riles him the most is when they call him Shorty. But soon, he accepts the fact that he is indeed short. The acceptance of himself for what and who he is literally changes his life. It turns him into a self-confident young man ready to face whatever challenge comes his way. With this can-do attitude, he goes on to college and becomes a successful university professor.

Author : Rudy Mariman
Publisher : Hybrid Global Publishing
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 43,85 MB
Release : 2018-12-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781948181655

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This is a story about a first-generation German immigration teenager arriving in America, the land of opportunity, with just two shirts, a pair of corduroy knickerbocker pants, a sweater, and a jacket. After graduating with an engineering degree Rudy worked in the aerospace industry, then entered the land business and finally is now his company owns and manages apartment buildings in southern California. He is living the American dream. He shares his journey leaving his homeland, immigrating to the USA, entering high school with limited English skills, working on his stepfather's farm, graduating from high school and college, securing a high paying engineering job in Southern California and eventually owning and managing southern California real estate . This book describes his inspirational journey from Berlin to Newport Beach.

Author : Kosmas Geo Synadinos
Publisher :
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 31,33 MB
Release : 2020-05-13
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I believe that most immigrants have unique and memorable stories to tell. Their experiences, difficulties and hard encounters and how they overcame them are inspiring and could be used to guide how to proceed in life. This book describes one immigrant's four Ws: Who, When, Where, Why.

Author : Ali Master
Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,64 MB
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 164279287X

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In this powerful and inspiring memoir, a Pakistani immigrant shares his story of finding new freedoms and a new faith in America. It’s easy to talk about freedom. But unless someone has lived in a world that suffocates freedom, it’s difficult to appreciate the liberty found in America. This is the true story of a Pakistani Muslim who immigrates to the United States for college and discovers five transformational freedoms along the way: the freedom to fail and start over, to love, to choose one’s faith, to be an entrepreneur, and to self-govern. Contrasting these precious freedoms with the life he lived in Pakistan, Ali’s story reveals that God is the true source of liberty as He works in people’s lives to bring about redemption. A call to value and preserve American freedoms, Beyond the Golden Door is also an invitation for readers to consider ultimate freedom in Jesus Christ.

Author : Julissa Arce
Publisher : Center Street
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 37,85 MB
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1455540250

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A National Bestseller! What does an undocumented immigrant look like? What kind of family must she come from? How could she get into this country? What is the true price she must pay to remain in the United States? JULISSA ARCE knows firsthand that the most common, preconceived answers to those questions are sometimes far too simple-and often just plain wrong. On the surface, Arce's story reads like a how-to manual for achieving the American dream: growing up in an apartment on the outskirts of San Antonio, she worked tirelessly, achieved academic excellence, and landed a coveted job on Wall Street, complete with a six-figure salary. The level of professional and financial success that she achieved was the very definition of the American dream. But in this brave new memoir, Arce digs deep to reveal the physical, financial, and emotional costs of the stunning secret that she, like many other high-achieving, successful individuals in the United States, had been forced to keep not only from her bosses, but even from her closest friends. From the time she was brought to this country by her hardworking parents as a child, Arce-the scholarship winner, the honors college graduate, the young woman who climbed the ladder to become a vice president at Goldman Sachs-had secretly lived as an undocumented immigrant. In this surprising, at times heart-wrenching, but always inspirational personal story of struggle, grief, and ultimate redemption, Arce takes readers deep into the little-understood world of a generation of undocumented immigrants in the United States today- people who live next door, sit in your classrooms, work in the same office, and may very well be your boss. By opening up about the story of her successes, her heartbreaks, and her long-fought journey to emerge from the shadows and become an American citizen, Arce shows us the true cost of achieving the American dream-from the perspective of a woman who had to scale unseen and unimaginable walls to get there.

Author : Ibrahim Ajibode
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 34,98 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0595415660

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Ibrahim came to the U.S., from Nigeria, on August 29, 2000 to pursue higher learning. He perceived America as a place where he could seek greener pastures and acquire opportunities that his home country could not have offered him at the time. His ideas of the American high-life are abruptly contrasted with the harsh realities that he encountered on a daily basis. Everyday became a bitter struggle as he had to chillingly accept the realization of instant independence, and the culture shock being away from the surroundings of his familiar homeland and family. In this emotional story, Ibrahim has remarkably captured the tribulations that he experienced during his first year living in the U.S. Diary of an Immigrant is a powerful, revealing, but yet humorous compilation of his quest and pursuit of the American dream.

Author : Yuvraj Ramsaroop
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 19,18 MB
Release : 2010-07-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1456837222

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Immigrants will always be a part of the American landscape and the American Dream will certainly be within reach for anyone with a desire to succeed. Yuvraj Ramsaroop shares his triumph as a Guyanese immigrant as he reveals his journey to realizing the American Dream. In this rich autobiographical account, the author makes a compelling case that will inspire anyone with a gut wrenching saga of courage and determination. Readers will be given a revealing look inside life on a sugar plantation in British Guiana during colonial times. In his own words, Ramsaroop shares a vivid account of how growing up in poor conditions should never be a hindrance to an education. Seeking a better life in Canada and then the United States, his unrelenting quest to overcome the hurdles most immigrants face is a remarkable achievement.——-From successfully completing a college education to owning a home and sending his two daughters to medical schools in the United States——Realizing the American Dream is an uplifting true story. Follow the path that he walked and witness how he beat the odds. Through his experiences you will discover the secrets to success and gain ideas for achieving your own.

Author : Francis Kwarteng
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 15,32 MB
Release : 2020-09-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1664127291

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The American Dream is a popular concept. It is a celebrated mantra. But does it really exist? Even if it does, is it for everyone? The American experiment tells a different story. Examples abound of many for whom the American Dream is an empty rhetoric. Although America prides itself on liberal ideas of equity, social justice and equality for all, harnessing the potential benefits of the American Dream is far from true for many hardworking, educated Americans. Inasmuch as the American Dream may exist for some, white privilege, employment and educational discrimination, racism...may stand in the way of achieving one's fullest potential. This is compounded by the Eurocentric content of the American curriculum which denies equal representation to non-white Americans in the marketplace of ideas, reinforcing their sociopolitical and epistemic marginalization. "In a remarkably wide ranging and moving book Francis Kwarteng has provided us with one of the most honest and earnest assessments of what immigrants find in the United States. The book The America That I Didn't Know Existed reminds me of the complex reasons people are attracted to the American society and the disappointment that they find when they sometimes discover that what one reads about America is not truly the best way to know America. Kwarteng has lived, studied, and learned in America and he counts these experiences as blessings as anyone would who has seen possibilities. However, this determined intellectual has shown us a path forward with acceptance and humanity. This riveting book has the making of an incredibly powerful drama as well." Molefi Kete Asante, author of Erasing Racism: The Survival of the American Nation "Francis Kwarteng's book recounts his personal journey to America by reliving the challenges and struggles he had to overcome to realize that the dream he once imagined was only a mirage. The author provides the rationale behind his decision to come to America and the subsequent disillusion with the gap between his aspirations and realities on American soil. Framed within the intellectual lens of Afrocentricity, Kwarteng exposes and critiques the prevailing dominance of Eurocentric constructs that systemically dehumanizes, and perforce disempowers, persons of African descent. The result of this is a readable, empowering page-turning memoir that will resonate with every African immigrant." Kwame Akonor is Associate Professor of Political Science at Seton Hall University (USA), founding director of the New York-based African Development Institute, and author of African Economic Institutions.