Immigration Synthesis Essay

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The stories “A Quilt Of A Country” and “The Immigration Contribution” both have their similarities and differences when it comes to diction. Diction is a writer’s choice and arrangement of words and phrases. “A Quilt of a Country” seems to be more abstract to me than “The Immigration Contribution.” I am going to compare the dictions of the two stories in this essay. “The Immigration Contribution” and “A Quilt of a Country” both have some parts in the story that are similar in tone. I found one sentence from each story that I thought were similar in tone. A sentence from “A Quilt of a Country” says, “The notion that all men are created equal, though everyone knows that most men consider themselves better than someone”- Quindlen, 13. This quote states that nobody is different in means of importance. A sentence from “The Immigration Contribution” says, “Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history.”- Kennedy, 23. This sentence shows that even though the immigrants were different, they were still an important part of American history. These two sentences are related …show more content…

One sentence in “The Immigration Contribution” says “Terrorism has lead to devastation- and unity.”- Quindlen, 15. This sentence shows that terrorism has brought us together as a country but it also it has brought us apart. A sentence in “The Immigration Contribution” says “Every ethnic minority, in seeking it’s own freedom, helped strengthen the fabric of liberty in American life.”- Kennedy, 24. This sentence shows that every culture improved the living of American life just by doing their own things. These sentences differ in tone from each other because the first sentence is more abstract while the other one is more on the technical side. The first sentence has to do with terrorism while the second one has to do with

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