Comparing Angel Island And Ellis Island

Compare and contrast:
Students in America have been taught about the history of America, about Christopher Columbus had found it and he was detector. Day by day America becomes the biggest, strongest, the most powerful and civility country in the world. Therefore, people want to come to America for a better life. At first, they were very welcome because more immigrants meant cheaper labor. Not for a long time, Americans claimed that immigrants made Americans lost their jobs, for this reason they became resentment, especially Chinese immigrants and they passed through Chinese Exclusion Act 1882 and prohibited entry to Chinese laborers. Americans started to limit immigrants from many countries, they built Angel Island and Ellis Island for this

purpose.
Angel Island and Ellis Island were used as an immigrant station for detaining and interrogating.

Immigrants were held for long periods of time before they could get into America. People who had to send here were Steerages, a lower class, they had been “named” by the medical exams “E” for eye trouble, “K” for hernia, “L” for lameness, “X for mental defects, “H” for heart disease, Mary Gordon, 1987. In the other hand, Angel Island and Ellis Island had many differences between them. Ellis Island was in the East coast, Upper New York Bay. In additional, Ellis Island was a castle garden, and it was used for immigrants from Europe. “Immigrants could pass through Ellis Island in mere hours, though for some the process took days”, May Gordon, 1987. The immigrants who passed Ellis Island had been treated by terrible things such as “stolen their names and chalked their weaknesses in public on their clothing” Marry Gordon, 1987. Immigrants who had to go to the Angel Island was treated worse. They would be separated men from women and children at the moment they had arrived. Then they had to do the medical exams which required undressing in front of strangers. If they fail the test for various diseases they would be deported immediately. After all of the examinations, the immigrants did not pass through yet, they would wait in a detention dormitory and a bunk until the interrogation process, and this process took a few days to months. In conclusion, I rather to live in Ellis Island and

the Angel Island, maybe because I have never had a chance to step into any real castle, or maybe because I would want to kill myself if I have to take off my clothes in front of a lot of strangers or living in a case for months.
Contrast Chinese Poetry and Gordon
Gordon is reflection base on her imagery and history of her ancestors and that makes her voice is less descriptive than the Chinese Poetry a lot.

Gordon’s voice is sad and stressful but all of this just what she thinks about the history, but Chinese Poetry is different, they has a lot of diversity voice in there, some sad, some depressed, some hopeless, but there are some of them is hopeful and want to have a better life in America. In my opinion, I like the way people who look into the history to learn and improve themselves than just getting angry and sad with something happened long time ago. Reading Chinese Poetry, I can feel the sadness of them Chinese and Vietnamese have similar culture and I could understand why they were so anxious and stressful. China is far away from the America, the Chinese Immigrants have to go really far to get into American with hopefully that they could have a better life for them. In fact, the Chinese immigrants did not be treat as they respected.
Mead 1: I am completely know that I am the third generation as Mead’s ideas. I am Vietnamese and I have only three years to live in America. Maybe in the future my offspring would look back and they will have their own view about their ancestor. Mead think that the first generation had the hard times to adapted to the new place and raise their children, and I think she is right. In my views, the first generation is the one who build a house and the next generation is the one who decoration and repair

the house. For this reason, I am trying a lot and will not stop trying.
Mead 2: Two writings differ in many ways, but I think they have common base. Mary Gordon and Margaret Mead are about the immigrants. However, Mary Gordon makes me feel she separate her ancestors with other American ancestors, but Margaret Mead think that all Americans are third generation, and ancestors had to be immigrants at the first generation. Mary Gordon think she is the one of the immigrants: “I could tell the ghosts that I was one of them,” but Margaret Mead think that she is the first generation actually was born and raised in America. I could say that I like the way Margaret Mead think about being an American than Mary Gordon, because we know about Charles Darwin’s theory, and all of us could have the same ancestors, but the differences of the environment change our phenotypic. Moreover, Americans are mixing a lot of culture and country, it called melting pot. Therefore, Americans should be the third generation who were born and raised in America.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_Island_Immigration_Station
https://prezi.com/49sgemshu2ih/ellis-island-and-angel-island/
http://www.jstor.org/stable/3346011?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
http://www.kqed.org/w/pacificlink/history/angelisland/poetry/four.html