After completing the exercises as a newly arrived immigrant, what do you think was the hardest part of the immigrant experience? Housing? Working Conditions? Budgeting? Why? Post your response by beginning of class tomorrow.
I think the hardest part of the immigrant experience is housing because you have such a small amount of space for usually a large family. Also, you have to make sure everyone has a place to sleep, that there is a bathroom, and a kitchen to make food for your family. And if you are lucky enough to have furniture, you are most likely going to have no place to put it because the tenements are so small.
I think that the hardest part about being a newly arriving immigrant is figuring out the housing. This is because we would try to put in the stuff we needed in our room like beds that fit are family and once we saw how small the rooms are we realized that there is not enough room in the big bedroom for 3 beds. Then we tried to figure out what we wanted in the kitchen and we could barely fit all of our chairs in table in the room. Finally once we started buying food the housing space got hard because we had barely any room to store any food. So in my opinion I think the hardest part of this experience was the housing.
I think that the hardest part about being a newly arrived immigrant in America was finding a job and working. It was often difficult for immigrants to get jobs, but that is only half the battle. Once an immigrant got a job they were under the power of their bosses and had to work in horrible conditions with no choice. Many were locked in hot, dark, smelly, dusty, and crammed rooms. They had to work long hours with little breaks for a small amount of pay. I believe that the hardest part about being a newly arrived immigrant was going into the workforce and working in bad conditions.
I think that the hardest part about being a newly arrived immigrant is figuring out your housing situation. Often times, immigrants came in big groups of people. They had to figure out a way for all of those people to live in the very small tenement. They needed space for a bedroom, space for a kitchen, and space for a bathroom. They also needed storage space for thing like food and clothes. Space wasn't the only problem, the tenements that they lived in also got very dirty and hot after a while which could have potentially lead to some health problems.
I think the hardest part about being a new immigrant is trying to figure out the housing. Most immigrant family's were large and the tenements were very small. It was difficult finding space for a bedroom, kitchen, bathroom, and storage space for food or any other items they needed. Also, not only did the tenements have very limited space but they were also not the most safe place to live. The tenements tend to be very dirty and run down which could lead to other problems in the future such as health problems.
I think the hardest part of being an immigrant would be the housing. The tenements are so small and there is very little ventilation. The bathrooms are also dirty so it would be easy to get sick. It gets hot too so the food wouldn't last long. Especially when you have a lot of people in your family it would be very hard.
I think the hardest part of being a new immigrant would be the housing or the poor working conditions of the jobs available for new immigrants. Many immigrant families are large and don't have much money, so their only option for housing are the very small tenements. Finding room for multiple children and the adults, while still having "wiggle room" is almost not possible. Also, these tenements had poor ventilation, which could lead to sicknesses or diseases. Another rough part of being a new immigrant is the poor working conditions. These people had to go to work everyday just to make a living for their families, but they knew everyday they went to work, there was a chance they wouldn't go back home at the end of the day.
I think the entire immigration experience would be challenging but over all hardest part about being an immigrant is figuring out the housing. You're only given a small amount of living space and most of the families were large. Just trying to plan out the rooms were difficult, you needed to make sure you had a big enough kitchen and sleeping area and a bathroom. I can't imagine how it would be if someone in your house got a disease because they spread quickly and the tenements weren't spacious.
I think the hardest part of the immigrant experience was the housing. Families were very big and the housing was extremely small. Also families didn't have a lot of space to store food and didn't have refrigerators so food would spoil and not last very long. If someone in you family got a disease they couldn't be kept separate in a different room so disease would spread quickly and be very contagious.
I think the hardest part of being a new immigrant is budgeting, because you have to pay for over priced necessities for the whole family with getting payed at the most $5 a week. Plus while paying rent there is only a small amount of money to spend, and trying to decide what you need the most is a hard decision when you are literally starting out on nothing.
I think the hardest part of being newly arrived immigrant was the housing and budgeting. The housing was very complicated because we had a lot of people in our family, and very little space. One of our biggest struggles with the housing was where to put all of the food and what we all needed to buy for the house. The budgeting was a struggle because everyone in the family was not very skilled at any job. Because of this, we did not make a lot of money in a week. Because we were low on money, we needed to figure out what things to buy that we truly needed and would be worth the money. Overall, in this activity I thought that the housing and budgeting was the hardest part about being newly arrived immigrant.
I think the hardest part of being a new immigrant was the jobs and working conditions. First of all it was hard enough to come to a new country with little money not knowing what's going to happen and most times not even the language. So with the skills they have they have to try to find a job to pay for their housing to help their children. With the jobs they can get in to the working conditions are usually terrible; dirty, crowded, small, hot so it was probably easier for diseases to spread around because of all the people. It was also probably smelt bad because everyone was working hard and sweating and haven't showered for a while. The bosses of these buildings didn't really care so they didn't take good care of the buildings because they had other things to worry about and they didn't get payed much anyways. They had to work long hours a day with little to no breaks. So that is why I believe jobs and working conditions were the hardest things for newly arriving immigrants
I think the hardest part of the immigrant experience was budgeting because it was difficult to figure out what you absolutely needed over things you didn't need as much. Also, it was hard to decide which kids you would send to school and others you would make work so you are able to afford the things you absolutely need for your kids to have better lives than you. We also had to try and decide if we needed two beds or just one and what we could afford so we would still have money to buy food. Monthly budgeting was difficult because you had to make difficult decisions to have money for all the things you need and some left over in case something came up.
I believe the hardest part of the immigrant experience was the poor living conditions, given the housing. The immigrants were scrunched into inadequate tenements for their homes. They had to fit a whole family inside a very small amount of space on top of the necessities of a home such as a bathroom, kitchen, and sleeping space. There was not much space for the immigrants to live in, which made living conditions poor. In my opinion, these reasons add to the conclusion that the housing was the hardest overall experience the immigrants faced.
I think budgeting was the hardest part of the immigrant experience because you need to figure out how much to spend on bedding, food, and clothes and whether or not if u can afford to send your kids to school or have them work. Also, you had to figure out what you absolutly needed in order to survive and possibly eliminate from your budget the things you don't absolutely need. Also, you needed to find what type of clothes and food to buy which usally ended up being the cheapest option.
I think that the hardest part of the immigrant experience would be the working conditions and overall work. The immigrants had to work very long hours in order to support their families. Those long hours were spent in horrible conditions that lead disease to spread quickly, but they had to do this in order to allow for their family to have food and to pay rent. I don't think that the work would be the worst portion of their experience if the children didn't have to work. Kids are more prone to catch common illnesses which means some of the worse diseases would be easy for them to get. All of this is why I think that The working conditions was the hardest thing during the immigrant process.
I feel that living conditions were the worst part. After the activity yesterday, I realized how bad the tenements were. I couldn't believe how small the biggest room was, and there is no way that it could support a large family of immigrants. The question of storage came up, too, and I feel like it would be hard to move around with so little room. The air quality and lighting had to be really bad, too. I'm surprised that immigrants didn't go crazy. I would have.
I think that the hardest part of being a new immigrant was budgeting and dangerous work conditions because you had to try and figure out what you had to buy for your very large family and what corners that you had to cut to keep your budget in check, and the working conditions, because there was a high risk of something bad happening to you and your co workers leaving you injured or dead.
I think that housing and budgeting was the hardest to deal with. It was difficult to find space because the rooms were so small so we couldn't get a lot of furniture. Also, budgeting was hard since we didn't start off with any money, and we had to pay rent so we didn't have a lot of money to deal with for the month or week.
I think that money and coming to a new land when you know little to nothing about it is the hardest part. You need to figure things out on your own and also learn how to make enough money to support your family. Also you need to know how to manage your money so you don't end up with none.
I think the hardest part of the immigrant experience is housing because you have such a small amount of space for usually a large family. Also, you have to make sure everyone has a place to sleep, that there is a bathroom, and a kitchen to make food for your family. And if you are lucky enough to have furniture, you are most likely going to have no place to put it because the tenements are so small.
ReplyDeleteI think that the hardest part about being a newly arriving immigrant is figuring out the housing. This is because we would try to put in the stuff we needed in our room like beds that fit are family and once we saw how small the rooms are we realized that there is not enough room in the big bedroom for 3 beds. Then we tried to figure out what we wanted in the kitchen and we could barely fit all of our chairs in table in the room. Finally once we started buying food the housing space got hard because we had barely any room to store any food. So in my opinion I think the hardest part of this experience was the housing.
ReplyDeleteI think that the hardest part about being a newly arrived immigrant in America was finding a job and working. It was often difficult for immigrants to get jobs, but that is only half the battle. Once an immigrant got a job they were under the power of their bosses and had to work in horrible conditions with no choice. Many were locked in hot, dark, smelly, dusty, and crammed rooms. They had to work long hours with little breaks for a small amount of pay. I believe that the hardest part about being a newly arrived immigrant was going into the workforce and working in bad conditions.
ReplyDeleteI think that the hardest part about being a newly arrived immigrant is figuring out your housing situation. Often times, immigrants came in big groups of people. They had to figure out a way for all of those people to live in the very small tenement. They needed space for a bedroom, space for a kitchen, and space for a bathroom. They also needed storage space for thing like food and clothes. Space wasn't the only problem, the tenements that they lived in also got very dirty and hot after a while which could have potentially lead to some health problems.
ReplyDeleteI think the hardest part about being a new immigrant is trying to figure out the housing. Most immigrant family's were large and the tenements were very small. It was difficult finding space for a bedroom, kitchen, bathroom, and storage space for food or any other items they needed. Also, not only did the tenements have very limited space but they were also not the most safe place to live. The tenements tend to be very dirty and run down which could lead to other problems in the future such as health problems.
ReplyDeleteI think the hardest part of being an immigrant would be the housing. The tenements are so small and there is very little ventilation. The bathrooms are also dirty so it would be easy to get sick. It gets hot too so the food wouldn't last long. Especially when you have a lot of people in your family it would be very hard.
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ReplyDeleteI think the hardest part of being a new immigrant would be the housing or the poor working conditions of the jobs available for new immigrants. Many immigrant families are large and don't have much money, so their only option for housing are the very small tenements. Finding room for multiple children and the adults, while still having "wiggle room" is almost not possible. Also, these tenements had poor ventilation, which could lead to sicknesses or diseases. Another rough part of being a new immigrant is the poor working conditions. These people had to go to work everyday just to make a living for their families, but they knew everyday they went to work, there was a chance they wouldn't go back home at the end of the day.
ReplyDeleteI think the entire immigration experience would be challenging but over all hardest part about being an immigrant is figuring out the housing. You're only given a small amount of living space and most of the families were large. Just trying to plan out the rooms were difficult, you needed to make sure you had a big enough kitchen and sleeping area and a bathroom. I can't imagine how it would be if someone in your house got a disease because they spread quickly and the tenements weren't spacious.
ReplyDeleteI think the hardest part of the immigrant experience was the housing. Families were very big and the housing was extremely small. Also families didn't have a lot of space to store food and didn't have refrigerators so food would spoil and not last very long. If someone in you family got a disease they couldn't be kept separate in a different room so disease would spread quickly and be very contagious.
ReplyDeleteI think the hardest part of being a new immigrant is budgeting, because you have to pay for over priced necessities for the whole family with getting payed at the most $5 a week. Plus while paying rent there is only a small amount of money to spend, and trying to decide what you need the most is a hard decision when you are literally starting out on nothing.
ReplyDeleteI think the hardest part of being newly arrived immigrant was the housing and budgeting. The housing was very complicated because we had a lot of people in our family, and very little space. One of our biggest struggles with the housing was where to put all of the food and what we all needed to buy for the house. The budgeting was a struggle because everyone in the family was not very skilled at any job. Because of this, we did not make a lot of money in a week. Because we were low on money, we needed to figure out what things to buy that we truly needed and would be worth the money. Overall, in this activity I thought that the housing and budgeting was the hardest part about being newly arrived immigrant.
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ReplyDeleteI think the hardest part of being a new immigrant was the jobs and working conditions. First of all it was hard enough to come to a new country with little money not knowing what's going to happen and most times not even the language. So with the skills they have they have to try to find a job to pay for their housing to help their children. With the jobs they can get in to the working conditions are usually terrible; dirty, crowded, small, hot so it was probably easier for diseases to spread around because of all the people. It was also probably smelt bad because everyone was working hard and sweating and haven't showered for a while. The bosses of these buildings didn't really care so they didn't take good care of the buildings because they had other things to worry about and they didn't get payed much anyways. They had to work long hours a day with little to no breaks. So that is why I believe jobs and working conditions were the hardest things for newly arriving immigrants
ReplyDeleteI think the hardest part of the immigrant experience was budgeting because it was difficult to figure out what you absolutely needed over things you didn't need as much. Also, it was hard to decide which kids you would send to school and others you would make work so you are able to afford the things you absolutely need for your kids to have better lives than you. We also had to try and decide if we needed two beds or just one and what we could afford so we would still have money to buy food. Monthly budgeting was difficult because you had to make difficult decisions to have money for all the things you need and some left over in case something came up.
ReplyDeleteI believe the hardest part of the immigrant experience was the poor living conditions, given the housing. The immigrants were scrunched into inadequate tenements for their homes. They had to fit a whole family inside a very small amount of space on top of the necessities of a home such as a bathroom, kitchen, and sleeping space. There was not much space for the immigrants to live in, which made living conditions poor. In my opinion, these reasons add to the conclusion that the housing was the hardest overall experience the immigrants faced.
ReplyDeleteI think budgeting was the hardest part of the immigrant experience because you need to figure out how much to spend on bedding, food, and clothes and whether or not if u can afford to send your kids to school or have them work. Also, you had to figure out what you absolutly needed in order to survive and possibly eliminate from your budget the things you don't absolutely need. Also, you needed to find what type of clothes and food to buy which usally ended up being the cheapest option.
ReplyDeleteI think that the hardest part of the immigrant experience would be the working conditions and overall work. The immigrants had to work very long hours in order to support their families. Those long hours were spent in horrible conditions that lead disease to spread quickly, but they had to do this in order to allow for their family to have food and to pay rent. I don't think that the work would be the worst portion of their experience if the children didn't have to work. Kids are more prone to catch common illnesses which means some of the worse diseases would be easy for them to get. All of this is why I think that The working conditions was the hardest thing during the immigrant process.
ReplyDeleteI feel that living conditions were the worst part. After the activity yesterday, I realized how bad the tenements were. I couldn't believe how small the biggest room was, and there is no way that it could support a large family of immigrants. The question of storage came up, too, and I feel like it would be hard to move around with so little room. The air quality and lighting had to be really bad, too. I'm surprised that immigrants didn't go crazy. I would have.
ReplyDeleteI think that the hardest part of being a new immigrant was budgeting and dangerous work conditions because you had to try and figure out what you had to buy for your very large family and what corners that you had to cut to keep your budget in check, and the working conditions, because there was a high risk of something bad happening to you and your co workers leaving you injured or dead.
ReplyDeleteI think that housing and budgeting was the hardest to deal with. It was difficult to find space because the rooms were so small so we couldn't get a lot of furniture. Also, budgeting was hard since we didn't start off with any money, and we had to pay rent so we didn't have a lot of money to deal with for the month or week.
ReplyDeleteI think that money and coming to a new land when you know little to nothing about it is the hardest part. You need to figure things out on your own and also learn how to make enough money to support your family. Also you need to know how to manage your money so you don't end up with none.
ReplyDelete