In Their Eyes
By: Yan • Essay • 512 Words • December 11, 2009 • 798 Views
Essay title: In Their Eyes
Immigration and child labor was a huge struggle when the United States had first come about. Children worked sometimes from ages four and up. People from all over had immigrated to the states and many of them were poverty stricken. They had barely enough money to put food on the table let alone keep a roof over their heads. This was an extremely large struggle for many.
Everyone has gone through one struggle or another in his or her lifetime. They just learn to hold their heads high and not let it get to the best of them. But sometimes it will get to the best of you. And this is the point from where you grow from. I have been in and out of doctors' offices and even hospitals for depression. Like many of these immigrants who have struggled to get where they got, I myself feel that is what I had to go through to be where I am today.
Children who had to work really never had a smile on. But they stuck through it all because they knew there would be a rewarding outcome, even if it was only 40 cents. Working day in and day out for that little piece of happiness. I believe that everyone grows stronger and learns from the hardest times of your life. I myself know that taking medications everyday is not fun. But its something that I know I can gain from. Not only do I take them for myself, but I take them for my family and friends as well. When I suffer, they suffer. The family of immigrants with hardly any money had all suffered when there was no work and no intake. It was something they just had to keep up with in order to survive. Taking medications is something