Immigrants---the number of studying abroad

I don't know anything about immigrants, but i only know some rankings about the study abroad.According to the incomplete statistics, after China's reform and opening, a number of more than 20 million students to study in the United States accounts for about 40 percent of total Chinese students studying abroad. So, certainly the United States is the No. one country for studying abroad for Chinese student. The next following one is Australia, Canada, England, French and German. Now the relatively small European countries have relatively small percentages.

But someone said maybe the total number is the United States, but now most definitely not the United States. It's very difficult to get visa from the United States after 911, even you are rich and you have the TOEFL socres. Australia and Canada are still the most number for western countries. But the total number it is now Japan and South Korea. The reason is very simple: low-demand and cheap than the west.

I Have a Dream

On August 28 1963, there was a march at at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C. where the famous speech"I Have a Dream "delivered by Martin Luther King, Jr.

I could clearly remember that the first time i read the speech, i was really shocked by his voice and i could feel the negro people's eagerness for freedom and equal. Everyone has his own dreams. Even though the black people faced the tough difficulties of today and tomorrow, they never gave up their faith to be free and equal. It is Martin Luther King, Jr.'s dream. It is the dream of black people. It is the dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

Everyone is equal when they are born, nobody is the slave of others. And also the black people are have the right to protect their own human rights and freedom. As what i wrote in the last article about Rosa Parks, sometimes i admire them for their own spirits of struggling for peace and equal. Others can look down upon you, but you can't look down on yourself. Oppositely, you should respect yourself, use your own huge power and behaviours to fight for your own rights and freedom. So they succeed at last!

As Martin Luther King, Jr. said" Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!" Nowadays the situation of segregation is much much much better than before. America is like a melting pot, it can hold every kind of religious, every people from other countries, every sort of color people and every different languages and so on. Remember to use your own legal rights to protect yourself when you are treated unfairly.

Rosa (Lee McCauley) Parks

Rosa Louise McCauley was born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. She was a civil-rights activist. She refused to give the seat to the white passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama bus which led to the city-wide boycott and end the segregation of the public facilities with the nation-wide efforts. She became the symbol of the Civil Rights Movement, but she and her husband both lost their jobs and they and her mother had to move to Detroit, Michigan to begin their new life.

Her achievements earned her the acclaim of the Spingarn Medal, the NAACP's highest award. Also she received the Martin Luther King Jr. Award. On Sep.9, 1996 President Bill Clinton awarded Rosa Parks the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor given by the U.S. executive branch. In 1997, she was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest award given by the U.S. legislative branch. In 1999, Time magazine named Rosa Parks one of the 20 most influential people of the twentieth century.

From the Rosa Parks ' biography, i learn that others can look down upon you, but you must respect yourself and have your own dignity to protect your own rights. America is the country of freedom, but a long time ago they had the serious racial discrimination. Sometimes i respect the black people to use their own wills and determinations to strengthen their own faiths. I could clearly remember when i first listened Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C., i was deeply touched by his indignant speeches and words and millions of people were excited about their freedom. "Free at last! Free at last!Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"

We are all equal when we were born, so nobody shouldn't be the slaves of others or nobody shouldn't be segregated.We must be peaceable and live harmoniously together!!!Here is the website of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s speech video "I Have a Dream" If you like, then you can enjoy the speech.
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm

Keepsakes help tell African American story

Everyone has different habits to collect the varied keepsakes,because every different keepsakes have their own stories or histories meanings.They are priceless treasure which doesn't mean the monetary value .

In this article, the writer talked about a very rare white cap once worn by a Pullman Co. porter and a pin bearing the image of a black woman . In the past , they wore black or blue caps ,the porters who wore white tended only to prominent travelers in private train cars. The second treasure is the writer also learned that the face on the pin was Madame C.J Walker, whose hair care products made her the first female African American millionaire. They also mentioned that the residents in L.A. will have a chance to have experts review their keepsakes. Their aim is about the historical worth not monetary value. And also they hope the items they bring can illuminate the California dream and share the African American Treasure.

The historical heritage is priceless, we can't use money to value their worth. From them we can konw what happened before and what they looked like . They have the great infulence on us nowadays.