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An Immigration Story

For this interview, i spoke to my very own grandfather about his experience in migrating to America. My grandfathers who named Julio Ruiz was born in the 1950s in the Dominican Republic. he recalls his life back in the Santo Domingo (the countries capital) to be an easy peaceful life, where eat from the earth, enjoy the hot weather, and worked in the "campo". He says that on one summer say in 1965 he, his mother, and aunts moved to the U.S when he was 13 years old. the main reason why he migrated was for a better life and opportunities. Julio's first job in America was a janitor and he had the clean 3 buildings in down town where he earned $35 every week, which was a lot of money back then. When i asked him if there was any struggles while starting a new life the he said that most of the kids kids and teacher in his middle school were Spanish so there wasn't any language barriers, and then he eventually. When he was teenager in the 1970s he worked as a bus boy in a big corporated restaurants. there he met a lot of other young minority men that came from Dominican Republic or Puerto Rico who came to America for the same reason my grandfather had. As the years went by, Where in the 1980s, my grandfather met my grandmother had two children (my mom and uncle), Julio worked in a factory making postal envelopes there he earned $225 each week. With he amount of he and grandmother made they did the best they could to make a living the financially support their children and theirselves. In the 1990s another immigrant relative of mine, my great uncle, he worked in Fordham University as a janitor and then worked his way up to being a groundsman. There he earned $65,000 a year which was a lot of the money back then. Towards the the end of the interview i asked if he had the choice to go back to D.R. or stay in the U.S., he chose to stay because he worked a lot and the got better opportunities for himself and his family.

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Sprite! The fizzy lemon & lime drink created in west Germany in 1959 was originally called “Fanta Klare Zitrone” which means Clear lemon fanta. This soft drink was then brought to America in 1961 where it then competed with 7 up because of its similar yet different tastes. Shortly after sprite joined the coca- cola company and now has been actively selling for 60+ years with an estimated worth of $5 billion, making sprite the third most popular sold soft drink across the world. Growing up and not being allowed to have candy or drink soda up until i was in 5th grade, one of the first sodas i ever tried was a can of sprite soda and i instantly fell in love with its taste, now that i am older and know that you can mix sprite with other beverages, sprite is probably the only soda you’ll see me drink and/or mixing. As said previously, sprite is manufactured by The Coca-Cola Company, like others beverages coca-cola is responsible for selling, producing, and advertising sprite. The production of making a single pack can take anywhere between 1 1/2 to 5 hours but and marketing a plan to sell sprite can take up to 8-12 weeks.