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For over four hundred years immigrants have been to coming America to seek the freedom that we enjoy everyday. Many of these foreigners faced similar hardships throughout their journeys. The Dinh family from "An American Story" written by Anthony Lewis, experienced many problems comparable to the Puritans on the Mayflower in William Bradford's "Of Plymouth Plantation". Mary Rowlandson as revealed in "Narrative of a Captivity", as well as Olaudah Equiano's "Life as Olaudah Equiano". Both the Dinh's who were twenty-th century immigrants, and the Puritans who came to America in the seventeenth century encountered physical dilemma during their travels. Next, the Vietnamese family like Olaudah Equiano had to overcome emotional struggles. Furthermore, cultural barriers were confronted by the "boat people" as well as Puritan Mary Rowlandson.
The Dinh family and the Puritans alike came across many of the same physical hardships. "In the sundry of these storms the winds were so fierce and......

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