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Ireland   Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  One of the main reason me and my family came to America, was because we have been suffering The great Famine as you may call it, this was happening between the years of 1800 and 1845, there were approximately sixteen food crisis. Which was mostly caused due to the Wet harvest season. This season was responsible for about 40 percent of destroyed crops; enough to plunge the country in to a crisis. India helped us out but did not provide enough food for the tens of thousands of people who died Annually from malnutrition and epidemic disease. During the Famine over one million died, reducing the population of Ireland to 6.5 million people.   Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  The Famine, although one of the main reasons I came to America, I have other reasons. One of the most attractive aspects of American Life that I found was freedom, and the choice that you have I you want to excel they’re room for expansion, back in Ireland, they was no room for expansion. In my homeland if you had a Job that’s would probably be your last, and the fact that America has many sources of food and plenty of jobs, requiring no school degree. Plus this country can give my family and me the opportunity to have a better life then that of Ireland.   Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  What I am expecting to do in America, which I’ve heard from many people, will most likely be working in a factory. Due to that I have no school diploma. By me working in a factory, even though I might die working there, I would make enough money to put my kids through college, and let them be the bosses of the next generation. I’ve already Lived most of my life and its my goal to let my children live a better life, to offer them the best, let them choose they’re future. In 1999 the fate of Most immigrants coming from Ireland will all depend on who the person is. If A person has a good education and are set to work, they have a good future, but if you’re a bum in Ireland and you’re coming to America to get a job, it would be more difficult this time in age, everything is begin taken over computers and simple jobs are just not around anymore everything involves thinking and education.   Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  The religion in Ireland was that of Catholicism. Despite the Penal laws it was clear that from the returns made by catholic Bishops to Dublin Castle that the church was better provided with priest then it had been a century earlier.