The Man from Germany By: Patrick

The German economy is one of the most advanced in transportation and recycling of its time, here are some examples. Some of the main ways the people of Germany get around are the railroads and highways that connect all parts of Germany. Their railroad network is amongst the largest in the world and was started in the 1970’s. Although their railroad networks were huge and a great way of transportation, the Germans population grew and they had to build more ways to get in and out, thus in 1933, Adolf Hitler began building a four lane highway system (6,800 miles) called the Autobahns. Coal is still a major source of electrical power in Germany, but its use has declined since 1974 as oil burning and nuclear power generating plants have become more common (Wikipedia).



Germany's history is a grave, war filled one, and here are some examples. The German states were amongst the first in the world to set up a public education system for all children, The Kingdom of Prussia created this system in the 1800’s. During the 1800’s, the Germans lived in many separate states; one was The Kingdom of Prussia. The minister of Prussia was Otto Von Bismarck, who wanted to expand Prussia and take German cities under Prussian leadership. This was the starting point of World War I. In 1933, Adolf Hitler (who was leader of the Nazi party) began to think like Minister Bismarck and became more powerful by causing fear and death throughout the German lines. In 1939, people finally began to fight back for what they believed in thus causing World War II. So as you see, man so power-hungry, they caused some of the biggest wars knew the Germans. After World War II, Germany separated as it went into dividing as a huge wall was put up keeping rich from poor, this went on for a long time but finally, after a long time, the wall was put down. Germany is Federal Government, including a Parliament, a Federal Chancellor and a Cabinet. It was created in 1990, based on a Democratic system in West Germany (Wikipedia).


Germany’s culture has been one of the most populated places in Europe, but has been dropping caused by many things. The people of Germany contain 95% German civilians, 5% Europeans, most of which speak German. The estimated population of Germany is around 82,636,000 people. Germanys Military, the Bundeswcher is a defense force, allied with the army, Navy, Air Force, Central medical services and the joint support service as well. The age you are required to be is (unsurprisingly) 18 years of age or older. Through out time, the German population has decreased. Christianity is the largest religion with around 53,000,000 people; Islam is the next biggest religion with around 3.3 million people (4%). Buddhism and Judaism both with the population with around 200,000 people (.25% each); Hinduism comes next with around 90,000 people (.9%). Other religious communities contain around 50,000 people (.5%), And the rest of the 24.4 million Germans have no religion what so ever (29.6%). My person left to meet someone and to get an education in other languages, and he thought that in the U.S.A he would be successful with both. (Wikipedia).

“Goodbye” was all H.H had time to say as he was pushed by the mob of transportation hungry Germans. Being shoved through the light filled corridor of the airport, his heart became dark, but had to remind himself that this was his choice and, besides, he would be back. He was just going to the U.S to get a better education and come back a wiser man, thus getting him a better job in Germany. Frightfully, though, as he walked into the plane he wasn’t so sure.

H.H. was very close to his family and friends in Germany and was very sad that he was leaving, however, his dream lied in the U.S.A. so he knew he had to go through with it. To remember everyone, he took various things , such as clothes, his favorite books, cd’s and tapes, his laptop, many pictures of his family and friends and (because he was into it ) soccer clothes and a ball. Although it was tragic that he was leaving Germany, he was still very excited to be going to a new place and meeting new people. Even though the reason he was leaving was to become more intelligent, he felt it was his duty to earn money to bring back to his family.


When he first arrived in New York, he had to go through many tests such as explaining why he had a reason to be in the U.S. and how he would (if he got a green card) be a good American citizen. Then he had to explain his talents and who he intended to work for and why (‘I was uncomfortable exposing my personal information” said H.H.). When he finished, he quickly approached a public telephone and called some of his immigrant friends, asking if he could spend a couple of nights there, just until he could earn enough money to rent an apartment. This was working out for him and the next day, he would go out and try to get a job.

H.H. had been in the U.S. for almost 11 years until he met Marry (his wife), because of her, he decided to stay in the United States. He found that, in his opinion, the U.S. was a better life and that he wanted to stay there with Marry. However, some people’s lives don’t work out that way, some people decide that even though they can’t make much money in the place they immigrated to, the U.S. is a violent, racist place and that he/she has better chances of surviving in where ever they came from instead. H.H. was one of the lucky ones.