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Jewish immigrants. People like Bob Hope, who was born in England, have contributed richly to our culture. Charlie Chaplin, also f...

waxed Japanese car with personalized plates" hits Candido on a road going through the canyon (Boyle 3). While the lives of these t...

(ICA), Shammas was literally forced to view some "nature" while in the Southwest, which resulted in what sounds like a miserable t...

the contractors were building shoddy buildings, and nobody was getting reported for any of it. Of course Guttierez had no knowled...

home from school one day, looks at his house, and notes the following: "On the floor of the living room, where two of the girls sl...

political; in fact, religion and settlement had a great deal to do with the manner by which political machines eventually overran ...

while. It was the first time he had witnessed one of the native dances, and the novelty and strangeness of this rather barbaric sp...

of that pool of your created, acquired and invented memories" (Shammas 24). A.s Palestinian father belonged with the roughly 800,...

issues along a continuum of health and good health is defined as a "state of complete physical, mental and social well-being" (Ada...

female immigrants with matrons present but in 1914, two women doctors had been hired to conduct exams for female subjects (2000)....

As a matter of a fact, for a time, it did appear that a new age might be dawning for the political machine because of the dire nee...

and cons must be heavily weighed before any legislation is passed. The arguments against opening borders to immigrants have been ...

in certain populations. A study conducted by Dawson and Grant (1998) concluded that alcohol dependence has a distinct correlate t...

of his plans for issuing work visas to illegal immigrants brought several facts to the surface which had previously been largely i...

extent challenged when her cousin decided to get married. Up until that point, Ludmilla had created and lived a life where at leas...

Hispanic Center), during 2001, the "unauthorized" labor force in the U.S. totaled 5.3 million workers. Out of this were 700,000 re...

States. This simple information thus far illustrates that those people in steerage were, first and foremost, considered less tha...

immigrated to America during the potato famine of the 1840s (Man, 1951). They found employment as dock laborers and longshoremen ...

of child and convict workers. The movement opened doors for women, African Americans and immigrants that had up until then been s...

makes constitutes the "others" uniqueness. "The Other" inFilm The existence of "the other" has figured prominently throughout the...

she were to return to her native Togo her clitoris would be cut off(Swarns 2004). Lastly, there is the case of Mrs. Alvarado who i...

them to attempt to deal with the problem of language barriers and cultural differences. If the immigrant is not able to learn the...

experience, particularly that immigrant experience as it occurs within the modern medical environment, revolves around cultural un...

the 1990s an estimated one million immigrants were arriving per year (Suarez-Orozco, 2000). The type of immigrants that arrived d...

result in stressful family conflicts over role expectations and individual behaviors" (Bhattacharya, 2002; p. 175). Acevedo...

what is known as National Origins Act and this was responsible for a great decrease in the number of people who came to Ellis Ilan...

three hours would be almost laughable in Los Angeles - and if a person doesnt like food (or is too full), there is little hesitati...

been prohibited from becoming citizens in the U.S. thanks to age-old biases and prejudices (Asian American History, 2004). Howeve...

2004, Pending Legislation Bill Number S. 2187. II. Social Problem...

as recently as the 1920s" (Worth, 2004). And, interestingly enough, until the city of New York abolished its school boards, "all r...