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U.S. Immigration of Jamaicans

attribute to a good education. The youngsters of a first-generation family often bear the incredible burden of making something o...

A New Business Marketing Plan

vice president of marketing may know a great deal about selling, because he had been promoted up from the sales route for example,...

Vietnamese and South Korean Canadian Immigrant Groups Compared

to the point where the Korean Consulate General of Toronto was established in August 1975 thus beginning a process of Canada welco...

The Legacy Of Colonial America with Regard to Urban Development

three largest and probably most important harbors were Boston, New York and Philadelphia (Hashagen, 1998). What many may not know ...

Abraham Cahan's The Rise of David Levinsky

was very young, so young in fact that he had only a couple of fleeting memories of him. His mothers life was hard yet she managed...

Is It Possible for Biculturalism and Patriotism to Coexist in America?

as well. In todays world, the issue of bi-culturalism and patriotism is an important one - one precipitated by the unrest ...

Childcare and Immigrants

childcare provisions. Women in Development programs stress immediate job placement as well as training and education. During the ...

Medical Profession's Cultural Clashes in Anne Fadiman's The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

far the most common cause of illness is soul loss"(Fadiman 8). What is most interesting about this book is that Fadiman...

Post U.S. Civil War Immigration

Immigration Timeline, 2003). Many of the immigrants who came to the U.S. both prior to and after the Civil War did so out of comp...

Miami's Cuban Immigrant Community

they were not allowed to proceed with that claim ("Court rules" B6). In any event, the Elian Gonzalez case allows a student to gl...

Learning Center Ideal

socially. The greater the overall interaction the better the prospects for economic improvement (Lewin-Epstein et al, 2003). Onc...

European Migration to Great Britain and Reasons

migrate e.g. work, family, escape persecution. In addition we find that these economic reasons are further supported by economic...

Corruption and Political Machines of New York City

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

Immigrant Development in Camara Laye's Radiance of the King

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

Anton Shammas and Being a Palestinian in America

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

Immigrant Cultural Identity in Jose Antonio Villarreal's Pocho

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...

'Amerka, Amerka' by Anton Shammas

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

A Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Guttierez by J. Breslin

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

Canada and the Adaptation of Immigrant Children

peer groups( Samuel and Verma, 1992). As the extent of this list implies, immigrants and their children make up a population of pe...

California Immigration and William A. Clark's The California Cauldron

fifteen years in particular, California has changed dramatically in its demographic makeup. Clark explores the changes in laws an...

Culture Clash in The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

as intimate terms, yet knowing little about their culture, has always seemed a shame. But, there were no individuals who this read...

Overview of the U.S. Immigration of Mexicans

that occurred as a direct result of Mexican immigration were both vast and far-reaching, with gender issues residing near the top ...

American Immigration Theories

(Handlin 75). This was also the reason, although Handlin doesnt state it as such, that immigrants tended to feel more comfortable ...

American Labor Songs and Bruce Springsteen

In seven pages the ways in which Springsteen's songs contributed to the American labor movement are explored with the shifting foc...

Western US and Hispanic Americans

Comas, as the Cuban army engineer in charge of the Cuban civilian internationalists working on Grenada, faced court-martial after ...

Issues Involving Immigration of Mexicans to the U.S.

United States. The result of this focus has been an increase in border patrol protection throughout the Southern border states,...

Improving Protection of the US-Mexico Border

In twenty pages the Mexican immigrant problems plaguing the United States are examined with the argument that better border patrol...

Australian Workforce, Immigrant Women and the Issue of NESB

In ten pages this paper examines the Non English Speaking Background issue in a consideration of the Australian workforce's immigr...

Modern Society and The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

In five pages the US of the 1990s and the shooting of Haitian immigrant Amadou Diallo in New York City is examined within the cont...

Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee

not only by her circumstances, but by her issues of identification. Within her marriage to Prakash, her name is changed to Jasmin...