...“A Quilt of a Country” by Anna Quindlen and “The Immigrant Contribution” by John F. Kennedy are two passages that can clash on one topic but resemble each other on another. The two authors are very talented in their writing abilities and are both very good and forwarding their opinions to others. The two articles may be about the same thing but that doesn’t mean they're similar in their entirety. Having two unrelated authors from distant times will lead to different writing, no matter how similar the authors are. Quindlen and Kennedy wrote upon similar topics but they have a fairly different writing style. Being that America was founded by Europeans who sailed across the Atlantic makes the fact both authors wrote about how all Americans...
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...While reading through the Shipler writings, the idea that struck me as the most interesting was that when immigrants travel over the border they are essentially becoming part of America, not an American (pg. 91). This is interesting me because I had never thought of them being placed into the system in a way which so closely resembles slavery. I was surprised while learning how these immigrants become trapped within the labor systems of our American society, and how poorly they are treated in the process. There is an unseen issue in this country that is dismissed simply because of there being little for the immigrants to do in terms of standing against these forms of oppression. It is typical that situations occur where immigrants are misled into thinking they will be living in a life of plenty by moving to the land of opportunity. The descriptions of the living quarters for these immigrants are horrid, worse than the prison cells we use today. Their barracks or small homes used by many immigrants at a time, are practically stripped bare after the seasonal work is finished, forcing the immigrants to...
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...Russel Sage History 311 Essay Assignment # 1 How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis is an emotional picture book that has and still is shocking middle and upper class Americans . Riis created a sensation when he revealed to the world, combining detailed written descriptions with graphic photographs, the horrific conditions of New York City’s tenement housing. How the Other Half Lives raised many questions, such as how and why the poor are subjected to such terrible living conditions and how that environment affects them. Riis also reveals his fears and prejudices toward certain ethnic groups as he investigates each tenement in order to find some kind of solution. The miserable surroundings Riis discusses throughout the length of his entire document focus on the tenement. The tenement is a building, which due to the immigration boom was modified by its landlord to create as many rooms as possible, therefore sacrificing the human necessities of air and light. Riis says, “Large rooms were partitioned into several smaller ones, without regard to light or ventilation.”(Pg. 69) These rooms were too small to house one family and too dark and stagnant too live in, yet it was common to have as many...
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...When I got to the island I could take days just to be registered. These people faced many enduring challenges and hard sacrifice, but then it was all worth it. For America provided jobs, freedom, and much more. The challenges these immigrants faced we're almost endless. Most of them with their class travelers, so their journey to Ella violent took one to three months. Writing across the ocean, they could only look forward. Most had just lost everything. Money I have left their families, belongings, and home. When they finally arrived to the island, the first and...
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...Dev Sharma Amy Forrest MCWP 40 21st October 2016 Immigrant Assimilation The question of how to assimilate in a new country is of paramount importance to an immigrant and also to the country they’re moving to. The articles, ‘Should immigrants assimilate?’ by Alejandro Portes and Min Zhou, and ‘Debating Immigration’ by Mary C. Waters, claim the process of assimilation is a complex one and has multiple factors influencing it which can have lasting impact on generations of immigrants. However, Portes and Zhou go into specific details about and case studies Waters claims that the second generation’s prosperity and social status depends on how the first generation assimilates and social situation in which they are in. Portes and Zhou build on this...
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...ability to work to achieve their own goals. In the early 1900s, this idea of achieving the ‘American Dream’ was quite prevalent throughout the United States. Immigrants came from all around the globe to simply obtain the opportunity to change their quality of life and maintain a sense of freedom. However, due to varying social, political, and economic conditions...
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...grading. You should use concepts we have been discussing in class (structural violence, colonialism, etc.) to guide your argument. However, the concept of the paper is open-ended. Please develop your thoughts based on the book Labor and Legality. 1. A quality paper will have a strong analysis that draws from concepts learned from the book and also from class. Your arguments should be supported by proper evidence from the book. In other words, your thoughts must be fully engaged with the reading. Thus, proper citations, a clear structure, and also format requirements listed below would be important. 1. Format requirement. 1) Your review should be 3-5 pages (with a separate references cited page), which is a small adjustment from the syllabus. You will still need to use 1-inch margins, double-spaced, 12-point font. 2) Please review the section of the syllabus labeled “2” under “expectations” for information on academic integrity. Plagiarism will not be tolerated. Use in-text citations per the Chicago Style Manual when directly quoting or paraphrasing an author and make sure to include a “works cited” section. If there is any other citation style you are familiar with, you can use that style. Please refer this link, if you want to learn about Chicago Style Manual :https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/717/01/ 1. Papers should be turned in on Compass2g by 11 am November 3rd, in order to avoid the late writing assignment penalty outlined in the section labeled “8”...
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...In this paper, I want to focus on Immigrant Students in Secondary Schools. As a previous high school immigrant when I first arrived in United States, I have experience numerous difficulties in school that I would never forget. In addition, I believe immigrant students of secondary school can face major difficulties in learning English and succeeding in school. Since these students do not have a lot of time than elementary students to learn English, and they have to pass several test that require English skill such as the ACT and SAT. Above all, most secondary school texts and materials require a sufficient English reading ability to understand, which will even make learning experience becoming even tougher for high school immigrant. Before going into detail, lets take a look at the statistics of the United States’ immigration in the past few decades. According to U.S Bureau of the Census 1997a statistic, over a million immigrants, legal and illegal, entering the United States each year. And since the passage of the Immigration Act of 1965, which eliminated national origin quotas. Europe is no longer the main sources of newcomers to the United States but instead of Asia and Latin America. The largest groups come from Mexico, China, Cuba, and Vietnam. In the fall of 1997, 9 million (about one in five) elementary and secondary school students had a foreign born parents. With over 90% of recent immigrants coming from non English speaking countries, schools are increasingly...
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...history on writing of Joy Mannette and Denise Chong? Both authors Joy Mannette and Denise Chong have written different articles about racism and discrimination .First article “My Dearest Child” is written by Joy Mannette and the other one “The Concubine’s Children” is written by Denise Chong. Both of these articles reflected how the black and Chinese immigrants suffered in Canada in 17th and 19th century. But now as we all know Canada is a multicultural country. Everyone respect each other’s culture and religion. The first article “My Dearest Child” is a letter written by a white mother Joy Mannette to her African Canadian child. In this letter, she explained how their ancestors experienced discriminations. The people who were African although they born and citizen in Canada they were still treated badly. Even their ancestors had to work as labourers as white people offered them minor jobs. They worked hard but still got fewer wage. She narrates in her article that the black people came to Nova Scotia in 17th century as slaves. They were banned to enter the religious places, Schools and other amusing programs. In the second article “The Concubine’s Children”, Denise Chong states how the Chinese immigrants had to face racism in Canada in the past. She explained about unfairness that the many Chinese immigrants experienced in Canada. In addition, Chinese people had to pay special taxes for school and policing, employment, laundry, shoes and even cigars. Chinese immigrants were not...
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...Book Review # 1: Yezierska’s Bread Givers. I found this book very good reading material which describes, in detail, life of Jewish immigrants in America around 1920 and the development of their community. This book helps me understand the culture, religion, beliefs, the Jewish immigrants’ relations with other immigrants and Americans, their family structure, their way of life in the city. It also talks about the poverty and despair of immigrants to America. The writing style is not difficult and I enjoyed reading this book and I learnt a lot about the life in American city at the turn of the century. In addition, knowledge of American history at that time and development of society in city helped me to better understand the material I learned in class. The story and events of Bread Givers gives me a clear understanding of the lives of new, Jewish immigrant families and their quest to achieving success in an unfamiliar and unaccepting new country. This book is a good reading material. The novel Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska is a moving story about the lives of the Smolinsky family and their integrations into life in America. With a father deeply rooted in Torah and allegiance to God, the four Smolinsky daughters are put to work to support their family, and are burdened with the tasks of finding husbands or just being married off without choice. Many issues such as those involving the differences of gender and lives in the public and domestic spheres are touched upon in...
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...Theodore Roethke was raised by middle class, immigrant parents who valued the idea of work, and manual labor. Though Roethke was brought up with the idea that manual labor was the key to success, he valued education, literature, and the skill of writing as the true, key to success. Roethke acquired this skill of writing during his Highschool career and later came to the conclusions that teaching, and writing was the career path that would suit him best. The memorable events that occurred throughout Theodore Roethke’s life shaped him to be the successful and talented writer that he was. Theodore Roethke grew up amongst a loving german mother and strict, yet hard working father. His father trained Roethke throughout most of his youth to value the true benefits, and...
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...white community and the immigrant community. We hear about it from the very beginning of the text, When Jolil is held back after class, and he is worried to walk home alone. Normally the immigrant boys walk home together as a group, that way they can take the short route home, through the white neighbourhood without having to be afraid of being beaten up. Because Jolil is held back after class, he has to take the long route home, so he wont have to pass any white children on his way to the flat where he lives. His family discusses the issue on the first night of the story, his older brother says that there will be war, after a Bengali teen has been stabbed by white teens. Jolil has big issues with the way his father deals with life in general in the UK, for one, he keeps Jolil home from school whenever his help is needed in the family business, which is sewing . This off course has resulted in Jolil having big problems reading and writing in English, which again makes things difficult for him. The father doesn't speak proper English, and it seems to bother and embarrass Jolil. Jolil and his father go to a market to buy two chairs for Jolil´s mother, and the salesman, who is white, is extremely rude to Jolil s father, but because he doesn't understand the nuances in the English language, he doesn't pick up on it, only Jolil does. That a sales person in that way insults potential customers, tells us that there is absolutely no respect for the immigrants in this community. On...
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...HST 3401 Primary Document Analysis Form Your name: Yevgeniya Erdyniyeva Class section: Mn-Wed 5 Date: 10/25/15 Document title: Alien and Sedition Acts Date of document: November 13th, 1797 Author(s): Fifth Congress of the US , John Adams 1.Two or three biographical sentences describing author(s): The Alien and Sedition Acts were four bills that were passed by the Federalists in the 5th United States Congress and signed into law by President John Adams in 1798(John Adams became the second president of the United States of America in 1797) 2.What was the historical context in which the author(s)wrote the document? The Alien and Sedition Acts were passed during a time of great tension due to a possible war with France. Fighting between...
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...the conditions of Packingtown are not what they expected. In the ensuing chapters, the family’s luck changes from bad to worse when a multitude of family members die and jobs are repeatedly taken away from many of the group. Sinclair demonstrates through the optimistic and naive Rudkus-Lukoszaite family that American capitalism is destructive to the common worker and the immigrant class. In the proclaimed “wage slavery,” Sinclair describes how the immigrant population was "dependent for its opportunities of life, upon the whim of men every bit as brutal and unscrupulous as the old-time slave drivers” (Sinclair 126). In Chicago, the immigrant...
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...Harvest of Empire by Juan Gonzalez Through the time immemorial, humans have been moved into new geographical territories with various reasons that motivate them. The most basic motivation of discovering and searching new territories is for economic development which is the terms of immigration. And there are not many of economically developed countries, which pulls high number of immigrants and takes actual high percentages in immigrant statistics. In present time, this immigration experience assumes as the constant affairs of American life. Because the views of people from other countries are America as the land of full opportunities for their better life no matter that they are coming in America legally or illegally. Juan Gonzales the author of the book titled, Harvest of Empire, criticized and analyzed this view by focusing on the Latino population of immigration and how the America’s foreign policies influences toward it. In his work, Juan Gonzales tries to overviewing how the Latino immigrants started to move in American historically and he also provides an analysis of the current events that showing the effects and frictions on Latino population thereby America’s politics and diplomacy. During reading Harvest of Empire by Juan Gonzales, I thought a lot of time that this book is for all people who want to know about the history of Latino immigration in America in detail. Because Gonzalez delivers Latino’s historical processes of movement and settlement through all...
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