Essays on immigration
japanese-American During WWII By: Sean E-mail: emailprotected Japanese immigrants and the following generations had to endure discrimination, racism, and prejudice from white Americans. They were first viewed as economic competition. The Japanese Americans were then forced into internment camps simply because of the whites fear and paranoia. The Japanese first began to immigrate to the […]
Violence In Our ChildrenCities of violence: Santee, California; El Cajon, California; Littleton, Colorado. These are names of American cities and towns where violence has usurped deep into the American heartland where families settle to raise families away from the violent big cities. Andy Williams, Jason Hoffman, Eric Harris, and Dylan Klebold; names of students who […]
EngL 3851 Fall 1998 I am a Minnesotan. I have lived here all my life and may continue to do so. Stereotype me: The 10 o’clock news is my window dressing for the 10 o’clock weather (Mohr, 9). You betcha it is. Yah. I wouldn’t want you to think that I’m not happy here-it could […]
Some think that illegal aliens cannot receive welfare benefits, but they can, as a result of a provision known as PRUCOL (Permanently Residing Under the Color of Law). PRUCOL means a status that has the appearance of, but not the substance of, a legal right. This is not a status created by legislation, but one […]
INTRODUCTION The Ancient Celts were not an illiterate people, but they transferred their knowledge orally. They had an alphabet of twenty letters called Ogham. Each letter was named after a tree from the land where they lived. Ogham was used on standing stones, primarily on graves and boundary markers. The primary sources of information about […]
On the American political agenda, few issues are more divisive and more complex than immigration. The current policies and practices have no shortage of problems, from the large number of illegal immigrants living in the country to the delays and difficulties that confront many illegal immigrants in the United States. Immigration is an issue of […]
The author of this article is talking about the discrimination of school admissions. According to her, there have been reports from reliable sources that many schools in the United States were demanding students to produce their national documents to show their nationality. Consequently, based on the nationality of each student, the school administration denied some […]
The assignment is based on the analysis of the book The Huddled Masses, the Immigrant in American Society, 1880-1921 which is authored by Alen M. Kraut who is a scholar of ethnic and immigration history. Kraut emphasized on the experience of immigrants on how they were affected by entertainment, education and how they would gain […]
Beware! America is being invaded by aliens! Not the little, green, Martian type you see in science fiction movies, but the real thing. I’m talking about the illegal type who come in every day and every night, by land and by sea. Estimates have shown that as many as 500,000 illegal aliens make it across […]
For many immigration to the United States would be a new beginning during 19th to early 20th century. There were many acts and laws to limit the number immigrating to the United States. Many of these acts were due to prejudice and misunderstanding of a culture. One such act was the Chinese Exclusion Act. Form […]
Globalization is an issue that has raised concerns in many ways. The current world has been compared to a growing global village that continues to become smaller as days go by. Because of this, various changes have occurred that a person who lived in the eighteenth centaury will be taken for a rude shock had […]
Trying to think of a way to overcome this, the VA owner researched internationally and realized that there was an overseas market for South African transcriptionists. She set up a website, submitted it to various search engines and non reciprocal link directories and obtained a lot of international enquiries in this way. The first stumbling […]
Social contract is defined as an implicit agreement among the members of an organized society between the ruled and the rulers. This is to guide each other behaviors and establish personal rights and responsibilities. Social contract is important for any societal behavior and in democratic societies it is embedded in the constitution. How it has […]
Asian Immigration to the United States For the most part, Asians have had a rough time becoming equals in American society. But because of their hard work, and strong family ethics Asians as a whole have definitely become a keystone in the society of the United States. The first Asians to arrive on American shores […]
Formal Report Risk management has become a prevalent challenge to many business organizations in recent times. The ever changing business environment has brought along massive uncertainties to business operations. The uncertainties constitute risks to the business and they could make or break a business depending on how they are handled. My business organization has not […]
The “Other”; in The Tortilla Curtain Since its very beginnings, the United States of America has been idealized as ‘the land of the free,’ full of new opportunities for people from all around the globe. In The Tortilla Curtain, written by T. Coraghessan Boyle the reader gets an up close view of the border between […]
The Sisa Syndrome and the Antidote to Our Depression by Ricky Rivera Dr. Jose Rizal in his novel Noli me Tangere tells of Sisa, a woman who fell into a very deep depression when she lost her two sons. Sisa went around town looking for them. She knows that a priest killed her two sons […]
Lack of common necessities is called poverty. Food, cloths and shelter are the basic needs of a human being. These things determine the quality of life of a person. Nowadays poverty has become a very big social problem for many nations. Social problem means a matter which creates an effect on all or some people […]
Out of this Furnace, by Thomas Bell, tells the story of a multigenerational family of Slovakian immigrants. This family of five generations came to American in the late nineteenth century in search of a better life. One of the first to arrive, Djuro Kracha, arrived in the New World in the middle of the 1880s. […]
Illegal immigration has been among the many prevailing issues of the United States. Statistics indicate that by the year 2003, the number of illegal aliens in the United States had grown into 8 million, with a yearly increase of half a million (“Illegal Immigration”); that would sum up to, 10. 5 million by 2008. The […]
“Back to China”: the Reverse Brain Drain in China Every autumn, American students are busy with applying for undergraduate or graduate schools, so are an increasing number of Chinese students. Chinese get to realize the significance of being transnational. “Transnational” means involving in many countries. Now, human capital, especially those who have international experience, is […]
Zora Neale Hurston, “How It Feels to Be Colored Me” Thesis| | “But I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all”| In her thesis she explains that even though people do discriminate against her, she does not […]
