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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...

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...

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...

Immigrant Writers on Acculturation and Assimilation

sentimentality but her readership was attracted to such tales of courage, determination and, most important of all, success in Ame...

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...

American Literature's Portrayal of Immigrant Families

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the way immigrant families are presented in Brown Girl, Brownstones by Paule Marsh...

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...

History of Irish Immigration

the nationalist movement Sinn Fein was formed, in an attempt to establish once and for all a separate Irish parliament, with its o...

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 ...

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...

Nationalist Success and the Spanish Civil War

In the following paper we examine this assumption, providing historical information concerning the foreign allies, eventually argu...

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...

1989's Spanish American War

noted how relations between U.S. and Spain had seriously deteriorated, and that with increasing unrest of the Spanish-Cuban War no...

American Immigration Theories

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

ESL Private and Public Experiences

In five pages this paper contrasts the public and private experiences of English as a Second Language school development as they p...

Y No Se Lo Trago la Tierra and Its Structure

In four pages this paper examines the structure of this chronicle of a young immigrant boy's 1st year in the United States and how...

Hernando Cortez's Spanish Conquistadors and the Aztecs

In twenty eight pages this paper examines the central Mexico colonization of Hernando Cortez's conquistadors and discusses whether...

Thomas Bell's Out of This Furnace

In six pages this paper examined Out of This Furnace by Thomas Bell from an immigrant experience perspective. There are no other ...

Urbanization in the 20th Century

This 6 page paper examines the theory put forth by the Chicago School sociologists that all urban areas assimilated their immigran...

Proposition 187 in California

This report consisting of ten pages examines a 1994 voter initiative that prevented children of immigrants from public school atte...

Parallels of Fact and Fiction in the Immigrant Experiences of Gish Jen's Mona in the Promised Land

In five pages this paper discusses Gish Jen's Mona in the Promised Land from an Asian immigrant cultural perspective. Three sourc...

The Fortunate Pilgrim by Mario Puzo

reviewer also points out, there is simplicity and beauty to this prose that is not evident in Puzos later work. In the...

Colonial Rule by the Portuguese and Spanish

In twelve pages this research paper discusses the territories ruled by the colonial governments of Portugal and Spain. Six source...

The 1999 Shooting of Amadou Diallo in New York City

In a paper consisting of five pages the shooting of an immigrant by four policemen in NY is examined through the critical analysis...

Spanish Surrealists Joan Miro and Salvador Dali

proficiency for painting early, and was imitating the intricate brushstrokes of Impressionists by the age of eight (Baatz Salvador...

Pacific Northwest Immigration of Blacks and History Lessons

South in the United States. Although neither Washington, Oregon, nor British Columbia were considered true advocates of slavery, ...

Immigrant Population and Narrative Therapy

wants to be counseled but a young counselor finds that she not only is very different from the client who comes from China and bar...

Mukherjee's Jasmine

respect, everything that brought solidity to an individuals life in their former country, has been stripped from them. It is as if...

Asian Immigrants to the U.S. After World War II

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