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several problems with recent immigrants, however. These include language barriers, not having completed a GED, limited healthcare...

p. 187). There are, in fact, several authors including Mead who see the ongoing development of identity as an issue of constructi...

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

experienced world traveler. With the knowledge of what had happened to the native peoples of the Barbados, the native peoples tha...

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...

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

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

and their culture. Others arrived also; the Dutch, the French, the Germans, the Scotch-Irish; and from each we took part of their...

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

responding to electronic sensor alarms and aircraft sightings, and interpreting and following tracks" (U.S. Customs & Border Prote...

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

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...

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

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

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 ...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

as it was a pattern for Asian men to leave their families at home while they came alone to America to work. They were also sim...

the helm in the "New World". Each component group of the immigrant wave was subjected to the same pressure to become...

the nature of bilingual education have urged support for ESL programming in many educational settings. In recent years, ESL and...

1870s, allowing for "the majority of German-Americans came via steamship, avoiding the dangers of the sailing vessel" (Hager, 2005...

group were extremely poor. Ireland was a land of peasants with a high unemployment rate, and those who boarded the ships for Ameri...