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with a strong work ethic and traditions tend to foster better grades and achievement. For instance, it is stereotypical that Asian...

in certain populations. A study conducted by Dawson and Grant (1998) concluded that alcohol dependence has a distinct correlate t...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

this period of time came from Syria, which includes those territories that we know better today as Jordan, Israel, and Lebanon(Naf...

Jewish immigrants. People like Bob Hope, who was born in England, have contributed richly to our culture. Charlie Chaplin, also f...

waxed Japanese car with personalized plates" hits Candido on a road going through the canyon (Boyle 3). While the lives of these t...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...