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Immigrant Workers who Built the Transcontinental Railroad

This 5 page paper gives an overview of how immigrants helped build the transcontinental railroad. This paper includes explanations...

THE THROW-AWAY WORKER: USE (AND ABUSE) OF CHINESE IMMIGRANTS IN DEVELOPING CANADA'S RAILROADS - AN OUTLINE

the immigrants were considered expendable when it came to building the railroads. History of Canadas Railroads Much of th...

1845 to 1865 History of U.S. Railroads

state. While Stevens failed to raise enough money to build his proposed railroad, he still desired to apply steam locomotion to ra...

Go West on the Transcontinental Railroad

voyages or three-month-long overland treks, both equally dangerous, as well as prohibitively expensive for most people. When the ...

History of America's Transcontinental Railroad

In six pages this report discusses the travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific that resulted from the Transcontinental Railroad in...

Western Urban Growth Resulting from the Transcontinental Railroad

In five pages this paper discusses how city expansion in the Western United States resulted from the Transcontinental Railroad. F...

Transcontinental Railroad and Wyoming

In seven pages this paper examines how Wyoming's economy prospered as a result of the Transcontinental Railroad. Five sources are...

Stephen Ambrose's Nothing Like it in the World The Transcontinental Railroad

people and the reader often finds himself shaking his head in amazement at what these people had to endure in order for this proje...

Student Social Work Case Study Assessment

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

Railroads in Henry David Thoreau's Walden

In five pages this paper discusses Thoreau's views on railroads through an analysis of Walden passages....

Texas Railroad Commission

track in Texas and nine railroad companies. Five of these companies were centered in the Houston area, and all but one served a se...

Terrorist Attack Scenario and the Use of the Incident Command System

major even. 2. Roles The multi jurisdiction approach helps to delineate the different tasks of the different agencies involved ...

Social Work, An Ethical Dilemma

This essay pertains to a ethical issue that involves untrained workers being asked by the social worker's agency to instruct intel...

Pullman, Illinois and George Pullman

In five page this paper examines the town of Pullman, Illinois in a consideration of whether or not its construction satisfied the...

'Labor Slowdown Campaign' 2004 Australian Article Sociological Assessment

Now, drivers are taking action. Why are they doing this? The employees claim that they want more rights, and that drivers are be...

Workers' Compensation and America's Federal Law

and 1995 the service providing sector underwent a tremendous growth and the percent of U.S. employment attributed to the manufactu...

American Immigration Paradoxes

will explore the ramifications of these paradoxes, focusing primarily on the experience of Puerto Rican immigrants. Silvia Pedra...

Illegal Immigrants

wages, building various products Americans use. They are not simply field workers, and yet their role as field workers is relied u...

Ondaatje and Lee, Immigrant Experience

in the only way that is culturally significant, as he would link her present to that "golden chain of male to male" (Lee 31). As...

America's Dominican Community in New York

New York's Dominican immigrant community is examined in five pages....

Problems of Open Borders and Solutions

laws to get it. There are no dearth of people who slip across the northern or southern borders of the United States; many are so d...

New York Korean Immigrant Families

In five pages Pyong Gap Min's Changes and Conflicts Korean Immigrant Families in New York is analyzed....

American Labor Songs and Bruce Springsteen

In seven pages the ways in which Springsteen's songs contributed to the American labor movement are explored with the shifting foc...

Illegal Immigrant January 2004 Work Visa Extension and President George W. Bush

of his plans for issuing work visas to illegal immigrants brought several facts to the surface which had previously been largely i...

Immigrant Social Workers and Domestic Violence Implications

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

European Business and International Factor Effects

law, it can also impose sanctions and penalties to ensure that this takes place....

The Garment Industry: The Plight of Asian and Latin Workers

and Torres 146). How much money do they earn? The typical Mexican female who works in the apparel industry will early approximatel...

Social Work Values Paper

Instead of becoming more certain in decisions the usual pattern is that the increased awareness will create more uncertainty. It i...

Wal-Mart's Illegal Immigrant Workers

Wal-Mart headquarters in Bentonville" (Feds: Wal-Mart Knew About Illegals, 2003). Pomeroy (2006) reports on several situati...

NJ Railroads' and How They Originated

did have ties to the railroad industry ("NJ Governors," 2003). South Orange is another example of a long-established suburb whos...