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…need to start with migration. England was like a Renaissance melting pot but England was not proud of it and at most times feared it. The immigration can’t compare to immigration in the 1900s, but England probably seemed like the hope during this European…

…global Socialist movements, and any political ideology which strayed from good old-fashioned white-Protestant patriotism was met with suspicion and often hostility. This "Red Scare" resulted in violations of the civil rights of many immigrants and other…

…. They originated after the Civil War to resist the new rights given to ex-slaves. They came back during the early part of the twentieth century to protest not only the new civil rights but also to voice their decent about the increasing immigrant problem. These new…

…Americans were living in cities. Many Americans were scared that cities would be dominated by Jewish and Catholic immigrants. Americans also thought their country was coming apart at the seams. The KKK presented itself as the "100 percent Americanism…

…preyed on nonmembers among their own countrymen. Immigrants that were not familiar with the laws, traditions, and languages of the United States were easily victims of extortion and could be forced to pay a percentage of their earnings as they had done…

…have never fallen ill since I came. What cannot I do with such a strong body! And more, compared with those illegal immigrants smuggled in, my fluent English can at least help me a lot. In another sense, however, I am no better than those illegal…

…several components of literary techniques in order to create a greater impact or help the reader to better understand the story. Figurative language was used consistently throughout "An Immigrant's Split Personality" and also "Ancestor's, The Genetic Source…

…the example of Canada's history of immigration. She discusses the fact that a lot of Chinese people were allowed to immigrate to Canada, much to the dismay of current residents and already established European immigrants, during the time when…

…that they need to get rid of the immigrants in the world and that this kid on trial can be the first to go: They come over here illegally and multiply five times faster than my people. They are wild animals. They're against us and hate us. They want to destroy…

…, the arrival of large numbers of immigrants from southern and eastern Europe, as well as Asia, and the migration of blacks from the rural South to northern cities diversified mainstream culture. As white middle class Americans learned dance steps that originated…