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…officers and not to minority officers. Both of these two terms are very much in our society. Hopefully some day these terms will remain in a history book and not in our daily papers. 4. Immigration is an important fact that affects and that has always…

…gangs, the Sharks and the Jets. At this point in time, the impoverished white immigrant culture, which Tony represents, is being hreatened by the influx of new immigrant populations, especially the Puerto Ricans, who are beginning new lives in America…

…completely, but America shouldn’t have to bend over backwards to make life easier for foreigners. In order to become more culturally tolerant, everyone should learn a second language, not just immigrants. Americans should make bilingual education truly bilingual…

…. Instead they worry more about being accepted into the right crowds and owning lots of expensive items to show off. Most people fail to realize gang members are products of a bad environment that they are forced to live in. Immigrant families arrive…

…Japanese Internment in Canada The first recorded Japanese immigration to Canada was in 1877. By 1901 the population grew to 4,138, mostly single men that came to Canada searching for jobs. As the immigration so did the discrimination against…

…to fulfill their national and religious aspirations. For this reason, close to four hundred thousand Jews immigrated to Palestine between 1881 and 1937 and made Jewish settlements by purchasing Palestinian lands from wealthy Arab landlords. In 1917, the British…

…immigrants, Jews, and Roman Catholics. The Ku Klux Klan again grew rapidly and had more than 2 million members throughout the country by the mid-1920's. Although the Klan still at times to acted with violence of previous years, burning crosses, torturing…

…life 50 years hence will determined… by what happens in elementary school classrooms where immigrants’ children are learning – or not learning – English” (Barone). Everything that influences a child’s life happens in their early years, and if English does…

…of what it was like to grow up as an immigrant child during what is now thought of as the Industrial Revolution. When Hilda turned fourteen years old, she was forced to leave school and join the workforce with her older sister. It was at this time…

…in an apartment over their father’s barbershop at 69 Park Avenue in Brooklyn. This move exposed Al to cultural influences well beyond what was supplied by the Italian immigrant community. Most of the people living around Park Avenue were Irish, although Germans, Swedes…