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…, racial, and economical differences. The Jets are the Polish born Americans, and the Sharks are the Puerto Ricans who are immigrants. In Rome and Juliet they are wealth, powerful families who have been feuding for years. They are the Capulets and the Montagues…

…are the illegal immigrants who come here from other places to get a better life but end up not having enough money to make it in this hard world that we live in. Teenage runaways have different reasons for leaving home but all have the same reason for becoming homeless…

…and motion for everyone to stop singing and sit down. The two then explain that "O Canada" is the only phrase in the song that will not offend anyone: * "Our home and native land" is offensive to immigrants. * "True patriot love" irritates those liberals who…

…quite rapidly because the country was in a transitional phase, which included major industrialism and overproduction and a large influx of immigrants. The lower class was fighting for a cause they felt very passionately about, their lives and their well-being…

…public fears were hardly different from those used to achieve the cutoff in Chinese immigration in 1882 and in bringing a halt to all Japanese immigration in 1924 (Weglyn 36). Like the Chinese before them, the immigrant Japanese were denied the right…

…Bilingual Education: Is it helping or hurting? Bilingual education seems to be a rising topic that is currently up for debate. With the growing number of immigrants entering this country, the language barrier between individuals seems to be far…

…the English language, the easier it will be for them to fulfill their hopes and dreams. The majority of immigrants to this country find the language barrier to be the most difficult obstacle, yet the most powerful asset. The reason we should study language…

…movie selection. Due to the characters’ personalities, music, and fight scenes, Shanghai Noon fits into both of these categories while maintaining a western theme. Placed in 1881, Carson City, Nevada, surrounded by landscapes, Chinese immigrants…

…Frank McCourt is the author of Angela’s Ashes and ‘Tis. He was born in Brooklyn in 1930 to recent Irish immigrants Malachy McCourt and Angela Sheehan McCourt. His family moved to Limerick when he was four because of poor prospects in America…

…touches on the issue of distance and space issues, but these could be expanded more. There is perhaps an anxiety, which may be an undercurrent of current immigration policies, that horrors around the world cannot be contained, and the sovereign borders…