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…a party of American pioneers arrived by ship in the valley of the Williamette River; most newcomers, however, came by covered wagon over the Oregon Trail. By 1842 there were about 500 Americans in Oregon, and in the next year a single party of immigrants…

…the forgotten stories of those who contributed to the building of the city Toronto, particularly immigrants and marginal individuals. In the very first page of the novel, Ondaatje stresses the concern with personal narratives and the act of storytelling…

…humanity owes an immense debt of gratitude.'' Speech, Institute of Immigrant Welfare, Hotel Baltimore, New York, May 12, 1938, read in absentia Tesla on the Future ``We are confronted with portentous problems which can not be solved just by providing…

…. There are people who where born and raised in the United States who do not realize that our freedom and rights are wonderful privileges. Privileges that has cost a lot of blood, sweat and tears for our ancestors. Our immigrant ancestors who came to the United States…

…-belligerent immigrant workers who, because of what they did, were looked upon by many black people-went about the communal lavatories picking up buckets of excrement”(83). Working as servants for whites was one of the better jobs for black women. Blacks could…

…F. Scott Fitzgerald Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1896.The son of a failed wicker furniture salesman, Edward Fitzgerald, and an Irish immigrant with a large inheritance, Mary "Mollie" McQuillan, Fitzgerald grew up…

…but the sheer reality of the situation for them is that the American dream doesn’t always work out when you’re an immigrant. This is symbolically portrayed in the scene at the daughter’s wedding when a man is asking Don Vito for “justice” in dealing with the boys who…

…to editor-in-chief. Blancornelas was accused of many things like fraud from people that did not liked him, He immigrated to the United States, where he stayed for two years in California to get away from all of this. He was able to continue writing in Zeta…

…about Julian Castle; a man who folowed the example of Albert Schweizer by founding a free hospital in a jungle in San Lorenzo. This country has his own religion – Bokonism (invented by a immigrant named Bokonon) The only Problem is that Monzano has forbidden…

…estate lawyer who bases the case on property law. Only slowly does Baldwin come to see his clients, the slaves, as human beings. Also, two Boston abolitionists, an immigrant called Tappan, and a former slave named Joadson are in the defense. Together…