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…people, Blacks, Asians, and Hispanic. These are today's problems. The novel My Antonia by Willa Cather, brings out different types of discrimination such as racism, sexist, and anti-immigration back in the 1800s. Racism blind one's self so much that all one…

…increase in immigration from Mexico into Texas. This brings a lot of new diverse ideas of how our state should be run. Also, the ethnic composition of our representatives has changed from past years. The proportion of elderly people in the population has…

…accepted was because it took away the rights of Americans and immigrants and gave the power to the government. The government seemed to be scared. If their was not a threat then the Alien Act would not had been passed. So there must had been a reason…

…of an inferior race. He was disgusted at the lack of civic liberties and political rights available to Indian immigrants to South Africa. He then committed himself to the struggle for elementary rights for Indians. Gandhi remained in South Africa for twenty years…

…Court. President Hayes was also concerned with minorities, the poor, and immigrants. He believed that education and manual training would help all people achieve better lives. Rutherford Hayes’ honesty and commitment renewed the life and expectations…

…, barbaric beings, but much to the immigrants' surprise, they were mostly wrong. There was a fair share of unfriendly indians, but the amiable indians helped inform these new travelers. They helped with medical treatment when someone would get an injury from…

…Although The Donner Party of 1846-1847 is the most famous of the immigrant parties to cross the Sierra Nevada along the “Truckee Route,” they were not the first. Where the Stephens Party succeeded in crossing, in a very severe winter in 1844-1845…

…in Taiwan in 1968, and was raised by his mother, Lily, an English and drama teacher, after his father died when he was only two. He immigrated to the United States when he was ten years old with his mother, grandmother, and younger brother, Ken, settling…

…, disease, crime and corruption. The growing number of immigrants and the rise of the upper class, caused an upset to the normal class levels. Many people were convinced that equal opportunity was out of reach for most Americans. Who were the progressives…

…this was taking place, an American Communist Party was emerging from the ashes of the former Socialist strongholds which were all along the eastern seaboard of the US. There, Russian immigrants identified with the Bolshevik revolution in Mother Russia because…