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…for millions of Catholic immigrants who had to make their way to the United States for economic reasons. Coming as most of them did from Ireland or the European continent to a nation of largely British and almost exclusively Protestant provenance, they awakened…

…violence only occurs in lower class, immigrant neighborhoods, studies has shown over welmingly that domestic abuse cuts across all racial and socioeconomic lines. In 1995 the death of Nicole Simpson brought this fact to the forefront. Nichole Brown Simpson…

…appellations by the immigrants: they were called t’oa jee doy (one who is ignorant about Chinese culture) and chok sing, or bamboo pole, meaning empty inside. Second generation girls were throughly occidentalized as American as “pink lemonade in a Kansas fair…

…for being yellow-skinned with small eyes. Poverty is having to take under the table, minimal wage, or sweatshop work back in the 1970s. Asians born in the U.S. tend to dominate the Asians immigrating over telling them to learn English and adopt American ways…

…time, as immigrants arrived from all over the globe, the United States gained prosperity and power. It would be impossible for us to remain isolated from the rest of the globe especially with the great amount of influence that had been accumulated. One…

…living in the west of England and active in maritime shipping, immigrated to America. He settled in Massachusetts where, almost two centuries later, his descendant Winslow Homer was born in Boston on February 24th 1836. Winslow grew up in the nearby village…

…building a system of canals and railroads, and that attracted European immigrants. Plantation owners, holding 20 or more slaves, dominated the economy and the society. By 1850, the plantation owners of the south were producing five million bales a year…

…or even thought about it. For example, the essay, “Toward Something American” written by Peter Marin is about no one in America actually being a true “American”. I didn’t even think about everyone in America as an immigrant, even whites, till I read…

…, unskilled immigrants. I just didn’t want to watch her limp” (Fallows 360). Rich people don’t really want to believe there are poor and sick people out there. They want to believe that if they can become rich anyone can become rich. It’s hard for some people…

…the city benefited from a stable economy and substantial foreign immigration. During and after World War II heavy industrial growth contributed to the city's expansion and reinforced its political and economic dominance of the country. Population (1986 estimate…