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…white settlement in the central Chile region. It was named Santiago. In 1810 Chile broke free from Spain. Independence was official in 1818. In the 19th century Chile made great social and econamic progress. Immigration doubled the population. The mining boom…
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Category: /Literature/English
…variety. In these short stories, Mukherjee and Ng go into detail of the lives of two young women struggling with their identities as immigrants in the American culture. This clashing of cultures, predominantly the Asian culture (in these cases), against…
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…, aside from fish and the deep-water port, is people. Throughout its development, Singapore's population has increased at a blinding rate due to immigration and high birth rates. It went from a few thousand when Raffles arrived to about a million after the war…
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…such as the one involving the Haitian immigrant who was beaten and raped by police officers is a prime example of retro progress. The million-dollar question: is racism getting better or worse after decades of methods that try to fixing the problem? The Haitian man…
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…rights that they desired. Kate was never even able to see women earn the right to vote, and the large women's movements were still many years after her death. Kate was born to a wealthy Irish immigrant, but her father died in 1855 when his train plunged…
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…traditions of immigration, beginning with an ancestor called Maasinda who made a gigantic ladder which enabled the forefathers of the tribe to climb up the long cliff from the Rudoph basin to the Uasin Gishu plateau north of Kitale. From there they deployed in six…
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Category: /History
…right of intervention in Latin America to the United States. He won the Nobel Peace Prize for mediating the Russo-Japanese War, he also reached a Gentleman's Agreement on immigration with Japan, and he sent the Great White Fleet on a goodwill tour…
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…of mass unemployment, widespread hunger, insufficient wages, as well as energy and medicine shortages. One consequence of the suffering in Cuba is the great number of refugees who have tried to immigrate to the United States. Opponents of the U.S. trade…
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…The Great Gatsby American Dream Wealth, material possessions, and power are the core principles of The American Dream. Pursuit of a better life led countless numbers of foreign immigrants to America desiring their chance at the vast opportunity…
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Category: /Literature/Novels
…hunger still lingered about. Do to immigration laws hungry Japanese could not get to other countries that had more room. The only option left seemed to be to expand and gain more territory. China was an obvious target. Nanking was a city surrounded…
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