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…of books they haven't read, of science they don't understand, or art that unsettles them ... and of ideas that are so creative as to seem foreign" (418). American citizens or immigrants can be detained without being advised of the crime they are alleged to have…

…immigrants settled in. However in 1802, the French and African/Spanish population of the islands became a British colony, changing the cultural development of Trinidadians. With the French came carnival, and since the slaves could not participate, they decided…

…the world desire to immigrate to America because they have heard of this "American Dream" and they want to be a part of a country that makes it seem so easy to make a fortune. The problem with this dream is the theory at the basis of it; the fact that success…

…, she cannot bring herself to believe Blanche's accusation against Stanley. Though it is agony, she has her sister committed Stella has turned her back on her aristocratic background, and found happiness by marrying a working class, Polish immigrant husband…

…) McQuillan, was the daughter of an Irish immigrant who made his fortune as a wholesale grocer in St. Paul. Edward Fitzgerald failed as a manufacturer of wicker furniture in St. Paul, and he became a salesman for Procter & Gamble in upstate New York. After he…

…born in the North (where about 220,000 free blacks lived in 1860), but their numbers also included free Southerners whose families moved to the North, free blacks and a few privileged slaves sent North for education, several immigrants from abroad…

…were families of men, women, and children. These people were immigrating for religious reasons. They were members of the Puritan group known as the Separatist. They did not agree with England's Church and State beliefs and were persecuted…

…Allen Zimmerman, known by his popular assumed name, Bob Dylan. Born in 1941 in Minnesota, Dylan grew up the grandchild of Jewish-Russian immigrants and had a surprisingly unexceptional childhood. His interest in music became evident in his high…

…behaved like animals when they brutalized an immigrant family trying to join the community. Faced with the "unknown", in the form of a family with Muslim background and cultures, they responded with fear and aggression. I was raised in a small suburban town…

…ignorance causes our guilt and that we are all actually victims of our guilt because of this. Many immigrants who come here are often ignorant of the finer points of the American justice system. As a result of this they are frequently penalized for carrying out…