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…in services for the poor, anti-immigrant legislative proposals, and attempts to rescind affirmative-action programs. In seeking reelection in 1996, Clinton claimed a number of achievements, among them a deficit-reduction plan, a college-loan payback plan…
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Category: /History
…to the cultural evolution of the island. The European population was continuously replenished by immigration, chiefly from Spain but also from other Latin American countries. Despite pirate attacks and the trade restrictions of Spanish mercantilist policies, Cuba…
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Category: /History
…with. Slavery never was commonly practiced in the North. As being a “free” territory, the North symbolized freedom and foreigners came from abroad to join the ranks. Population in the North exploded. Immigrants came to the northern United States, seeking work. All…
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…the core of the electorate. However, Booker was able to attract a large amount of young voters and Latino American immigrants, who had no union to James. These people seemed to latch on to Booker’s ideas of additional health programs for children and more…
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…of successive migrations and immigrations that made them so. It was not always nice. The Vikings were certainly not cuddly--not to start with, anyway. But they impacted on all of these Isles to some extent; and, in the longer run, became part of them. The English…
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…and cultural backround they had known before the Holocaust). The community in Israel tried to provide them with personal and professional care. Nevertheless, to those survivors who immigrated to Israel when elderly it was more difficult to adjust than the younger…
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…of an inferior race (4, 300). He was appalled at the widespread denial of civil liberties and political rights to Indian immigrants to South Africa. He threw himself into the struggle for elementary rights for Indians. Gandhi remained in South Africa for 20 years…
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…is no longer operative as an LAD. If a child is to become bilingual then he must learn both languages during the critical period. Studies examining immigrants to Britain show that the younger the child is, the more proficient he will later become…
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Category: /Literature
…children, his father John, was a German immigrant. John suffered permanent injury in an accident, which made it difficult for him to provide for his family. Dreiser left home and moved to Chicago when he was fifteen. He completed his education by reading…
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…little the workers receive in wages for excessive hours worked under unsanitary conditions. The majority of garment workers are immigrant women, they work up to eighty hours a week on poor wages. Sweatshopwatch estimate that over 22,000 sewing shops violate…
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