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…, Sam Borenstein, Lithuanian immigrant, who left his homeland to escape the virulent anti-Semitism there and became a recognized painter in the New World. Sam Borenstein endured hardships in the old country and financial insecurity in his new life, but never…

…Eleanor came home, she joined the junior league that helped immigrants and other people. Although this was work Eleanor enjoyed, she was dragged back into the wealthy Victorian world she had known before. She knew she was not a debutante as her mother…

…homeworkers in Canada, the vast majority being immigrant women of colour. A 1999 study revealed that interviewed homeworkers were being paid between $6.00 and $8.00 an hour, and some as little as $2.00. Almost half worked 10 to12 hours as day, and almost none…

…was born on July 15,1951. His friends and family called him Jim. His father, George, was the grandson of immigrants from Slovakia, in east central Europe. George had worked as a laborer with the Minneapolis street department. Jim’s mother, Bernice, had come…

…Empire were spent withstanding the Asian hordes which were pushed by the Tartar immigration westward. It was continuously weakened by the fight on two fronts. From the North it had for years to resist the constant blows of Bulgarians, Comans, Patchinaks, Uzes…

…limited make use of it so as to satisfy the increasing demand for the Mandarin due to the new immigrates form mainland. The channels also introduce more programs in other languages, said Japanese, Korean or even the Filipino. Some may criticize that the above…

…benefits of African slave labor. Beginning around 1517, Bishop Bartolemeo de las Cascas encouraged immigration to the "new world" by permitting Spaniards to import African slaves to America. Charles II later issued licences to several traders to take Africans…

…guess, around this time period, Jews were quite spread out in the middle-eastern countries, thus having an organized group within that community. Immigration was beginning to be common and Jewish population grew in foreign lands. It was the times when…

…James Naismith, better known as the “Father of Basketball,” was born in Ramsay, a town near Almonte, Ontario on November 6, 1861, where he was the eldest son of Scottish immigrants John and Margaret Naismith. Ever since he was a young lad he had…

…minority students. “In many districts, course-enrollment patterns inside individual schools replicate this pattern – with poor, African-American, Latino, and students who are recent immigrants largely absent from courses that offer access to the higher-level…