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…to individuals. Those already settled in the colony received 100 acres apiece and new settlers each received 50 acres. Those that help pay the passage of other immigrants to Virginia received an extra 50 acres per person. It was a success; Virginia had waves of new…

…. Immigrants must adopt the ways of the new world that they live in. This is true, but by giving up their cultural values to become part of American culture, immigrants realize that the cost to family life and to self outweigh the benefits of assimilation…

…was at risk from the swift reproduction of the feeble-minded and from immigration. He also came up with a scale that showed that anyone with an IQ lower than seventy was a “moron” and anyone with an IQ of one hundred and thirty and higher was considered a genius…

…Anzia Yezierska, in The Lost Beautifulness, uses irony as a principle literary device to convey her themes of immigration to the reader. The story is built on one ironic situation after the other, even though it is not immediately clear; it only…

…Every creature seeks to find greener pastures, but humans are no doubt the greatest of immigrants and migrants. We are ever pursuing new lives in new places. Throughout many generations the dispossessed continue to emerging and the brave keep moving from…

…that they were both anarchists and immigrants, were the reasons for their arrest and execution. The evidence was inconclusive (and some say fixed), the defense clearly out weighed the prosecution, yet they were still found guilty of murder and armed robbery…

…an insight into the experiences of Japanese immigrants and their children in Canada. Since the book may not be widely available outside of Canada, I have taken the liberty of quoting and paraphrasing liberally to present an overview of the Canadian Nikkei…

…later. The search for some proof that the five hundred million dollar industry works to help immigrant children learn English, in order to prosper in a California society, continues with little success. For decades throughout California, bilingual…

…For hundreds of years, people have been immigrating to the United States in search of freedom, better living, and the fulfillment of the American Dream. Members of all nations and religions had visions of economic stability and political autonomy, both…

…; the growth of part-time& temp. work; the rising tide of relatively low skill immigrants; and the increasing tendency of educatid men and women to marry one another and both work, creating households w/high income. THE FEMINIST REVOLUTION -by 1990's nearly…