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…In Upton Sinclair’s Jungle, the author attempts to make known the evils of the industries and capitalist businesses in Chicago in the early 1900’s. The main character Jurgis was part of a lower class immigrant family from Lithuania that came to the US…

…Should bilingual education be revised? We live in a country where immigrants are prevalent and they have come here from all over the world, it makes sense that our government would want to accommodate them and their needs particularly when…

…for the government to intervene with the industry. In The Jungle, votes were swayed due to non-speaking immigrants who became citizens. The political bosses would bribe their employees to vote for a certain party. As long as the votes were coming in, those who were put…

…languages spoken in the U.S. (LIA). Many people support multilingualism and oppose having English as an official language because it is unfair to individuals who are not fluent in English. Also, they create false stereotypes of immigrants and non-English…

…Immigrants have been coming over to America for more than a century. Many minority groups are right here in Baltimore. In this paper I will compare two of the minority groups found in Baltimore and the troubles they have faced trying to make a new life…

…the poor peoples' income. With government support, public funds, and economic motivation, the railroad barons employed many immigrants. Although conditions were often terrible and wages were often low, railroads still gave immigrants the needed economic…

…except New York. The people of New York, in particularly Irish immigrants, felt the Conscription Act of 1863 was unconstitutional, and that a revolt was indeed necessary. The Conscription Act included a clause allowing a person to pay $300 to avoid service…

…of the first settlement houses that had been established was in Chicago of 1889, by Jane Addams. Jane Addams bought a house in a poor immigrant neighborhood on the West Side that came to be known as the Hull House. In the same year the educator Jane E. Robbins…

…, they are likely to fail again. By revisiting history, Boyle teaches the importance of awareness and caution of an ever-changing society. In "The Tortilla Curtain" a specific migrant problem in the 1930s is modified to fit modern immigration. Candido and America's…

…by foreign-born Latinos were middle class in 1990. These numbers are extremely high for a minority group. New immigrants are often poor to start off with, however the longer they stay in America, the better they do. Also there is no indication that this kind…