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    Exploitation of Immigrants A rampant injustice Justin Seto The world that we inhabit today arguably revolves around a single object or rather multiple “objects”‚ this object being the almighty dollar. Through all of human history the want of power money and greed in human nature has been the driving force for many and it is safe to say that these values still occur today. The economical world has always been nigh all powerful‚ the rich omnipotent and the poor wretched‚ with a chasm dividing

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    Immigrants in Singapore

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    Name: Clara Soo Wen Lin (4) Class: 2E History Holiday SEQ Assignment Question 1(a) Immigrants came to early Singapore due to push factors such as famines and droughts as well as natural disasters and starvation‚ and the desire to seek protection and safety. India was overpopulated and the immigrants faced many droughts and natural disasters in their homeland. After droughts wiped out their crops and resulted in famine‚ many would be forced to find jobs in the city in order to earn

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    Rights For Immigrants

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    Should more rights be given to immigrants? There is an interesting phenomenon among animals. The traveling birds’ flight cover nearly half of the earth annually. The massive group of reeboks migrate on African grassland. We human beings also have the similar behavior——immigration. Coming across with foreigners seems common nowadays. Being expatriates as businessmen or international students is also becoming an inevitable tendency. However‚ immigration has much more discrepancies with the situations

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    How To Describe The 1930s

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    There are many words to describe the 1930s‚ but equality was not one of them. From injustice lynching and kills of blacks to the stock market crash of 1929 that lead the United States into the Great Depression. The 30s plausible could be the worst years in US history. In “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee‚ she uncovers all the hardships there were living during that time period. The story takes place in Maycomb a small town in Alabama and is narrated by the main character‚ a little girl named

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    Womens Rights 1930

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    Women’s Rights of the 1930’s Women who were widowed or divorced‚ or whose husbands had l left them‚ struggled to keep their families alive; single women had to fend for themselves. These women were truly on the margins‚ practically invisible. “We did not go hungry‚ but we lived lean.” That sums up the experience of many families during the 1930’s. The typical woman in the 1930s had a husband who was still employed‚ although he had probably taken a pay cut to keep his job; if the man lost his

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    reflecting the “Great Depression in the 1930s”. The second way this novel reflected historical realities was by talking about the race in the south. The author of this novel Harper Lee gives an image to the reader about the racial injustice that she was able to see as a child. I almost forgot to mention that the author also shares what is considered her feeling on the civil rights throughout her novel. So how does the novel reflect on the “Great Depression in the 1930s”? Well in the novel you can tell

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    The achievements of the 1930s are often overshadowed by the loss and despair felt during the Great Depression and beginning of World War 2. It was a decade mired in loss‚ hopelessness‚ and destitution‚ but not all areas of life suffered from the temporary relapse the economy had fallen into. These ten momentous years were also a time of innovation and prosperity for the world of entertainment‚ and their influence can still be seen today. Where poverty and boredom were found‚ creativity and ingenuity

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    New Immigrants

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    Finally‚ the main difference and major contribution to Native-born fears was the willpower of the “New Immigrants” to preserve their culture regardless of the costs. Although the “Old Immigrants” also tried to keep their culture alive‚ they did this in a very minimalistic way in comparison to the restaurants‚ social clubs‚ and more that the “New Immigrants” created in an attempt to preserve their culture. This also was faced with opposition especially by antiforeign organizations such as the “American

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    Food In The 1930's

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    The 1930’s Food! The 1930’s cuisine was very simple and extremely rationed. The people in the 30’s just didn’t have the money to afford for themselves and kids all the time. The food was mostly given to men and children in soup/ bread lines for those who couldn’t afford food. The food was simple and inexpensive; the goal was to produce a lot of food with as little ingredients as possible. I’m sure the bread was bland and the chowders and soups were plain but it’s what the people of this struggling

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    Family Life In The 1930s

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    In the 1930s‚ the family was the most important unit of the society. The family was an important economic unit since most the people lived in rural areas and worked on the land. Families in the same clan had similar common names. Some villages had people from the same family. Most of the people in the villages had four to five surnames. In the 1930s and 1950s land was the main form of wealth in China and it was divided equally among the sons of the landowner. Quick example that Xiangzi‚ Rickshaw

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