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    some of the pressure. Immigrants offer cheaper labor to businesses. Immigrants do not get minimum wage‚ but instead they get paid lower‚ this gives the business an edge over other competitors. Agriculture industries employ more undocumented workers than any other industry in the country because it cost less. Half of California’s 700‚000 farm workers are estimated to be undocumented. Thirty years ago 50 percent of farm workers in California were immigrants‚ and now it’s 92 percent

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    when America was becoming more industrialized‚ the U.S was seen as the land of opportunity to many people in Europe and Asia. During the mid to late 1800s‚ “Old immigrants” from Western Europe had originally come to America to dig in the goldfields and help build the transcontinental railroads in the West. After them‚ came the “new immigrants”‚ from Southern and Eastern Europe. Although both were very culturally different‚ they had the same intents when coming to America and got the same negative responses

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    the sense that he chooses to detach himself from both the forest and court. * Essentially‚ he acts on his potential to challenge social normalcy and the status quo by rendering himself devoid of any affiliation to these communities‚ instead belonging to a ‘melancholy of my own.’ In doing so‚ he is minutely fastidious in the way in which he examines and scrutinizes the human condition; thus‚ by challenging these groups and

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    The Chronicle of the First Crusade The Chronicle of the First Crusade is a firsthand account of the First Crusade by the western Christian world to retake “the promise land”. Written by Fulcher‚ is gives a firsthand look into the preparation for and the completion of the crusade. What was meant to be a holy war‚ the crusade saw the completion of many atrocities by the solider it sought to redeem. Among other things‚ it leads us to the question of can there be such thing as a “holy war”‚ that is‚

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    Identity and Belonging

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    Step 1: Generating Ideas * Read Destiny by Shalini Akhil * Answer the following questions: The text a) Who are the characters? b) What is a lungi‚ and what are rotis? c) What do you think is the message of this piece? Yourself d) What did you want to be “when you grew up”? Try to remember a really idealistic dream from when you were quite young. Go back to that memory and write a paragraph describing all the details of that dream: why you wanted it‚ how you imagined yourself to look

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    fulfillment of their dreams. The movement often creates multi-problems for the migrating people. This process of movement makes people foreigner to the world they are living in. Under the influence of globalization‚ modern man loses the sense of belonging to any person‚

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    Reflection The cultural and historical context of Marquez life played an important role in his novel Chronicles of a Death Foretold. In the 16th century‚ Spain colonized many parts of South America and replaced the native religion with Catholicism. While the indigenous cultural practices celebrated openness about sexuality the orthodox Catholic ideals of chastity and purity that penetrated into the local tradition during colonization. The archaic perception of honour was founded on the grounds of

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    Resulting From the Negative Effects of Rigid Societal Expectations in A Chronicle of A Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez and The Stranger by Albert Camus Everyone has felt the pressure of societal expectations during their lifetime. The negative effects society brings on one’s life can lead to a feeling of rejection towards the people who do not conform to meet those standards. Gabriel García Márquez‚ author of Chronicle of a Death Foretold‚ and Albert Camus‚ author of The Stranger‚ both construct

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    limit their experience of belonging In most examples of life‚ positive experiences will enrich a person’s happiness and joy; creating a positive state of mind and enhancing their sense of belonging‚ while negative experiences will develop an un-healthy state of mind and limit their sense of belonging. The nature of these progressions is a natural effect of engaging with one’s surroundings‚ and there are countless examples of this evolution in both the Immigrant Chronicle‚ written by Peter Skrzynecki

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    Stephen Gill's Immigrant

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    Stephen Gill ’s Immigrant : A Study In Diasporic  Consciousness   Nilofar Akhtar     The phenomena of Diaspora and expatriation are by all means an old one.  However‚ its impact in the present times is larger and deeper.  It has become a contemporary social trait and also‚ a literary genre.  The growing incidence of the Diaspora has given place to dislocation‚ disintegration‚ dispossession and disbelongingness.  The experience of expatriation not only gradually disconnects the individual from his

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