Assessment Type 1: Written Text Analysis Film Review American History X American History X directed by Tony Kaye expresses to the audience the process of change in the beliefs of Derek Vinyard. He begins the film as a violent young man and due to his father’s racist views he then develops his own‚ Derek is portrayed as becoming the leader of the Neo-Nazi organisation and claiming his leadership at a basketball game against the local blacks. There are two protagonists in the film‚ also coming from
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Summary: American History X Derek Vinyard is paroled after being in prison for three years. The reason for prisoning is because of the murder of two thieves‚ who tried to steal his truck. Through a flash-back‚ his brother Daniel “Danny” had‚ we learned about Derek’s life. Derek was a leader of skinheads in L.A. and their white Nazi gang violently terrorized the opposite races. Derek’s actions had a very big influence on his younger brother‚ Daniel‚ who looked up to him and tried to follow in his
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USA xenophobic fears against the alleged "Yellow Peril" led to the implementation of the Page Act of 1875‚ the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act‚ expanded ten years later by the Geary Act. The Chinese Exclusion Act replaced the Burlingame Treaty ratified in 1868‚ which encouraged Chinese immigration‚ provided that "citizens of the United States in China of every religious persuasion and Chinese subjects in the United States shall enjoy entire liberty of conscience and shall be exempt from all disability or
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Chinese vs. Japanese Culture Zedric Perona History 113 Professor Tuyay November 1‚ 2014 China‚ the world’s longest continuous civilization‚ with some historians marking 6000 B.C. as the dawn of Chinese civilization. Japan‚ a long history with the first humans arriving around 35‚000 B.C. Their histories have crossed paths during several periods of time since both civilizations have existed for centuries; however‚ their histories have also caused them to diverge into two very distinct modern
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The first Chinese immigrants arrived in 1820 according to U.S. government records. 325 men are known to have arrived before the 1849 California Gold Rush[12] which drew the first significant number of laborers from China who mined for gold and performed menial labor.[13][14][15] There were 25‚000 immigrants by 1852‚ and 105‚465 by 1880‚ most of whom lived on the West Coast. They formed over a tenth of California’s population. Nearly all the early immigrants were young males with low educational levels
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Chinese in Early America by Katherine Inserra Most people today believe that with the passing of the Fourteenth Amendment meant the immediate granting of citizenship to all persons born on American soil. However‚ it was not until 1898 that the United States Supreme Court concluded that the amendment awarded citizenship to Chinese children born to Chinese immigrants on American Soil. (Foner 659). Just twelve years previously‚ the courts had finally forced the city of San Francisco to issue
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1900 the United States treated Chinese workers very poorly and did not pay them much for their services they provided in the jobs that were open to them. This period of time is also when the Gilded Age was occurring in America‚ so all Chinese workers in the U.S. were most likely working in a gold mine or on railroads‚ making it easy to classify that they were all be treated the same nationwide. By November‚ 1865‚ there were already approximately 4‚000 mostly Chinese men working on railroads‚ and from
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over. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was passed‚ not because of the increasing numbers that where entering the United States‚ but the racism that were boiling in this so called “melting pot” of diversity. Many racial tensions began as Americans saw these Chinese as a threat to their jobs and the economy. During this time the Gold rush was happening in California‚ which China was in a period of poverty‚ which lead many Chinese to immigrate to California (Seattle.) Before the Chinese Exclusion Act
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in the states. In an effort to avoid competition‚ many Chinese immigrants-of the first period‚ migrated to western regions of the United States: California and states west of the Rocky Mountains. In many western regions‚ “The bulk of the of Chinese immigrants …became a source of cheap labor to work the railroads‚ mines‚ fisheries‚ farms‚ orchards‚ canneries‚ garment industries‚ manufacturing of cigars‚ boots‚ etc.” (Asian and Pacific American Federal Employees Council 1984‚ p.1). Westward expansion
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The Chinese exclusion act in 1882 mad in so the Chinese immigration of men and women go from 40‚000 to 23 a year they did this because the Americans thought that the Chinese were too competitive with work and money even thou they worked for little money. Some people agreed with this act because they also believed that the Chinese were to over powering and over populating the Americans. Americans and other immigrants thought that they were better than the Chinese and Chinese have different cultural
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