A Malaysian Fantasy: Less dependence on foreign workers Written by Dr. Lim Teck GheeTuesday‚ 04 August 2009 12:14 CPI Writings Commentary by Dr Lim Teck Ghee There is hardly a day that passes when we do not read something about foreign labour in the newspapers. The story could be about a heartless employer pouring boiling water on an Indonesian maid or labour contractors exploiting a Bangladeshi worker. Or it could be a Minister stating that he received an appeal from the MNCs for the
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Immigrant Struggle It is the dream of every immigrant to live a worry free life in a new country that can offer so much. A place where one can work for suitable wages‚ a place where one can raise their children free of the problems plaguing their previous country and a place where one can grow spiritually and socially. While some people might believe that immigrants struggle ends when they come to America‚ filmmaker Mira Nair‚ argues against this statement by demonstrating the struggle of
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transported are healthy. Two of those acts are The Meat Inspection Act and The Food Protection Plan of 2007. The Meat Inspection Act began the federal regulation of the poultry‚ meat‚ and egg products. A man by the name of Upton Sinclairs wrote a novel in 1906 called “The Jungle‚ which was filled with details on the unsanitary methods of Chicago’s meat-packing industry. Within months‚ the public began to demand a serious change in the meat industry. President Roosevelt sent in Labor Commissioner Charles
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Rhetorical Analysis Paper: My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant The article “My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant” was written by Jose Antonio Vargas. In it‚ Vargas tells of the time when his mother brought him to the Phillippines’ Ninoy Aquino International Airport when he was twelve. His mother told him that she wanted to give him a better life so he boarded onto a plane with a man he had never met before and was told that he was his uncle. He arrived in Mountain View‚ California and moved in
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was published in 1906. It exposed the meat factories and this novel alone‚ changed how the meats were handled and produced. Upton Sinclair exposed how terrible meat factories were. Instead of actually having a book full of fact to interest readers he made up a fictional story and to make it seem he was not targeting meat industries. Without the efforts of Sinclair‚ America would have slowly crumbled due to unsanitary meat and the diseases that it holds‚ and meat factories would eventually learn how
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their family. After interviewing my mother and learning about her own personal experience migrating from South Korea to the United States‚ I feel inspired by her constant dedication to make a better life for her children. My mother‚ just like many immigrant parents today‚ are part of the sacrifice generation. These individuals give up their lives in their home country and their own educational and career aspirations in order to migrate to the United States. These migrants are willing to face downward
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A Nation of Immigrants The question of what our policy toward the world’s huddled masses should be is especially topical at this moment. The Statue of Liberty still lifts her lamp beside the golden door‚ but in a time of economic downturn‚ there is no longer an assured consensus that the door should be kept open very far. Restrictionism is back in fashion. For every journalistic article like that of Business Week in July 1992‚ which notes that "the U.S. is reaping a bonanza of highly educated
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I strongly believe that Antonia would agree with this definition simply because she is a Bohemian immigrant. What I mean by this is that coming from what she came from‚ she sees that her parents made nothing in to something. They moved from their country to re locate in Nebraska for a more opportunity filled life. Therefore‚ she does believe that to be dissolved into something complete and great‚ you just need to put forth the effort. And it will come as naturally as sleep! “People who
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Yezierska and “New York Was Our City On The Hill” by Edwidge Danticat‚ fully express the hardships of the immigration journey. Struggles with work‚ money‚ illness‚ and poverty are themes these two stories share. On the road to their dream‚ does immigrants have to face more obstacles and give up their past in order to success. In the story‚ “America and I”‚ the author describes the experience of having her first American jobs. She works for an American family‚ but she ends up with no pay and being
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They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists..." When this was said people immediately began to judge ALL immigrants‚ although most people come to the United States to work here and to provide for their families just like everyone else does. Immigrants are told how in America you are free‚ and they are told about the American Dream‚ which is the ideal that every US citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and
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