Languages Learning foreign languages is important‚ especially for those going to college. This topic illustrates that we can get closer to family and friends who speak a foreign language and get closer to our roots. When we travel‚ we can understand those around us and read items on the menu. Speaking two languages can open many doors into the business world and make you able to talk to those around the world in your work office. If we learn another language we will be eligible to communicate
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Australia Australia‚ to many‚ is known as a "classical country of immigration." All but about 300‚000 of the approximate 20‚305‚486 in Australia descended from immigrants who originally arrived with a settlement of British convicts in 1788. In July of 2001 Australia’s population consisted of approximately 92% Caucasian‚ 7% Asian‚ and only 1% Aborigine.(native Australian). Australia has an estimated net gain of one international migrant every 4 minutes and 9 seconds. As of September of 1999
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and without the help‚ they couldn’t afford higher education” (Tucker‚ 2013‚ p 2). Sharon at age 12 was brought to the US illegally from Mexico. Like every other immigrant‚ she was in the pursuit of a better life. Quickly she learned the English language‚ and became a top notch scholar. Currently she is a graduating senior‚ with a GPA of 4.4. Sharon could be of much use to the US‚ but she legal status prevents that. California’s senator Mark Leno says “we often hear and use the phrase that our youth
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Immigration: Proud To Be An Illegal Immigrant? Immigration is an important part of the American history‚ and how the nation was founded. Immigration has allowed for people who have low income and low education to come to America to better their lives for themselves and their families. It has allowed many people to leave harsh‚ dangerous conditions in search for a better life‚ which can be found with hard work and determination. These conditions can also be found in the constitution in Life‚ Liberty
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COMMENTS THE TRANSNATIONAL APPLICATION OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT LAWS: A CULTURAL BARRIER IN JAPAN JACQUELINE M. EFRON* 1. INTRODUCTION Globalization is shaping the world in which we live.’ Although globalization began as an economic process‚ it has turned into a cultural‚ political‚ technological‚ environmental‚ and humanistic event.2 Globalization has forced corporations to expand their operations across geographical borders‚’ and has resulted in an increase in the number of multinational
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The New Immigration Policy Obama‚who is the president of the United States‚ announced the new immigration policy on June 15‚2012. The new immigration policy would stop deporting and issue work permits to up to 800‚000 young undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children and had never committed a crime. This was not an amnesty. When some people were being excited and optimistic‚ Alulema who arrived in the United States when she was 14 said that she had been weary of the administration’s
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I cannot quite describe what I was feeling the day that my mother loaded me onto a large ship on that cold‚ dark day. England was the only place that I had ever called home. After my father and two younger siblings died‚ my mother was determined that I would travel to America for a new life. A life that I could never have in England. My young‚ sixteen year old mind could not quite comprehend the entire reasoning of why my mother wanted to send me away to a place that either of us had ever been
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Preston Lorenz Period C 5/17/13 Immigration Essay Almost all of us can say we are children of immigrants. Either our great grandparents or grandparents came to America for a better life. We know that the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island are the symbols of that great dream that so many sought so many years ago. During a visit to Ellis Island last summer I learned that during the early 1900’s we encouraged immigration because it was a time when our country’s territory had grown and we needed
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Immigration by definition simply means the international movement of people from a country to another of which they are not citizens or natives of. Many people move to a new country to reside temporarily or sometimes as permanent resident where they sometimes apply for green cards or citizenship. The United States has a long history of immigration which started roughly early 1600’s with the first European settlements. Many immigrants from different parts of the world came to America to seek for jobs
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The Nativist’s Response to Immigration Immigrants have been seeking salvation or just new opportunities in America for hundreds of years. Even Americans originally started off as immigrants. They came to settle in this New World to seek opportunities. These types of immigrants were white‚ strong‚ leaders and felt they were superior. In the mid nineteenth century‚ the “new” immigrants were also welcomed. According to President Grant‚ these “new” immigrants were the weak‚ broken‚ and crippled
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