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    Different ethnicities came to the United States at a time when the industry section was growing rapidly. The study for ethnic success was for the immigrants who came to the United States after 1880 and the Jews were singled out for special attention compare to the rest of the ethnicities. Due to their enormous success‚ they have been a topic for success for different sociologist and novelist with the same theoretical explanations‚ that is‚ the Jews were successful because of their ambition‚ unity

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    Another event where I felt like my identity was challenged is when I was in a situation where I felt uneasy about. Immigrants. I am a child of an immigrant. This affects me because I was born in El Salvador and come in the States as a baby. I never know how people will react to it. My parents made the sacrifice of leaving El Salvador‚ their hometown and move to the States. My parents came here to ensure us a better education‚ and in general‚ a better life. Learning a new culture and my hispanic

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    Immigrants are created through hardships‚ weather they be monetary‚ location based‚ or otherwise. They are a breed of people created through circumstance. This reigns true for a recent interviewee of mine from Chihuahua‚ Marianna. A girl only the age of 16 who‚ by definition‚ moved from her own country for permanent residence in the US. After an extensive (short) interviewing process I was than asked to compare either a personal story of immigration within my family or broadly relate the hardships

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    understandings and diversities of each immigrant and their experiences underlies in a range of issues they encounter such as rights‚ freedoms‚ beliefs‚ power‚ entrapment etc… All of which are a common understanding when used in comparison towards the migrants lives using the poignant aspect of imagery and journey’s within the poem “Immigrants at Central Station‚ 1951”. The experiences and perceptive in this poem help perceive an understanding of the immigrants experiences towards the new world of which

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    immigration for a long time. People come to get more opportunities for their families. Although people don’t agree of having immigrants on there country. I think is something good because every person deserves to have opportunities to succeed in their life. For example‚ in United States every kid has the change to go to school even though they are immigrants. Also are schools have the latest technology for there students. Another example‚ is that if the kid succeed in there high school time

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    Immigration is the action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country. “Immigrants make up 13.9 percent of the U.S. population”. Immigrants come from all over the world they come to get away from poverty‚ horrible living condition‚ civil wars‚ economic‚ political‚ and social issues. As a class‚ we watched documentaries and interviewed an immigrant. The documentaries we watched we Salam neighbor‚ God Grew Tired of Us and Living on One Dollar. My group’s interviewee name was Mrs. Fricke she

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    The American Dream is a philosophy that start in the 19th century referring to migrating to a place where rich men and poor men could stand on the same footing. In the 19th century many German immigrants were coming to America in hopes of settling where ever they please without a passport and pursue a living. Most were fleeing Germany to avoid the “right of birth” or royal hierarchy and the corruption that lied within it. In the 20th century the American Dream became known as the California Dream

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    Jobs are hard to find since many jobs require high school and college diplomas which many immigrants do not have. My grandparents‚ my uncles and my mom did not know any English‚ so getting a job was difficult. Who would want to hire non-English speaking immigrants? They had very few options. The only option that they had was housekeeping at motels and hotels which required no or very little English. They spent their days cleaning

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    Coming from an Asian immigrant family and being one myself‚ I always knew that it couldn’t have been easy for my parents to leave everything behind and start a new life in the states. In 2002‚ my family of seven moved from Vietnam to California. I was only four years old‚ and have no recollection whatsoever on the process of immigrating. My mother was my choice of interviewee for this assignment‚ and after conducting the interview‚ I learned more about my family’s history than I had before. To

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    These study objectives are to better understanding of immigrant entrepreneurial identity formation from the perspective of autobiographical narrative analysis. Studies on immigrant entrepreneurship identity has been dominated by works of scholars who basically fall into two main steams. The first one deals with such issues as ethnic‚ female entrepreneurship‚ and in many cases it reduces immigrant entrepreneurship identity to ethno-cultural phenomenon‚ which exists outside or at least in the margins

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