commuter railways let people live farther away from their downtown workplaces.” (pg. 701) America greatly prospered‚ resulting in many immigrants being attracted to it. Many newcomers from Europe arrived in America‚ causing the number of immigrants to raise “from just under 3 million annually in the 1870s… [to] 9 million annually in the first decade of the twentieth century.” (pg. 704) This new surge of immigrants was not well received by “nativists‚’ racists who believed that Anglo-Saxon Americans
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often‚ people do not know what a refugee is‚ and what they have to go through‚ and once they do get informed about whom they are and their characteristics‚ they compare them to immigrants. What they don’t know is that these two peoples are very common but only come to a new country because of different reasons. Immigrants‚ legal ones‚ come to more developed countries like Canada or the United States mainly for two reasons. One of them is to be reunited with some family members who already live in
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Joshua Budhai 1/23/13 Period:G Digital Native or Digital Immigrant? Today’s students today grow up around technology in a far more advanced way then past generations. We are constantly surrounded by electronics from an early age and are submerged in this technology so much that it makes us “Native” to its use and our understanding of it is enormous because of this. This concept is called being a “Digital Native”‚ in contrast there are those from older generations
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In 1950‚ the populations of the United States and of Latin America were the same‚ at 150 million citizens. Yet forty-five years later‚ Latin America had tripled in population size‚ reaching 450 million eleven years before the United States reached 300 million. This exceptional growth rate was achieved because as Latin America’s infant mortality rate dropped and life expectancy increased‚ their birth rate stayed at the same high rate. This combination repopulated the region at a significant pace and
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a Successful Immigrant New immigrants come to Canada with a dream of a better life. Although the road to a successful life in Canada is filled with struggles‚ many immigrants fulfill their dreams in Canada. Similar characters can be found among those immigrants. The ability to adapt‚ tolerance for failure and determination to succeed are the key characteristics of a successful immigrant. The ability to adapt to a foreign culture and environment is essential for a new immigrant to succeed.
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A great majority of the American population are immigrants. However‚ they should not be so quick to impose a ban. The American economy would fall. This would also have an impact on families with a work permit and green card. America is the one that issued them after investigation. Then now just because of a few that did not do what they were supposed to‚ everyone has to suffer. That is very unfair. Maybe the individuals that were affected are the only breadwinner in the family. If they cannot return
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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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In 2017‚ Canada announced their plan to fill a 300‚000 quota number of incoming immigrants. That is a large number and appears like Canada is showing such openness for incoming immigrants. But this innocuous sentence can be problematic. It can be difficult to gage the problems of Canadian perception of immigration when one’s family arrived in the country several generations ago and now identify as a native Canadian. The word “quota” is problematic in describing immigration for its inferred meaning
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The story “Of the Coming of John” is mainly about two Johns‚ a white John and a black John. In the essay‚ it gives you a description on the privilege of each John receives. You asked us to analyze the damaging impact of double consciousness. As W.E.B DuBois explained‚ double consciousness is having your identity divided into several parts. The damage of double-consciousness can be caused by the opinions and treatment of white people. Also double-consciousness gives some type of conflict towards
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process of coming of age because doing so allows the person to adapt‚ change‚ and mature. The story “The Flowers” by Alice Walker and the poem “Birches” have a very good portrait of a person going on a journey alone and experiencing this. The protagonist of “The Flowers”Myop‚ usually walked through the woods with her mom but as seen here she isn’t‚ “Today she made her own path”. While alone on this walk she finds something that changes her in many ways and is the main instigator of her coming of age
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