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    Why Immigrants Should Learn English Robert Riley Com/150 July 28‚ 2012 ToniAnn Di Re Have you ever been somewhere and a person comes up to you asking for direction‚ but they don’t speak English. It can be very difficult to help someone in that situation that is why I feel that all immigrants entering the United States for permanent stay should learn English. According to the US Census Bureau it estimates that there were approximately 37.6 million foreign-born people living in the United

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    that was explosive and history-altering. Immigrants came from all over the world in search of new jobs‚ lives‚ and opportunities; some came out of force‚ due to their poverty-stricken countries. Although they had made the journey‚ most immigrants had difficulty assimilating or being accepted into American society. These immigrants faced a series of oppression and hardships that were challenging. Racial discrimination and rejection were not uncommon; immigrants encountered social inequalities and injustices

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    Juanita is an illegal immigrant from Mexico. She works as a maid for a rich man and only makes $2.20 a day for cleaning bathrooms and keeping the man’s house clean. Most days she works for 16 hours a day and only gets 8 hours to herself. Juanita sometimes works over night and gets a couple hours of sleep and sometimes no sleep at all. Her family of 5 all live in Guanajuato‚ Mexico. Her goals are to be with her family and have money to take care of them. Illegal immigrants are people who cross states

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    The Immigrant Contribution”‚ it opened my eyes to a new point of view on immigrants in the U.S. and all the good things they have done. If we didn’t have immigrants we wouldn’t be the same nation as we are now. Immigrants are the true creators of the U.S. Oscar Handlin has said‚” Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history.”(Kennedy pg.23) Everyone in the US are or have been descendents of immigrants. The

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    Immigrants traveled to America for new opportunities and freedom. They moved because of the difficult life conditions they had in Europe. They had little money and homes‚ but most of all they couldn’t worship God how they wanted to. The Great Famine also happened which was when all the potatoes got a disease so no one could eat them which led to starvation and death. They were fascinated by the story books they read about America and decided they wanted to move there. Some didn’t leave by choice

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    of years‚ immigrants from numerous countries have sought out to search for a better life in a new place. Many have come over to America with hopes and dreams that they wish to accomplish‚ but along the way they have also discovered the bitter reality of the immigrant experience and hardships that they must overcome on their journey to America. Based on the readings of Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street‚ Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club‚ and Elva Trevino’s Barefoot Heart‚ the immigrant experience

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    U.S.-born children with immigrant parents Jia Lu Chen New York University Abstract There are lots of different types of families in America because of its diversified culture. Children grew up in different families may be influenced by different elements including family‚ education‚ community and so on. U.S.-born children with immigrant parents are facing much more challenges from the very beginning of their life than children with American parents. The society which as

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    New Immigrants During the mid to late nineteenth century over 10 million European immigrants came to the United States. Most of these immigrants settled in the northeast and the Midwest looking for jobs and a better life. Many came to realize that there expectations were misguided and were forced to work long days for low wages and live in slums. There were many hardships and challenges involved when coming to America that many people were not aware of. Immigrants looked at America as a new start

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    Immigrant” or “Human Being” ? By Senuda Wettasinghe & Gobhiehan Srirangan On average Canada opens its doors to about 250 000 immigrants each year. As immigrants‚ individuals are automatically granted the freedom to practice any religion they prefer‚ including all the other benefits they will receive. While individuals promote the idea of diversity and multiculturalism very vividly‚ others feel as though there should be set limits to what can and cannot be done by someone solely based on their

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    mmigrants Escaping from Poverty For a long time‚ illegal immigrants have been entering the United States‚ and it has been a big issue concerning the world today. Hispanics today form the fastest growing ethnic minority in the United States. An example of how many illegal immigrants migrate to the U.S. is found in the book Voyages by Cathy Small; she explains that many Tongan immigrants migrated in the year 1976. Out of 1‚993 Tongan’s‚ Olunga had grown approximately 2%‚ so by all means that at

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