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- 101: Academia
- ... of every student from different racial background. The productivity of education is declining since it does not catch up with the increasing population of the students. From the Gold Rush to the recent era of immigration, America has always been a land of opportunities to everyone. As in education, it offers classroom seat to students regardless of age, gender or nationality. However, with increasing enrollments in colleges and universities while nearly ... extensive and require campuses and higher education coordinators to work with the governing boards to exert an effective solution to solve the existing problems. (Montoya-Rael 2). Aggressive measures like stricter college admission requirements and immigration laws (for example, only professions or the financial advanced can land in USA) would drastically decrease the number of institutional enrollments and more important, lowering the public dependence on social welfare assistance. These solutions may ...
- 102: Bilingual Education
- ... Protestant beliefs that immigrants were inferior. This gave the congressmen more reason to discriminate against the immigrants. In the 1950's, federal and state laws ruled that discriminatory testing was unconstitutional (What To Do About Immigration? p 327). Bilingual education did not originally grow from the pressures of immigration. It was started as a small, federally funded program to help Mexican-American children (largely native-born) in the Southwest. The purpose was to try to make Mexican-American children fully literate in English. Today ...
- 103: Unions
- ... having a central body that was powerless to settle disputes between unions along with the elitest and often racist slant of some union policies were major flaws of the AFL . Samuel Gompers himself was anti immigration. Though women and blacks were urged to join the union they were met with harsh prejudices from the white members of the AFL. In 1902, blacks constituted only three percent of total union membership and ... in the AFL. The unskilled and immigrant workers were the worst off in the AFL. Unskilled immigrant labor was regarded by most union leaders as undesirable and unorganizable. The AFL was a leading advocate for immigration restriction on both economic and nativist grounds. This outlook deepens our understanding of the American Federation of Labors, along with its leader Samuel Gompers, retreat from heroism (Laurie,198.) This means that though the AFL ...
- 104: Transcendentalism
- ... in the nineteenth century New England because of a need to redefine man and his place in the world in response to a new and changing society. The industrial revolution, universities, westward expansion, urbanization and immigration all made the life in a city like Boston full of novelty and turbulence. Transcendentalism was a reaction to an impoverishment of religion and mechanization of consciousness of eighteenth century rational doctrines that ceased to ... sewage and lighting. This lead to an increase in crime. Ethnic conflicts often resulted in fights between street gangs, as people of the same nationality tended to live close together and battled other ethnic groups. Immigration brought racial conflicts with it just as urbanization brought slums. However, these conditions proved to be a fertile ground for reform, which was one of the reasons for rise and popularity of Transcendentalism whose members ...
- 105: Origins Of Distrust Between Th
- ... create a Jewish state, the Balfour Declaration set the framework. The British government was now obliged to support Zionism. Since 1919 till the present day, violence has been breaking out in Israel due to the immigration of Jews into Palestine. Later, the Jews began to mount attacks on the British when they recommended quotas on Jewish immigration. In 1929, there was a reported 156,000 Jews, by 1946, the number was up to 600,000. After years of attacks by Jewish militants, the British left Palestine on May 14, 1948, a month ...
- 106: Cold War
- ... believe that there were more communists in America than there actually were. People just got caught up in this communist chaos which led them to fear more than necessary. These fears led to McCarran Walter Immigration act of 1952 which restricted the immigration of persons from communist countries, failing to consider that these people might just be trying to escape the communist regime By the late 1050’s and early 1960 relations between the super powers were beginning ...
- 107: Shadow And Custodial President
- ... tariff became a dividing issue between political parties. He signed the Tariff Act of 1833, but it had little effect because as many prices were raised as were lowered. Next Arthur enforced new laws about immigration. He stopped paupers, lunatics, and criminals from entering the country, and then limited Chinese immigration for ten years. Arthur retired with no fame or real accomplishments to his name. He was just a maintenance man. The country had a few problems and he put a quick fix on them then ...
- 108: Ku Klux Klan 4
- ... by 1930, the Klan was almost invisible, less than 40,000 members nationally. The story of the collapse is very complicated. (Ingalls, 63) In 1924, Congress responded to the growing hatred to foreigners by restricting immigration into the U.S. Before the restriction, immigrants were pouring in at over 1 million immigrants a year before World War 1. So when the Congress restricted the immigration it was a major reason for the collapse of the KKK. (Meltzer, 60) Another main reason for the collapse was that Klansmen also fought amongst each other. In 1927, Wizard Evans resorted to a lawsuit ...
- 109: Hong Kong 2
- ... and Hong Kong agreed would serve after the hand-over. Many citizens believe China was controlling Hong Kong and not treating it as independent. Another example of clashing legal systems was a court ruling regarding immigration. On February 10, 1999, Hong Kong’s highest court ruled that children born to citizens of Hong Kong are citizens regardless of where or when they were born. China openly calls this court decision a ... 1997:67-68. Sesser, Stan. “The Betrayal of Hong Kong”. The New Republic. 10 Mar. 1997:21-26. Ries, Daryl. “Choreographers cautious in post-handover Hong Kong.” Dance Magazine. Jan 1999:49-51. Rosenthal, Elizabeth. “Immigration Ruling by Hong Kong Government Is Generating New Tensions with Beijing”. The New York Times. 11 Feb. 1999:A14.
- 110: Frank Lloyd Wright Innovator I
- ... into Taliesin and proved devoted to Wright. The peace and happiness found in their married life did not come easily. They fought for many years against suits wrought upon Wright by the now rejected Miriam. Immigration officers pursued the Olgivanna and her daughter from a previous marriage, Sveltana, claiming the two had broken immigration laws. The situation concluded in 1928 with Wright's marriage to his third and final wife, Olgivanna Milanoff Hinzenburg. Together they had one daughter, Iovanna, who proved to be the apple of her father's ...
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