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- 151: Goodbye Columbus
- ... dream. Those three ideas are also present in the novel The Great Gatsby. In this novel the two worlds are divided by old and new money, instead of the idea of assimilation to society after immigration. In this novel, where you live determines your wealth, just as it did in the novel Goodbye Columbus. In The Great Gatsby the idea of wealth representing power is the most prevalent aspect of the ...
- 152: Bouchards View Of Canadian His
- ... in negotiations: recognition of Quebec as a distinct society; participation in the appointment of supreme court judges, a veto for Quebec on constitutional changes, limitations on federal spending powers, and more power for Quebec over immigration. The conditions were agreed upon and the premiers then had three years to ratify the accord. Bouchard emphatically told Quebec's Minister of Intergovernmental affairs that Bourassa had not demanded enough. Bouchard believed that Quebec ...
- 153: Die Hard The Movie - Action Film Subtexts
- ... from breaking the rules, or from terrorism. Another subtext was the unethical journalist. He would do anything for a story, and didn't care who he stepped on to get it. He threatened to call Immigration on Mrs. McClaine's housekeeper to get her to let him talk the their kids. He also released information about their family that put them in further danger. In summary, the movie is full of ...
- 154: Rising And Falling Of The Berl
- ... demonstrations throughout East Germany forced the government to allow citizens to travel freely. On November 9, 1989 the border between East Germany and West Germany was opened. The East German government ended its restrictions on immigration and travel to the West by its citizens. The East Germans opened the 26 mile Wall that divided the cities and soon began to tear it down. A tidal wave of thousand made the way ...
- 155: John Dos Passos' Manhattan Transfer
- John Dos Passos' Manhattan Transfer HISTORICAL BACKGROUND: This book began in the 1890's. Benjamin Harrison of the Republicans was in power. The novel began by showing the problems of immigration both from the view point of the immigrant and of the already settled American. We are aware right from the first page that the life of an immigrant was extremely difficult. Jobs were extremely scarce ...
- 156: Sir Robert Laird Borden
- ... a leader more effectively. 1907 brought change to the Conservative Party as Borden announced public ownership of the telephone and telegram systems, and of certain railways and grain elevators. He publicly favored closer supervision of immigration and a protective tariff on imports to protect Canadian goods. Robert Borden won the election to Parliament in 1908 from both Halifax and Carleton, and ended up representing Halifax. It was then that the Conservatives ...
- 157: The Life and Times of Ronald Reagan
- ... second term Reagan underwent successful surgery for cancer in 1985. His call for extensive changes in the federal income tax helped bring passage of the Tax Reform Act of 1986. Congress also passed a major immigration bill that year. Reagan made two Supreme Court appointments in 1986, Associate Justice William Rehnquirst, a U.S. Chief Justice, and Antomin Scalia as an associate justice. A stoke market crash in 1987 raised questions ...
- 158: Causes of Civil War
- ... two opposing societies and could not have been abolished with out the Civil War. The North was very industrialized and had a stable economy in comparison to slave-dependant South. During the mid-1800's immigration to the North skyrocketed. Although this exploitation was extremely cruel and much like the treatment of the slaves in the South, the northern economy profited immensely. Come 1860, the Union had an overwhelming advantage over ...
- 159: John Lennon
- ... think life really is. In 1972, John fought for his first green card so that he could stay in the United States, and finally achieved it in 1976 after a lot of trouble with the immigration department. He also gave a charity concert at Madison Square Garden to help improve the quality of life for mentally handicapped kids. (Hertsgaard) In fall of 1973, for the first time since they had met ...
- 160: Thomas Jefferson
- ... Patriots was his powerful pamphlet A Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774), originally written for presentation to the Virginia convention of that year. In this he emphasized natural rights, including that of immigration, and denied parliamentary authority over the colonies, recognizing no tie with the mother country except the king. When he was a member of the Continental Congress (1775-1776), Jefferson was chosen together with John Adams ...
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