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- 181: The Hippie Culture
- ... cards to resist the draft. For those who went to Canada, they received assistance from the Committee to Aid American War Objectors. The committee helped the young immigrants with advice and aid on the Canadian immigration laws. For those who didn’t flee, life was full of harassment from the Government. Popular music and literature help display this message of repression. Jimi Hendrix released a song titled “If 6 was 9 ...
- 182: American Studies
- ... living and rituals that they are apart of. Relating culture back into the materials that were to be read for this class, there was a lot of diversity. According to Jacobson, the history of European immigration to America is based on ethnic inclusion, mobility, and assimilation. He is interested in how the Irish, Jews, Polish, Greeks, Italians, Finns, Syrian and Ruthenians became white. It was said that race at different historical ...
- 183: Diversity Within English
- ... what situation the dialect is used as to whether or not it is appropriate. Most people are familiar with regional dialects, such as Boston, Brooklyn, or Southern. These types of variations usually occur because of immigration and settlement patterns. People tend to seek out others like themselves. Regional variations tend to become more pronounced as the speech community is more isolated by physical geography, i.e. mountain ranges, rivers. Linguists have ...
- 184: The Hong Kong Chinese Community
- ... into politics. Following the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway, the federal government imposed a heavy head tax on new Chinese immigrants. Only from the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Trudeau government liberalization of immigration that Chinese people came to Canada from Hong Kong. In 1979 , he organized a demonstration to urge the federal government to admit more "boat people" - community members were appalled. "Don't rock the boat" was ...
- 185: Book Review: Changing Concepts of Race in Britain and the United States between the World Wars.
- ... theories of biological determinism. While Parts I and II focus on anthropology and biology, including the infamous I.Q. tests on American troops in World War I, and the eugenicists' efforts to develop policies on immigration and the feeble- minded, the book does not address the role of the discipline of psychology. One suspects that here racists found a safe haven. Their speculations about intelligence and personality were free both from ...
- 186: Yamileth Lopez
- ... although she is in US there is still not much difference from home. Cause in US she is undocumented and the fact that she is risking her life here cause of the gangs, the police, immigration officers. There is a great chance of her getting caught and get deported from US back to Nicaragua, and she is mostly worry about that if she is the one got deported and will leave ...
- 187: Organized Crime Wthin The Unit
- ... crime to thrive, its large-scale effects on society, and the measures that have been taken to extinguish organized crime. The roots of organized crime can be traced back to periods of vast amounts of immigration within the United States. Many of the immigrants sought wealth and prosperity upon their arrivals but inevitably found themselves to be members of the lower class. While some groups, such as the Jews, were able ...
- 188: Was Colonial Culture Uniquely
- ... and Germans could be found (Welling, 1996). French Huguenots lived in South Carolina and other scattered places, as did the Spanish, Italians, and Portuguese (Welling, 1996). The English ceased to be the chief source of immigration as early as 1680 (Welling, 1996), although they still held a large majority in the population from previous settlers and their offspring (Brinkley, 1995). Just like the English, when other European settlers brought their families ...
- 189: Labor And Unions In America
- ... members. By January 1919, it had 3,260,000 members. RED SCARES AND DEPRESSION As the 1920s began, organized labor seemed stronger than ever. It was successful in getting Congress to pass laws that restricted immigration to the United States. Unions believed that a scarcity of labor would keep wages high. But events that took place in Europe were already threatening labor's gains. In 1917, a communist revolution overthrew the ...
- 190: Pre-Civil War New Orleans
- ... and Germany. In certain neighborhoods, their descendants' dialects would make visitors feel like they were back in Brooklyn or Chicago. From 1820 to 1870, the Irish and Germans made New Orleans one of the main immigration ports in the nation, second only to New York, but ahead of Boston, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. New Orleans also was the first city in America to host a significant settlement of Italians, Greeks, Croatians, and ...
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