Monthly Archives: May 2011
Assignment due 5/16
1) Visit the September 11 Digital Archive. 2) Read the Brier and Brown article manuscript, accesible through the password protected Readings tab. 3) Respond to this post with at least one substantial (2-3 paragraph) comment comparing the goals of the … Continue reading
Immigration discussion, continued from class
If your partner doesn’t have a post to comment on, you can respond to this post instead.
No one is a winner, everyone must loose
The Byrds was a group from the 1960’s. Pete Seeger was responsible for writting this song. He took passages from the book of Ecclesiastes, which is in the bible. The song Turn Turn Turn! was released in 1962. It is … Continue reading
Immigration for protection
My great uncle was the first member of the family landed in U.S during 1970s. They were afraid the communist party of China might take over Taiwan within a short period of time. Political connection between Taiwan and China was … Continue reading
Wonders of Immigration
According to the reading, it points out the development of garment factories for Dominican males, but the market was dominated by Chinese entrepreneurs (pg 227) This area stands out to me because my father, his brothers and my uncles all … Continue reading
The Persian-Jewish Immigration
For a long time now, immigration has played a huge role in revolutionizing infrastructure, culture, and the people living in certain communities. The first examples can be attributed to the immigration to the Americas, which displaced Native Americans. In this … Continue reading
Great Neck – A Persian Community
Throughout United States and global history, immigration has drastically transformed people, places, technology, infrastructure, and communities. In the 19th century, many Irish and German immigrants transformed New York City. In the 18th century, immigrants from Europe virtually changed the American … Continue reading
Brooklyn
I was born and raised in Brooklyn. Brooklyn is notoriously known to be a dirty crime filled city, but that is not is how a citizen of Brooklyn looks at it. I see Brooklyn as my hometown and over the … Continue reading
Cocaine Cowboys
“The largest numbers of post-1970 immigrants came from the Caribbean.” (226). My story begins in the 1980’s when my mother and father migrated to Florida during the Mariel boatlift. This was a mass exodus of Cubans who departed from Cuba‘s … Continue reading
Immi-great-tion
My best friends mother and father were both born in Poland, as was her older brother. While her mom was pregnant with her second brother her mother, father and her brothers moved to The United States This was about 25 … Continue reading