Tag Archives: Immigration

Platanos! Platanos! 4 por un dolar!

(plantains! plantains! 4 for a dollar!) My siblings and I were born in New York, being the only generation of children in my family to be born in the United States.  My parents are both from the Dominican Republic, coming … Continue reading

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Chelsea

I live in the Chelsea District of Manhattan, New York. “The industrialization of western Chelsea brought immigrant populations from many countries to work in the factories, including a large number of Irish immigrants, who dominated work on the Hudson River … Continue reading

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From Black and White to Multicolor

My family came from South India around 25 years ago. My dad got the visa because of my uncle who was already a U.S. citizen. My mom got hers with her brother. They told me when they first came to … Continue reading

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Immigration Database

With unlimited funding to create a website, I would implement a site with a lot of information and statistics in which the students or historians may effectively use the information provided about immigration, and how far New York City came … Continue reading

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Immigration, then and now

As we’ve seen in Chudacoff throughout this semester, the U.S. has been a central destination for many immigrants for centuries. With the waves of immigrants beginning with the german and Irish fallowed by several others including jewish, italians, and chinese immigrants, immigration … Continue reading

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Through Their Eyes

When reading the Binder reading on Immigration I could help but want to create a website that showed a more sympathetic view on the topic. Instead of stating cold hard facts and coming across as just another website that robotically … Continue reading

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The Immigration Nation

The first question that comes to my mind when I hear about immigration is why. Why did those people at that time want to come to the United States. In my website I would have each group of people that … Continue reading

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Painting the Image: Immigration to America

If I were capable of building a website it will be time machines into the past and a video within each time machine. Filled with videos I will have the best actors give personal stories of immigrants who lived in … Continue reading

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My own website

My website would feature a different link  for each  category on immigration. Clicking on the topics you want, the website would direct you to a page with general background information and an introduction to that specific category. Everything on my … Continue reading

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www.ethnic-immigrants.com

With nearly an infinite amount of resources, I feel that it would be hard-pressed not to come up with a decent looking website. My idea for a website design would include a website that has information pertaining to every ethnic … Continue reading

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