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    Whiteness In America

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    the United States, he met my grandmother who came from a small farm outside of Juárez. Both of my grandparents, raised Roman Catholic, align themselves with the Democratic Party and support the government programs and immigration policies that the party stands for. Many of my cousins, on the other hand, are much more conservative. My second cousin, Fermin, once explained to me the reason behind his vote for John McCain in 2008 and why it’s only fair that Latinos legally immigrate to the United…

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    Introduction: There is no neglect that there is a linkage between public education and American democratic citizenship, in fact, the founding fathers of the United States constitution alluded that this connection ought to be essential to create a nation that would be able to function by itself without possible outside intervention. Furthermore, scholars such as Noa Webster wanted educated citizens not to just be able to “judge … what [would] secure or endanger [their] freedom” (Mondel, 2001,…

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    The United States of America was declared as a new country hundreds of years ago when the U.S. won independence from Britain. Immigration and immigrants built America. The African Americans improved the economic growth agriculturally, Asian Americans built the railroads, the Latinx community taught irrigation techniques to allow farmers improve the agriculture, and Caucasians helped improve the economy with trades. Immigrants were taking the jobs unwanted by Americans, but then they were accused…

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    increased dramatically through immigration during the last few years and the country cannot keep up economically and socially. According to Roy Beck, “Based on opinion polls, it appears that most Americans consider themselves net losers and believe that the United States has become ‘a nation of too many immigrants’” (446). Beck states that “there are four national goals that Americans expect to achieve and illegal immigration is partly the cause for many Americans not attaining these goals”…

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    create the immigration plan. If Trump’s plan is carried out, the Mexicans would be unauthorized to enter America because of the “great great wall,” possible recessions and riots would take place, and all illegal immigrants including the birthright citizens will be forced to leave America. So why is it important…

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    In the 1920’s, there were many movements and instances that happened and changed America to what it is today. It was during that time that not only African Americans were being persecuted, but women and other minorities such as Hispanics were also fighting for their rights. Groups such as the Ku Klux Klan and the practice of anti-communism kept many people on their toes. Many Americans had just come back from the World War and the spiral submergence of the US economy had just begun. The 1920’s…

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    Industrial revolution After the independence as the Government was formed, White Americans were fortunate to live under a representative republican government, but for Blacks it was still not the Freedom. They continued to live a life of slaves. Republicanism influenced social and family values. Also there was a complex interaction between republicanism and religion. Women devoted their energies to religious purposes as they got inspired by Second Great Awakening. In this era two major…

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    been outlawed and now every citizen, regardless of race or ethnicity, is covered under the United States’ Constitution. This is true; under the law everyone is considered equal. Even…

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    My Childhood Struggles

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    become members of the United States. I will first discuss the background of my parents and the reasons they immigrated to the United States. My mother and father were born and raised in Guadalajara, México. They were from the same town and came from very poor families. My mother grew up without a father and my father grew up without a mother. My mother and father grew emotionally detached from their families and had difficult childhoods. They did not have all their family united and would…

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    Analyze politically, socially and economically to what extent immigration impacted American society from 1865 to 1898. The United States has always been a mixing pot, immigrants from all over the world have been coming with a common goal to better themselves and their families. Nonetheless, immigrants had never had it easy to succeed in a foreign society, the time period 1865 to 1898 was no the exemption. Irish, Russians, Greeks, Poles, Hungarians, Romanians, Chinese and Bohemians among many…

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