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Selective immigration is necessary for a healthy balance in the United States. Europeans started migrating into this country during the 16th and 17th century. This country declared its independence and became known as the United States of America on July 4, 1776. During this time, “the US government encouraged open immigration in the interest of settling as much territory as possible. In 1790, Congress passed the Naturalization Act in order to control the composition of the US population. In…

Let the People Decide Let the People Decide is a novel written by J. Todd Moye that discusses the black freedom and white resistance movements in Sunflower County, Mississippi, from 1945 to 1986. The novel tracks what it was like for African Americans in Sunflower County during the Civil Rights movement (1954-1968), and also notes the struggles that still remained for African Americans during the 1980s. Moye also notes the white resistance movements towards the Civil Rights movements, and also…

Through its recurring depictions of insufficient resources at the camps, the Kolyma Tales illustrate the unaccountability that is pervasive in Stalin’s economic policies. In Carpenters, Potashnikov states how there was “never enough firewood” at the camps due to the fact that the nearest firewood source was a “four kilometer walk” away and every worker avoided that trek (Carpenters). Further, everyone slept in their “working clothes but even with the “extra warmth,” their hair would still be…

social mobility, economic opportunity, and political power than their east coast counterparts. Several held political office; in 1876, San Francisco’s mayor, Frank McCoppin, was Irish Catholic (Northern California Coalition on Immigrant Rights). Irish laborers in the mining and railroad industries had power in numbers and could effectively organize themselves into labor unions and bargain for higher wages. However, since it was now common practice to pay Chinese workers lower wages, Irish…

Slavery is caused by the same thing that caused all the exploration of the new world, a way to make more wealth. The slave trade became very common through a travel route under the name of the Triangular Trade route, which is the route that European merchants would take when buying and selling slaves. A European merchant would come down to Africa, purchase many slaves and take them to the new world. When they got to the new world, they would sell them for goods and other things. They would then…

source of exports earnings, and in the top ten for garment exports, it is also the largest employer of child labor. The industry boosted the economy and created more opportunities of employment in urban areas. This lead to an increase demand for child laborers, majority of them being girls. Children in this industry are forced to work long working hours, ranging from 10 hours a day for approximately 12 U.S dollars a month. Girls as young as the age of thirteen work 11 hours a day to produce…

doctorate in Art History, disagrees with Jobs and goes on to say “The problem is it (DWYL) leads not to salvation but to the devaluation of actual work, including the very work it pretends to elevate - and the dehumanization of the vast majority of laborers.” By using persuasion, Tokumitsu has the readers rethinking the idea of DWYL and has them realize that their actions affect others too. Tokumitsu does a good job at explaining her reason against DWYL. I agree that DWYL affects us in the…

emotionally loaded language as he does when discussing the payment of Mexican laborers, who make our microwaves, televisions, clothing and other everyday items, writing, “They earn three to five dollars a day- not an hour but a day!” He uses an example that we can all connect to as earning American citizens, we have minimum wage, the state is required to pay us at least $7.25 an hour, while over in Mexico the laborers are earning less than that in a whole day. Through examples such as this,…

Latin American social movements have stimulated silenced divisions of the community including indigenous people, students, LGBT, the unemployed, undereducated and all those who have been excluded from the promised ideal globalized economy. The movements, which include non-violent protests; maintaining culture; and addressing the educational achievement gap have deployed a wide array of strategies and actions which have been outcome oriented. The movements have helped to synthesize old ways of…

The end of the eighteenth century was a time of great change in many aspects. One of the greatests changes in society was the Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution was a time of economic productivity and population growth. The Industrial Revolution began in England at the end of the eighteenth century. It began in England for a multitude of reasons, these including a stable economy, an effective system of waterways connecting the nation, and the Scientific Revolution changing the way…