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Ever since July 4th, 1776, the U.S has had it’s ups and downs. It has experienced enormous amounts of change over the years for the good, and for the better. Congress have passed Acts to make America an equal and free country. Some of the Acts that helped create the country that we live in today are the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Immigration Acts of 1965. Although the Acts have different main points, both sought to put a lid on discrimination, create more opportunities for minorities, and…

In “Ethnicity in an Age of Diaspora” by R. Radhakrishnan theorizes how diaspora is viewed between generation and how it affects their ethnicity and background as a whole. He poses to the reader that being Indian-American, as a hyphenated aspect does not mean that an individual is being Indian. The reader begins to question, “What does “being Indian” mean in the United States? How can one be and live Indian without losing clout and leverage as Americans? How can one transform the so-called…

that, the dramatic growth of Internet creates a great number of powerful companies and billionaires. To a great extent, Ma Yun is a legendary one of them in China, because of the significant growth of his company, Alibaba Group. Alibaba was founded in Hangzhou in 1999 (Alibaba-Group, 1999) and it is one of the largest platforms for online trade and business communication now. Alibaba is based on online platform and started in e-commerce B-to-B (Business to Business) model but it is Alibaba is no…

slaves were forbidden any form of education and if they were caught trying to gain knowledge they would be punished. Fortunately for the slaves though, schools had started to open up to them in the mid 1800’s. The education between the two ethnic group was…

Embarking on a new journey is driven by hope, hope that you will find love, refuge, a chance to start over, to live out your dreams, to get a better job and education. Hope motivates us to get out of bed each morning and be the best we can be. Hope is what brought our ancestors here all those years ago and what still inspires people to immigrate from all over the world to live out the American dream. In Not Everyone is Chosen, Waters shows that each wave of immigrants experience different…

The youth hyperculture that constitutes the technologically dependent age group known as Generation Y is an amalgamation of a countless myriad of societal institutions, all shaping the growth of individuals in this increasingly modern 21st-century; in particular, I have been shaped by two social groups: the family in which I was born and raised, and the school-setting peer group of which I was a member of during my secondary education. Both have been tremendously invaluable to my childhood and…

I am a fifty eight year old white native American woman, and the middle child of three. I have an older sister, by fifteen months, and a brother who is three years younger than I am. I should probably mention that my dad was not around when I was born. My parents raised our family of five in Port Huron, Michigan. I am a member of the Baby Boomer generation. As an American, we traditionally are passionate about baseball, hotdogs, apple pie, and lemonade, but being an American means much more…

How Growing up Poor Made Me a Better Person I really hate it when someone is looked down upon because they are poor and in a lower economic class than someone else. If you look up economic class it is defined by Wikipedia in the following way: the term "social class" is usually synonymous with "socio-economic class," defined as "people having the same social, economic, or educational status," e.g., "the working class"; "an emerging professional class." Or the lower, middle and upper class. We…

This lead him to live how he does now, he states, “if the world is only going to see a fox as shifty and untrustworthy, why try to be anything else”. This is relevant in our society today as many people of minority groups are treated certain ways by people of different races and even people of their own race or, portrayed a certain way in movies and TV. This leads them to believe they are expected to be that way and closed off from realizing who they can be outside…

classes to utilize are also given unfair hardships. Upper/higher Class Being in the upper/higher class group was a life changing experience. We were very privileged and respected by the Housing Authority. The Housing Authority was very generous and offered numerous amounts of times to pay for some of our building permits. I noticed with our group, even though we had the most money, we were the only group who actually took about 20 minutes or more planning what building permits we needed. I…