United States federal immigration and nationality legislation

title Discrimination occurs everyday in the United States, and it can take the many different forms. Discrimination is defined as the unequal treatment of a person or group of people. Discrimination in the workplace was made illegal by the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which protects U.S. citizens from being discriminated against due to his or her race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, when seeking a job ( Lee ). Although this act allowed many people to obtain certain jobs…

America was taught to be a melting pot, a place where immigrants of different cultures or races form an integrated society. This is where assimilation was looked upon as a positive movement for society. Assimilation is the process where as individuals or groups of differing ethnic background are brought into the dominant culture of a society. But, the question is; is assimilation a positive or a negative thing? In American society, learning to speak English and trying to fit in, is a crucial…

Environmental Pollution and the Love Canal Throughout the country, there are many bodies of water. Each one of these bodies of water has a possible chance of becoming a polluted land. The United States did not really care about the environment, or how harshly others were affected by the environment before. Since people did not care about the environment, it was easy for bodies of water to become polluted. A polluted body of water called the Love Canal was explored for the residents around the…

The media is one of the main resources people have around the world to understand better what is happening and many people make assumptions about other people by what they see in the media. Davila argues in her book the different ways media are constructed to gain customers and how people might be represented in the media. Davila gave examples of how companies might be trying to advertise a product by stereotyping a culture or how the group of people look that they want to target. In the…

that began with the mission of providing shoes for those who need them in third world countries. The model for the company is that, for every pair of shoes sold, TOMS Shoes will donate one pair to needy people who live in countries outside of the United States. This has changed many companies to look at that the way that they conduct business. Organizations are beginning to realize that a company can have a larger impact than the world of selling. TOMS Shoes is about a company embracing new…

Philippines, my family struggled with financial issues, most of the things that I had were hand-me-downs. Living that kind of life taught me to not be too wasteful and don't throw it out if it's not completely empty. When my family arrived in the United States I was eight years old and was also very excited because it was a new start for us. My parents told me, in here we could, at least, have a decent life. Now we have a house and a car and were not just trying to get by anymore, me and my…

The following paper will describe the impact of new immigrant populations in the urban environment of California between 1880-1941. The groups of new immigrants include the Chinese, Japanese, Filipinos, Sicilians, and much more. These groups typically lived in cities such as San Jose, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Monterey/Seaside. Their impact was through mass migrations, which to this day has drastically altered the urban environment of California. The argument to be made is that these…

Filed by Mr. Timothy Pigford in 1997, Pigford v. Glickman was a class action lawsuit against the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), alleging racial discrimination in the form of farm loans and assistance during the years between 1981 and 1996; settling on April 14, 1999. A reported $1 Billion was has either been paid or credited to more than 13,000 farmers. After the settlement funds were disbursed to the 13,000 African-American Farmers that filed a claim, another 70,000 farmers…

The United States as most people know it came from a not so usual origin compared to countries of Europe and Asia. Like the rest of the Americas it gained almost all of its population from immigration. But the U.S.A. has a much more diverse population of immigrants ranging from Western Europe all the way to Southeast Asia. As such an important part of the past most people see immigration in the 1800's as the time the U.S. became the great country it is today. At the time of the late 19th century…

1. In the article “ The great Poop Disaster” by Anna Starcheski, there are problems with bird poop and they also had solutions. One of the main problems in the article is, there are too many birds in one area. The article says, “ In New York City, for instance, the pigeon population was estimated to be as high as 7 million birds.” ( Starcheski,18) A solution to solve this problem would be to ban people from feeding birds. This would affect the population in a certain area because not as many…