Essay about The Plight of Immigrants to Boston

of this time, Charlotte Perkins Gilman also supported eugenics to improve the human race.  Yet Addams did not argue immigrants were inferior to the Aryan people.  In fact, three-quarters of her residents at Hull-House were first and second generation immigrants.  Not only was Addams sympathetic to the poor, but she also was sympathetic to the plight of immigrants. I find Jane Addams's commitment to social change extraordinary.  To answer the question stated previously, I would

Nieto and Bode (2008) observe that one myth about first-generation European immigrants who came to the United States during the period of immigration between 1880 and 1915 is that they succeeded academically. The fact, however, is they did not do well (Rothstein, 2004 as cited in Nieto & Bode, 2008) and most of the immigrants did not graduate from nor even attend high school ("Education," n.d.). Even second-generation immigrants often did not fare well; for example, only 17% of male and nine percent

that merely did as everyone else did, they came to America looking for a second chance. While yes, there is validity to the notion that terrorist attacks in the country have been caused by Muslims, and that there are multitudes of illegal Mexican immigrants, that does not sanction being able to discriminate against an entire population for the acts of some. To truly learn from the heinous ways of one's predecessors, one must must go back and see what was wrong and really make an effort to prevent it

Descriminationn Against Irish-American Immigrants and Native Americans Racism is a problem with roots reaching as far back as biblical times, and it is questionable as to whether or not racial discrimination will ever vanish. Many different groups of people have been subject to racism over time. Two historical examples of people who were discriminated against because of their nationality are Native Americans and Irish-American immigrants. Although the situations they faced are not quite

typically found equal levels of persecution yet, chose to remain stateside because of the opportunities for work and the new-found sense of community among Irish immigrants in the United States. The first immigrant to enter the United States through Ellis Island, Annie Moore, was a 15-year-old from County Cork. Since the colonial times, Irish immigrants have been ever-present in the United States; however, also ever-present is hibernophobia, or anti-Irish sentiment. From the Norman Invasion in the late 12th

urban problems. One of these campaigns is for the establishment of parks and its close cousin the playground. Landscape architect Charles Eliot whose work heavily influences the Boston Metropolitan Park System strongly pushes a park system to combat the growing urban

Double consciousness as defined by Du Bois in The Souls of Black Folk: "It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity." (The Souls of Black Folk, pp.453-470) harkens to the double consciousness felt by Lae Choo in "In the land of the Free" by Sui Sin Far. Like Du Bois, Far illustrates through the personal experiences of the characters

study is based on the idea of displacement as the major theme of the selected short stories of Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Interpreter of maladies”. The book contains nine short stories and each one of them deals with the question of identity, alienation, and plight of those who are physically and psychologically displaced. But I would like to limit my studies to the three short stories from the collection viz. “When Mr. Pirzada came to dine”, Interpreter of Maladies”, and “Mrs. Sen’s”. The migration has become

In the early 1900’s America begin to transform rapidly. Many immigrants started moving to the United States in the early 1900’s with the hopes of living the “American Dream.” However, that glittering and gleaming American lifestyle is merely a distant ideal for the immigrants living in Packingtown, the meatpacking district of Chicago. Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle portrays life through the eyes of a poor workingman struggling to survive in this cruel, tumultuous environment, where the desire for

African-Americans attempted to establish themselves and prove to whites that they were capable citizens. Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association emphasized racial pride and economic self-help, and Booker T. Washington, leading spokesperson for the plight of African-Americans, told blacks to ignore racial slurs and inferiority comments while working to build self-dignity and worth. Washington believed that in order to identify themselves, they had to cooperate with whites and gain respect over time