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Overview (Salinas): Kean University is a public university located in Union, New Jersey and was founded in 1855. Kean University offers many different services to their students enrolled, including one of the most popular department on campus, The Office of Financial Aid. The Office of Financial Aid is devoted to offering different services and information to students attending Kean. Located on first floor of the Administration Building, The Office of Financial Aid is open Monday through

The Ellis Island website (http://www.libertyellisfoundation.org/passenger) has a searchable database that begins in 1892 and goes through 1957. A powerful tool available for free is Stephen Morse’s One Step webpage (http://stevemorse.org/). His site has the ability to search Ancestry databases for New York as well as other ports if you have a subscription. On his site you have the capability to search the Ellis Island database with additional search terms. Some of the options include: ship name

entered the United States as a way to conquer new opportunities and live a better life that mirrors the American Dream . Ellis Island is a small island that sits in the S hadow of The Statue of Liberty right off the tip of Manhattan by the coast of New Jersey within the New York Harbor. It was the major harbor for immigrant’s entry, all who came, arrived by steamboats and had one to two weeks of travel. On the steamboat the passengers were divided according to wealth and class. The staterooms and cabins

1808, as America was preparing for war with Great Britain, the state of New York purchased the island and gave ownership to the federal government. In 1834, Ellis Island was declared a part of the New York State, even though it was mainly on the New Jersey side. Before Ellis Island opened as an immigration center, it was used by the military. British fleets were allowed to freely sail into the New York harbor. During this time, it was known as “Fort Gibson,” in honor of a brave officer who died in the

The author of the monograph “The Long Way Home: An American Journey from Ellis Island to the Great War” is David Laskin. Laskin, born in New York, attended the New College, Oxford and received his MA in English in 1977. Laskin is an American writer of books about history, travel, weather, gardens and literary biography. In his book “The Long Way Home”, Laskin shares the struggles the immigrants had to face in the New World; an endeavor to start over in the land of opportunities, and the ordeal of

The Long Way Home: an American journey from Ellis Island to the Great War is a book written by David Laskin. Laskin is an American writer who has graduated from elite schools like Harvard and Oxford. He has written 19 books in his lifetime that capture diverse categories starting from weather and gardens to American history. In this book, Laskin focuses his attention on the history of 12 immigrants in which he examines their experience in the United States. Laskin uses the story of these immigrants

Ridley College. Later on, he studied Economics at Western University, Ontario. In the year 1971, Greg Aziz joined his family wholesale food business, Affiliated Foods. The company, a worldwide importer, imports fresh foods from Europe, Central and South America and distributes in United Estates and Eastern Canada. In New York, in the late 80s and early 90s, he played a variety of roles in investment banking. In 1994, he purchased National Steel Car, once the great Canadian Company from Dofasco. He

Stephen Crane's Theme of Community Stephen Crane is well known in the literary world for his many underlying themes. In Stephan Crane's "The Open Boat," one of the many themes that can be seen is that of community. He brings to life the importance of the each individual's role in the group setting. Crane uses a dire situation in which men's lives are in the hands of each other to show that without group togetherness no one would make it. He shows the group being given false hopes from outside

Community Windshield Survey The community I have chosen for this paper is The South ward of Newark, New Jersey where the hospital which I work is located. Newark is an urban community consists of primarily of African American and Hispanic population. The South Ward of Newark and contains 17 public schools, five daycare centers, three branch libraries, one police precinct, and three fire houses (City of Newark New Jersey, 2013). The city’s property and violet crime levels tend to be higher than New

Despite all the bad publicity such as the survey which names Newark, New Jersey as the most unfriendliness city in the world, more than places like Islamabad, Pakistan; Oakland, CA; Luanda, Angola; and Kuwait City, Kuwait. In my opinion, Newark is a great place to live for many reasons that I will discuss later in this paper. However, the forty- six thousand readers of Conde Nast Travelers magazine who participated in the survey probably named Newark as the most unfriendliness place on the planet