With the infamous potato famine wreaking havoc back home, the United States, having far better economic opportunities than Ireland, became home to the largest independent female migration in American history. ... In addition to factory jobs, Irish women also worked in mills and took up domestic work in American citizens' private homes. ... Imagine living in shacks, with a mere few feet between you and all neighboring shacks, sleeping on dirt floors with nothing but some bedding between you and the earth. ... Although not all followed this way of living, some Irish immigrant families adopt...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

From being American born to immigrating in the later years of your life, it is not difficult to make America your home; if you really want to. ... Bharati explains how America has become her home and she has "married it" (Mukharjee, 46) and given up her entire Indian culture, however Mira who hasn't devoted herself to the country still feels a love for her birth country and doesn't want to abandon it. ... At first I struggled to even become friends with my peers at school, and when I finally did the activities that came along with having friends like playing sports, joinin...

• Word Count: 938
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Phillip Randolph (the president of the brotherhood of sleeping car porters) organized and unified separate protests and directed to the national government. ... African American roles: People at home. Lastly I want to examine few aspects of African Americans at home. During World War II, African Americans endure the dual tasks of fighting the axis and discrimination in Europe and at home in America. ... The role of African Americans at home during World War II is similar if not parallel to any American at home during the war...

• Word Count: 1502
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Phillip Randolph (the president of the brotherhood of sleeping car porters) organized and unified separate protests and directed to the national government. ... African American roles: People at home. Lastly I want to examine few aspects of African Americans at home. During World War II, African Americans endure the dual tasks of fighting the axis and discrimination in Europe and at home in America. ... The role of African Americans at home during World War II is similar if not parallel to any American at home during the war...

• Word Count: 1502
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Ever since the 1950s, when television entered American homes and Rock "n" Roll music polluted the airwaves and the minds of young hooligans, the language in music and on television has been an issue of hot debate. ... When television was introduced into American homes in the 1950's, all shows were filmed live and it was not possible to edit them before people watched them. ... Another example from the 50s is on the situation comedy I Love Lucy, in which the show's married main characters had to sleep in twin beds, so as to not make any suggestions that they had a physical relations...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

That meant that the police could not arrest children for running away from home. ... Programs such as "Children of the Night", a non-profit organization that participates nationwide in court cases prosecuting vile pimps who force children towards becoming prostitutes for food and a place to sleep. ...

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Her son, who suffers from an auditory processing disorder, came home from school in tears because his class had increased so much in size that he could not understand the teacher (Resmovits). ... One program that does a remarkably successful job of making children with disabilities feel included and "normal" is the local sleep-away camp, Camp Holiday Trails. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Thus, we employ it to describe those sleeping outdoors in any of a variety of makeshifts, or residing in temporary accommodations like the police-station lodgings of earlier generations or the emergency shelters of the present day (Baumohl 3). ... These shelters take a variety of forms such as armories, schools, churches, government buildings, former firehouses, and can also include temporary vouchers that are provided by public and private agencies, even hotels, apartments, or boarding homes. ... Still others define homelessness as being without shelter, but this definition reduces the serio...

• Word Count: 4318
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"The fact is that the automobile has become hypnotic...the opium of the American people." - Fortune Magazine Table of Contents Introduction The Rise of the Automobile The Styling Redesign The Role of Attainable Pricing for the Masses The Emerging American Obsession The Impact on the Nuclear Fami...

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For many years now, pondering minds have questioned the thought of having marijuana, or cannabis sativa, listed as another medicinal drug. Some say that marijuana can not be used as a medicine and that there is no evidence of its medicinal purpose; But on the other hand, there are those who think di...

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One of the most cherished rights of Americans would be the right to privacy, yet many working class Americans, unfortunately, have been subject to their rights being disrupted and their privacy being invaded at their workplace. One major issue that has existed and still exists in the workforce of America is civil liberties violations. According to her book Nickel and Dimed: On not getting by in America, Barbara Ehrenreich writes that "What surprised and offended me the most about the low-wage workplace was the extent to which one is required to surrender one's basic civil rights and-...

• Word Count: 2476
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Undergraduate