Throughout the history of immigration, New York city has become a city which contains most various ethnic groups and immigrants around the world. Yet, New York City has formed various divisions of neighborhood due to its diversity. ... Flushing, a neighborhood in the north-central part of the New York City borough of Queens, is a large commercial and retail area and is the fourth largest central business district in New York City. ... The political stature of Flushing appears to be increasing significantly, with many Chinese from Flushing becoming New York City Council members. ... Flushing f...

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The vast majority of immigrants, who lived in cities, lived in tenements. ... Up to 4,000 people lived on some city blocks. ... (Comment, "How The Other Half Lives", New York City/East European Jews/At Work). ... They played a crucial role in the building of the modern infrastructure of the city including Grand Central Station. ... (Comments, "Italians in America", New York City/Italians/At Work) Italian railroad gangs endured primitive living conditions, often building their own housing or living in windowless boxcars, which attracted strong concern from social reformers. ...

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Bilingual ballots are not needed by numerous people. Why squander millions of taxpayer's dollars for ballots to be translated with a high possibility of translation errors? Who knows why? The focal ground in stopping bilingual ballot production is that they are unneeded. To become apart of the c...

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Ozick's essay "The Synthetic Sublime- talks about New York's disappearances and reappearances every 75-100 years as a new city with new immigrants, new pursuits, and new shapes, faithfully inconstant by the ambition that builds the city. "A farmer arriving from Italy to set up a small grocery store in a slum, or a young girl arriving from a small town in Mississippi to escape the indignity of being observed by her neighbors, or a boy arriving from the Corn Belt with a manuscript in his suitcase and a pain in his heart,"" are some of the ambitious people that make up New York. Some o...

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"Back, but not home" is an article which was appeared on the New York Times. The passage told us the author, Maria Muniz, her own experiences as a new immigrant's homesick feeling of her original country and culture conflict in the new country. In her passage, she said: "Like all immigrants, my ...

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By 1873, Riss managed to become a reporter for the New York Associated News. ... "The other half" that Riis refers to is the city's poor population whose lifestyle was largely unknown to New York's Prestigious because they simply did not care to know. Riis attempts to effectively analyze the status of New York City's tenements and tenants in the late nineteenth century, which had grown to be largely problematic. ... In chapter III, "The Mixed Crowd", Riis discusses the effects that immigration has had on New York and attempts to assess the manner in which each ethnic group has...

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We came to New York as foreigners and made the city our home. ... We had come to New York, and this was our home now. There was a large Italian community there already, and this made us want to stay in the city, vice venturing out into the unknown lands. ... These were the years when America's cities evolved into complex mosaics of ethnic neighborhoods (Schultz, 2012, p.306). ... We came to New York as foreigners and made the city our own. ...

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The importance of immigration to New York and the effects its had on the rest of the United States lies heavily on that of their own country. ... As in 1855 - Castle Garden was created in New York. ... Then in 1860 New York became "the largest Irish city in the world". ...

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Rapid urbanization lead to many problems such as results of city growth, rise of political bosses and boss William Tweed. Results of city growth which is in late 1800s, the middle and upper class moved to suburbs. ... Rise of political bosses included political machine, an unofficial city organization usually headed by a powerful boss. ... He was liked by the immigrants but he disappointed people because he cheated New York City out of $100 million from taxes. ...

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A small community of Jews originally settled in a small place called New Amsterdam (now known as New York). In 1763 the population of New York had grown to be around 2.5 million people. ... Most of them found work as laborers in the growing cities. The Germans settled mainly in the expanding Midwest, mainly as farmers or workers in cities such as Cincinnati and St.Louis. ...

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Becoming American: The Chinese Experience, reaction paper Race is a group of people united or classified together on a basis of common history, nationality, or geographic distribution. As you continue on reading I"m going to tell you a little about people of the Chinese race and their strugg...

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Along with the increase in manufacturing came the movement of thousands into large cities. The new found industrialization provided a growing need for more workers, leading to the population spike in the large cities such as New York and Chicago. ... Along with development in the economic sector of these thriving cities came political reforms. ... Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, and finally New York City all had populations over half a million people. ... The biggest cities were often home to these migrants. ...

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When you hear the word Sweatshop you begin to see pictures of small, dangerous, and dirty factories in the lower eastside of New York. ... The General Accounting office went on raids of garment sweatshops with the federal and state labor law investigators in New York City and Los Angeles. ... In nineteen eleven New York's Triangle Shirtwaist factory went up in flames. ... Many big cities have large numbers of sweatshops because of the high populations of immigrants in those areas. ...

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The largest concentration of Italian immigrants was in New York. ... The larger cities offered more job opportunities for them. If we look at the top five cities chosen you will see they are all large urban areas. The top Italian populated city in 1900 was New York City with 145,433 this is by far much higher than the other cities (Lord, 1905). New York is followed by Philadelphia with 17,830. ...

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Most of the Italian immigrants went through New York's Ellis Island. ... One stairway for immigrants who were going to New Jersey, and one for going to New York. ... The immigrants mostly settled in New York, New Jersey, California, Pennsylvania, and Florida. ... New York had many immigrants who in time began to adapt to the new culture and most of these permanently in the U.S. ... Immigrants went to neighborhoods, cities, and regions where they lived with other Italians. ...

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Chinese began to cluster together in ghettos of American cities and towns for survival, which were the forerunners of today's Chinatowns. ... Major cities like New York, Boston, and Chicago began attracting the immigrants. ...

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When they arrived in Boston, as in other cities, they were forced to stay "with there own kind". ... Then in 1915 he was elected sheriff of New York, after two terms he was elected the Board of Alderman, then finally governor of New York in 1920. While governor he changed the city around to be more "Irish friendly". ...

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Prior to the Civil War, three-quarters of the immigrants coming to the United States arrived at the Eastern seaports of New York, Philadelphia and Boston. ... There was a great demand for laborers to help construct America's cities and railways, and tasks formerly performed by skilled workers were now being done in mechanized factories with unskilled workers....

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America has been known as the land that welcomes in newcomers with open arms. Every year, there are well over a million immigrants that enter our country expecting to receive all the benefits of a citizen without going through the arduous process of becoming a legal citizen. Because if the shocking ...

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Known as the "Roaring Twenties", the 1920s in America was overall a decade of great prosperity and optimism following the First World War. It was a phrase used to describe the period of sustained economic, cultural, and social success that existed in 1920s United States. The decade brought new forms...

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States like California, Arizona, New York, etc. have the highest number of immigrants using welfare and food stamps. In Welfare Use by Immigrant Households with Children stated, "The states where immigrant households with children have the highest welfare use rates are Arizona (62 percent); Texas, California, and New York (61 percent); Pennsylvania (59 percent); Minnesota and Oregon (56 percent); and Colorado (55 percent).... Unless we act to change our country's immigration policies, U.S. population will double this century - practically within the lifetimes of children born today.5...

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According to PBS, The Civil War and Reconstruction, "By 1860, New York was home to over one million residents. More than half of the city's population at that time was immigrants and their American-born children." ... A majority of cities were flooded by this intense wave of immigration, increasing the population of immigrants living in America and making it more difficult for politicians and the government to create legislation, making it necessary that the needs of these immigrants be addressed properly. ...

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It is very hard to your place in life, even at home, is not it? In the past, immigration was virtually impossible due to the strict rules of countries; however, nowadays people can travel or even immigrate to anywhere in the world. People can be provoked to immigrate by a number of reasons such as p...

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Illegal Immigration Throughout its history, the United States has received more immigrants from more countries than any other nation. Unfortunately, a lot of them are illegal. Demographer Andrew Sum and his colleagues at Northeastern University, who are recognized by the Immigration & Naturaliza...

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The average American citizen never really interacted with immigrants because they always lived in the sections of the city that were segregated. ... There were five schools in the Jewish sector of New York with 93% Jewish students attending (AIE, Educating the Jewish Young People). ...

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