Sentences with phrase «first generation americans»

Both Georgette nor Sebastian are young, articulate and intelligent young people whosestatus as first generation Americans, and the first in their families to attend college backgrounds mean that they lacked role models for how to finesse networking in corporate America.

Both Andrew and I are first generation Americans and were raised by immigrant parents so we have a lot of family abroad and spent a lot of our childhood visiting our parents» home towns.

What helped create LendUp — our mission, our values, and our success saving working class Americans millions of dollars, improving credit scores, and delivering over a million financial education courses — came from the hard work of LendUp's 200 + employees — whether their families have lived in the US for years, they come from a line of immigrants, are first generation Americans or they're here on visas and work permits.

Lisa, as a Midwestern daughter of first generation Americans — a Dane and a Sicilian, talk about culturally confused — it's possible my heritage couldn't be farther from yours.

I'm a 30 something first generation american getting tired of the 9 to 5 grind and looking for ways to transition to a lifestyle that's not paycheck dependent.

I am a first generation american, born to Egytian parents, one of whom is a coptic orthodox (the other catholic).

Reem Assil, a first generation American chef who was featured in our March issue, talks about building up her business and the crazy - good Levantine flatbread she makes, topped with all sorts of beautiful California produce.

He is also the personification of CUNY's mission — a first generation American who went to Brooklyn College and became the first in his family to earn a degree.

«This flag should not offend anybody» said Brabenec, a first generation American whose parents and grandparents lived through Nazi Germany and Communism in Eastern Europe before making their way to the United States to provide a better life for their family.

Roque De La Fuente is a first generation American born at Mercy Hospital in San Diego, California.

Roque De La Fuente, a first generation American, was born at Mercy Hospital in San Diego, California.

I am a first generation American, with Native american and German heritage.

He's young, he's in New York, he's first generation American.

Lee Krasner was creating her art as one of the few woman - artists - together with Eline De Kooning - of the first generation American Abstract Expressionism.

I am a first generation American of Haitian and Dominican decent.

My parents are Mexican, my sister and I are first generation American and we both attended the Lycée Français de New York.

As a first generation American, I wonder if it has to do with immigrants needing / wanting to stick together to keep their old traditions and cultures alive.

I read this book as a first generation American, who was instilled with the concept that «only in America» can one be really free.

I'm a 30 something first generation american getting tired of the 9 to 5 grind and looking for ways to transition to a lifestyle that's not paycheck dependent.

I am a first generation American citizen.

Although many modern day Pit Bull Terriers have retained some characteristic of the first generation American Pit Bulls, they also have many differences.

• Dr. Jessica Rivera, a first generation American whose parents emigrated from El Salvador, was born and raised in New Jersey.

Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio (born 1990, Los Angeles) is a first generation American of Salvadoran descent whose work focuses on the Salvadoran diaspora and related themes.

Abdul Mazid, a first generation American of Syrian and Mexican decent, mines his experience growing up in America as well as his study of economics for source material, to explore complexities of identity.

As a first generation American, my grandfather was proud to pay his taxes.

Gerald G. Arze is a first generation American born to parents who emigrated from the South American country of Bolivia in 1969.

Ortega, a first generation American with two Venezuelan parents, felt guilty as a privileged American during the turmoil in her family's country.

Fairfax, VA, USA About Blog As a first generation American, Attorney Beeraj Patel understands firsthand through life experience the struggles of all those who are entangled at any stage of the immigration process.

Bebe Boomers is an innovative term for the rapidly growing Latino population, whose parents have established roots in the U.S. and are first generation American citizens.

I'm a first generation American.

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For the last seven years he has served full - time as president of Cristo Rey Brooklyn HS, which educates minority students, mostly immigrants or first - generation Americans of modest means.

The first generation, led by Kim Jong Un's grandfather Kim Il Sung, were the true revolutionaries who fought the Japanese and Americans and built North Korea.

Hondal is a first generation Cuban - American with a Bachelor's Degree in Finance and International Business and an MBA from Florida International University.

Zorrilla is a first - generation American from a tight - knit family in the Bronx — her father did odd jobs, and her mother owns a nail salon, where Zorrilla ran the desk and booked appointments.

They also watched a documentary about Japanese business, which warned that — unless the United States improved its productivity — the next generation of Americans would be the first to experience a declining standard of living.

Before the age of 10, DeJoria, a first - generation American, sold Christmas cards and newspapers to help support his family.

He was the first American journalist to report from Mogadishu, Somalia on the worst famine of a generation and recently took our viewers into Iran, getting rare access to the streets of Tehran.

Pai said after a staff review he was urging approval for SpaceX, saying: «it would be the first approval given to an American - based company to provide broadband services using a new generation of low - Earth orbit satellite technologies.

What would become Brascan, and then Brookfield Asset Management, first invested in a tramway system in Sao Paulo in 1899 before it became a major player in power generation and utilities in the South American country.

Bloomberg reports that the American solar industry had a record first quarter in 2016, and for the first time, it drove the majority of new power generation.

«Millennials are the first generation that isn't afraid to fight for equality in the workplace and this study confirms that they are starting to close the gender pay gap that has existed in the American society for decades.

Symbolically and scientifically, Neil Armstrong's first steps on the moon spurred a generation of American advancement.

He is the first American second - generation astronaut.

With American corporations eliminating more than 84,000 pension plans since 1985, and with the stock market experiencing over a decade of unprecedented volatility, Cheryl was acutely aware of how important this decision had become for what is the first generation in history required to self - fund their retirement.

Surely to have a renaissance, you have to have had a naissance, somewhere along the line, and that golden - age generation was the first, really, to assemble all the pieces necessary to be both fully American and fully Catholic writers.

For the first time, today's graduates are facing an American economy that is not promising to be more financially successful than that of the previous generation.

Whereas the first generation of Latin American liberation theologians was made up primarily of Roman Catholic priests and other male religious leaders, today there are many voices speaking from the perspective of gender or incorporating the rich symbols inherited from a pre-Columbian or an African heritage.

While historians have welcomed Appleby's nuanced study of how the War for Independence altered the lives of ordinary Americans (Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans), an even broader and more appreciative audience has made David McCullough's biography of John Adams a run away best seller.

The first generation of Americans, the ones who sacrificed everything of an immanent nature in the effort to capture the true meaning of existential order, intimately understood the realty of that order they established, and the symbols they created, specifically «freedom» and «liberty».

To answer this question we will first look at the sociological conditions that contributed for many generations to the influential role of these denominations in American society.