Sentences with phrase «first immigrants lived»

Located on 97 Orchard Street in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, these very humble multi family dwellings show how these first immigrants lived.

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The order is likely to grant legal status to nearly half of the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the U.S., giving many access for the first time to legitimate work visas, or protection from deportation.

Russ Ivanov, a Russian immigrant living in Vancouver, was surfing the web for news from his homeland back in 2009 when he first read about the crazy plan.

He was often recognized as an outstanding local hero in the first stop for thousands of Cuban refugees, an area that is now home to thousands of Central American immigrants who also seek a better life in the United States.

For example, books reviewed in the first months of 1910 included Herbert Croly's The Promise of American Life; Education in the Far East, by Charles F. Thwing; a philosophical study titled Religion and the Modern Mind, by Frank Carleton Doan; Jane Addams's The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets; The Immigrant Tide, by Edward Steiner; Medical Inspectors of Schools (a Russel Sage Foundation study); A. Modern City (a scientific study of that phenomenon), by William Kirk; The Leading Facts of American History, by D. H. Montgomery; and Jack London's collection of short stories, Lost Face.

But my world was different from that of my immigrant parents, let alone the first - century world Jesus had lived in 2,000 years earlier.

«This was the immigrant boy whose first act in Britain was to discard his name Adolphe because of its associations with Hitler, and become Ralph, and who helped his father earn a living rescuing furniture from bombed houses in the Blitz.»

I am a first generation immigrant, and that is how I see the people around me, I can clearly weigh my options and see that my prospects of living here are more reasonable than my home country.

He said turning down the job was the «second most difficult thing I have ever done in my life,» noting the first was his decision to leave his native Portugal at the age of 17 as an undocumented immigrant to come to the United States.

The bill was also denounced by Hector Lopez, the president of the Westchester Hispanic Law Enforcement Association, the county's largest law enforcement group representing Hispanic officers, and County Attorney Robert Meehan, who first raised concerns about the law establishing a sanctuary for undocumented immigrants living in the county.

He performed the first of these inoculations in 1891, on a patient named Zola, an Italian immigrant with a tumor «the size of a small hen's egg» in his right tonsil, who likely had only weeks to live.

In America, the Chinese community is represented by all walks of life educated and unschooled, Buddhist and Christian, immigrant and American - born, first generation to sixth.

(Italy) George Harrison: Living In The Material World, music documentary directed by Martin Scorsese (USA) Goodbye First Love, directed by Mia Hansen - Løve, tracks a first love over eight years (France / Germany) Pina, directed by Wim Wenders, which is a 3D dance film and tribute to Pina Bausch (Germany / France / UK) Play, directed by Ruben Östlund, which is a provocative movie about African immigrants taking advantage of Swedish peacefulness (Sweden) Policeman, directed by Nadav Lapid, which includes wealthy anarchists and anti-terrorist police (Israel / France) Sleeping Sickness, directed by Ulrich Köhler who won Best Director at the Berlin Film FestFirst Love, directed by Mia Hansen - Løve, tracks a first love over eight years (France / Germany) Pina, directed by Wim Wenders, which is a 3D dance film and tribute to Pina Bausch (Germany / France / UK) Play, directed by Ruben Östlund, which is a provocative movie about African immigrants taking advantage of Swedish peacefulness (Sweden) Policeman, directed by Nadav Lapid, which includes wealthy anarchists and anti-terrorist police (Israel / France) Sleeping Sickness, directed by Ulrich Köhler who won Best Director at the Berlin Film Festfirst love over eight years (France / Germany) Pina, directed by Wim Wenders, which is a 3D dance film and tribute to Pina Bausch (Germany / France / UK) Play, directed by Ruben Östlund, which is a provocative movie about African immigrants taking advantage of Swedish peacefulness (Sweden) Policeman, directed by Nadav Lapid, which includes wealthy anarchists and anti-terrorist police (Israel / France) Sleeping Sickness, directed by Ulrich Köhler who won Best Director at the Berlin Film Festival.

Brooklyn, adapted by Nick Hornby from the Colm Tóibín novel concerns a young Irish immigrant in New York named Eilis Lacey, who finds that when her old life comes a-calling, there's more to like about her new life than she may have first ex... more

Brooklyn, adapted by Nick Hornby from the Colm Tóibín novel concerns a young Irish immigrant in New York named Eilis Lacey, who finds that when her old life comes a-calling, there's more to like about her new life than she may have first ex...

Highlights of the partnership include Kartemquin's first film, Home for Life, labor struggle film The Last Pullman Car, James's Grassroots Chicago, and seven - hour immigrant story The New Americans.

Daughter to Mexican immigrant parents who were in search of a better life in the U.S., and as a first - generation college student, this year and this award have been beyond our wildest dreams.

With that assistance, my students composed essays where their lives leapt from the page: the multiyear flight from Iraq; the transformation from a shy immigrant to confident school changemaker and journalist; the magical experience of seeing snow for the first time.

I would submit that it's the only way a nation of immigrants can cohesively prosper in a society that first established the concepts of individual rights and a live - and - let - live philosophy.

At least at Achievement First Hartford Academy, many parents are immigrants, and they're doing whatever they can to ensure that their kids go to college and lead successful lives.

Education Northwest Researcher Claudia Rodriguez - Mojica delivered an inspirational closing session on her life as a daughter of Mexican immigrants and her experience as the first child in her family to attend college.

The news is backed up by recent deals with major publishers for first novels, like Mango Bride by Marivi Soliven, an immigrant tale of two women, two cultures, family secrets and the fight to find a new life in America, sold to NAL this year by veteran agent Jill Marsal.

The Book of Unknown Americans By Cristina Henríquez Vintage • $ 14.95 • ISBN 9780345806406 Told in alternating first - person voices, Henríquez's poignant novel examines the dreams and challenges of immigrant families who have fled to America in search of a better life.

The character is at once dealing with a very specific situation — being a first - generation immigrant, negotiating the tricky divide between traditional family ways and the life of an American teenager — and something very universal, the need for teenagers to find their own identity and place in the world.

Danger, regret, and hope lurk on every deck, from steerage to first class, of an 1847 ship full of Irish immigrants desperate for a new life in America.

Pura Belpré, the first Puerto Rican librarian hired by the New York Public Library, introduced immigrants living in El Barrio to the library and hosted the neighborhood's first Three Kings» Day fiesta.

The Pew Research Center reported that in 2014 the United States deported more than 400,000 of the 11 million illegal immigrants living in the country, often detaining them first for varying lengths of time.

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.

The first thing i noticed was that they re-painted all their walls, then I walk into the living room and I noticed a Wii plugged into their T.V. My dad is a 53 year old mexican immigrant and my mom is forty something and from mexico.

It is being presented in November, the same month as the U.S. presidential election of 2016, and involves a collaboration with Latina seamstresses who are immigrants or first - generation Americans living in the city of Chicago.

Dave Mann shows prints that reflect on his grandfathers who were first and second generation immigrants from Sweden and Germany and the hard work involved in setting up lives as Americans.

«When I first arrived to New York City, its rich and diverse cultural landscape helped me make sense of my life as a queer Latino immigrant and connected me to networks of like - minded people,» Casals said in a statement.

However, as a practical step in improving access to justice, this decision will result in more people — in particular, women, disabled people, First Nations people and immigrants, who are less likely be able to afford hearing fees — gaining access to the justice system without having to compromise their everyday cost of living.

Medical Insurance for Green Card Holders in the USA If you are a new US immigrant and entering to US for the first time, or a green card holder but living outside of US and visiting the US for a short duration, travel medical insurance can provide you the temporary health coverage you need.

Respondents who have a second child are also more likely to have had their first child at a younger age, to have been partnered at the time of the first child, to have been immigrants, and to have lived in West Germany than in East Germany.

As Eskimos supposedly «rub noses» in lieu of a handshake, and Italians brought with them as immigrants in the early 60's, the custom of kissing BOTH cheeks, (totally foreign, and invasive, to many living here already) and in our own culture, the etiquette requirement for a man never to shake hands with a woman unless she offers her hand FIRST; each culture has its own idiosyncrasies and lexicon puzzles.

The Austrian - born immigrant, who came to Canada in 1953, would be the first to say that much of the company's success is due to the strong bond of his family, whose lives are rooted in real estate, and that Re / Max is the common thread that binds them.

Purchasing in an unfamiliar market can be daunting, whether investing internationally, seeking vacation property, or a first generation immigrant living in the U.S.