Sentences with phrase «generation immigrant american»

Leon said that, with God's blessing, we can see that all of us - «whether brown, black or white, male or female, first generation immigrant American or Daughter of the American Revolution, gay or straight, rich or poor» - are made in God's image.

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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 subtext is clear: Hispanics are assimilating to American life much like previous generations of newcomers and as successfully as the so - called «model» Asian immigrants.

I was born in Chicago and I'm fourth - generation American, but still I will receive these questions that my friend, a recent immigrant from Poland, never will receive.

Our nation has assimilated into the mainstream of American life generations of immigrants» many fleeing poverty and oppression in their native lands.

So she conducted her research at two sites, one of them a more or less typical second - generation congregation (which she calls «Grace») that meets in the same building as its parent Korean immigrant congregation, and the other («Manna») a predominantly Asian American but remarkably multiethnic congregation that meets in a building owned by an African - American congregation.

Our nation has assimilated into the mainstream of American life generations of immigrants — many fleeing poverty and oppression in their native lands.

As second - generation immigrants grow up in the United States and attend American schools, they turn to American brands to serve their grocery and other retail needs.

With municipal ID's and driver's licenses, undocumented immigrants today would be able to better provide for their families, contribute more to the economy and fully integrate into the American mainstream, just as generations of immigrants to this country have before them.»

Coffey, who is a first generation Irish American, has been speaking out about immigrant issues.

Expect to Hear More About: Young Kim's story: A first - generation Korean American immigrant, Kim has raised nearly a half - million dollars from her network of supporters in Orange County.

Some longtime acquaintances of the Mengs in Flushing, many of them members of Mr. Meng's generation of Chinese - American immigrants, say they believe that Mr. Meng still wields influence over his daughter and clout as a fund - raising dynamo.

With 100 percent of precincts reporting, the first - generation Korean American immigrant held a commanding 12 - point advantage.

Kim, a first - generation Korean - American immigrant, earned the highest vote percentage of any GOP legislative challenger in the June 3rd primary, garnering 55 percent of the vote in the Democratic district.

In this sample, 92 were first - generation immigrants; the rest were second - generation American - born, with the majority (105 participants) identifying Pakistan as their heritage country.

For more than three centuries, we have welcomed generations of immigrants to our melting pot of hyphenated America British - Americans Italian - Americans.

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.

Behlmer, who grew up in Hollywood not far from Glen Glenn and Todd O - A, is a first - generation American, the daughter of Italian immigrants.

To break the grip of stereotype, Kim offers the following suggestions for teachers of Asian American students, which can be extended to teachers of all recent - immigrant and first - generation students as well:

Of those Latino students, more than half will be second - generation Americans, born in the United States to at least one parent who is an immigrant.

In a class with immigrant and first - generation Asian American students, educators need to have a broad sense of the difficulties that these children might be facing.

She recently completed a study of 68 second - generation Chinese Americans in the New York City area, looking at their various paths to college and the role their immigrant parents played in their development.

«It's an attractive idea in a lot of ways,» says Harvard Graduate School of Education Assistant Professor Vivian Louie, whose research looks at the role of the immigrant family in the educational experiences of second - generation Chinese Americans who are consistently presented as high academic achievers.

experience has undoubtedly shaped Rodriguez — a first - generation American immigrant from Panama who was transformed by public education — inspiring him to pursue not only an education career but also his own education as a leader.

Despite Huntington's thorough presentation of the evidence, I am not convinced that the research shows that the process of assimilation - in particular, the acquisition of language and improvements in student achievement - is proceeding any slower among second - and third - generation Mexican - Americans than it did among other immigrants from peasant and village and small - town backgrounds.

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.

With grace and respect, Gilbert manages to address the existential quandaries of both second - generation American teens and their immigrant parents who must make profoundly life - changing choices to give their children the best life possible.

Writes Cooking columnist Sybil Pratt, «Believing that the best, most iconic dishes are passed down hand to hand, generation to generation, she's collected 200 recipes that celebrate the regional traditions that waves of immigrants have brought, and still bring, to the American heartland.»

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.

*** FIRST PLACE WINNER of the Florida Writers Association 2014 Royal Palm Literary Award for Biography - Published *** Begotten With Love is a sometime turbulent, sometime rollicking story spanning 150 years of American history and five generations of an immigrant's family.

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.

In conjunction with the show, the gallery will present a panel discussion with Eileen Truax, author of Dreamers: An Immigrant Generation's Fight for Their American Dream.

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.

Grounded in Parlá's personal first - generation Cuban American immigrant family story and an ever - evolving practice that concerns exiled communities and their contribution to America, Roots offers a new visual relationship with its pictorially contemplative environment in order to consider connections between local history and the past, present, and future.

Welling Court, in Queens, NYC is a city block where three - family homes intermingle with small family owned business — a nice old - fashioned model with today's 1st and 2nd generation immigrants taking a crack at an American dream.

Each book will have the name of a first - or second - generation immigrant to the United States who has made notable contributions to American art and culture embossed in gold on the spine.

Born and raised in Chicago, Podesta was the eldest child to a Greek - American mother and first - generation Italian immigrant father.

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.

San Francisco Supervisor Norman Yee today recognized firm partner Minette Kwok as a District 7 Asian Pacific American Heritage Month honoree for her leadership advocating for immigrant families and mentoring the next generation of Asian American leaders.

Born to Italian immigrants, my Mom did what most 1st generation Italian - American kids do: she joined the family Environmental Drilling business (honestly, she probably started there around age 6 - labeling soil sample jars).

I am a first - generation Chinese - American daughter of immigrant parents.

The Irish, Italian, German, and other immigrants from the late 1800s and early 1900s melded into our society and are now second -, third -, and fourth - generation Americans buying and selling real estate.

As a first - generation American, Palacios Smith now empowers people of color and immigrants who want to achieve homeownership, start a real estate career, or become a broker of their own company.