Sentences with phrase «great immigrant story»

For a great immigrant story I recommend The Rug Merchant and for a hysterically baudy muse story try Breath and Bones by Susan Cokall.

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«In a year where politicians traffic in anti-immigrant rhetoric, there is also a Broadway musical reminding us that a broke, orphan immigrant from the West Indies built our financial system, a story that reminds us that since the beginning of the great unfinished symphony that is our American experiment, time and time again, immigrants get the job done.»

Great crime story about 2 young Chinese immigrants who find themselves drawn into the world of gangs and violence.

Nearly 80 years later, the story continues to have great resonance, as America once again grapples with issues of civil liberties and the rights of immigrants.

His new book, A Nation of Nations: A Great American Immigration Story (Simon & Schuster), recounts the impact on America of the 1965 Immigration Act, which officially opened the country's doors to immigrants of color.

It's hardly surprising that stories of immigrants to the Land of the Free have such a proud cinematic history: the immigrant experience has everything - risk, longing, regret, hope, danger - that makes for great drama.

But the story certainly involves Gruber's great love for his grandfather, a Hungarian immigrant who put him to work in the family's first deli when Ziggy was just a boy.

As most months, there was lots of great work being done, including stories about restorative justice, Betsy DeVos, schools that cut corners to make adults look good, and immigrant and refugee students:

For example, there's a character in the story named Simon Rich, and the pickled immigrant is his great - great - grandfather, and if you think that sounds too silly to be very funny, then maybe you should fall into a vat of something vinegary and see how it feels.

She comes from a family of immigrants and grew up listening to stories about how her great - grandparents came to the United States.

Great America Dreaming also includes stories, photoessays, monologues, and cartoon narratives about the immigrant experience produced by high school students in Chicago, Tucson, Oakland, and Casco, Maine.