Sentences with phrase «immigrant experience»

Within this unit, students read and hear literature of immigrant experience.

Our society and its schools ought to celebrate the rich history of our communities and aim to build on immigrant experiences to produce the latest example of an American success story.

The resulting work touches on the universal immigrant experience of friends assuming the roles of absent family members.

Bridging the Gap: a new group exhibition of three promising Korean women artists exploring issues of Korean identity, ties to ones mother country, and the diversity of immigrant experiences in New York City.

Artist Statement As a culturally displaced artist myself, I have been drawn to the theme of cultural displacement and identity and to social psychological and cross-cultural studies that are heavily influenced by immigrant experiences and by the interaction between people and space.

Students explore traveling across the Atlantic in steerage in 1914 and write a diary entry about immigrant experiences.

Hosseini's stunning debut novel starts as an eloquent Afghan version of the American immigrant experience in the late 20th century, but betrayal and redemption come to the forefront when the narrator, a writer, returns to his ravaged homeland to rescue the son of his childhood friend after the boy's parents are shot during the Taliban takeover in the mid»90s.

An unflinching portrayal of the Korean immigrant experience from an extraordinary new talent in fiction.

Rated of 5 by lani Filipino immigrant experience For fans of third world literature, you might want to dive into this novel for there seems to be a void of Filipino novels.

Also, Gray's romantic realist mode offers a take on the US immigrant experience which suggests that holy innocents with a good face and vulnerable demeanour will be scooped up on a wave of admiration and charity.

With sensitivity and grit, The Secret of the Grain celebrates the role food plays in family life and gets to the core of contemporary immigrant experience.

Crossover: East and West is a new group exhibition opening Feb. 2 featuring ceramic, installation, painting, and video art that question and inform the Asian immigrant experience in America through the works of four accomplished Korean American artists: Victoria Jang, Christina Ko, Jang Soon Im, and Eun Kyung Suh.

Performance 2017: Live Work is an open forum and safe space for artists whose work addresses and celebrates the complexities and challenges Mexican and South American immigrants experience while being, living, and working in Los Angeles.

A native of Michoacán, Mexico, Mr. Ascencio's own immigrant experience has made him an impassioned advocate for homeownership and economic empowerment for all Americans.

Prince of Broadway explored a very different New York immigrant experience, that of a Ghanaian clothing hustler who's unexpectedly saddled with a baby his ex-girlfriend swears is his.

What starts out as an intriguing look at the modern - day immigrant experience gradually deteriorates into a meandering muddle that tries to redeem itself with a 21st Century rendition of «Taxi Driver.»

«Immigration Run,» a short film contrasting immigrant experiences, is casting supporting roles now!

Students immerse themselves in the Ellis Island immigrant experience and gain historical perspective.

Amongst those programs are: The first city - wide Domino Tournament in 2008, Spanish Language Book Fair with REFORMA Northeast in 2010, Immigrant Experience documentary 2010, Park Street, Barbour Street and Blue Hills Story Walk 2014 and 2015.

The eBook chronicled the Iranian - American immigrant experience going back to the 1800s.

A sad but true story of the illegal immigrant experience in the US.

Two sisters look back on their time in Nazi - occupied France, a novel tackles the Boston immigrant experience and John Grisham's latest legal thriller make for great listening this month.

Readers unfamiliar with Yiddish terms will find the glossary invaluable, and two bibliographies (one for kids, one for adults) point to resources on the Jewish immigrant experience and Jewish history in general.

Simultaneously rooted in a particular immigrant experience while remaining completely accessible to others, it is an immigrant story, an American story, a coming of age story, a story about family journeys, and, ultimately, a story about hope, loss, and change.

Genre: The New Irish Immigrant Experience, Dreams of America, Coming of Age and Romance, Family Drama.

In 2009 she said that her next major literary project will focus on the Nigerian immigrant experience in the United States.

Fortunately, the immensely talented Roshi Fernando avoids these traps in her spectacular debut, Homesick, which chronicles the Sri Lankan immigrant experience in England.

«The paradisiacal landscapes of Sri Lanka are as astonishing as the barbarity of its revolution, and Munaweera evokes the power of both in a lyrical debut novel worthy of shelving alongside her countryman Michael Ondaatje or her fellow writer of the multigenerational immigrant experience Jhumpa Lahiri.»

Gone was the quiet protagonist, replaced by Niko Bellic, whose immigrant experience in America drives a surprisingly poignant narrative.

While the stories that surround his subjects are deeply personal and are told through the intimate possessions they hold most dear, his work addresses generational immigrant experiences of movement, trauma, and celebration.

On Immigration, Liminality, and Ellis Island: Debra Scacco's The Narrows Reviewed by Ellen C. Caldwell Debra Scacco's The Narrows is a timely show at Klowden Mann that uses multimedia art to examine the changing immigrant experience and liminal spaces found, created, and realized on the journey to the United States.

Many of our programs focus on highly vulnerable populations, including youth, immigrants experiencing violence, veterans, and the reentry population.

There, more than anywhere else in Canada, immigrants experience significant difficulties accessing employment.

The Ethiopian artist Aida Muluneh's Sai Mado, The Distant Gaze, deals with the ways in which identity and memory are shaped by immigrant experiences.

Whether evoking the pain of first love or investigating the challenges of the contemporary immigrant experience, Tunisian - French filmmaker Abdellatif Kechiche depicts human behavior in all its unruly complexity.

a new group exhibition opening Feb. 2 featuring ceramic, installation, painting, and video art that question and inform the Asian immigrant experience in America through the works of four accomplished Korean American artists:

But with (for example) a marvelous riff on the generic Chinese restaurant that exists at the edges of many towns in the Midwest, the novel makes clear that it is exploring a different sort of immigrant experience than we often read about — call it the Middle America Asian - American experience.

Surreal, amazingly detailed sepia - tone images in panels and double - page spreads burst with strong visual metaphors that speak to both the personal and universal immigrant experience — without using a single word.

A native of Michoacán, Mexico, Jerry's own immigrant experience has made him an impassioned advocate for homeownership and economic empowerment for all Americans.

Recalling memories of her grandmother who worked in a Seattle canning factory in the 1960s and 1970s, Look tells a quietly moving story of the recent Chinese American immigrant experience.

The Korean Cultural Center Washington, D.C. proudly presents Crossover: East and West, a new group exhibition opening Feb. 2 featuring ceramic, installation, painting, and video art that question and inform the Asian immigrant experience in America through the works of four accomplished Korean American artists: Victoria Jang, Christina Ko, Jang Soon Im, and Eun Kyung Suh.

My immigrant experience had eroded my dignity as a girl and young woman; add to that my own sins and weaknesses over the years, and my sense of who I was left me in a quasi-nihilistic state.

Years later, when I started teaching American history, I would use Frankenmuth to indicate to my students that the then - prevalent image of America as a melting pot did not capture the whole truth of the nation's immigrant experience.

And, on 2016's Home of the Strange, the band gets both personal and socially - conscious, exploring the immigrant experience in modern American.

His mother's frugality and her Calvinistic ambition for her son represent the paradigm of the immigrant experience in America: «Make something of yourself,» she urged.

I hope he sees how deeply shaped we are — as a city and as a people — by the immigrant experience.

Many of the company's nearly 500 employees share Ching Sun's immigrant experience, having found their first job in the United States at Wonton Food.

But, this isn't about the immigrant experience; it is about the incredible sacrifices some people seem to be able to make for their loved ones.