Sentences with phrase «own immigrant experience»

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.

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.

Talk about your own family's immigrant experience («Great - Grandma came from Italy and had to work very hard» or some such) or talk about the ways our world has been shaped by immigrants («What would life be like today without pizza?»).

And he said the immigrant experience «made America great» — a jab at Trump's «Make America Great Again» campaign slogan.

This is a tale with traditional points about the immigrant experience which still manages to come over as fresh, expertly - crafted and important.

Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez, a native of Puerto Rico, said New York City's unemployment is lower in New York than many other cities because «we are the beneficiaries of the immigrant experience.»

This story in the Times is the latest in a series of articles in the Times on the Mexican immigrant experience.

In addition to his affordable housing plan, De Blasio said he would continue Bloomberg's efforts to improve the immigrant experience to make the city attractive to technology employees.

Regardless of what occurs in Washington, the immigrant experience in our state is far more positive because of programs like this.

Counties which experienced the largest rises in immigrants experienced neither larger nor smaller rises in native - born unemployment.

Expressing pride to march in the parade, Cuomo said «I march in all parades because I honor the immigrant experience all across the board, making the mosaic of New York.

«What the borough president and I wanted to do was simply have an event where people could just meet each other, get to know each other, and build relationships,» said Council Member Greenfield at the event, who noted that there is a «commonality of interests» between the Jewish and Latino communities, especially as both share the immigrant experience.

And he will be meeting with other first - and second - generation elected officials from Arizona and California tonight and tomorrow in Washington, D.C. to talk about the bill and other issues pertaining to the immigrant experience.

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.»

He's also sensitive and thoughtful, especially about matters relating to the immigrant experience, which is the subject of his new memoir, «No Land's Man.»

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.

The film combines the usual sports story with an immersion into the immigrant experience of Mexican field workers in California.

Fans hold it as highly as The Godfather, but the film is its own animal, beautifully evocative of the immigrant experience.

The immigrant experience has gotten, shall we say, bad press of late.

McFarland, USA Kevin Costner plays a track coach in a poverty - ridden high school, which combines the usual sports story with an immersion into the immigrant experience of Mexican field workers in California.

As a movie, «Code Unknown» has held up remarkably well, capturing the incongruity of the immigrant experience in ways that still matter today.

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.

The film is also about more than Bosnia: it's about the immigrant experience in general; it's about tolerance; it's about making a difference; it's about learning to make the best of what one has.

The central problem of the picture has a lot to do with the idea that Cronenberg has again taken a pre-existing script and reordered it along distinctly Cronenbergian lines — that what must have read initially as a sociological text on another facet of the immigrant experience (much like screenwriter Steve Knight's Dirty Pretty Things) now plays like one of Cronenberg's investigations into the difficulty of parsing concepts like «normal» and «family» in the crushing crucible of bugs pretending to be human among humans.

Looking, to some degree, at the immigrant experience on the other side of the pond is «The Past» [B +], the eagerly - awaited follow up to Iranian director Asghar Farhadi «s «A Separation.»

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

Similar to Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (I bet everyone speaks about those two movies in the same breath all the time) in the way it portrays the immigrant experience through a nonstandard lens, Paddington may not be biting, but it is effective.

Here are four books to help make the immigrant experience come to life for young readers.

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.

For middle school and high - school students, The Colors Of Freedom: Immigrant Stories (Franklin Watts), by Janet Bode, is a wonderful introduction to the American immigrant experience.

In early 2017, we began a Genius Hour theme on the immigrant experience.

In the past several years, the National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) has supported and funded digital games, including Mission US: City of Immigrants, a game about the immigrant experience.

I shared Jewish Time Jump, an ARIS location - based game about the immigrant experience.

94, education director for Define American, a media and cultural campaign to share stories of the immigrant experience.

Under the wing of principal Solomon, eighth grade English and social studies teacher Tracy Goodman and her colleagues found a way to help their students understand and appreciate the immigrant experience by becoming «immigrants» themselves.

And the Streets Are Paved With Gold 09/28/2000 [Language Arts, American History Grades 6 - 8 Submitted by Brenda Dyck] Using the links provided, students explore the immigrant experience at Ellis Island, New York, at the turn of the century, and answer questions that challenge them to use thinking skills from various levels of Bloom's Taxonomy.

And the Streets Are Paved With Gold Submitted by Brenda Dyck Using the links provided, students explore the immigrant experience at Ellis Island, New York, at the turn of the century, and answer questions that challenge them to use thinking skills from various levels of Bloom's Taxonomy.

Find creative writing activities about the immigrant experience, historical time lines of the civil rights movement, slideshows of famous women suffragists, art activities for celebrating community helpers, lesson plans for learning more about wars and the soldiers who fight them, and much more.

In many ways, our immigrant experience was nothing like that of the majority of people who arrive in this country today.

Instead, some schools offer a full immersion curriculum that, in many cases, mirrors the immigrant experience of speaking one language at home and another at school.

The interview data complements these findings and shows teachers» greater knowledge of the linguistic complexity of schooling, the diversity of the immigrant experience, and their instructional responsibility.

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

Alternating chapters give voice to the women and their daughters, who, fitting into a larger picture, reveal one aspect of the immigrant experience in America.

GWAN is an incredible collection of stories inspired by the immigrant experience.

Dinaw Mengestu's first novel, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, earned the young writer comparisons to Bellow, Fitzgerald, and Naipaul, and garnered ecstatic critical praise and awards around the world for its haunting depiction of the immigrant experience.

Picture books about immigrant families are certainly nothing new, but renewed attention to immigrant experiences has ushered in a prodigious crop of new titles, and few are as evocative or heartening as Bao Phi and Thi Bui's A Different Pond.

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.