All Blog Posts Tagged 'immigration' (4)

     As an assignment we American Studies students were asked to learn a little bit about our family history and present it to the class. Almost every person who presented started with..." nothing exciting really happened in my family." or "my family is pretty boring." After they spit out somthing along those lines they would tell this stellar story of how their grandparents were smuggled across the boarder or something. so why do…

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During the time of the immigrant unit and the family history project in AS I thought alot about what I am in the American system or culture. Continue

Every year on March 17th everybody celebrates being Irish, whether you are or not. My mom's side came from Ireland so every year all of the relatives meet up for corn beef and cabbage, yum... I really didn't know that much information about this holiday so I decided to research this green holiday, so here is what I found out.



Saint Patrick's Day is a day in honor of Saint… Continue

The last couple of days in history weve been talking about immigration. The time period that we have been discussing seems like everyone was pretty much an immigrant. The country was developing and was in the middle of the industrial revolution so immigrants were neseccary, but today the last thing americans needs is an overload of immigrants. According to http://immigrationcounters.com/ there are currently over 22 million illegal immigrants in the… Continue