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Category Archives: Gabriella Deane
Education and Immigration
People I can’t imagine parting with anyone in my family. Unfortunately, it was fairly common among new immigrants in the late 1900’s. People would send over fathers, and sons and then they would send back money to those they left … Continue reading
Posted in April 30, Gabriella Deane
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The City and Its’ People
The city is always changing. In the book Five Points by Tyler Anbinder, it brings up a specific instance where, in the span of about twenty years, a neighborhood and its’ inhabitants had completely changed. From 1850 to 1870, the … Continue reading
Posted in April 16, Gabriella Deane
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Will It Ever Change?
Apparently, we never learn. Reading the chapter from the book From Ellis Island to JFK by Nancy Foner, it is clearer than ever that people never learn from their mistakes. When the wave of European Jews and the Italians immigrants … Continue reading
Posted in April 9, Gabriella Deane
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It’s a Hard-Knock Life
I had forgotten that there were unhappy endings. You hear so many inspiring, hard working, overcoming-adversity stories of people coming here from all over to have a better life. The stories that I heard always ended with them or their … Continue reading
Posted in Gabriella Deane, March 12
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The Lingering View Towards Immigrants
As we have learned in multiple history classes, when immigrants first came to the United States in last century, they lived in abominable conditions. In Five Points by Tyler Anbinder, it gives the Old Brewery as an example of how … Continue reading
Posted in Gabriella Deane, March 5
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The Real Immigration Story
There are a lot of misconceptions that are corrected in these readings. For example, I mistakenly believed that illegal immigrants were overrunning our country; mainly because that is the idea that I got from the social media outlets. However, in … Continue reading
Posted in February 26, Gabriella Deane
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GABRIELLA DEANE’S “Clearing the Slave Owner’s Conscience”
What I found interesting while reading these articles was the mindset of the people who had slaves. I had always been unclear as to how exactly the settlers in North America had come up with the concept that there were humans … Continue reading
Posted in February 19, Gabriella Deane
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