It also presents a poignant and insightful snapshot of an immigrant family with big dreams.
Her book depicts life in Cardiff Bay during the 1960s for an immigrant family.
Born into a working-class, immigrant family, she speaks persuasively about the transformative power of education and personifies her own message.
Herkimer is a village of 7, 700 named for the German immigrant family that settled in the western Mohawk Valley in the 1720s.
Freidman was attending the Intel Science Awards finals in Washington, DC where almost every finalist was an immigrant or from an immigrant family.
Born into a large Mexican immigrant family in San Antonio, Escovedo was heavily influenced by his father, who loved music and often sang in local mariachi bands.
Actually, you know, coming from an immigrant family, a single mother, the guy that I was actually dating at the time was what we call a sugar daddy.
As tragic as it is for any American family to lose their home, for the immigrant family, it is equivalent to completely losing the one dream they have sacrificed everything for.
Middle Eastern diplomats in Washington also knew Ms. Kelley, who came from a Lebanese immigrant family and who helped arrange social activities when dignitaries from the region visited Tampa, diplomats said.
Perhaps even more so because I have been listening to the dialogue about how to make America more post-racial -- mostly as it pertains to black and white culture -- for so long that it never occurred to me that an Asian immigrant family might cry foul when their son fell in love with an all-American girl like me.
Then she found Victoria Beckman, a Russian immigrant laying out family photographs and documents in the cold air along the two stone railings leading from her front door to the sidewalk.
Heinze was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1869 into the family of wealthy immigrant parents.
She was a Mexican immigrant who worked as a family therapist.
But it also means binding our particular grievances for better health care and better schools and better jobs to the larger aspirations of all Americans: the white woman struggling to break the glass ceiling, the white man who has been laid off, the immigrant trying to feed his family.
Joyce is an immigrant from a low-income family with big dreams of pursuing a PhD after graduating in 2010 with a degree in genetics.
Their kids, my parents, like many immigrant children, were the first in their family to go to college, buy a house and live the good middle class life.
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Hungarian immigrant Pal Sarkozy de Nagy-Bocsa left his family when Nicolas was five and went on to marry Christine de Ganay, the mother of Oliver.
Their stories are the continuation of the immigrant dream, said Mr. Levine, whose own family has roots on the Lower East Side, and lift the film out of a mere lamentation of the old New York lost to modernity.
He was assigned to audit a construction company owned by Wayne's father, Gerrit "Harry" Huizenga, a Dutch immigrant who'd moved Wayne and the rest of the family from Chicago to Florida in the 1950s.
Christian Gerhartsreiter, a German immigrant whose elaborate charade as a member of the fabled Rockefeller oil family unraveled when he was arrested, is charged in the murder of John Sohus, who disappeared in 1985.
Fact: the ethic of the immigrant is and always has been to stand for hard work and family values (the latter something for which M Le Pen rather ironically claims to be the champion).
"Nino, " as friends and family call him, was the lone offspring of two immigrant Italian families and "the center of their universe, " said Biskupic, who published "American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia" in 2009.
And you've written quite a lot about this because you think that one of the underlying arguments of the people who object to that is that family ties, strong family ties are one of the great assets of the immigrant population.
It would also create an entrepreneur visa for up to 75, 000 immigrant entrepreneurs who register a business, hire at least two non-family member employees, and invest in their business within one year of obtaining the visa.
In addition, travel has brought more and more Americans into contact with foreign cultures and cuisines, and some of America's fastest-growing immigrant groups, including Mexicans and Asians, have introduced their traditional spicy cooking to Americans in family-owned restaurants.
When the reform was under discussion, immigrant-support groups did a survey and found that most asylum-claimants were helped by their family or community.
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