Narragansett High School Library: Chinese Immigration

Starting with the California gold rush in 1849, Chinese immigrants looked to the United States as a land of opportunity and a haven from conflict. Despite discrimination and legal exclusion in the early years, the book recounts how Chinese Americans gave their talents to help our country grow and prosper and how they found success for themselves.

Collection of essays describing the conditions in China that lead to major migration to the United States, life in America after the immigrants arrived, the slow assimilation into American culture, and describing the experiences of several Chinese Am

Each volume of Poetry for Students contains easily accessible and content-rich discussions of the literary and historical background of 14-16 works from various cultures and time periods. Each poem covered in this new resource was specially chosen by an advisory panel of teachers and librarians -- experts who have helped us define the information needs of students and ensure the age-appropriateness of this references content. Here are some of the poems you will find in this volume: After Apple-Picking by Robert Frost, Grudnow| by Linda Pastan, |Hanging Fire| by Audre Lord, |In Response to Executive Order 9066| by Dwight Okita, and |On the Grasshopper and the Cricket| By John Keats. Gale strives to replicate print content, some content may not be available in the eBook Call your Sales Rep for details.|PIM|31-MAY-18|01

Each volume of PoetryforStudents provides analysis of approximately 15-16 poems that teachers and librarians have identified as the most frequently studied in literature courses. Some of the poems covered in this volume include: Air for Mercury by Brenda Hillman The Alchemy of Day| by Anne Herbert |But Perhaps God Needs the Longing| by Nelly Sachs |The God Who Loves You| by Dennis Carl |Hymn to Aphrodite| By Sappho And more You may also be interested in For Students Online - the complete For Students Collection in eBook format.Call your Sales Rep for details.|PIM|31-MAY-18|01