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The Undermining of the American Dream through Illegal Immigration (eBook, PDF)
Essay from the year 2010 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,0, University of Leipzig (Institut für Amerikanistik), course: American Dream, language: English, abstract: The United States of America is often referred to as ‘a nation of immigrants’. Over centuries, the prospect of achieving the American Dream has attracted immigrants from all over the world to the country. However, in recent decades many immigrants entered the USA illegally or stayed on after their visas had expired. Actually, the approximated number of undocumented immigrants currently living in the USA widely ranges from “11.5 million to 20 million” (Orchowski 2008, 69), the majority of them hailing from Latin American countries. This uncontrolled influx of immigrants causes various problems in the host nation. Illegal immigration from South and Central America to the USA undermines core elements of the American Dream such as the opportunity of climbing the social ladder, security of life and liberty, and America’s social security for everyone living in the U.S.- Shop: buecher
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My American Dream: A Life of Love, Family, and Food , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 772min
For decades, beloved chef Lidia Bastianich has introduced Americans to Italian food through her cookbooks, TV shows, and restaurants. Now, in My American Dream, she tells her own story for the very first time. Born in Pula, on the Istrian peninsula, Lidia grew up surrounded by love and security, learning the art of Italian cooking from her beloved grandmother. But when Istria was annexed by a communist regime, Lidia’s family fled to Trieste, where they spent two years in a refugee camp waiting for visas to enter the United States. When she finally arrived in New York, Lidia soon began working in restaurants, the first step on a path that led to her becoming one of the most revered chefs and businesswomen in the country. Heartwarming, deeply personal, and powerfully inspiring, My American Dream is the story of Lidia’s close-knit family and her dedication and endless passion for food. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lidia Matticchio Bastianich. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/005473/bk_rand_005473_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Bury What We Cannot Take: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 532min
The day nine-year-old San San and her twelve-year-old brother, Ah Liam, discover their grandmother taking a hammer to a framed portrait of Chairman Mao is the day that forever changes their lives. To prove his loyalty to the Party, Ah Liam reports his grandmother to the authorities. But his belief in doing the right thing sets in motion a terrible chain of events. Now they must flee their home on Drum Wave Islet, which sits just a few hundred meters across the channel from mainland China. But when their mother goes to procure visas for safe passage to Hong Kong, the government will only issue them on the condition that she leave behind one of her children as proof of the family’s intention to return. Against the backdrop of early Maoist China, this captivating and emotional tale follows a brother, a sister, a father, and a mother as they grapple with their agonizing decision, its far-reaching consequences, and their hope for redemption. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Emily Woo Zeller. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/010415/bk_brll_010415_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 567min
The true account of the 1979 rescue of six American hostages from Iran On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the American embassy in Tehran and captured dozens of American hostages, sparking a 444-day ordeal and a quake in global politics still reverberating today. But there's a little-known footnote to the crisis: six Americans escaped. And a midlevel agent named Antonio Mendez devised an ingenious yet incredibly risky plan to rescue them. Armed with foreign film visas, Mendez and an unlikely team of CIA agents and Hollywood insiders - directors, producers, actors - traveled to Tehran under the guise of scouting locations for a fake film called Argo. While pretending to find the perfect scenery and backdrops, the team succeeded in contacting the escapees and smuggling them out of Iran without a single shot being fired. Antonio Mendez finally details the mind-bogglingly complex and dangerous operation he led more than three decades ago. A true story of secret identities and international intrigue, Argo is the gripping account of the history-making collusion between Hollywood and high-stakes espionage. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dylan Baker. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/001955/bk_peng_001955_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Marie Bonaparte: The Frigid Princess , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 46min
In the year 1925 Marie Bonaparte, a direct descendant of Napoleon and immensely rich, asked the help of Sigmund Freud to perform a psychoanalytic therapy to cure what she called "orgasmic abnormality".After the therapy failed, Marie Bonaparte underwent three surgical operations to move the clitoris closer to the vagina, with the purpose of achieving her vaginal orgasmic capacity. She fails again and decides to devote herself to psychoanalysis, creates the Psychoanalytic Society of Paris and becomes an important personality in the international psychoanalytic community. Between 1925 and 1939, the year of Freud's death, a relationship of friendship, cooperation, and solidarity developed between them, which led to the extraordinary help of Marie Bonaparte to obtain the Freud´s exit visas from Austria and his acceptance as a refugee in England in 1938. This audiobook allows us to approach the intimacy of the relationship between Freud and Bonaparte, the details of the creation and development of psychoanalysis and the horrors of the Nazi irruption in Austria after the annexation. Get this audiobook now to learn the details of a piece of European history between the two world wars! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jack Williams. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/154042/bk_acx0_154042_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Something in Between , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 684min
Be the first to listen to the thought-provoking new novel from Melissa de la Cruz, the number one New York Times best-selling author of The Isle of the Lost and Return to the Isle of the Lost. She had her whole life planned.She knew who she was and where she was going.Until the truth changed everything.Jasmine de los Santos has always done what's expected of her. She's studied hard, made her Filipino immigrant parents proud, and is ready to reap the rewards in the form of a full college scholarship to the school of her dreams.And then everything shatters. Her parents are forced to reveal the truth: Their visas expired years ago. Her entire family is illegal. That means no scholarships, maybe no college at all, and the very real threat of deportation.As she’s trying to make sense of who she is in this new reality, her world is turned upside down again by Royce Blakely. He’s funny, caring, and spontaneous - basically everything she’s been looking for at the worst possible time, and now he’s something else she may lose. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cassie Simone. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/005530/bk_harp_005530_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Jimmy Page By Jimmy Page
Jimmy Page by Jimmy Page is the photographic autobiography and visual history of the world's most iconic guitar player. With incredible attention to detail, Page has chosen hundreds of photographs representing significant moments in his career: from a schoolboy with a rock-a-billy quiff through his extensive work as a session musician; including The Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin, ARMS, The Firm, Outrider, Coverdale & Page and Page & Plant; playing with Roy Harper and The Black Crowes; collaborating with P. Diddy and performing with Leona Lewis at the closing ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.Both Genesis Publications and Jimmy Page have sifted through thousands of images representing the work of more than 70 photographers including some of the greatest names in rock photography Ross Halfin, Kate Simon, and Gered Mankowitz, to name but a few. Included are a mixture of iconic portraits, rare and unseen photographs from Jimmy's archive along with visas, photos and stamps from his own passports.Page has officially put pen to paper about his career taking the form of extended captions, which describe and document pivotal moments and events making this book an historical document and a definitive visual record of a remarkable life of music.- Shop: buecher
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How to Make a Life: A Tibetan Refugee Family and the Midwestern Woman They Adopted , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 480min
An immigration story of crossing cultural bridges and finding family. When Madeline Uraneck said hello to the Tibetan woman cleaning her office cubicle, she never imagined the moment would change her life. After learning that Tenzin Kalsang had left her husband and four children behind in a Tibetan refugee settlement in India to try to forge a better life for them, Madeline took on the task of helping her apply for US visas. When the family reunited in their new Midwestern home, Madeline became swept up in their lives, from homework and soccer games to family dinners and shared holiday traditions. By reaching out, she found more than she bargained for - a family who welcomed her as their own and taught her more than she offered them. An evocative blend of immersion journalism and memoir, How to Make a Life shares the immigration story of a Tibetan refugee family who crossed real and cultural bridges to make a life in Madison, Wisconsin, with the assistance of the Midwestern woman they befriended. From tales of escaping Tibet over the Himalayas to striking a balance between old traditions with new to bridging divides one friendly gesture at a time, listeners will expand their understanding of family, culture, and belonging. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Claire Slemmer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/168611/bk_acx0_168611_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Destination Casablanca: Exile, Espionage, and the Battle for North Africa in World War II , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1054min
In November 1942, as a part of Operation Torch, 33,000 American soldiers sailed undetected across the Atlantic and stormed the beaches of French Morocco. Seventy-four hours later, the Americans controlled the country and one of the most valuable wartime ports: Casablanca. In the years preceding, Casablanca had evolved from an exotic travel destination to a key military target after France's surrender to Germany. Jewish refugees from Europe poured in, hoping to obtain visas and passage to the United States and beyond. Nazi agents and collaborators infiltrated the city in search of power and loyalty. The resistance was not far behind, as shopkeepers, celebrities, former French Foreign Legionnaires, and disgruntled bureaucrats formed a network of Allied spies. But once in American hands, Casablanca became a crucial logistical hub in the fight against Germany - and the site of Roosevelt and Churchill's demand for "unconditional surrender". Rife with rogue soldiers, power grabs, and diplomatic intrigue, Destination Casablanca is the riveting and untold story of this glamorous city - memorialized in the classic film - at the heart of World War II. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Matthew Waterson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/003330/bk_hach_003330_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Leaving America: The Quick and Dirty Guide to Running Away from Donald Trump's America , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 99min
However improbable it may seem, the man who brought you Celebrity Apprentice and the world's most famous comb-over might become president. The alternative is a scandal-ridden Hillary Clinton-run America, where she spends four years "forgetting" about Benghazi and how e-mail works. If you're one of the many who are tempted to bury your head in the sand, why not bury your toes into the sandy beaches of an exotic country instead? Leaving America: The Quick and Dirty Guide to Running Away from Election 2016 is a guide to leaving an America run (into the ground) by Trump or Clinton and finding a more relaxing, and yet more exciting, country to call home. Moving from one neighborhood to another is stressful enough. Moving to a new country can be overwhelming for even the most organized American, but this book will provide you tips on how to: Acquire tourist, resident, and work visas Assess the work force of different countries Navigate through language barriers and real estate prospects Become an extra in a Bollywood movie Prepare for concessions that must be made for various cultures Assess the risks of working without a work visa Avoid financial pitfalls Join the Israel Defense Force ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kent Bates. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/073676/bk_acx0_073676_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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