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America and I by Anzia Yezierska

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Name: Anzia Yezierska
Birth Date: 1885
Death Date: November 21, 1970
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: Jewish
Gender: Female

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Biography of Anzia Yezierska
4242 words, approx. 14.1 pages
Over a career of more than fifty years Anzia Yezierska was a prominent part of the vanguard in the literary treatment of the immigrant experience. As she stated in stories, essays, and interviews, Yezierska felt her mission as a writer was to "build a br...
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Biography of Anzia Yezierska
1931 words, approx. 6.4 pages
Anzia Yezierska, novelist and short-story writer, belonged to that generation of Jewish immigrant authors who wrote about the Jewish migration from the pogrom-ridden Eastern European shtetl to the cities of America in the late nineteenth and early twenti...


News and Journals
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Amnesty International
The America I Believe In
04/01/2007: 492 words, approx. 2 pages
"The United States is committed to the worldwide elimination of torture, and we are leading this fight by example," stated President Bush in 2003. Yet Guantánamo remains open, extraordinary renditions are still happening and hundreds of prisoners are locked up without trial or legal...
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The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education
I like to Be in America
08/01/2005: 2,069 words, approx. 7 pages
When West Side Story opened on Broadway in 1957, the role of Mafia was played by Carol Lawrence. The film version shortly followed and, again, the Puerto Rican heroine was played by a non-Latina, Natalie Wood. Perhaps the most lasting image of a...
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The New York Observer
The Full Hillary
1/4/2008: 1,604 words, approx. 5 pages
Given the rarity of Hillary Clinton giving a formal press conference, it seems worth posting a full transcript of her comments from earlier today at the Gala café in Manchester. Highlights include: her essentially calling Iowa an undemocratic backwater that discriminates against potential Hillary voters;...
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AP News
Gingrich slams current election politics
5/17/2007: 250 words, approx. 1 pages
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says the 2008 White House candidates are "demeaning the presidency" by focusing on the race rather than ideas."We have shrunk our political process to this pathetic dance in which people spend an entire year raising money in order to offer...
 


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America and I by Anzia Yezierska

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