College Essays-Explain three major court decisions or laws that affected rights for ethnic groups that you have learned about so far.
Breadgivers offers a look at the experience of a Jewish immigrant woman in the early 1900s and 1920s. Although it is fiction, the woman who wrote it took some of the story from her own life. What can we learn about the struggle to become “American” in the 1920s from the book? Discuss at least three of the following issues: conflict between generations, the conflict between religious traditions brought from the Old Country and the challenges to those traditions in the US, the tension between gender roles in the Old Country and the United States in the 1920s, economic opportunities and challenges and how they offered ways to become “American,” and the difference between expectations for romantic relationships in the Old World and the New World. Use examples from the book to illustrate and support your ideas but avoid providing a summary of the novel.
Explain three major court decisions or laws that affected rights for ethnic groups that you have learned about so far. Use readings in the anthology edited by Gjerde to explain these laws or acts and their consequences.
Describe in detail how circumstances for immigrant and ethnic groups changed in the era during and after World War I (1914-1924). Your essay must discuss specifically what happened to German-Americans and African-Americans, and include references to at least two other groups in addition to these two. Use historical details and events to support your answer.
