Steve Jobs

By in Business Leaders

“Consumers don’t know what they want until we’ve shown them.” – Steve Jobs A visionary, an entrepreneur, a leader, the father of Apple, many people see Steve Jobs as these, not only for how or what he did to raise Apple from the ground but for his accomplishments. His accomplishments improved technology as well as consumers everyday lives from the Ipod to the Iphone to the Ipad. He is criticized as being an entrepreneur that did not care for his family but only for his business as well as the entrepreneur that ended the music CD business. But through his simplicity and confidence and through his leadership methods which allowed him to connect with consumers and employees alike, letting him succeed in the business world like few else. Steven Jobs’s background: Born out of wedlock, his mother, Joanne Schieble, a German/Swiss Catholic, under pressure...

Margaret Thatcher

By in Political Leaders

“Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it’s a day you’ve had everything to do and you’ve done it.”

Margaret Thatcher

From the USSR to the U.S.: an argument in favor of the NYS Dream Act

By in Asian Immigration, European Immigration, Immigrant NYC, NYC History, Uncategorized

Some of the world’s most developed and prosperous countries, which incessantly boast about their tolerance, have come face-to-face with the “intensification of the national question”. And today, one after another, they have had to admit their failure to integrate outside cultural elements into society and ability to ensure a peaceful, harmonious interaction between various cultures, religions, and ethnic groups. The “melting pot” of assimilation continues to stall, unable to “digest” the growing migration flow. In politics, a reflection of this fact has been “multiculturalism”, which rejects the notion of integration through assimilation. It elevates the “right of minorities to be different” to the absolute and, at the same time, fails to balance this right with civil, and cultural obligations. More interesngly, these problems have existed and persist in our own backyard. New York...

Cuban Immigration

By in Latin American Immigration, Uncategorized

The Cuban Revolution started in 1952 led by the man named Fidel Castro. He attempted to over throw the current leader at the time Fulgencio Batista. He succeeded in 1959 leading to the start of his reign of power. He held that power until his retirement in 2008. From this time there was the huge influx of immigrants who came to Miami and New York City. Because of Castro’s ideas is the main cause for concern of people leaving the country. He was suspicious of everyone and anyone that like him would not like the government and try to overthrow him. He started putting restrictions on plenty of things to the citizens of Cuba such as, people only being able to own a certain amount of land. A lot of people also left because of what he was doing to their businesses. Once the Embargo Act was passed there main export which was sugar had now been cut off to its main buyer which was the...

Shu Sheio: One Man’s Success in a New World

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By Jeana Shea & Amanda Gomes Wagner College Class of 2015 The story of Shu Sheio’s immigration to America is not like many we have discussed in class. Living in Japan until he was 18, Shu felt that he was ready to start a life in an entirely new setting. He had nothing pushing him from his home in Japan; he had always lived a comfortable life with his family. It was the opportunities that were available in America that led the way for Shu. Upon coming to America Shu enrolled in three different language schools. Finding a stale repetition in the communities he was surrounded by he then decided to enroll in a full time college. Having been apart of his high school drama club in Japan Shu thought it felt only right to pursue Theatre as a major. Fifteen years later Shu now runs the Fredrick Lowe Theatre at New York University. Maintaining Identity Despite immigrating to a foreign...