TheNewAmericanDreamers.ppt

The New American Dreamers Ruth Sidel Background information About the author: Ruth Sidel is professor of Sociology at Hunter College of the City University of New York. A graduate of Wellesley College and the Boston University School of Social Work, she has worked in the care of emotionally disturbed children in Boston and as director of social work in a community health center in the Bronx. After the granting of her PhD in 1978, she was appointed to the faculty of Hunter College. In 1988-89 she was co-founder and initial co-director of the Center for the Study of Family Policy at Hunter. New England the states of the northeastern US: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. It is called New England because it was the first part of the US where people from England, including the Pilgrim Fathers, began to settle in the 17th century. New England contains some of the oldest and most renowned institutions of higher learning, including Harvard University, Yale University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Brown University and Boston University. The first college in America, Harvard, was founded at Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1636. A number of the graduates settle in the region after school, providing the area with a well-educated population and one of its most valuable resources. Mery1 Streep (1949-) an American actress who has received numerous awards for her work in movies and television and who, from the 1980s to the present day, has been regarded as one of the best in her field. By year 2005, Streep has been nominated a total of 13 times for Oscars—10 for Best Actress and 3 for Best Supporting Actress—making her the most-nominated actor of all time. “Dallas,” “Dynasty,” or “L.A. Law” Dallas was a long-running primetime television soap opera about the Ewings (/??????/), a wealthy Texas oil family. It aired on the CBS network from April 2, 1978, to May 3, 1991. It was broadcast around the world, and is probably the most