Polish American Essays

  • Polish Americans in Chicago during World War II Historigraphy

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    Many Polish immigrants during the 1800's and early 1900's left Poland because "occupied, disremembered, and economically backward, Poland held little hope for the future except economic stagnation in an overcrowded population center." Poles fled their motherland in search of a better lease on life and "America offered the poorer Polish classes the possibility of a more accelerated pace of advancement than in the old country." Though Polish immigrants came to America to better themselves, they left

  • Polish Immigration Essay

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    the 1600s, Polish immigrants have moved to the United States of America in hopes of beginning a new life with an abundance of resources to obtain the American Dream; or to reconnect with their relatives whom have settled in the States a while ago; or to escape the times of war or national oppression Poland faced by its neighboring countries. Whatever the reason may be, from the beginnings of Poles immigrating to America, once arriving in the states, they created for themselves a Polish ethnic community

  • Polish Culture: An Interview with Wieslawa Chris Prilenski

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    information that she gave me on her ancestry. She also had answered several questions that I had asked in order to gain a better perspective of her Polish culture. I had learned the various ways that Chris addresses her family members. After obtaining all the answers to my questions from Chris, I found several sources and I compared what the sources stated about Polish culture to Chris’ answers about her culture.
 I had gathered information about Chris’ family, she gave me a lot of information about her family

  • 'Bodegas Caballé' - An International Recruitment Exercise

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    skills in Spanish, Russian and English. However, her knowledge about the Polish language is not developed satisfactory. Mrs Garriga has a degree in Literature and Languages which indicates that she has an affinity and talent to learn new languages. So it won't be a problem for her to improve her Polish language skills immediately. During her former job, Mrs Garriga improved her organisation and planning skills and got to know Polish companies and the domestic culture.

  • Poland Culture Vs American Culture Essay

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    say that their national cooking is a blend of influences. Besides own recipe ideas, over the centuries polish cuisine collected what best at the culinary tradition of neighboring countries and nations. Lasting 123 years, the historical period of partition of Poland also affected the shape of some Polish dishes and introduced some new ones, many coming from German and Austro-Hungarian cultures. Polish cuisine from the Middle Ages to the 19th century had a variety of new ingredients added due to the change

  • Analysis of Works From "Art from the Ashes" edited by Langer

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    Analysis of Works From "Art from the Ashes" edited by Langer How can a person reach back into the past and retrieve the criminal events of sixty years ago? Read the works provided in “Art from the Ashes,” and wait; wait for words to explode onto an emotionally unprepared mind with enough force to awaken previously dormant areas of one’s psychological capacity. One can then begin to understand. Lawrence L. Langer’s introduction provides keys to open doors of impossibility, to expand sympathy

  • How Cosmetology Affects a Person's Self-Esteem

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    How Cosmetology Affects a Person’s Self-Esteem In today’s society, it is part of our human nature to strive for perfection. By doing this, a majority of women worldwide use the power of cosmetology, hair and facial cosmetics, to enhance their natural beauty in order to feel better about themselves. However, the use of cosmetology has not always been used only to boost one’s self esteem. Laws were also enforced against the use of cosmetics. History During ancient civilizations, Egyptians used scented

  • History of Nail Polish

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    in the world today, you see women with nails that are painted in so many different colors and designs. Nail polish dates back to the 1920’s when the first modern day nail varnish was invented by the Charles Revson Company. This particular invention has impacted the cosmetics market for women, because every women who wants to be stylish and express themselves in a fun way, buys nail polish. Nail varnishes have many components to make it both safe and user friendly. Some of the chemical components

  • The Cemetery Personal Narrative

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    The Cemetery-Personal Narrative I remember it like it was yesterday. Infact, it was yesterday. My parents were leaving for a couple of days, so I could do anything I wanted. I called Amy, a girl I know from school. After we got off the phone, I knew it was time. That night I would be initiated into the group. Amy was going to come over at nine and take me to the cemetery for the ceremony. The clock hit nine, and I looked outside. Amy was walking toward my house, dressed in straight

  • Analysis Of Sedaris 'Get Your Ya Ya Out'

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    Sedaris, at times, has an extremely humorous, yet sadistic sense of humor, which especially shows in his essay, “get your ya-ya’s out!” Rather than looking at his life and his family members with compassion, empathy, or any other form of sensitivity, he uses humor to shadow what others might consider painful experiences in his life. Sedaris’s mother and grandmother, Ya Ya, both appear to be insensitive in this story, which helps me understand why Sedaris is capable of detaching himself from personal

  • Are Women Slaves to Fashion and Beauty?

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    Are Women Slaves to Beauty? What does it take to feel beautiful? Perhaps a little bit of time, make-up, and a breathtaking dress; or at least that's what we have been programmed to believe.  Without a doubt, all of the magazines, advertisements, and make-up beauty tips have influenced women’s beliefs about what it means to be beautiful. An artificial image of beauty has been imposed on each and every woman in our culture. I would like to begin with the fact that women have always been

  • How to Make Ski Wax

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    Ingredients and formula for super fast ,all temp, racing ski wax:(1) 5 lbs of paraffin wax(I use a 160 degree melt temperature wax) (2) 1/2 lb of paraflint wax hardener (3) a bar of Ivory soap (4) a regular size tube of Crest high fluoride toothpaste (5)a heaping tablespoon of spruce gum(resin from a spruce tree) The paraffin and paraflint hardener can be easily and cheaply obtained from most candle supply companies.The soap and toothpaste are easy enough.The spruce gum can be obtained from any

  • The Blind Side Belonging Analysis

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    Individuals can create a sense of place where one feels comfortable perceiving at home within a wider society mainly influenced by accountable traits. The implemented contemporary challenges observe on what individual’s perception mainly influences the assimilation of such a foreign society in which enlightens the benefit on rewarding new acceptance and allegiance within a wider community not concerning of certain competition. Poems ‘St Patrick’s College’ and ‘Feliks Skrzynecki’ emphasize the emergence

  • Essay On The Treaty Of Versailles

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    On June 28, 1919 the Treaty of Versailles was signed and World War 1 had officially come to an end. Germany was forced to sign the Treaty of Versaille because they could no longer afford to participate in the war. The Treaty of Versailles was put in place to punish Germany. (New York Times) There were three things that greatly affected Germany caused by the war and the Treaty. First Germany lost much of its land and territory and during this time the condition of Germany’s economy was terrible. The

  • German-Polish Nonaggression Pact: Impact and Implications

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    The German-Polish Nonaggression Pact was a treaty between Germany and Poland that resolved their fighting and decreased their armed conflict for 10 years. The pact effectively normalized relations between both countries. The two countries recently fought over the land borders in the Treaty of Versailles. This agreement between France and Poland was to make France an ally to Poland. France thought that creating an ally with Poland was essential to create stability in postwar Europe. Poland was

  • Urban Outfitters Continuing Case Study Part 2: Creating a Business

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    Urban outfitters: assignment#1- urban outfitters continuing case study part 2: creating a business 1. Identify at least three challenges when setting up a business. Explain why they are Challenges. One of the challenges to start up a new business is choosing the kind of business to start. Most of the time business begins with simple idea and challenges to reality. But before we Invest on our idea to a new business we need to consider what kind business we

  • “The Spirit of 1914; Militarism, Myth and Mobilization in Germany” by Jeffery Verhey

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    “The Spirit of 1914” gives a comprehensive examination of the opinions and feelings felt during the beginning of the Great War by the German people. This monograph goes into extensive detail on the complexity of the German nation’s reactions and response to the vast, “patriotic outbursts…which many contemporaries and historians categorized as “war enthusiasm.””(2) The content of the book also centers on how German unity was portrayed. “Conservative journals claimed that these crowds spoke for public

  • The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

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    Like sheep led to the slaughter; this is one of the most famous analogies used to refer to the Jews during the holocaust. The Jews were being systematically murdered, beaten, and abused day after day, and there was almost no refusal on their part. Almost no one fought back. This however was not the case in the Warsaw ghetto. Throughout the summer of 1942, nearly 300,000 Jews were deported from the Warsaw ghetto to the Treblinka death camp. During this summer, a resistance organization known as the

  • American Self Perception Vs. The Truth

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    American Self Perception vs. The Truth Lee Greenwood, a song writer, describes the emotion involved in American self-perception in a song by saying, "I'm proud to be an American. For at least I know I'm free." Freedom is the founding pillar of the American self- perception. Self-perception is the culmination of how one views oneself. Other aspects which make up American self-perception are wealth, power, and the pursuance of happiness. Self-perceptions, whether confined to the individual or confined

  • Analysis Of Gustav Freytag's Debit And Credit

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    while hating the Polish and the Jewish people. Freytag writes how the Jewish people are seen as inferior and a threat, but the Germans are presented and shown as superior and inferior to the Polish and Jewish people. He also writes that the Polish people have no culture and are not able to create a civilization. The only way that the Polish people will become “real people” is if they were to give up being Polish and become accustomed to German culture. This meant that the Polish people would have