Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Ellis Island a Welcome Site? Only After Years of Reform

Guzda, Henry P. "Ellis Island a Welcome Site? Only After Years of Reform." Monthly Labor Review 109.7 (2001). Print.

With his article title, Ellis Island a Welcome Site? Only After Years of Reform, Henry P. Guzda does a play on words that tells the reader essentially what the article is about. A welcome site refers to a place where people meet and great others while a "welcome sight" is when people are so relieved to see something. The article talks about whether Ellis Island was a "welcome sight" not only for the immigrants, but for the politicians that ran it. This article is a good secondary source that deals with the idea that many people weren't pleased with Ellis Island and the way it was being run as a "welcome site."

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