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Armenians not only contribute to their own culture in the United States, they contribute to the overall U.S. community by offering their history, poetry, literature, art, and business and technical acumen. They provide community service to charitable organizations and make certain that their culture is the most successful of all cultures that have immigrated to the United States. Bibliography lists 9 sources. jvArmeni.rtf
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memoir, Balakian describes a personal transforming event in 1974 that made him understand that words had been hibernating within him and that he, finally, had to let them out and
sing their own song. This event would later lead him to become a renowned poet and a representative of the Armenian community at Colgate where he is a professor of
humanities. Balakians first poem was entitled, "Words for My Grandmother," a soul-wrenching search into Balakians roots and the roots of all Armenians in the United States. In it he recalls
the horror of the Armenian Genocide in 1915 as told to him by his grandmother. The Armenian genocide is the event that
brought Armenians to America. While remembering where they started, they have made the U.S. their home and contributed much to that new home.
The Armenian Library and Museum of America (ALMA) records this history: "The darkest episode in all of Armenian history began in 1915, when the Ottoman Empire initiated a policy
of genocide that continued until 1922. In this holocaust, more than a million Armenians lost their lives. And the survivors were scattered all over the world." (ALMA). According to ALMA
half the worlds Armenian population resides in the United States, and through their hard work and diligence, they have found success. Serge Samoniantz
reports on the success of several immigrants, including Dr. Harut Barsamian, adjunct professor at the University of California, Irvine, and director of the Engineering and Computer Sciences Program at the
University Extension. Barsamian came from Yerevan to the United States in 1966 and landed his first job in Detroit as an interpreter at Raytheon Company. He later became the manger
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