FINAL EXAM
Class,
This has been a fast and interesting 8 weeks. For your Final Exam, I want you to reflect on the topics we had discussed during the last 7 weeks. Your responses below should only reflect your thoughts, understanding, and critical thinking. Your responses to each question can be at least 2-3 well-written paragraphs.
Please review the writing guidelines I posted. Again, I look forward to reading your write-ups.
A. Using a daily newspaper, choose a story you think you can rewrite from ANOTHER viewpoint. REWRITE the story. Explain the changes you have made and why you made those changes.
I am going discuss about The Immigration Reform bill in NY Times Newspaper that the bill states that “which passage of a well-designed immigration
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It’s time for 535 of America’s citizens to remember what they owe to the 318 million who employ them.
AMERICAN citizens are paying 535 people to take care of the legislative needs of the country. We are getting shortchanged. Here’s an example: On June 10, an incumbent congressman in Virginia lost a primary election in which his opponent garnered only 36,105 votes. Immediately, many Washington legislators threw up their hands and declared that this one event would produce paralysis in the United States Congress for at least five months. In particular, they are telling us that immigration reform long overdue is now hopeless. Americans deserve better than this, the three of us vary in our politics and would differ also in our preferences about the details of an immigration reform bill. But we could without doubt come together to draft a bill acceptable to
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Most of the people thoughts are filled with superficiality, prejudice, distortions, lies, deception, short sightedness, close-mindedness, righteousness, hypocrisy. These problems in thinking lead the peoples to untold negative implications such as anxiety, tension, angry, hopeless, sadness and fear. In my life I used think every problem and every situation logically and looking in to the problem with other side of the problem that makes me improving myself as a critical thinker. For making the decisions I am thinking practically and analyzing the problem in perfect manner so that my decisions can conflicts the problems. Thinking broadly with open-mindedness made my decisions accurate and acceptable by everyone who a rounded to me. These are my traits made me to rise in the critical
More and more immigrants are coming in to the United States each year, and we as a nation
While attending writing class, I learned about the 4 steps in writing, bases for revising, organizing, and connecting specific information, and I also learned about the different types of essays such as descriptive, narrative, process, cause and effect and argumentative essay. I have been a student at Milwaukee Area Technical College for 1 semester, and over the course of my enrollment I have grown and learned more that I knew prior to attending this writing course. Participating in this writing class has taught me so much more than stuff about literature and language, it has taught me another way of expressing myself. I have learned here how to write and express myself, how to think for myself, and how to find the answers to the things that I don 't know. Most importantly I have learned how important technique, outlines and organization are. My goal in this paper is to inform writers about how my writing skills have improved.
The American public seems to be aware of the issue in general, but is short of the details. There has certainly been a healthy amount of media coverage of immigration reform, but as the coverage itself is unclear as to how best to frame the problems, it mostly informs about the existence of the issue rather than informing about the issue itself. As such, there is conflicting public opinion about the issue. This mirrors the views of politicians. This could be the result of the fact that immigration reform is often framed as a singular issue when it is not. Immigration reform is an omnibus issue – a series of issues that are all loosely related to one another. There is little real connection between the H-1B visa issue and the undocumented immigrant issue. If the public and the politicians are slightly confused about immigration reform, the framing of multiple issues as a single one is part of the problem.
Without the immigration and slavery from early United States history, especially from the time period of 1880 to 1925 one can only imagine where we would be today. The topic of immigration from 1880 to 1925 is not a largely known subject, though it is taught in many of todays history courses. Around the time of 1880 the United States stood welcome and open to immigrants, the immigrants were being let into the United States because the U.S. needed workers to build railroads, and this was the perfect opportunity. Many of the white race became unhappy with immigrants coming to the U.S., but it was brought to the attention of them by Booker T. Washington that without immigrants and slaves where would the U.S. be? The tensions surrounding immigration
After the Civil War, people started migrating West and more immigrants started coming. The country went through several major changes between 1865 and 1880 that resulted in significant changes in labor and industrialization. The majority of the country owed war debts and there were money issues that caused people to lose money, but the country was quickly industrializing and urbanizing to improve agricultural life. While the North was thriving from new inventions and methods, the South was trying to recover from the affects of the end of slavery.
The United States has transformed through several movements and Immigration has helped shaped how workers, farmers, and the progressives lived. Each group believed they had changed how ideas and movements reformed the country. Immigration is what caused history to change and has allowed the American populations become what it is today. Between 1877- 1939, Not only did immigrants go to America for a better life but Americans within the states would also move to different locations for the same reasons. The workers, farmers and the progressives were groups made up of immigrants.
Ever since Columbus and the Conquistadors landed in the New World starting in 1492, natives of those lands have constantly subjected to being treated as lesser beings. One of the reasons for immigration to America in the 17th century was so that the civilized British might colonize and Christianize the savage, brutish Natives. The idea of Native Americans being lesser than the British-American immigrants continues to this do, though not quite so out-spoken. It was most prominent in the 1800’s when numerous tribes where forced to march to designated Native American reserves.
During the late nineteenth century, immigration began to evolve. Advancements in technology made travel easier and quicker, and the advancement of industry in America opened up more jobs. Immigrants came for a variety of reasons, and not all stayed permanently. The immigrant, just like immigration, was changing with the times. There were different situations encouraging people to leave Europe, they had different goals, and many of the immigrants had a plan to return home.
The United States is a country made up of immigrants from all around the world. With that being said, in 1800’s through the 1840’s there were masses of people coming in from all over the European nations. Mainly from Ireland and Germany due to the desires for a different life which they believed they would acquire in the new world. These immigrants appeared to be looking for freedoms and many opportunities that were seen as easy to come by in America. It is clear that America was viewed as the land of liberty, with many prosperous opportunities and still appears that way to the newcomers from current day in search for a new life. Through primary sources, it is clear that the population growth in the United States was rapid due to the hopes
The “Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act” was written by a bipartisan group that included some of the most prominent senators from both parties. Responding to one of President Obama’s biggest domestic policy priorities; the bill would have had broad-reaching effects on immigration policy and would have reduced the inefficiencies of our outdated
Accountability of the public sector is going to hit the highest levels of scrutiny (Kettl, 2017). The proposed actions or the current administration are going to cause a personnel nightmare in the public sector. An example, States cannot legalize the status of undocumented immigrants, but they may address collateral issues that stem from being undocumented. Most notably, numerous states have enacted legislation that helps overcome barriers to higher education faced by many undocumented youths. Pursuant to some state laws and policies, undocumented students may be able to attend state universities and qualify for in-state tuition. We will need to wait and see how the process will unfold. Will Congress finally reach an agreement, unlike the deadlock they had prior to President Obama’s executive order? Only time will answer that
In order for one to truly appreciate the immigration debate, a thorough examination of the legalization process must take place. The first step is a complete understanding of the laws and regulations relating to the issues governing this topic. Those questions include, what does it mean to be illegal, what is an alien, what is the difference between “admission and illegal entry”, how does a person become a legal citizen, what is the process and who is involved in this process? Understanding the answers to these basic immigration law questions can provide clarity, increase awareness and lend credence to the argument that the immigration debate is a convoluted and complex matter, which requires thoughtful, focused deliberation and not a simple
On the twentieth of November President Obama addressed the nation on immigration. In his address he said that “today, our immigration system is broken -- and everybody knows it.” In 2014 there was an estimated 11.3 million immigrants living in the United States illegally, compared to the estimated 5 million in 1994 it has more than doubled since then. This hard press issue of immigration reform affects everyone living in the United States. Due to the heavy inflow of undocumented citizens sneaking into this country families are being torn apart, our economy is suffering, and the hard working middle as well as upper classes are having to pay higher taxes. The debate is over the way to handle all of the people who are living here undocumented. Immigration reform is argued between politics with a hard line drawn between the Democratic Party’s stance and the Republican party’s. Politics and the common man both bickering about how the illegal immigrants because the issues directly impact our economy and the nations infrastructure. The hope is that through communication and compromise our politicians can end this problem.
In recent years the immigration subject has been more present than ever. The immigration subject has been treated as a minor problem, but now it seems to be getting more popular. Before no one would listen to immigrants because according to the laws of the United States illegal people were criminals. Currently we are still criminals according to the laws, but we have proved the opposite. Who would think about immigrants becoming more successful and stronger in this country than actual citizens. But not everything has been easy for immigrants for the most part it have been hard as hell. This research paper will inform about the different topics of immigration by using scholarly journals articles to explain the reasons in favor of the reform,
Final Reflection #3 – Once you have completed the above sections, please respond to the following questions: 10 points