#9

Children of illegal immigrants should most definitely receive the right to citizenship if born in this country. The children of the illegal immigrants are already being educated in the school systems, being taken care of by the health care system, and are learning the language, so why not allow them to have a U.S. citizenship? The children should not be comdemned to a fate of not having a 'home' because their parents decided to pick up immigrate to another country. Furthermore, the child should not be at risk to be deported to a country where they have no ties to. Allow citizenship to children who have been born in this nation. The United States is not the only country with this policy, Australia does too!








Linkage: http://newsroom.blogs.cnn.com/2011/01/28/citizenship-of-kids-born-to-illegal-immigrants/

#8

In "Border Patrol State", Silko illustrates her main predicament with border patrol as the dehumanizing affect that the authorities have on illegal aliens. Although they are crossing illegally, the authority's way of handling the situation is completely incorrect. No matter how these people are encountering the border patrol, they still should be met with dignity and equality because no matter what country they are in, or where they are coming from, they are still human. Not only are these immigrants being treated inhumanely, they are also being racially profiled from their hair, skin color, or clothing. The grievances that Silko has with Border patrolling policies are completely reasonable and should be addressed.

#7

My mom works in the casinos. She is a credit executive and lends money at, I'm assuming, high interests rates to people who gamble. I don't believe that jobs become a part of the person. I say 'job' for a reason. What my mom does is not a career. If she had a career, I believe that he choice in career would be an intergral part of who she is. The career would not influence her, but she would have made the active decision to participate in that line of work. For example, if my mom had become a teacher, it would have been because she has a strong faith in the youth, and she would want to be apart of their growth. Her choice of career would be influenced by WHO she was as a person, and the job would not have influenced her.

#6

Well! The television that I'm interested in talking about is Breaking Bad. The whole show centers around a man who is terminally ill with lung cancer. He is a high school chemistry teacher.  Knowing his life is going to end, and that his young wife is going to have difficulty supporting herself, their son with m.s. and their baby he decides to work two jobs! He continues to work at his high school until he gets too sick, and then he starts making meth on the side. The entire show is an illustration of the working man's plight and the flaws in the health system, man. So there is a main character in this show that is an immigrant. He is a very successful business man from Mexico. His name is Tooko. He's a the head of a drug cartel. But! He's totally living the dream. He's hard worker, and he doesn't let anyone keep him from his goals.

#5

The past two weeks of school have been going well. If there is anything I need to improve on, it is my time management. Since I've had nearly two months off of work, I've had too much free time, and it's screwing with my priorities. I'm putting things off when I could just complete them. Like, homework I get assigned on Monday should be done on Monday, but since I have Tuesdays off, I pretend I'll do it during the day. And then somehow, it's in the wee hours of the night and I'm doing homework. Hopefully once I'm working again, I'll be forced to handle my free hours well. Besides that, I think I'm doing pretty well. I've already begun studying for my chemistry exam, and I've pre-read most of the chapters for biology. Things are going well.

#4

When I was completing the learning inventory, I wasn't expecting to come out as a creative, visual learner. I mean, I always knew that charts and graphs made more sense to me, but it honestly caught me off guard considering I am usually a fact and science kind of brained person. I think what influenced the survey the most was my emotional sympathetic way of thinking. 
Although, the contrary learning style would have been more unlike me than creative learning styles. I guess the exercise showed me something about myself. Even though the activity didn't teach me anything, it defined an observation I had already known.