Critical Journal #4 1. Why is this piece intriguing to you? The Migrant Mother picture by Dorothea Lange on page 538, is an intriguing piece because of the emotional image it portrayed and how it send messages to others on the critical conditions they are facing during that time period. It can compare to the saying that picture is worth a thousand words. 2.…
Head Start encourages self-sufficiency, growth, and development supported through family and community partnerships. The Head Start program supports the mental, social, and emotional development of children from birth to age 5. The programs main focus is the well-being of children and their families.…
In the prescribed text “migrant hostel” Peter Skrychenki advocates to the audience the story of a thousands off migrants coming to Australia after World War 2 demonstrating that the persona does not necessarily belong to a place such as the hostel in a broader context Australia. Showing the personas alienation and this sense of not belonging migrants feel when they first come to Australia. The tile itself ‘Migrant Hostel’ exemplifies this sense of exclusion towards these migrants from people in society. While the term “hostel” connototaes an temporary establishment that provides needs for an individual but also creates this sense of segregation encapsulating this idea of entrapment which restricts entry to Australia, which is in regard to…
Motherhood varies in every culture. The Urban Dictionary defines mom as, “The woman who loves you unconditionally from birth, the one who puts her kids before herself and the one who you can always count on above everyone else,” from my experience this is only part of what a mother does. A mother is someone who is underappreciated and is your bestfriend. Motherhood in the hispanic culture is being responsible for the children’s education, teaching the child to be respectful, the child’s health, the house duties, and putting yourself last. All these responsibilities make the mothers the heart of the family and without them a family is not the same.…
Migrates from Latin and Central America travel to the US in search of job opportunities, but most lack an adequate education that provides them with critical skills needed in the workplace. The risks most Latino migrants take are in the hopes of achieving a stable life free of financial burden or poverty. However, in most cases education because a deciding factor in the success of individuals in the labor force. Since the Plyer vs Doe case granting education to immigrants, attainment has increasingly become a topic of interest for many communities. Disputes ranging from the expenditures of the state’s budget and the use of resources that should belong to US natives, are the main responses to their presence in the educational system.…
Joy Woods Lenora B. Fulani “The Development Line” Article Summary What keeps the poor, poor? This is one of the most fundamental questions in our nation and one of the questions answered in Lenora Fulani’s article, “The Development Line”. In this article, Fulani discusses the relationship between development, learning, and poverty, it’s relevance to Black and Latino communities, and how she co-founded a non-profit organization to help address these issues in poor and underprivileged children.…
Unit 1 Assigment Head Start has influence our history since the beginning the program had help many families. Althoughthe main interest of this program was to help middle class families. The program have progress inhelping people who are immigrating to our country. Many events help improve how the system works. One event that influenced early education was the nursery movement.…
The S. 744, the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act accelerates the legalization of immigrants who completed more than two or more years of higher education. Similarly, the benefits of the DREAM-Acts are given if young migrants who have obtained a GED, diploma, or high school equivalent accreditation, and four years at a postsecondary institution. (Pérez) Education not only promotes greater success in labor but also opening opportunities that were only granted to natives. Still, the current state polices in place have created interferences with those pursuits and these effects are most felt by undocumented…
The Head Start program is a Federal program that was established in 1965 by President Lyndon B. Johnson; this program was designed to assist families and children who were living below the poverty line. “It was designed to help break the cycle of poverty by providing preschool children of low-income families with a comprehensive program to meet their emotional, social, health, nutritional, and psychological needs and support families in improving their lives.” (Head Start, 2015) For many years Head Start was a program to help prepare children for school, and under the Improving Head Start for School Readiness Act of 2007 now the local grantees are “required to develop school readiness goals and evaluate children’s progress toward these goals.”…
The documentary “Nouveau Poor: Immigrant Poverty” is an excellent documentary that showcases the struggles that face many legal and illegal immigrants that reside in America. Poverty is an epidemic among immigrants, thus is 2001 nearly 1 in six immigrants were living in poverty (“Nouveau”, 2011). For many immigrants, they lack the required skills to become productive citizens in Americans. Education is primarily the number one reason these immigrants find themselves in poverty; in addition, having little understanding of English often creates a barrier in the working force. Nearly 43% of immigrants live on less than seven dollars an hour.…
“He has slept on the ground; in a sewage culvert, curled up with other migrants; on top of gravestones. Once, on top of a moving train, he grew so hungry that he jumped forward to the first car, leaped off, and raced to pick a pineapple. He was able to reboard one of the train’s last cars. Another time, he had gone two days without water. His throat felt as if it was swelling shut.…
A Call to Action for Dreamers (The DREAM Act) What is the dream act? How will passing the dream act affect the United States? In Multicultural America: A Multimedia Encyclopedia “The DREAM Act”, Authors William Perez and Raymond Buriel analyzes the overall mission of what the DREAM Act will do for undocumented children and the problems the government has with it. In the article, the dream act the authors defined the DREAM Act, which stands for Development, Relief, and Education of Alien Minors Act.…
The importance of looking at Latino immigrants and their children is not only because they are one of fastest growing populations but also because of the special circumstances that revolve around this population. Latino immigrants (mostly unauthorized) have lower levels of education, are less likely to receive government assistance, are overrepresented in low paying manual jobs, and are more likely to be in poverty. When looking at unauthorized adult Latino immigrants (ages 25-64), 47% have less than a high school education, by contrast, only 8% of native born individuals (ages 25-64) have not graduated from high school (Passel and Cohn, 2009). Of the United States 2008 labor force of 154 million people, there was an estimated 8.3 million…
Baby Boom: After World War II, birth rates soared as Americans returned from the military. In result, the “baby-boom” created a large cohort of teenagers by the late 1950s and it became the leading edge of a new youth culture. Civil Rights Era: The Civil Rights crusade was led by African Americans and they constituted the majority of its participants. It embraced leaders like Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. Civil Rights organizations like the NAACP and Black Panthers had different visions, but overall, they both wanted equal rights. With the thousands of volunteers, the movement succeeded and created a monumental impact.…
I was born and raised here in America, in an Italian household the only spoke English. Growing up I lived on the east end of long Island, in a community that was all middle class and Caucasian. Still to this day I live in a working middle class town on long Island which is mostly all white Americas. Because my community wasn’t as diverse as I grew up, I wasn’t as familiar with different cultures, ethnicity, and life styles outside of my own. When I first walk into the head start program, I wasn’t sure what to except.…