My cousin has emigrated to the United States after winning the Green Card Lottery. This lottery makes up to 50,000 green cards winners every year who are from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States. The Green Card Lottery also known as the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program (DV Program) is administered by the U.S. Department of State (DOS).
My cousin left Cameroon and arrived in the United States in November 2015 to start a new life and live the American dream. After pending for a few months in the USA, my cousin who has been working as teacher for ten years, decided to apply for a substitute teacher job. On January 2016, he was invited to attend a group interview with all the necessary documents. The interview process …show more content…
He presented the equivalence of his diploma, his passport with the Diversity Immigrant Visa, and the social security card and everything that was accepted at the first checkpoint. At the second checkpoint, he was asked to present his passport again and the social security card for the background check but this time after looking suspiciously at the Cameroonian passport and the visa, the supervisor of the background check affirmed that she could not accept these documents. She called the manager of substitute office and she explained that the documents presented by my cousin were not valid and she could allow him to do a background check. All the explanations given by my cousin about the diversity program didn’t change anything and the manager asked my cousin to leave.
“The Ladder of Inference describes the thinking process that we go through, usually without realizing it, to get from a fact to a decision or action” and I will use it to analyze the situation faced by my cousin (“ The Ladder of Inference”). The Ladder of Inference is organized in different steps which are reality and facts, selected reality, interpreted reality, assumptions, conclusions, beliefs and actions. Each step is seen as rungs on a ladder that people climb to go from the reality and facts to the
My cousin left Cameroon and arrived in the United States in November 2015 to start a new life and live the American dream. After pending for a few months in the USA, my cousin who has been working as teacher for ten years, decided to apply for a substitute teacher job. On January 2016, he was invited to attend a group interview with all the necessary documents. The interview process …show more content…
He presented the equivalence of his diploma, his passport with the Diversity Immigrant Visa, and the social security card and everything that was accepted at the first checkpoint. At the second checkpoint, he was asked to present his passport again and the social security card for the background check but this time after looking suspiciously at the Cameroonian passport and the visa, the supervisor of the background check affirmed that she could not accept these documents. She called the manager of substitute office and she explained that the documents presented by my cousin were not valid and she could allow him to do a background check. All the explanations given by my cousin about the diversity program didn’t change anything and the manager asked my cousin to leave.
“The Ladder of Inference describes the thinking process that we go through, usually without realizing it, to get from a fact to a decision or action” and I will use it to analyze the situation faced by my cousin (“ The Ladder of Inference”). The Ladder of Inference is organized in different steps which are reality and facts, selected reality, interpreted reality, assumptions, conclusions, beliefs and actions. Each step is seen as rungs on a ladder that people climb to go from the reality and facts to the