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Over 40 million foreign-born representing 13% of the population resided in the United States (Dews). 13% of the U.S. population are foreigners (Dews). A immigrant is a person who comes to a country to take up permanent residence (merriam-webster.com). A refugee is one that flees; especially : a person who flees to a foreign country or power to escape danger or persecution (merriam-webster.com). A asylum seeker is a person who, from fear of persecution for reasons of race, religion,social group, or political opinion, has crossed an international frontier into a country in which he or she hopes to be granted refugee status (dictionary.com). If Donald Trump actually were to deport 3 million undocumented immigrants the U.S. will be affected. 8% of construction will decline and 9% of agricultural production (Ehrenfreund). Although opponents claim foreigners are no good for America, the U.S. should lessen the restrictions on foreigners coming to America because they do labor for less pay, they are looking for a better future for their kids,…

In “The Framing of Immigration,” George Lakoff and Sam Ferguson claim that issue defining framing is narrowing, particularly in the case of immigration reform. Immigration reform, they claim, is a complex issue whose simple frame ignores security, economic, and social concerns. The authors organizes their claims through the use of specific subclaims, counter arguments, reasons, and evidence. The first subclaim Lakoff and Ferguson mention is that security concern is at the center of the…

Immigration has recently become the center of the presidential debates, and every candidate is trying to offer up the best position regarding this topic. For instance, the democrats maintain a low profile on their stance because many, such as Hillary Clinton, believe immigration is be something we should allow more of. While the republicans, excluding Jeb Bush, strongly support the strengthening of our immigration laws. That being said, Donald Trump’s stance on immigration is the most popular…

cooked it. They finished cooking the fish and sat down together to eat their dinner. The family finished their food, cleaned up, then went to bed. The next day they went for a swim in their lake. That is when Elena started acting weird. Eventually it got worse and worse and she was going insane. She constantly felt like someone was watching her or wanted to hurt her. Her dad had started to notice more and more how crazy she had been. Her boyfriend tried to help her and it was so weird because…

Asylums are supposed to stabilize the insane, but what if they did the exact opposite? In the book, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest not only is the sanity of the patients questioned but the staff’s too. The methods of the institution are questionable ethically and morally. Giving the patients unknown pills and taking away their masculinity is very dubious. The ways of the institute is soon questioned because of the arrival of Randle McMurphy. Due to the control, different perspectives, and…

endured. Our ability to hold the world up to our standards lends us a feeling of power and control over our lives, giving us our pride and credibility as individuals, but when it is taken away from us, it renders us feeble, fearful, and helpless to whatever reality throws at us, causing us to gradually lose our sense of self, as well as our grasp on reality. In One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, by Ken Kesey, we are shown through the eyes of Bromden, a patient at an asylum, to what extremes our…

The Trans- Alleghany Insane Asylum It started on a weekend in May, our school decided to plan a field trip to a mysterious building in the western part of Virginia. Don’t ask me why though—we’re all surprised they even considered it. The funny thing is, our school hasn’t taken a field trip in three years, and this is the first placed they decided to go to. The whole situation was quite strange. After a class of eighth graders went to a zoo, the principle has not allowed anyone to go on a…

Human Interaction “Class, Class please quiet down, today we have a visitor. I have studied this young man for most of my life. The year I graduated with my doctorate was the same year this man was put into Alburque Asylum for his mental state. This man has Dissociative Identity Disorder, something you all might recognize as Multiple Personality. DID is when a person obtains two or more personality states in their mind. In 1916, he was placed in this asylum as his mother felt there was something…

Whistleblower I am Waylon Park I’m an investigative journalist from Denver, Colorado. I have received an email from Miles Upshur a software engineer who works at the Mount Massive Asylum he has been telling me about inhumane experiments being conducted at the asylum. Well that’s why I am here to expose the Murkoff Corporation patients are being hurt and Murkoff is making money off of it this needs to stop. I’m in front of the gates that lead to the Asylum…

His is a man with bulky body but he thinks himself a looser. The story starts with the new admitted patients named with Randle McMurphy. McMurphy is full of life. He is smart, intelligent and believes that live is short so enjoy as more as you can. He comes in the asylum like a wind that stirs the life of all the patients there. He is rebellious, and caring at the same time. Other patients are scared. They are weak mentally. Protagonists McMurphy will not follow any rules made my nurse Ratchet.…