By the Way

How Immigration Affects America America is a country built on immigrants. One way or another we are all immigrants. Either our parents where immigrants or all maybe dating all the way back to our great-great grandparents. In this country you’d think that with all the diversity and amount of cultures we have, you’d think people would be more open and accepting of others. Unfortunately there are still people that believe that immigrants are bad for our great nation. America is a multicultural…

actions. Major social problems such as racism, discrimination, standard of living and even the way the media shapes are behaviors are some of the things we may come encounter with on our daily lives. The symbolic interactionism idea is made up of the three processes which are meaning is derived from social interaction, value of the interaction process and also the idea we all interpret things in our own way. The media is everywhere we look and almost everyone is able to access it without a…

Exercising your body helps in improving your concentration. When you engage in moderate physical exercises, your concentration improves by a big margin. You will realize that exercises basically help the brain to ignore distractions. This can go a long way in improving your concentration levels. 10. Practice mindfulness throughout the…

Family Groups Oddly enough my own side of the extended family, I would consider to be both a secondary group and my out-group. First of all, the vast majority of them have passed away. My mother and father are gone, as well as my beloved grandfather, and the only cousins in my family that I ever wished to associate with. Secondly, the remaining family members are volatile and have a negative impact on my life and my children’s lives, hence why I choose to keep them as far away as possible. They…

text, “the family has an uncle that they were hidin' in the house, and he snitched to the Immigration”, things went south for him, “They grabbed him in the kitchen and pulled him down the stairs”. Not only is the way Miller presenting the story unsettling, it is also downright brutal on the way he dealt with it, using words like “grabbed” and “pulled”, to show that Vinny has no control on this situation, and that his simple act of snitching caused him brutal injuries. And the kicker? “And they…

We all find ourselves in a funk every now and again, some let it get so severe that they feel as if there is no recovering from this deep seeded depression. Some take this depression as a sign that they no longer belong and feel at peace with this choice whereas others search for help and in many cases find a saving grace if you will. In “Saving Grace” we meet Grace, she 's a 17 year old dealing with the hardships of being a teenage girl, as well as being in that transitional stage between high…

ringed thumb out toward the quad, “I don’t think you’ll find five people out there who’ve heard of YO-YO Ma. And by the way, what kind of the name is that? Is it ghetto or something? Yo Ma?” She answered right away “It’s Chinese.” I shook my head and laughed. “I know plenty of Chinese people. They have names like Wei Chin. Or Lee something not Yo-Yo Ma.” I found it very amusing the way she expresses about Yo-Yo Ma. “You cannot blaspheming…

Wally, having made up with his brother Barry, tells him of his crush on Ally, although he had only met her the previous day. My troupe, The Squad Squad, is planning to perform scene six of As You Like It. We have translated this scene to a modern day setting which will be more appealing for children in middle school. Our troop is made up of four middle schoolers attending Old Donation School, which is a school constructed of the most academically advanced students in Virginia Beach. We have…

closest relatives, are also used to test various types of disease like such as cancer and HIV, two of one the most common harmful diseases and incurable. This form of treatment and testing to animal beings can be considered one of the most accurate ways to test diseases, but abusing the respect and dignity towards animal beings has become an inexcusable act towards them. GAP, established in 1993 , is a project build to set legal and moral rights for apes such as chimpanzees, bobos and many more…

We use the way of knowing (WOK’s) to explain why things are the way they are and how we make sense of everything in the world around us. The Wikipedia article about Scopes, Inherit the Wind and personal experiences can help explain how we see the ways of knowing being used in actuality. Through one of the ways of knowing, physiology, we can prove out existence on earth. We are living humans and we do need certain things to survive. We became the way we are, of course through God, but, speaking…