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Please Fix the Rio Norte (Central Themes in Chapter One: The Theme, of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged) The world is viewed by many to be a great resource for wealth, happiness, and survival. Pessimistic and optimistic lenses blur the subjective understanding of how the physical planet and humans interact. All will say sacrifices must be made to reach progress, but the priority of what can and what cannot be sacrificed is a deep and polar divide between many groups of people. Ayn Rand is known for…

On the day, February 6, 1999 Dago and Aracely left their hometown Namiquipa, Chihuahua to purse “The American Dream”. The couple had just gotten married and were 18. To pursue their dreams, they would have to cross the border to the United States. Like many immigrants, they would go in search for a a better life for them and for their families. The couple found a coyote and had set the cross date for Feb. 14 at 1 am, this would make it harder to be spotted. They had payed 2,00 for both to cross.…

Sandra Day O’Connor was born in El Paso, Texas in 1930. She graduated from Stanford University with a B.A. in economics, and she also received her LL.B. from the Stanford Law School. O'Connor served as Assistant Attorney General of Arizona from 1965 to 1969, and was then appointed to fill a vacancy in the Arizona State Senate. She became the first woman to serve as its Majority Leader. In 1975 she was elected to the Maricopa County Superior Court and in 1979 was elevated to the Arizona State…

Pollara entered the Army to receive basic combat training. He was sent to Fort Bliss for eight weeks, where the basic training consisted of physical, drill, and weapons training. Fort Bliss is a training facility for American soldiers located in El Paso, Texas, and New Mexico, and is named in honor of Lieutenant Colonel William Wallace Smith Bliss. (Military.com) His training was very exhausting, and his drill sergeants were tough on all the troops as they trained constantly in all weather…

Women of the United States are under siege due to the underground sex trade known as human trafficking. With increasing supply and demand for women and young children, these victims are being kidnapped and forced into modern day slavery. These slave traders are making billions of dollars off the bodies of these victims. The complications of discontinuing underground sex trade rings are due to massive economic funding it provides to sex traders and abductors. The constant development of new rings…

Minority Serving Institutions: Educating All Students By: Marybeth Gasman, University of Pennsylvania & Clifton F. Conrad, University of Wisconsin, Madison & Associates • The purpose of the Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) Models of Success study, was to understand the work and contributions of MSIs by analyzing 12 MSIs throughout the United States. • Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) Overview o MSIs emerged in response to a history of inequity, lack of minority people’s access to…

The fabric of the “Real America” America is a mosaic of different cultures and races. Most cannot see or assemble the image of the “Real America”. Michael Scott argues this idea by writing that the undocumented “aliens” inundation has caused a dilution of the “Real America”. He writes “aliens” have become such a problem for Americans, the latter has lost jobs, money and even their identity. However, Richard Raynor argues this influx of cultures revitalizes the American identity by…

Adjust First Breckenridge, Colorado is an awesome town that my family went to for vacation when I was maybe eight. Along with my immediate family other relatives went with us. One of the family members there was my Uncle Jim. Jim lived in Portland, Oregon at the time of the trip and he is really big into two things; chocolate and running. It is important to know that the elevation of Portland is fifty feet whereas the elevation of Breckenridge is 9,600 feet. In every room of the condo we were…

their homes while they were asleep, and had a plan how to kill them based on their gender. Ramirez was a conflicted individual whose actions lead to extreme heartbreak for numerous families. A Mexican-American, Ramirez was born February 29, 1960, in El Paso, Texas. He was the youngest of five siblings. Ramirez had a pretty normal childhood. His father even said that he was a “good child.” It wasn’t until Richard started spending a lot of time with his older cousin Mike that things started to…

Why does the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) exist even though there are always issues with immigration and terrorist acts? CBP exists “To safeguard America's borders, thereby protecting the public from dangerous people and materials while enhancing the Nation's global economic competitiveness by enabling legitimate trade and travel” (CITE http://www.cbp.gov/about). Without the border, entry between United States and Mexico would be in utter chaos. I would give the average of employment by…