Immigration detention

In the early 1900’s, many immigrants moved to America with hopes that they could live freely and work to have a better life. The Jungle, written by Upton Sinclair, is about a Lithuanian family who worked in the Chicago Stockyards and discovered the true horrors of working in the meatpacking plants. The theme in Upton Sinclair’s book, The Jungle, reveals how much damage capitalism caused and the effect that capitalism had on people. As the main character goes throughout life, he is constantly…

Remembering Babylon by David Malouf and Heart of darkness by Joseph Conrad are two works that use variations of chronological order to create a variety of effects. Although almost a hundred years separates the writing of these two works, there are some similarities in the issues they deal with, and the historical setting of both works is roughly the same time, the mid to the end of the nineteenth century. In Remembering Babylon, Malouf explores ideas about identity and the clash of cultures: on…

PEGIDA are also shared by other political movements in France. The National Front, a French right-wing political party, has steadily been increasing in popularity over the past decade. Like PEGIDA, The National Front has been taking a stance against immigration and their respective rise in popularity indicates a general increase in nationalistic ideologies spreading within…

Internal and external migration were both contributing to population changes both at Gazi Bay and Vanga. The percentage of the respondents who had moved from other parts of the country and from Tanzania (temporarily or permanently) was 33% and 27% at Gazi Bay and Vanga, respectively. At Gazi village, human migration was mainly fishermen who move seasonally between the village, and Zanzibar and Pemba in Tanzania. Further, migration at Gazi Bay was also composed of people moving from different…

Cesar Chavez was an American labor and civil rights activist. He was an effective leader because he was courageous, determined, & strategic . He gave a lot of effort for his people and was dedicated to them. Cesar wanted higher wages for the Filipinos and Latinos who were working for grape and lettuce growers. As well as better conditions in their homes and while working . After four years, he was able to make a change for the United Farm Workers. Cesar had courage to go on a hunger strike.…

Refugees, how to deal with them, and the true definition has been an ever changing and hotly disputed topic for many decades. As time goes on the world continues to have displaced groups in one form of agony or another, flash across the screens of our phones and tvs. The question is how can we handle refugees better. This part of the large sweeping argument in Liisa Malkki essay Speechless Emissaries. Her essay is about the different groups that are tasked with helping refugees, how they…

The first half of the novel’s title, “inside out,” reflects the universal refugee experience of fleeing home. This relates to Ha’s experience in various ways. For instance, at the beginning of the novel, when Ha was still back in Saigon, she writes in the poem, “Closed Too Soon”, that, “I’m mad/ and pinch the girl/ who shares my desk,/ Tram is half my size,/ so skinny and nervous” (Lai 38). This shows how Ha was a bully who was feared by others. This proves how before the war, she was a…

In one episode, My Struggle, I saw tension. I didn’t find it entertaining (arguments I found cute when the characters were thirty are not so cute when they’re pushing sixty), but it was there. The canon here needs clarification. As has been repeated ad nauseam, their breakup and reconciliation (especially reconciliation) do not make sense. Their reason for returning to the FBI and staying there does not make sense. The timeline in which all this takes place does not make sense. Trading in nine…

If you want to be assured your equal rights and be free from discrimination and racism, than the United States is the best place in the world to live. Unless, of course, you’re a Muslim, Black, Native American, Hispanic, Asian, or basically anything other than a white male, but I digress, since, obviously, that was implied. Unfortunately, since we cannot prevent the entrance of dirty, foul immigrants into our pure country, we xenophobes must be as hostile and disrespectful as possible in order…

Elizabeth Thoman, the author of, “Rise of the Image Culture: Re-imagining the American Dream,” takes the position that American lives, as a whole, are being consumed with images and the effect that have on us. Claims she uses that further support he position include that “consumer culture as we know it could have never emerged without the invention if the camera and the eventual mass production of media images…” (pp. 202-203). Thoman also claims that the “progress” that America has had over the…