Permanent residency

One of the major hot button topics for the 2016 election is Immigration Reform. Discussions of building walls, sending illegal immigrants “home”, and abolishing birthright citizenship have all been tossed around as resolutions. While the other side reminds us how America was founded on the principle of opened doors - a land of freedom and opportunity. They argue that the majority of immigrants and undocumented workers do not hurt society as much as they enhance it, culturally and even…

(Collinson 2016). The Dream Act is a legislative proposal that was made by current president Barack Obama. It allows many young undocumented aliens to have a partial residency permit in the U.S allowing these young students to be able to attend college, find jobs, and have a driver’s license, however they are not considered permanent U.S residents nor citizens. It is a fact that our immigration system is broken, however, trying to deport all 11 million illegal immigrants and tearing up 11…

doctors do in order to learn, one cannot learn if they are not practicing. When one practices they will make mistakes in order to become a better doctor. In the book Complications by Atul Gawande, Gawande gives his personal accounts of his seven year residency and the anecdotes from other doctor's careers to support the sundry of arguments he makes, the most prominent being that practice leads to more success and less mistakes. Going back to practice leading to less mistakes, there is a major…

Panther Party began accrediting schools with the motto of “Learning how to think, not what to think” (p. 181-82). Their first accredited school was the Intercommunal Youth Institute, and later on June 25th, 1969, the Party established their first permanent liberation school. Liberation schools focused on current events, black history, revolutionary thought, and the Black Panther Party philosophy. The schools developed a curricula to “instill revolutionary consciousness,” pursuing to teach what…

趙瑞婷, 婷婷, Zhao Rui Ting , and Tina Zhao are all different name variations for my mother. She was born Guangzhou, a city in China and immigrated to the United States after marriage. Unlike many other immigrants, 婷婷 was lucky enough to be a stay at home mother, yet because of this, she faced many problems that involved finance. Living in a foreign country without an income, 婷婷’s life represents those who are burdened by financial and language barriers. Her birth name “趙瑞婷” is pronounced “ziu seoi…

The Frontline video documentary, “The Released,” is a follow-up film of Frontline’s “The New Asylum” which is a documentary about how correctional facilities became a dumping ground for our society’s mentally ill criminals after state psychiatric hospitals closed down in the 1970’s. The movie, “The Released” however, focuses on what happens to people with chronic mental health issues after being released from prisons and jails. The film shows us that most of these mentally ill inmates end up…

In chapter 10 of Music, Performance, Meaning: Selected Essays, Cook (2007) aims to “spell out a way of understanding ‘at least some of the meaning ascribed to music as at the same time irreducibly cultural and intimately related to its structural properties’”. In this essay I will attempt to outline in detail, John Lennon’s song ‘Imagine’ and how cultural and structural properties of the track contribute to the ideology of world peace and harmony as well as a hint of anti-religion. The essay…

Lastly, is the interactionist perspective is a sociological approach that generalizes about everyday forms of social interaction in order to explain society as a whole. (Schaefer, 2009) Unfortunately, in today’s economy it is hard to make ends meet with minimum wage pay (7.25 per hour) having to spend $3.00 per gallons at the pumps and $8.00 to buy a loaf of bread and a gallon of milk. Everything has increased. The cost of living is through the ceiling for those on fixed or low income. To…

Madison Fishman English 11H The Scarlet Letter- Analytical Essay: Women It would be impossible for someone in this day and age to imagine a world without women's influence. Women have and will continue, to make a world on the world, as they believe their voices must be heard. However, this belief was once looked down upon, especially in the Puritan town of Boston during the mid-1600’s. In the novel The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne places women in a society where they had no voice, no…

The Blueberry market for has grown over the past several years due to its classification as a “superfood” (Robichaud 2006). There have been many studies proclaiming the benefits of incorporating blueberries into diets. Which include the improvement of heart and brain health along with the reduction in the risk of cancer (BC Blueberry Council 2018). The production of blueberries has a long history in Canada. Indigenous peoples of Eastern Canada used blueberries as a food and medicinal source…