Smuggling

Act beginning in 1764 sugar, molasses, and many imports from outside of England were taxed. In 1733 an act called the Molasses act was passed, it was unsuccessful as England did little to enforce the law, causing many of the colonists to turn to smuggling and consequently the colonists became used to handling their own business. Once the Sugar Act was put upon colonists, it met resistance…

The 1920’is an interesting time period for America. It was post WWI and it was time to change. The government wanted adjustments and the people wanted change. The American way of life was altered for many reasons in the 1920’s. These reasons were prohibition, the changing of women roles, and the Harlem Renaissance. This was an age of many beginnings and change for America. Prohibition was a major shift in America. Prohibition is the banning of alcohol to be sold and consumed. The eighteenth…

Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs roots began post World War II. As reported by the Outlaws Motorcycle history web page, they convey the gangs originating in 1935, having their first major event in Chicago and states where the first known biker club was established. The following is from their webpage; “The McCook Outlaws Motorcycle Club was established out of Matilda`s Bar on old Route 66 in McCook, Illinois, just outside of Chicago”. Many of the original clubs have been disbanded although this has…

You can focus one paragraph on September eleven and how it cause racial profiling. Another paragraph can be about how in airports most Africans American and Latinos are stop to be searched because of not only terrorism, also for other crimes like smuggling drugs, which whites are equally as guilty for the same crime but are not stop because of their race. This way you can also spread your quotes and evidence, so it won’t be too much information in one paragraph. 2. Every time you use a quote at…

The U.S. 1953-54 recession almost double the unemployment rate and many American were worried that Mexicans were taking all the jobs and so became imminent that they were a threat to the U.S. labor. These brought up Operation Wetback in 1954 and in June 1954 the U.S. Attorney General, Herbert Brownell, Jr., ordered a massive deportation drive (Meier and Ribera, 189). More than a million undocumented workers were rounded up and sent back to Mexico regardless if they had a family or not. Many were…

Human Trafficking is Modern Day Slavery In today’s modern era, there are people who are being detained and transported against their will for forced labor, sex work, or child enslavement (McCoy Roth, 2004). People are unaware of how broad the issue is, due to media’s framing of human trafficking. Data used from The International Labor Organization, ILO, shows that 2.45 million people are trafficked globally and out of those only 43% are used for sex trafficking (Marchionni, 2012). That means…

There are many ways humans are moved, and these ways are often covered by one of two topics, “smuggling” and “trafficking”. Smuggling is moving humans across a border, when they have willingly paid for their transport, most often being deceived into thinking they are going to a better life. Those who are trafficked have not given consent and were threatened and/or…

Comparative paragraph There are many differences and similarities between each journey from Hannibal’s journey, Mao’s journey and North Korean refugee’s journey. I will start compare between Hannibal’s journey and Mao’s journey first. In term of difficulty, I think Mao’s journey is more difficult. In Hannibal’s generation, there are no vehicle. Most of people who are not rich are usually travel by walking, so they will get used to walking. Compared to Mao’s generation, everyone can use the…

Haiti is another extremely poor and poverty-stricken country that has struggled to develop due to their lack of a stable economy mixed with their vulnerability to natural disasters. These catastrophes consistently and aggressively occur without enough time for Haiti to repair from their last disaster. (Ex, the repercussions of the 2010 earthquake were never fully accommodated for, let alone the aftermath that hurricane Matthew has now forced upon Haiti). Consequently, 60,000 Haitians were…

The amount of homicides spiked within 1919-1933. Within those years Prohibition started and ended. Prohibition lasted throughout 1919-1933. Prohibition only ocurred in America. Prohibition was the years in which Alcohol was banned by the 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act. Why did America take back Prohibiton? The U.S Government took back Prohibition necause of how bad it was making the economics, the amount of crime it caused, and how bad the enforcment was. First of all, Crime is a good…