Southwestern United States

Both articles explain what is going on in the U.S. southwestern border and also explains why immigration is happening. They also explain how we can improve the situations and also give us a better understanding on how to handle the situations. In Savants article it gives you some reasons why some immigrants cross the border, He gives an example of a guy named Eusebio. Eusebio has a sick daughter. Eusebio has poor hourly rate pay that he can no longer pay for her medicines. He really doesn't…

the 11th president of the United States from 1845-1849. He was born in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina in 1795 and graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1818 (Freidel). Polk was known as the “dark horse” candidate because he was the underdog and not very well known in the presidential election of 1844 (History). After graduating from the University of North Carolina, Polk began to study law in Nashville, Tennessee and got a job as the clerk of the state senate. Polk moved on…

Jo-Ann Pilardi, “The Immigration Problem Is About Us, Not About Them” on this reading Pillard writes about the immigration problem facing United Sates. Immigrants come to United States of America for the American dream. Each year hundreds of thousands of immigrants come to America. All those immigrants many have different reasons to come to Unites States of America. Some come for freedom, protection and others come for job opportunities, and better quality of life. The immigrants do not come to…

Summary: A normal Thursday morning turned into a political explosion when 23 students stood together to fight for their beliefs at Christiansburg High School in southwestern Virginia. The students all surprised the administration staff when they showed up to school wearing clothes that were emblazoned with the Confederate battle flag. According to school officials, this was a violation of the school dress code and the school policy in general. Because of this action, all 23 students were…

how things would have been different if the invasion worked? The events in 1961 would arguably be one of the biggest failures for a Presidential administration in the United States. The reasoning for the invasion is also up for debate, was it because of the alignment of Cuba with the Soviet Union, or was it a plan for the United States to occupy a country and annex it much like Puerto Rico. The key is to figure out what was the exact reasoning for the invasion and was it justified to the…

Gopher tortoise, Gopherus polyphemus, populations in Cape Coral. The city is presently home to 1,000 breeding pairs of burrowing owls, hosting the largest population in the state (Bancroft 2003),…

Taylor is the United States 12th President who served in Office from March 1849 until his death in July 1850.He was born on November 24, 1784, in Barboursville, VA. His parents Richard and Sarah Taylor where planters who owned slaves. His father Richard served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the American Revolution. Zachary Taylor, was a member of the Whig Political party which formed in 1833 through 1854. Taylor, before he was elected into Presidency he was a Military General United States Army. …

Andrews also puts in first hand accounts that gave me a greater gasp of the transition with Palmer’s expedition finding, “A greater number of coal veins… in crossing the Raton mtn. than I have seen or heard of either in England or elsewhere in the United States.” (Killing for Coal, 2008). The change from “organic resources” to fossil fuels such as coal and oil as a key component to the changing of a third or second world country into a…

A. The United States government has never taken major action that has helped Native Americans. In it best light, the government has given a halfhearted apology in 2009. This was hidden away in a military spending bill, complete with a disclaimer that nothing it contained authorized or served as a claim against the United States government itself. At its worst, the government has slaughtered hundreds of native men, women, and children for their land and resources. This was particularly evident…

migrating or immigrating to a new state or country, whether for the betterment of their family or themselves. While a minority legally moves with legal documents, the majority illegally moves without legal documents. However, in terms of illegal immigration how does one immigrate from one country to another, based on the narrator of My Life As An Undocumented Immigrant, Published by José Antonio Vargas, he stated that he illegally immigrated to the United States, as a boy, by getting a fraud…