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immigrants are coming with, weather (southwest is extremely harsh, especially during summer months). The Border Patrol has taken the step of setting up rescue teams throughout the desert, “… in May 2003 that it would add 150 agents to line-duty in the Tucson sector, place 20 rescue beacons in the desert, and enhance cooperation with Mexican border authorities (CITE PAGE 37 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/desales/reader.action?docID=10671368&ppg=21). Another issue is attacks on Border Patrol agents,…

At seventeen years old I had my first introduction to the United States Healthcare system. In November of 2004 I had three weeks left on my mother’s health insurance, I was approaching my last semester of high school and was having frequent unexplained fainting spells. With a month left on my insurance I quickly went through rigorous testing to determine the cause, leaving me feeling like a test subject in a lab. In the beginning of 2005 I was diagnosed with epilepsy. Specifically, I had complex…

Yuma Irrigation Irrigation has been very significant in the Yuma county for decades, irrigation is the reason why Yuma has one of the best soil to develop and grow crops in. Yuma depends on irrigation to get the sources it needs, from growing perfect crops to making great profit. Without all the irrigation systems like dams and canals and successful ideas by representatives Yuma wouldn’t be the town we all know it by and that’s why irrigation is so important in Yuma county, because without it…

in highly populated “gun free” zones, where citizens are not armed and are subjected to the villain’s will. According to John Lott Jr., former chief economist for the U.S. Sentencing Commission, every mass shooting since 1977, other than the 2011 Tucson killings, has occurred in a gun-free zone. Whether these predators like to pounce upon their easily accessible, unarmed prey, or think that they are more likely to be stopped in areas where people are allowed to carry concealed weapons, they…

In the United States it is legal to own and carry a gun according the 2nd amendment: A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. Anyone can carry a gun around and anyone can buy lethal weapons with ease. CBS a well trusted international news team shows the Americans that the shooter can simply carry lethal weapons on him without any questions asked. http://www.tubechop.com/watch/3706318…

In the short story, “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been” by Joyce Carol Oates, Connie is out with her friends one night at the dine-in. As she was walking to the car with one of her friends, another guy smiles and waves his finger towards her while passing in his car. She does not think anything of it until later on one Sunday evening when her parents leave the house. Arnold Friend, the guy from the dine-in shows up at Connies home and asks her to go on a joy ride with him but she…

the human.” Professor Ritz further states, “This may soon be an answer to organ transplant surgery.” (p.6) Optimism, in lieu of organ shortages and waste, comes from the Arizona Daily Star, an online newspaper, “Under a clear dome inside a bustling Tucson…

Matthew dowdell polisci paper #2 p2 Freedom of speech What is the freedom of speech? Do we americans actually have that right as a citizen? There are a lot of people today who are arrested for speaking their own opinions. I personally hear a lot of people say that every person in the united states have the freedom of speech but are afraid to use that right because they don’t want to get arrested. In these three cases I will tell you how these people used their freedom of speech.…

innocence. This ordeal started the Apache Wars that led to many battles and massacres, such as the first and second Battle of Dragon Springs and the Battle of Apache Pass. One of the massacres was the Camp Grant Massacre, “On April 30, an angry mob of 150 Tucson citizens and their Papago (now Tohono O’odham) mercenaries attack the Aravaipa camp, clubbing and shooting 144 people,” (The Apache Wars: A Timeline., southernarizonaguide.com). The Apaches even had their own forced exodus, called the…

My portfolio shows how my progress through the semester has improved since the beginning of the course early this fall. This assignment is a reflection of how I have bettered my skills in the five standards of the WPA outcomes. When I first started college, I only knew simple writing concepts, but by the end of the fall my techniques have transformed from basic to critical. Writing a better thesis statement and breaking everything down are just some ways in which I improved. The point is to…