unfamiliar country. According to Yen Le Espiritu’s historical novel Home Bound: Filipino American Lives across Culture, Communities and Countries, “For many Filipino migrants to the United States, migration is attractive not so much because of the promise of lucrative jobs or unlimited mobility but because of the differential between their potential earnings in the United States and in the Philippines” (31). Many Filipinos including Jaybelle conformed to the trend of seeking better economic…
Why should the United State’s Terrorist Attack List be eliminated? Introduction The Terrorist Attack List was created shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attack to create an opportunity to collect and share information on known or appropriate suspected terrorists with law enforcement agencies and the intelligence community. Although the list may prevent potential terrorists from harming United States citizens, it also effects much of the innocent in very negative ways. The list uses mechanisms to…
Having your college education taken away from you is like striping away your future. Students in the United States should not have their education and future striped away from them therefore, community colleges must be free to attend and state colleges need to lower their tuition in order for student to continue their education. For those who are interested in continuing their education, could benefit from this, they can become successful and live a better life. They wouldn’t have to worry about…
African-American men determined to go above and beyond their call to duty to change racism in the United States military. These heroic men were faced with racism and adversity at every corner; nevertheless, they stayed true to their cause and fought until the very end for a noble cause dear to their hearts. No one can come close to comparing to the Tuskegee Airmen, who altered the way the United States of America and its military forces would see African-Americans for years to come. Racism was…
show that in the United States there are 43.1 million people that live in poverty. Of those 43.1 million, 24.4 million are between ages 18-64, 14.5 million are children under the age of 18, and 4.2 million are senior citizens 65 years of age or older living in poverty. Today more than before, schools and education remains the key to escaping poverty, while poverty remains the biggest obstacle to education. There is a large number of students attending schools in high poverty communities who…
war on drugs. Do you feel safe living in a drug free America? Are children and young adults living in the United States protected from the drug cartels? Do the American schools remain free of illegal substances? The controversy of legalizing drugs has been ongoing for years with more than enough anti-drug propaganda and reasons to vote against legalization of drugs. As the communities, schools, and youth become heavily impacted by the sale, use, and overdose of illegal substances, more…
imagine an equitable comparison in many aspects, especially when locating the correlation between human beings of the same global population. Yet, equality has failed to be translated suitably in practice. As the we progress further into 2018, the United States is still battling to implement the egalitarianism that was declared in a document ratified over two centuries ago. There are still uneven balances in the workforce, unequal treatment in schools, racial injustices plague our judicial…
Introduction The war against terrorism in the United States has transformed to become a major battle in Afghanistan and other members of the ISIS community. Islamic extremism is rampant in those countries, and most individuals air their grievances by launching terrorist attacks on the United States. The battle which has persisted for over a decade now has faced a series of challenges, and it is important to measure the progress made by the United States in its counterterrorism and…
called “Kids Learn About Ownership Early On” which states, “Danny Kahneman and his…
there were two aspects of importance; Anglo-Saxon ancestry and Christianity; both of which are still held onto by many American citizens today and are held as the priority or even the standard for a role model. To begin, Yosso, Ceja, and Solorzano state that “. . . racism is about institutional power,” (61) this statement comes from “Critical Race Theory, Racial Macroaggressions, and Campus Racial Climate: The Experiences of African American College Students.” This particular article explores…