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I really enjoy meeting people from other countries. I have made a few friends from Europe over the years, and I love learning about their culture and their way of life, it is so fascinating to me. It is amazing to me, how different we really are from one another. When I got this assignment I was excited, once again I get to meet someone from another country and learn about their culture. I first met Jessica a few months ago when she got hired as a waitress, this summer at the restaurant where…

example, Mexico and the United States share a border and both have a republic government, but their way of educating contrasts one another. The most prominent cause of the differences in the school system in these two countries is the amount of money available. Mexico lacks the funds that Americans take for granted daily, and Mexico is a poor country that does not have the money to spend on schools like the United States can. In fact, the author writes, “The United States was… cited as having…

Bodies: Migrant workers in the United States the author, Seth Holmes writes about how Free Trade has ruined the lives of indigenous Mexicans. Holmes goes into detail about how these trade ideas ate away at Mexico’s economy, leading to land wars and mass migration. Holmes, also delves into not only the economic cost of the neoliberal economic ideas, but also the human cost. Holmes also mentions how the indigenous people lost many of their own farms in United States owned farms and how that has…

The Cost of Freedom As Americans continue to heavily rely on digital means of media and communication, surveillance over the population becomes easier than ever for the government to carry out. One of the main institutions created in the United States to gather intelligence is the National Security Agency (NSA). The NSA monitors the phone calls, emails, text messages, contacts, photos, video calls, and many other aspects of digital communication utilized in today’s world as a means to protect…

-According to Joseph Healey (2002), “cultural assimilation is demonstrated when the minority group suppresses their language, food, lifestyle, and way of living in order to adapt to a different system with a total different regime than the one they were used to practice (p. 49). Usually, this happens when they move to another territory. Secondary structural assimilation is defined when the minority group adapts to the new culture they decided to reside and starts to educate himself or herself to…

The United State (U.S.) government has a very active International Affairs. The International Affair’s concerns are not restricted to the United States but to the entire world (International Affairs, 2014). Many times, the U.S. is not welcomed and is consider interfering in matters that does not concern us. There are American people that agree with the citizens in foreign counties that the U.S. should not be involved in issues outside of the U.S. Is our involvement in International Affairs…

Summary of Video: This video reflected the American Dream. The ideas of an American Dream were self invention, possibilities, freedom, and opportunities to be a self made person. It also valued hard work. Benjamin Franklin’s, Theodore Dreiser’s, and Scott Fitzgerald’s autobiographies and writings exhibited the American Dream. These influenced the American Dream essentially with money and social status. Benjamin Franklin told a very optimistic narrative about his life. Benjamin boarded a boat…

The Image of a Housewife The summarization of “The Problem That Has No Name,” a chapter from the book The Feminine Mystique written by Betty Friedan. The common themes throughout Friedan’s writing are about the concerns, expectations, and fears of the housewives of the middle twentieth century. Friedan’s writing could provoke thought about how the expectations of housewives in the past have shaped the present and how it will impact future. While the housewives of the middle twentieth century…

America is no longer the Land of Opportunity that Uncle Sam so boldly embodied. Instead, it is now a siren that sings the Star Spangled Banner and lures millions into her den where they are cast under her spell “The American Dream”, only to be crushed afterward by the cruel reality; The American Dream is dead. It is now for sale to those who can afford it. Dating back to the reconstruction when America was rebuilt with the blood and sacrifice of thousands of Americans-White, Black,…

All the aforementioned are considered serious crimes, and violation of human rights in the United States. Conflict Perspective Theory will be used to substantiate the message that our video will be conveying to our audience. According to Kelly Welch, the author of the book “Think Human Sexuality,” stated that the conflict theory support the basic…