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15 years ago @ World In Conversation - Would you hire illegal... · 0 replies · 0 points
Even our on TA told his story about his family had to run across the boarder in the middle of the night. His father was a legal citizen of American, but he risked his life to get his whole family to America. His father worked long work weeks to bring his family to America for a better life. So to answer the question, “would I hire illegal immigrants over legal resident for less pay?” it would depend on the situation. If these illegal immigrants do not have the experience to do anything but yard work then I would let them do my yard work. If they are willing, I will pay them. I would pay them just as much as a legal resident and I bet they would do just as good a job, if not better. They are hard working people and far from lazy. If they are illegal then they do not have any other choice then to work under the table. There also comes that legal battle with harboring a illegal immigrant, but you can’t help but to help someone out who needs it.
15 years ago @ World In Conversation - Would you hire illegal... · 0 replies · +1 points
It seems like a vicious sad circle. They are human beings who want to take care of their family and only give their family the best. They see America as a land of opportunity. After all, don’t we advertise America as being a place of freedom and possibilities? Going back to the ranting man on YouTube, I can believe some of the comments that people posted calling Mexicans scum and trash. Like Sam mentioned they are some of the hardest working people. He gave the example of the women who sold pears in California, but couldn’t get them out to the stores in enough time because the Mexicans were not allowed to cross the boarder to help and not one unemployed American wanted to do that dirty work. I don’t think many Americans would set aside their pride to do the dirty work Mexicans do just to earn dollars a day for their families. art 2:
15 years ago @ World In Conversation - Would you hire illegal... · 0 replies · -1 points
After watching the YouTube video of the “ranting” man, I started thinking about if American’s really are negatively affected by illegal immigrants. Do immigrants even have rights? The only time I hear about illegal immigrants is when they are working for Americans for very little pay. I think the whole situation is very touchy and complicated and that is obviously why no one has been able to take control of it. From my knowledge, border patrol is very costly, but we can not cut it completely because there needs to be some form of structure. We can not just let all of these people in especially with all the drug trafficking that has been occurring. I feel like we could be spending the money for border patrol on more productive things for American citizens, like the education system and health care. Last year in my Cas 100 class I did a project on illegal immigration and I learned about the process for applying for U.S. citizenship. It is definitely not an easy application, and the process is tedious.
15 years ago @ World In Conversation - What are your thoughts... · 0 replies · +1 points
. Every time the topic of discrimination comes up, whether or not with black and white, Irish and English, Native Americans or who ever, I always say the Europeans screwed it up! I had an African American Studies class last year and the same thing happened. Europeans entered the lands, trying to force their lifestyle on those so called “dumb” natives and ended up causing mass exodus. But, anyway back to the Native Americans, I was sitting there wishing I could just help them! They get so neglected not just financially, but even in the media. I couldn’t believe that a British television station was covering this story and not our people in our own country.
15 years ago @ World In Conversation - What are your thoughts... · 0 replies · +1 points
This teenagers and kids don’t have any food or clean water let alone the help to get over the loss of a mother or father. I was heart broken when I saw that family pushing their car with a television set in the back seat to a pawn shop just so they could afford something to eat. Even the poorest of poor in North Philadelphia seem more comfortable then these Native American families on this reservation.
I remember reading an article in “Shadowing Boxing with Race” for our first exam about a Native American woman who was expressing her hatred for the white race as a child. I will never forget when she said “I have seen more deaths as a child than anyone will see in their life time”. I could not imagine the horrors she has seen to make her hate another race so much. I also am confused with the fact that the Native American’s were the first people in America, so why are they getting picked on, no not even picked on but killed for the way they look and act.
15 years ago @ World In Conversation - What are your thoughts... · 0 replies · +1 points
The videos about Native Americans provided at the end of class showed the true hardships of this culture that never dawned on me before. Of course in grade school, when learning about the first people of the land we heard about the pilgrims and the Indians. We also heard about the Native Americans and the cowboys. All these stories are just explaining American History and giving insight into the white mans world. After history class not much is mentioned about the Native Americans. Today’s lecture was the first time I actually heard about the tragedies that had been occurring on Native American reservations. I had no clue that Native American teenagers are among the highest to commit suicide and that the mortality rate for women is only 50 years old and men is a mere 48! This is such a devastating statistic. I could not imagine as a Native American teenage loosing my mother and father at such a young age. These means I would have lost my mother 7 years ago and honestly without my mother I feel as if I would contemplate committing suicide too.
15 years ago @ World In Conversation - Which video in class t... · 0 replies · +1 points
My boyfriend had an interest in the Marines, but he wasn’t allowed to register because of his tattoos. We are constantly watching shows and documentaries about the war and the awful living conditions the soldiers have to bear. We recently watched a documentary titled “Battle of Marjah” which portrayed the steps the marines took to gain control of the land. I really do not like blood and gore, but you become attached to these soldiers and find compassion in each of them. I then learned that Marjah citizens who signed up to be soldiers are thrown in with the American soldiers and used as bait. It is really sad to see the American soldiers screaming at them and calling them names like “dumb” and “stupid”. When the Marines are cursing and being crude you can’t help but laugh because you can relate on some level, but then I kept thinking “how could you be so shallow”. We entered THEIR land with obvious cultural and language barriers and we are calling the people who are trying to help us dumb? I just couldn’t understand how you can treat someone with some much disrespect.
15 years ago @ World In Conversation - Which video in class t... · 0 replies · +1 points
There are two sides, the good (America) and the bad (the Taliban) but what about the people stuck in between? Sam raised the point that as Americans we think of all Middle Eastern people and Muslims as a potential threat, and those same Middle Eastern people and Muslims look at us Americans as killers of innocent people. Sam also shared a quote at the end of class; I can not remember the quote word for word, but it pretty much said that it is easy to denounce our enemy, but not take a walk in their shoes and see from their perspective. I never fully understood why we were at war with Iraq. What happened on September 11th can never be made up for; we can not just go in their and kill their people to make things better. It was been 10 years that our soldiers have been over there not only loosing their lives but taken the lives of other, innocent others.
15 years ago @ World In Conversation - Which video in class t... · 0 replies · +1 points
In today’s class we watched a lot of videos, almost all containing hatred towards the Muslims and Middle Eastern people. Two videos had the biggest impact on me, both of which containing the same subject. I was appalled at the video in which the American soldiers were punishing the Iraqi people for “stealing” wood by running over their car with the army tank. The second video showed American soldiers pushing a civilian’s truck off the road with their Humvee because he was driving too slowly. As Americans we see this current war in Iraq glorified. We always hear and see people supporting our troops with yellow ribbons around their trees and magnets on their cars. Of course we should respect the men and women who risk their lives everyday to keep us safe and try to being some piece to the Middle East, but we never think about the “other” people involved in this war.
15 years ago @ World In Conversation - What was more enlighte... · 0 replies · +1 points
Many guys in high school used to call me the queen of “blue balls”. I was always the good girl; I didn’t mind making out but I did not feel comfortable moving beyond that. Even in college, the make out session would get hot and heavy and hands would start wondering and I would always stop and say “I’m not doing anything, so stop now before you get yourself all worked up”. I definitely was not well liked for that, but it wasn’t like he was putting any work in on me; he just wanted to get himself taken care of.
As of today, I do have a boyfriend of over a year, we do have sex and we also run into problems of his “needy penis”. I have no problem pleasuring him, but I feel like sometimes he just thinks with his penis. He gets that image in his mind that gets him going and it’s all him from then on. For women, four play is definitely necessary.
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