Besides from the pay, its more ethical and humane to higher an immigrant worker, rather than to leave them out “on the street”, also from experience I know many farms provide housing for their illegal immigrant workers so that is a benefit for them as well. In comparison to that, I feel a citizen already is sheltered and has a higher opportunity to find a job elsewhere. Not only is it beneficial to the immigrant and profitable for me, but it also is beneficial to the economies of both the United States and their home country. Being able to hire more labor for the same price or being able to hire the same amount of labor for less helps in controlling price inflations. By hiring more labor and increasing the output of my business would create an increased supply of my product in the economy. This would help to keep the prices down. With minimal wages constantly on the rise, more labor laws in effect, and benefits and no work compensation and taxes having to be paid to legal residents is harmful to business owners. We can already see the effect this has had on our economy and this especially shows with our factory jobs being offshored to low-wage countries. High wages may be affordable to billion dollar businesses and corporations, but not to factory and farm owners (the jobs that Americans are always complaining about being outsourced). Competition is tough for business like this, where competing goods are being imported for cheaper prices, so the only way for jobs like this to fight back would be to cut wages. Instead these business just survive off of government subsidies that we as society all pay for.

Would I hire illegal immigrants over legal residents for less pay?
The answer to this question would be yes. Firstly I’ll explain why I don’t think it’s wrong to pay someone less because of illegal residency and secondly why I think it helps the economy instead of hurts it.
If I were a business owner, I’ll say a farm for example; I would hire more illegal immigrant workers over legal residents. The first reason I would hire them over residents would obviously be because I would save a lot of money, almost twice as much as I would have to pay a resident. Is this necessarily wrong though? I don’t think so. They left their homes in other countries to come to America looking for work. Before leaving they already know that it is going to be tough work and they’re not going to be rich from it. They doing it to put themselves and their families in better situations that they would not have otherwise had. Though they’re getting paid half the amount as a resident would, this United States currency is still worth more than their home country, and they’re making a much higher rate here. For them it is profitable, and for me as the business owner it’s profitable.

Another way the story may change could just be from existing views people have on society. For example consider the same simple fight story. It could easily evolve to being a hate crime, but for a reason different than miscommunication. The reason it could change is because someone could be so used to hate crimes that it’s a common occurrence for them. When they hear this story they’d automatically assume that there was a different reasoning behind the fight other than over sports. From experience they’d assume it was a hate crime and pass it off as that. My two main theories for the evolution of these stories are that they arise out of miscommunication and out of past experiences and pre-existing views. They may also be many other reasons as well, we just may never know. The story could even just change because of someone’s mal-intent, wanting to turn the story from truth to fiction. That’s how rumors start.

The first person that hears the story usually gets the full story with mostly the facts. Many times people don’t fully focus on the details and especially not the small details. When that person retells that story, they only pull the main points from the story and repeat. They also repeat it in their very own way with their own point of view and moral of the story. For example a simple story would be that two people got into to fight with one another because they were cheering for opposing sports teams, one person happened to be white and one happened to be white. This story could easily evolve so that the fight broke out because the two people were different colors. Finally as this story continues from person to person it could change into something along the lines that the white person beat down the black person in the act of a hate crime. People just pick the main view of the story and since everyone perceives stories in different ways they tell the stories with different meanings. This could be one way that a story would change as it goes down the line or from person to person.

The telephone game: It’s interesting to see the way that information travels from person to person. No matter who you are a story that is told to you, you will pass it off in your own unique way. How we perceive and view a story and the facts of the story are different than how anyone else who hears it. Even if you were someone to witness what happened in the story, the reasoning you give in the story could be different than the actual and real reasons for what happened. There are many different ways that rumors spread and stories change meanings as they are passed on.

As for my previous experiences with the Baptist religion; I’m just scared by it after that. I did grow up in a slightly religious household and did attend church every Sunday and did a Sunday school, so it’s not like a have a huge negative view against religion, but the Baptist church even scares me. I’ve known some very “hardcore” Christians (roommate and his friends) and it just so happened that each were part of the Baptist church. Now these were the one that go around campus and try to convert people and I’ve even heard them speak about people going to hell and etc (I believe I was even told that once). Not only that, but after attending one of their services I was rather scared as well just watching the way the preacher preached and sang and the whole mass crowd of hundreds of people repeated and followed in perfect unison, and some even getting so into it that they were shaking like the children in the video.

Next I would see this video, and in this video I’d see many different things. I would see the children trapped in this church, being trained to become evil. I would see their bodies shaking as if a demon had possessed their bodies for its evil purposes. I’d see these children learning the way to persuade and seduce and abduct other followers into this group, all so they could expand further and infiltrate my country and demolish my religion and my beliefs. In my own view I can see that these kids aren’t even given their own choice. Before they have even matured enough to realize what is rational and reasonable, they are taught and brainwashed for what to believe in. They don’t get to choose their religion; therefore they don’t get to choose their beliefs. They’re already under the influence of their church officials and they’ll believe whatever they’ll say, and also believe it when they are told that all other religious views are wrong and that those people will be condemned to hell if they don’t get “saved”.

The video in class that I viewed as most odd (and would have viewed most shocking from the point of view from a middle easterner) was the video from the Baptist Church. For one I’ve already had past experiences with members from this church, causing me to view its members in a certain way which I will later explain, but anyways, this was the video showing the young children practicing to be preachers. In this video they were learning the “way to speak” and the “way to praise the Lord”. It showed the kids practicing as if they were given a sermon in front of the entire church, raising their arms, speaking in loud extended, emphasized words, and shaking as if they were actually possessed. Not only do I find practicing that kind of stuff odd, but looking from another perspective, like the middle easterners perspective, but I would be fearful. I would see the people from this religion and this church coming into my country, trying to convert me with their missionaries and telling me my religion was wrong.

Likewise, I think that to men it’s an embarrassment to have “unenjoyable” sex, aka he climaxes, while she fakes. No one likes that false satisfaction, and certainly no one feels more confident upon hearing that they couldn’t please their partner. There are so many jokes in the media about women faking their orgasms, which is an embarrassment to men so even if men are motivated by this avoidance of self-embarrassment, they make it a goal to get their female partner off.

It is true that most men think of their pleasure first and then the women’s, if not just only his. By this age and time in a college student’s life, one has probably experience some kind of relationship with someone of the opposite sex. It may have taken Sam several years in his relationship to discover the way the woman needs to be pleasured, but I have found it to be a more common occurrence in these times that women do not have a problem expressing their own needs during sex. It seems that women take more initiative to point men in the right direct on stimulating them. In college it also seems to be rule that a girl will not stay in a long term relationship if her partner is unable to please her sexually.