Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Monday, August 22, 2011
Background on Gangs
What do you know about gangs? That they are a group of people that protect part of a neighborhood they seem to use Drugs, Alchohol, and Party alot.
What is your experience with gangs? Think about your community, your personal experiences, and what you've seen/learned through news/movies/etc. when i use to live in Los Angeles i use to see alot of people get involved in gangs and and urn into crips or bloods..
What is your experience with gangs? Think about your community, your personal experiences, and what you've seen/learned through news/movies/etc. when i use to live in Los Angeles i use to see alot of people get involved in gangs and and urn into crips or bloods..
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Project Implicit Test
The interpretation is described as 'automatic preference for Light Skin' if you responded faster when Light Skin faces and Good words were classified with the same key than when Dark Skin faces and Good words were classified with the same key. Depending on the magnitude of your result, your automatic preference may be described as 'slight', 'moderate', 'strong', or 'little to no preference'. Alternatively, you may have received feedback that 'there were too many errors to determine a result'.
*** What were your results?
Picture Provided
*** Were you surprised by your results? Why?
cause im Rasict and i didnt know
*** Why do you think your results were what they were?
Bad they say i dotn like dark skinned people
*** What does this suggest about implicit (hidden/not obvious/you don't talk about it) racism?
that they should ask more different questions not the same issh...
*** How might this connect to the concept of immigration?
people not accepting other and they get deported
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
10 myths
1. Most immigrants are here illegally.
Of the more than 31 million foreign-born people living in the United States in 2009, about 20 million were either citizens or legal residents
2. It's just as easy to enter the country legally today as it was when my ancestors arrived.
Back then they only had like open immigration system where they check people it was legal.
3. There’s a way to enter the country legally for anyone who wants to get in line.
Anyone who has documents has the ability to cross over a border to stand in line and check in.
4. My ancestors learned English, but today’s immigrants refuse.
People had to learn another language during the world war 1 and use it to teach their future kids.
5. Today’s immigrants don’t want to blend in and become “Americanized.”
Peolple mkore than 50,000 immigrants became citizens and became Americanized because they had to suffer the
6. Immigrants take good jobs from Americans.
People settled from different parts of the world and got jobs from the Americans and got implantated into the new life
7. Undocumented immigrants bring crime.
People thought that people got into more trouble if they were immigrants
8. Undocumented immigrants don’t pay taxes but still get benefits.
they thought since they were immigrants they didnt have to pay taxes
9. The United States is being overrun by immigrants like never before.
10. Anyone who enters the country illegally is a criminal
they aernt immigrants their just not legal
Of the more than 31 million foreign-born people living in the United States in 2009, about 20 million were either citizens or legal residents
2. It's just as easy to enter the country legally today as it was when my ancestors arrived.
Back then they only had like open immigration system where they check people it was legal.
3. There’s a way to enter the country legally for anyone who wants to get in line.
Anyone who has documents has the ability to cross over a border to stand in line and check in.
4. My ancestors learned English, but today’s immigrants refuse.
People had to learn another language during the world war 1 and use it to teach their future kids.
5. Today’s immigrants don’t want to blend in and become “Americanized.”
Peolple mkore than 50,000 immigrants became citizens and became Americanized because they had to suffer the
6. Immigrants take good jobs from Americans.
People settled from different parts of the world and got jobs from the Americans and got implantated into the new life
7. Undocumented immigrants bring crime.
People thought that people got into more trouble if they were immigrants
8. Undocumented immigrants don’t pay taxes but still get benefits.
they thought since they were immigrants they didnt have to pay taxes
9. The United States is being overrun by immigrants like never before.
10. Anyone who enters the country illegally is a criminal
they aernt immigrants their just not legal
Friday, July 29, 2011
Facts About Immigrant Women Working in the U.S. Food Industry
undocumented immigrants: that atleast evey home has an undocumented person living there. Undocumented women got paid minimum wage and didnt have any health insurance.
poultry workers: a quarter of the poultry workers have no papers or are either not registered. all the hours that they work are not paid and cannot get claimed because then they lose their job.
farm workers: 60% of the farm workers have no documents. the farmers get pesticide infections or have injuries and their work doesnt cover them.
sex abuse on the job: Women were not treated with equality they had to have sex with their supervisor in order to keep thier job. they got paid less and did not have any coverage
poultry workers: a quarter of the poultry workers have no papers or are either not registered. all the hours that they work are not paid and cannot get claimed because then they lose their job.
farm workers: 60% of the farm workers have no documents. the farmers get pesticide infections or have injuries and their work doesnt cover them.
sex abuse on the job: Women were not treated with equality they had to have sex with their supervisor in order to keep thier job. they got paid less and did not have any coverage
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Week 7 Synonyms, Images, and Sentences
- Hypothesis - Theory, Plan
Sentence; The hypothesis was that we tested a 2013 Mac computer .
- Emerge - Appear, Come Out
Sentence ; The Alien emerge from the pyramid .
- Implicate - Connect, Embroil
Sentence; The implicate was that they found a fingerprint on a murder scene .
Immigration
1. What countries did they come from?
Ireland, Italy
2. Why did they come to America?
A better life for their Family, to get money to support themselves
3. Were they welcome here? EXPLAIN
they werent welcome they were deported but sometimes beaten.
4.What did they do when they arrived? Where did they live? Jobs? Housing?
They use to ask people that if they would let them live in their hoe they would work for them.
they would live in their backyards or in their basement.
Ireland, Italy
2. Why did they come to America?
A better life for their Family, to get money to support themselves
3. Were they welcome here? EXPLAIN
they werent welcome they were deported but sometimes beaten.
4.What did they do when they arrived? Where did they live? Jobs? Housing?
They use to ask people that if they would let them live in their hoe they would work for them.
they would live in their backyards or in their basement.
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