BR- 4/14/14

I would like to be a PTA (Physical Therapist Assistant), they make $58,720 per year.

BR- 4/10/14

$250 for food because I like to eat
$50 for hygiene products because I want to be clean
$40 for my dog because he is spoiled
$100 for new clothes because I like to get new stuff
$60 for extra money for emergencies

Civilization Test

You got 23 of 25 possible points.

Your score: 92 %

BR- 4/8/14

President Obama signed 2 executive actions aimed at strengthening equal pay laws. These actions will make it easier for workers to find out how much their colleagues are making. This was Obama's push to ensure that women earn equal pay for equal work.

BR- 4/7/14

1. Drug test
2. Background test
3. Pass a history test about the United States

Discrimination Homework

1. What is happening?
This is in a bar, I am assuming, and Indians are not allowed to have any beer.

2. What is going on in America at that time?
This is in 1941, WWII is taking place.

3. What do the people's faces reflect?
There are no faces in this picture but if they were, I'm sure that the Indians would be upset but the Americans would not.

4. Give an example of how this might happen today.
Racism is still and issue today, this could happen in any bar, especially is the bar owner is a racist.

BR- 4/2/14

I like to talk a lot so the most difficult part of the project for me is not talking for 45mins.

Notes-Vocab 4/1/14

1. Heterogeneous: society is composed of different people or cultures.
2. Immigrant: LEGAL alien from a different country.
3. Reservation: public land given to the Native Americans by the U.S. Government.
4. Refugee: go to a new land seeking protection.
5. Assimilation: adapting to the majority's culture.

-The population of the US prominently white-today and has been historically as well.
-Populations that have grown

• African American
• Hispanic American
• Asian American

-These groups have grown at rates several times higher than the white
-More females than males

African Americans

• have been victims of consistent and deliberate unjust treatment for a longer time
• constitute a big majority of the US 14% of all American people
• most of the gains have been made by African Americans

Native Americans

• 1600s nearly 6million is the states
• American settlers brought diseases that hurt the Indian population 
• poverty, joblessness, and alcoholism
• Indian Education Act attempted to fix and help the lives of the Native Americans

Hispanic Americans

• spanish-speaking
• largest in the states
• Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, Central and South Americans

Asian Americans

• Chinese laborers were the 1st Asians to come to America
• WWII-all Japanese were evacuated to the Pacific Coast
• even native born
• Congress admitted this was wrong and changed its ways

Section 3.

-Those who oppose Civil Rights often believe you can't change morality by passing a law

-Dr. King: "Judicial decrees...may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless."

-1870s-1905s: no meaningful legislation passed in regards to civil rights

-The Civil Rights Act of 1964: passes after the longest debate in Senate history (83 days)

1. Voting provisions
2. Public services (restaurants, hotels, theatres, etc.) could no longer deny access based on race, religions, etc.
3. Federal funding program could not discriminate for the reasons above
4. Employers and labor unions also could not discriminate for the above reasons

-Civil Rights Act of 1968 aka Open Housing Act

• cannot refuse selling/rent living space to a person due to race, religion, national origin, physical disability, etc.
• housing is still one of the most segregated areas in American life today

Title IX

• forbids discrimination on the basis of gender in any educational program or program regarding financial assistance.
• equal funding and opportunities must be given to women athletics

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION:

• requires employers take positive steps to fix the affects of past discrimination
• employers must meet quotas for minority groups/genders
• many argue this results in reverse discrimination: discrimination against the majority group; they are denied opportunities so minority groups have more opportunities
• "color blind"
• California, Washington, Michigan, and Nebraska voters passed measures to eliminate all affirmative action plans
• The Bakke Case
• Allan Bakke sued the University of California because he was denied access to their medical school due to Affirmative Action (16/100 seats were reserved for minority students)
• Bakke won
• Since then, the Court has made decisions regarding similar cases; quotas can be used when needed
• Justice Sandra Day O'Connor predicts in 25 years, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary

Section 4.
-An American citizen is a person that swears allegiance to the U.S. and is entitled to its protection and privileges of its law.
-The 14th amendment was the 1st constitutional definition: "All persons born or naturalized in the U.S. and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the U.S. and of the state wherein they reside."
-The constitution declares that a person becomes an American citizen one of two way

Citizenship by birth:

-90% of Americans were citizen born

Citizenship by naturalization:

-legal process by which a person can become a citizen of another country at some time after birth

-collective naturalization: entire group can be granted citizenship through en masse

Loss of citizenship:

-every American citizen has the right to voluntarily abandon his/her citizenship..this is called Expatriation.

-Congress cannot take away your citizenship

-naturalized citizens CAN lose their citizenship through denationalization-only occurs by a court order and only after it has been shown that the person became an American citizen through fraud or deception.

-marriage does not make a person a "citizen"-only shortens the time of the naturalization process

Immigration:

-Congress has exclusive power to regulate the crossing of this nation's borders: inward and outward

-Immigration Act of 1965 did away with our quota system

-We are currently under the Immigration Act of 1990

-Some people can be denied entrance to the U.S. based on their criminals, mentally ill who might be a harm, etc.

-Deportation: legal process by which aliens are required to leave the country

-Biggest reasons for deportation: illegal immigrant, conviction of a serious crime

BR- 4/1/14

I personally think that these cameras would make a difference. They would help people see better backing up and could make things safer.