Top 10!!!!!!!!!

Itze
She proposed the right for every human being to have their own choice in the term of choosing genders. I believe it is true because you need to accept everyone as they are and even accept their like and dislike.

Juan
I totally agree with the term that if we all unite as broter the ciuntry will succed. The point that Juan stated: "No more of the Racial  Profiling and discrimination to our fellow brothers" is what every , even the immigrants wants. They should have all the privelages as humans that they are.

Carolina
It is ironic that when we think of America we think of whites but Native Americans are left out. As Carolina says, they should have the right to live freely among others. They can practice they religion and talk freely among others.

Nicole
Yeah it is true that people with disabilities should be treated equally. Nicole's point is that they should have the right to work, education , vote in other words live like a normal person.

Gabriela
I support this idea because sometimes elderly people die of many necessities. So It would be correct that their sons or grandsons manage their acounts and costs to help them have a better life.

Edrick
The generation of muslims from recent years may be ashame of some mistakes that their past generations committed. Now the things of the past are old things as Edrick says. They should be treated like every other human being.

Jenny
It is important that our decisions count for our country yes, but I think that is to soon for teenagers to vote. We can wait and vote when the time comes. If this is allowed some teenagers may vote with no reason. acting inmaturely.

Mariah
The point that Mariah gives is that the law#54 applies to every woman. In other words it will give more rights to woman which is the thing that they  have been waiting for years. Every ones equal.

hiomark-
Collective bargain makes the voice of workers to be heard. Hiomark supports it and so do I. Their dignity must be respected. Workers must receive the benefits that they deserve for all the sacrifices they make to make hard working.

Ivania
Her proposal is very good since the criminals must receive more visits and treated a little bit fairly but thir benefits cannot be much since the guilty ones must pay the consequences of tyheir acts.

Some Changes

   Veterans and their social groups continue fighting for their rights in other words for their benefits. Even though they have been protesting for their benefits for years, the only thing that has change drastically is the respect for them. The Veterans have gained respect through the hard fighting, resistance and victories. They had the courage of risking their life for the respect and rights of their country.

  The major change that this soldiers have contributed, is to the Veterans Day, celebrated in honor of America's past and present soldiers. All started when President Woodrow Wilson, in 1919, proclaimed November 11 as Armistice Day. This day was declared in honor of the tragedies of WWI. Armistice means “a temporary suspension of hostilities by agreement between the opponents”. In 1938 the day was designated as a national holiday. After  WWII and the Korean War, during which 436,000 Ameriacans died, Congress considered that day to commemorate veterans of all wars and later in 1954 it became Veterans Day.
In Honor of our Veteran (Veteran Day)

In other words, the veterans should feel proud of the work they have done and the respect that they have gained. But here comes the problem; yes they are respected but the respect do not pay their bills and the necessities that they have. To this day they are still waiting for the full benefits that they deserve and they will keep fighting for those benefits. At least they have our respect!!!!!!!!!


This statue represent those soldiers
who risked their lifes to defend the U.S.




Proud of being an American an proud of fighting for our country.
This is the message that all veterans give to us
Lets give them their rights

Veterans Day
History of Veterans Day
Images

Ammendment Proposal

Enough is enough. You don't think that the veterans deserve the same rights and benefits that they fought for our country. They fought for years for the respect of America so lets pay them with the same respect as they did. But not only with the respect that we offer them in the Veteran Day, instead it will be with this respect plus giving them the benefits they deserve for the rest of their lifes.

So my proposal, my fellows of the Congress is that  each veteran must receive equal benefits but they will vary depending on the years that they have served America and also depending on the the health status of that veteran. To accomplish this, fewer money will be sent to all  veterans  in order to create some balance. This way the government can save that money in spare so that money could be sent to all the veterans each month. Now, on the term of medical benefits the veterans will receive a veteran plan that will cover the costs.
For those with disabilities and psychological problems the government must offer them a Hospital for Veterans where the veterans will receive the benefits that they deserve.

In other words our veterans gave all they had to save our country so why don't give them a little part of what we have. I mean America is America thanks to those veterans who died in combat and to those who ended with mental problems so why not helping them now that they just need some help. My fellow friends of the Congress thats my point and I hope you take in consideration all the effort and compromise they had to America.

Thank you all Our Veteran

Activism

In this topic there is a sort of irony. Although the veterans deserve their benefits after so many years under service and they even would like to fight for them they do not. The reason for not fighting back their rights is directly proportional to the term that the veteran's right and benefit depend on the government. If they start acting silly with the government they would end up having no benefits at all.

According to the VVAW (vietnam veterans against war) some kind of protest started in 1967 with six Vietnam veterans marching together in a peace demonstration. Now, forty-four years later, VVAW is still going strong-- continuing its fight for peace, justice, and the rights of all veterans.  THE VETERAN is the newspaper of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Inc. In 1971 and 1972 it was published as 1st Casualty. THE VETERAN was the first voice of Vietnam veterans in America, and has consistently addressed issues of peace and justice. Original articles on Post Traumatic Stress and Agent Orange have appeared since its first year of publication.

According to the Vietnam Protest Movement the most dramatic opposition to the war came from the soldiers themselves. Between 1960 and 1973, 503,926 members of the US armed forces deserted. Many soldiers began to question the morality of the war once they began fighting in Vietnam.

Barry Romo is a national coordinator of VVAW. This group want the bombs to stop falling, the GI's to stop dying and Americans to stop killing Iraqis. This comes from the critics that soldiers received afterVietnam war. Veterans were walking point on post-traumatic stress disorder and Agent Orange without law degrees or a big budget while the establishment said  that they were being crybabies or spreading communost propaganda. This is the opinion of veterans from this group.


Veteran activist in protest for their benefits.
Veteran activist
VVAW
More info about VVAW
Veterans protest movement
Veteran images

Oppression and Mistreatment

   Our veterans deserve more than platitudes when they return from foreign wars with illnesses or disabilities. Although the veterams have a big list of benefits that have been promised they are oftenly broken due to economic reasons. The government is in charge of those benefits but when they need to send billions of money  to wars or other events they cannot afford in helping the veterans.

Disabled veteran with his son. Full of Honor!

    Under this situations the veterans get very angry  and dissapointed with the government since they have a family to sostain and  medicines to buy. While others are receiving benefits which is good, the veterans confront difficult situations. The veterans are being  mistreated by the government by the way the taxes have raised for them. According to Ron Paul archives: Federal rules force disabled veterans to give up their military retirement pay in order to receive VA disability benefits. This means every VA disability dollar paid to a veteran is deducted from his retirement pay, effectively creating a “disabled veterans tax.” Under the new partial concurrent receipt bill, only those veterans in essence deemed “disabled enough” will qualify.  Under the constitution it is not mentioned that veterans must receive their benefits at all time so theeir must be one.

 

 In other words most shameful mistreatment of our veterans is in the area of concurrent receipt benefits.  Some arrangements must be made so that our veterans live a great life after so many years of service. The veterans keep on fighting daily through organizations to have plentiful life.


disabled veteran
Mistreatment
Facilities

Veterans Rights!!!!!!

  Veteran is that person who risked his or her life in honor for their country. Military veterans are mostly known for those who fought in combats for their entire career. Military veterans often receive special treatment in their respective countries due to the sacrifices they made during wars.  Different countries handle this differently, some openly support veterans through government programs and others ignoring them.  This affected many of the soldiers' life. Some soldiers had no benefits and after risking their lifes for many years they were left in the Limbo. Completely ruined!!!!!!

 Life of the Veterans was not exactly the greatest. Sometimes they found it difficult to make living through years like the event of The Great Depression. The Bonus Act was passed by the Congress to help those veterans who faced hard times. The law provided a bonus based on the number of days served. But sometimes for a whole year they woud not receive eveb a dime. To demand full payment of their bonuses, veterans made groups and marched in form of protest in 1932. From 1944 to 1952, VA backed nearly 2.4 million home loans for World War II veterans. In 1984 The GI Bill established VA home loan guaranty and education programs continue to work for our newest generation of combat veterans.  In 2008, the GI BIll was updated once again. The new law gives veterans with active duty service on, or after, Sept. 11 2001, enhanced educational benefits that cover more educational expenses, provide a living allowance, money for books and the ability to transfer unused educational benefits to spouses or children.




President Franklin D. Roosevelt
signs the G.I. Bill into law



 According to data from the 2000 U.S. census, about 26.4 million civilians, or 12.7 percent of the civilian population, consisted of veterans of the armed forces. This number includes those who served on active duty for the duration of their military careers and those who served for only a short time on active duty. Today many people are thinking of going to war not only to serve their country like in the past or because they are force to, but to receive the benefits that veterans gained after so many years of  protest.

Veterans Day!!!! They deserve our respect.

Veterans Rights
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GI Bill
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Carolina
I totally support Carolina's descriptive words toward the mistreatment towards Indians. The  word unfair covers all the violence specially Wounded Knee Massacre as she describes on her essay.  It was very descriptive  and you can imagine through her words how the Indians felt.

Karlitza
It is very surprising to know how the Indians were treated on the reservations.  Her good examples make you read more about the topic and is lamentable to know that the only medicine they had to cure so many diseases that were spread through Indians was cotoil which is bad.  They divided the lands with its individual tribes. Not only diseases were a problem but also hunger. Many Indians died and suffer from these problems.

Christopher
 A very important fact  he emphicizes in his topic.  The individual groups that the Indians were placed. The three groups were the Dakota, Lakota and Nakota. He had lots of details and incuded too the assimilation of Charles which is the best example of a transformation from Indian into White names.

Edrick
When you read the tittle you really want to read the essay. The fact that Indians are almost extinct is very impressive. The good thing about about reservations which is what hold Indians there is that the government help them. Other medication used to "cure" some diseases was called the brown bottle. It contained fish oil and a little bit of alcohol. So again many Indians died from diseases.

Ivania
Last but not least a very interesting fact which is marked in history. The fight for Indian Lands. Every fight was like a massacre since White weapons were superior  so they won every single fight. All the fighting was created because of  the promises that the whites never accomplished. The treaties promise money and the best life for the indians,but soon they realize that the life they were living was not exactly the one they were expecting. This conflict resulted in all the fighting that took place between whites and indians

Whites Acting Superior against Native Americans

     As soon as the American settlers invaded the Native American lands by the early 1800's, their superior ego was notable. This was shown through the mistreatment  and violence against the Indians. By avidly wanting the Indians to assimilate into their culture and forcing them to give up their lands. Through all the acts they committed, no deference was shown toward Indians.

    Indians had no options neither freedom of speech. The arrival of the whites to Indian lands together with their armies and weapons grew panic among Indians.  The tragedy at Wounded Knee is the most descriptive event that shows exactly the randomness of violence and mistreatment that the Indians faced. It all started when  the whites asked the Indiams for their weapons. Meanwhile a group of soldiers were surrounding the area with canons. One single shot started the whole tragedy. All the fighting ended in less than one hour, where 150 Indians were killed including women and children. After all, with no respect, the whites accused the Indians of starting the Massacre.

Indian Lands (dramatic irony) these lands are going to be taken. lands

Indians were not just attacked, they were also forced to assimlate the white culture. Through assimilation it is shown that white peop[le thought that their culture was the special one to follow. Assimilation involved the changing of names, the way they talked, the way they dress, in other words a complete different lifestyle. The changing of names was a difficult step for the Indians. A good example is the assimilation of Charles at Wounded Knee(Lakota) He became a white man but his heart still belonged to the Indians. It was very difficult for him to forget his ancestry. One memory that he remembered the most, was when his teacher forced him to change his Indian name into a Christian name. This again was another example of not showing respect toward Indians.

Its lamentable how  the lands were sold and give out and removed from the INDIANSLands

   Last but not least, the removal of Indian lands. Everyone knows that the Indians were the first to settle on those lands of Lakota. When white arrived near those lands, thgey acted as if they were the real owners. They didn't took in consideration that Indians were already there. On the second offer that Henry, representative of president Grant, Indians were in a position where nothing could've been done. Red Cloud's tribe was forced to give up their lands for a certain amount of money per calculatred Acres. The consequences of not accepting the treaty were that their race would perish. If the whites had a little of mercy among Indians, they would at least respect their lands and leave their superior ego.

    In other words, the whites showed no respect toward Indians. From the mistreatment on reservations, to assimilation and the removal of lands. Although the government helped helped them on reservations by providing them food, clothe, money etc., their lives will never be the same. All these memories will be part of them  and will be carried by them through the rest of their lifes.


An example of the bad conditions the Indians were left.lands

Indian Lands
Mistreatment



Lets Reflect

Mariah's Blog: Mariahs blog is very colorful as soon as you enter her blog you really want to read its content. What surprised me the most was the article about an immigrant woman who used a stolen security number to work in a poultry processing plant in the United States. Here you can get informed to the point the immigrants were capable of  in order to immigrate.

 Carolina's Blog: From this blog I read about the Irish history. I found out that the laborers from Ireland were paid about one fifth only of what could be obtained in the Unites States. Other factor and the one that led many people to immigrate was the potato famine. The consequences of the potatoe was that many people suffered and died from starvation pushing them ti immigrate.

Gaby S. Blog: The video was very surprising. You could see how the officers stop and detained  those who they thought were immigrants. This act is very unfair and racist because just because you look some way doesn't mean you are from that culture. We all are equal and we all deserve equal rights and respect.

Nicole's Blog: From the video it is shoking to see how hard people live and the desperate to immigrate for a better life opprtunity. One of the bad things about immigrating was leaving all the things you owned back there at your homeland. Maybe after alot of hardworking and sacrifice you had to abandoned everything in one day just to have a better life. At least it was the best they could do. Immigrate and have an easier life.
                                                                    

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HOW TO SEEK RELEASE FROM IMMIGRATION DETENTION

In this article the lawyers are interested on helping those who are detained on islands such as The Ellis Island.
On that island people were treated badly and were detained if they didn't followed the restrictions. At least there are peolple who support those who are treated badly and have no way to escape from the detention. It is very lamentable how so many people were held as prisoners for trying to be free and happy. These lawyers are always available to help those who are detained and with such a pleasure they would try to free you  unless they fall into the category that earned them the mandatory detainee status. A series of rights are listed and ways to seek the release. The lawyers are trustfull.

Family Immigration

     It is a family of  values, hard working and respect. My family in the past was in charge of agriculture. In growing crops for themselves in the countryside. As a very good father and a one interested in succeeding and grow up as a strong family he sent her daughters to America for 5 years to get a better life. That was my grandmother. When she was 19,on 1966, she went together with other two sisters to America for a period of 5 years. The main reason for this immigration was for a better job opportunity and bring back money to their homeland for their family. She worked on a factory for those 5 years and as been told brought together with her money to the family and to start her own life back in Puerto Rico. With the money she got from America she helped her father with the agriculture. And at the age of 26 she married my grandfather.
 
    My grandfather's brother instead immigrated to the U.S. and stayed there. He still lives in Chicago and has lived there since he was 28. There in Chicago he met his wife and he never regrets the day he immigrated to live the American Dream.

    Many people like my grandmother and my uncle immigrated to the U.S. to get money for their family in Puerto Rico. Here it is shown that you need to risk your life and be brave to face anything  to succeed in life. Like others my grandmother was very sucessfull and those who were not well at least they tried to live a better life. Something like this you must face when you graduate. you must risk and lose to gain and succeed.

My Journey by Adelbert Heinrich

My father, mother and me were living happily out there in Germany although the Revolution of 1848 was equivalent to violent events. Our entire family instead immigrated to the U.S. before the revolution started. My Dad supported the revolution and one of his ideas was to have civilian liberties and adopt some lifestyles of American culture. After the Revolution's failure, my father came up with the idea of immigrating toward U.S. The major reason was that the family would have civilian liberties and he wanted a safer place for me to grow.


May 1848; I was 10 when my father came up with the idea of immigrating. The very next day we had prepared everything  already. Dad had prepared us mentally for the long journey we had to walk before catching the train. He told my mom and me that we had to walk about 6 hours to get to the parade that was located 1 mile before the F&N Tunnel, where we were going to get on the train. Since there were many guards through the streets my dad was planing to leave at 11:30pm and get at the parade around 5:30am. There we would get aboard on the train at 6am.

10:30pm; Already different kinds of emotions were passing through our minds. Hapiness, sadness, some little enourmous feelings of nerves and desesperation. We spend the day drinking alot of water and eating lots of meat to be strong enough to support the long journey.

11:30pm-5:30am; Our long journey started. It was a very very long trip to get out there. My feet were alredy swollen and I felt a disastrous pain through my whole body. This was because of all the mountains we had to climb and descend through the forest this way the guards were not going to catch us. Only at the end of the mountain there were a group of guards but, we had so much luck since a series of fights were about to happen permitting us to escape from their view. The last 30 minutes of the long trip my dad grabbed me on his shoulders and kept walking with me on his back.

{Caption: The train with us in it passed through this tunnel best known as the F&N Tunnel. Everyone screamed so that people could get completely inside the train to prevent any tragedy.}  


5:30-6:00am; Finally we had arrived to our destination. I can still remember the words of my dad when we were at the parade: "The worse part has come to an end, Thank God!" At that moment we all fainted from exhaustion, especially my mom who suffered from heart disease but thank God nothing worse happened to her.


6:00am- and so on; As my father said the bad part was over, the rest of the journey was aboard the train. Hundreds of people as well as us were aboard the train. Even though we were going to the same place, people had different reasons for immigrating to America. Some of them immigrated to get better job, to join with their family, to start a new life, to live safier and of course an easier one. Our lifes weren't at rsik anymore but still 3 individuals died while on the train. I still picture in my mind that old lady that marked my heart. She was 85 and was immigrating  to die in America as she said. She wasn't proud of her homeland and her dream was to die in America. Poor lady who died from starvation 15 minutes before arriving to the steam boat that was going to take us to America. Soon we were on the boat and when I closed and opened my eyes the Dreamed land was in front of my eyes.


July 1848: Although before opening my eyes two months had passed. Two months full of agony. So many things happened I though would happened to me. We faced two storms one after another and over 50 people who died from illnes. These men were thrown to the ocean and who could see the sharks playing with them. We were lucky to have the special tickets since my father could afford it. We were treated good and had special food, but instead I felt sorry for those who sleep on the bottom level of the ship. I had some fun sometimes playing marbles and learning different languages. Then we arrived to the Ellis island where we had no problems to continue. I also felt sorry for all those who were retained and treated badly.


December 1848: Some months had passed and we were already stablelize. The first thing we did was looking for the rest of the family on the "Miniature" towns. My dad immediately looked for a job and started sucessfully as the owner of a Liquor store and I was in charge of it too.


July 1854: 6 years passed. I had turned already into an almost man. Our lifes changed drastically. We  lived a better life full of hapiness and civilian liberties. During those years my father was already the owner of a chain of Liquor stores throughout the area. Sacrificing our bodies was the best thing we coud have do.

German Immigration

   As many other immigrants the germans escaped   for a better life and an easier one. At first, around the year 1700, they fleed  to European countries, the West Hemisphere, and Australia due to extremely bad conditions. Politics wasn't the major reason to immigrate instead, it was the way that they were living. Sometimes entire villages were often burnt down and their inhabitants killed. In 1745, there were an estimated 45,000 Germans living in Pennsylvania.  Later other Germans immigrated to the U.S.  because of modernization and population growth and off course why not The American Dream. Other factors that led to the emigration from Germans were for religious freedom, sought freedom from military involvement and political opression. Develpoment of mechanized manufacturing of goods. Increasing industrialization and the use of machines. And other major reason that led millions to immigrate was the unstable political situation in the German states in 1848. Many people were also persuaded to come to America by emigration officials, solicitors, friends and relatives.

A group of immigrants, succeeded after immigrating to America.

   When  the steam boat and other modernizations didn't exist Germans took long, complicated routes through Great Britain by  train and boat to get to the U.S. Then immigration was more convenient and faster with inventions such as the steam boat and steam train. During the flood of emigrants from Germany, its rulers tried to stop the flow, but to little effect. Modernization was ahead of the rulers. It took about 40 days and sometimes as long as six months to cross the Atlantic Ocean. Before getting on the boat the Doctors check passengers to be healthy. Depending on the tickets you had you eould have a private place to sleep and food always available. If not you would sleep and eat on the bottom level of the ship. If you want a better life you must risk your life and be brave. Immigrants faced dangerous storms and were exposed of becoming ill and dying.

A disastrous event were over hundreds of immigrants had to wait for hours after the train went down.

  Most Germans lived on the countryside and only about two fifths lived in cities larger than 25,000 people. Germans would cluster together to form communities called "Miniature-Germany" towns. At the town bakers, butcher, cabinetmakers, cigar makers, distillers, machinists and tailors could be found in abundance. Also German businesses such as the beer industry was found. Although they were all Germans, they didn't got along in large groups based on geography, ideology and religion. Were known as Bavarians, Saxons  and by other names based on the political party.


  During the year 1700 many people from different countries immigrated towards U.S. for an easier life. Like much of the other immigrants, German immigrants led to the decision of immigrating since they lived in bad conditions at their homeland. It is very surprising and notorious the dessesperation of the immigrants. As soon as they got to the U.S. they started working the very first day, to grow up as a comminity  and be a better hardworking man. Everyone should be like the immigrants with so much entusiasm to get ready to work and produce great goods after hardworking. Although they sometimes risk their lifes at least they were paid. The greatest thing was that at the german towns they were their own owners. Although they risked their lifes the outcames count the effort. Those who survived had the opportunity to live The American Dream.

Kids working in the "Miniature"tows on the factories.

Kids working in the "Miniature"tows on the factories.