BR - 4/14/14

Biomedical Engineer - 81,540 starting salary

BR - 4/10/14

I would spend $100 on food. $200 on gas and $200 dollars in to long term investments.

BR - 4/8/14

 In this article, it explains how Obama is pushing for equal pay among men and women. So far he has pushed for two executive actions. He is calling it "equal pay day" to promote the equal pay for women. He is also making it this way for race as well as allowing coworker's pay to be common knowledge. 

naturalization test

24/25
passed

BR - 4/7/14

take a class
as good a background check as possible
social security number and all that

chapter 21 notes

Section 1:
-The population of the US today is prominently white and historically has been as well.
-Immigrants arrive in record numbers every year since the 1960s.
-Populations have grown:
     african american, hispanic american, asian american
-Minority populations exceed white populations in the following states:
     California, Texas
-More females than males

Why is there so much focus on discrimination against african americans?
1. african americans have bee nthe victims of consistent and deliberate unjuust treatment for a longer time
2. african americans constitute a huge minority group
3. most of the gains in terms of equality have been brought about on behalf of the african americans

Native Americans
-when american settlers arrived, there were many native americans
-a few years later, this number dropped drastically
-this was due to american settlers bringing foreign diseases from europe
-Trail of Tears: Native americans were forced westward
-Indian Education Act of 1972 attempted to fix problems

Hispanics
-anybody who speaks spanish
-can be any race
-largest minority group today
-Divided into four main subgroups:

Asian Americans
-Chinese were first to come over from asia
-chinese exclusion act excluded them for 80 years
- All Japanese were moved to the pacific coast
-congress admitted this was unjust

Section 3
-opposers of civil rights said can't change morality with law
-1870's-1950'2 saw no advancement in civil rights movement
-Civil Rights act of 1964
     1. voting provisions
     2. Public services
     3. federal funding programs
     4. employers and labor unions
-civil rights act of 1968 (open housing act)
     1. cannot refuse selling/rent based on race
-Title 9
     1. requires equal opportunity for women sports
-Affirmative action
     1. employers must take positive steps to fix past discrimination
     2. Employers must meet quota for minority groups/genders
     3. results in reverse discrimination
     4. California, Washington, Michigan, and Nebraska got rid of affirmative action
-Bakke sued the university of California due to affirmative action

Section 4
A citizen is someone who swears allegiance to the U.S.
Before 1860's, citizenship did not matter
14th amendment gave definition to an immigrant
2 ways to become a citizen
     1. By Birth
     2. naturalization
90% of Americans are citizens by birth
Naturalization
    1. legal process of becoming a citizen
    2. Congress has absolute say in providing naturalization
    3. normally individual
    4. can be done in groups through en masse
Loss of ctizenship
     1. Everyone has right to abandon citizenship (Expatriation)
     2. Congress cannot take away citizenship
     3. marriage shortens naturalization time
Immigration
     1. Congress has exclusive power to decide who leaves and enters the country
     2. Quotas cap a population or ethnicity to a certain amount
     3. Immigration act of 1965 did away with quota system
     4. Under immigration act of 1990
     5. people can be denied entrance to U.S.
     6. Deportation is the legal process by which aliens are required to leave the nation

     


     

BR - 4/2/14

I think the hardest part will be remembering we are not allowed to talk or do anything without permission.