general-education

English 1010

Sat, 03 Dec 2011 05:22:17 +0100

Berenice Saenz

Illegal Immigration

Obama’s government has been responsible for the biggest number of deportation in history. Most of the deportation had been based on illegal immigrants with criminal background. “Headlines report that about 55 percent of the 396,906 individuals deported had felony or misdemeanor convictions” (Allison, p.1). How those that have not committed a felony end up being deported? It is thanks to the power that has been given to a police officer; authority to solicit and investigate migratory status.

Illegal immigration has been a problem that has gain popularity as the years go by. Security measurements had been found along to stop it, but the numbers increased every year, until deportation when up the roof. Now, “the Department of Homeland Security said in a 2010 report that the number of immigrants residing unauthorized in the US, 62 percent of whom come from Mexico, has declined from a peak of 11.8 million in January of 2007 to 10.8 million in January of 2010”(Miller, p 1).What are reasons that had caused this? When before coming to U.S. was most commonly everyone purpose in life.

The American dream has become hard to achieve in now days than years ago. Now states laws such as the ones implemented in Arizona and Alabama had cause a panic effect in illegal immigrants. Coming to America is not an easy journey. People scarify many things to cross the order. They even pay high prices to fulfil their dream. They do not know if they will make it and if they luckily make it how long will they stay in the U.S.

It has never been easy to make it in America, but now it seems to be difficult with all this restrictions that had been put upon. As well, apart from everything related to the law economy is another crucial trigger. Since 2007, all Americans had suffered from the economy decline. “The Pew Hispanic Center says that declining job opportunities sate side has played a vital part in the US no longer seeming as attractive an option as it ones were to potential migrants” (Miller, p 2). The most impacted industries that had been losing business are construction and manufacturing, which are the ones that generally hire illegal immigrants to work at a low rate for a hard labor with extended hours job. This creates frustration and no one with knowledge about the problem will throw themselves to it.

Obama’s administration at promoted wish to all those that are illegal immigrants; but instead, it has been all the contrary of what people thought. Even when the expansion of border patrol officer was under Bush administration; this did not have much effect on the decrease of immigrants entering and on the number of people being deported.

“Obama told a largely Latino audience Wednesday that his administration has not become more aggressive in deporting illegal immigrants, despite statistics to the contrary that he calls misleading”(Boyer & Stephen, p 1). Could this be true or it could also be that now we are putting more attention towards the illegal immigration issue. Because we have to realize that we had always had deportations, but they were never exposed on media as they are now. Now, we see often in the news about people who are detain at their work, home, schools, and public places. This is not necessary done by ICE officer, but also local police that check migratory status.

Harassment needs to stop we cannot still make U.S. portray a unfavorable image to do that decide to come here, because this can create an impact in the labour market. We have to realize that illegal immigrants are the one that take the jobs that usually an American would not this job that required hard work for a low paid. The Dual Market Theory states that, “ illegal immigrants are also temporary than legal immigrants, supply the labor demand in secondary jobs, and more willing to take jobs with high labour and poor working conditions” (Nadadur, p 6). Illegal immigrants are the ones how make the economy flow as need it because imagine having an economy without secondary jobs. There is no way that could be functioning properly we cannot have a country based on upper-middle class and up only.

We should think about more when it comes about illegal immigration, because even when people is against they forget about the benefit that brings to the country. I am not trying to say that is right to be illegal in a country, but they should have more consideration towards them and end all the unnecessary persecution against them. There are many other problems affecting out nation such as terrorism, drug, homicides, as many others that required the use of budget, which is been put into immigration. Now we should consider the entrance of illegal immigrant as want and not as a threat.

Works Cited

Boyer, Dave. "Obama Defends His Administration's Handling of Illegal Immigration." The Washington Times 29 Sept. 2011: 14. Ebscohost. Web. 27 Oct. 2011. <http://http:// search.ebscohost.comlogin.aspxdirect=true&db=nfh&AN=4KB5201109

29042156100021&site=ehost-live"Obamadefendshisadministration's

handlingofillegalimmigration>.

Judis, John. "Border War." New Republic 16 Jan. 2006: 15-19. Ebscohost. Web. 27 Oct. 2011. <http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=19413811

&site=ehost-live"BorderWar.>.

Miller, Sara. "Four Reasons Why Illegal Immigration across the US-Mexico Border Has Dropped." Christian Science Monitor: 1. Ebscohost. Web. 27 Oct. 2011. <http:// search.ebscohost.comlogin.aspxdirect=true&db=nfh&AN=66823197&site=ehost- live"Four reasonswhyillegalimmigrationacrosstheUS-Mexicoborderhasdropped.>.

Lofholm, Nancy. "ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION Latinos Singled out by "Secure" Law, Study Says." The Denver Post 20 Oct. 2011: A.1. ProQuest. Web. 28 Oct. 2011. <http:// proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=2490116291&Fmt=3&clientId=1677&RQT

=309&VName=PQD>.

Nadadur, Ramanujan. "Illegal Immigration: A Positive Economic Contribution to the United States." Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies July 2009: 6. Ebscohost. Web. 28 Oct. 2011. <http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspxdirect=true&db=aph&AN=41424925&site

=ehost-live"Illegal Immigration:APositiveEconomicContributiontotheUnitedStates.>.

Persaud, Felicia. "Utah Lawmakers Actually Get It Right on Illegal Immigration." New York Amsterdam News 17 Mar. 2011: 11-14. Ebscohost. Web. 27 Oct. 2011. <http:// search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=60127762&site

=ehost-live"Utahlawmakersactuallygetitrightonillegalimmigration.>.

Rivkin Jr., David B., and Lee A. Casey. "Obama's Illegal Move on Immigration." The Washington Post 30 Sept. 2011. Ebscohost. Web. 27 Oct. 2011. <http:// search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nfh&AN=wapo.35066122- d4da-11e0-80dc-31dd431b1e4b&site=ehost-live"Obama'sillegalmoveonimmigration>.

Salamon, Jeff, Rachael Abrams, Molly Bruder, Kelsey Crow, Kaitlin Miller, and Nadia Tamez-Robledo. "EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION." Texas Monthly: 144-49. Ebscohost. Web. 28 Oct. 2011. <http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=54389705&site

=ehost-live"EVERYTHINGYOUEVERWANTEDTOKNOWABOUTILLEGAL IMMIGRATION.>.

Berenice Saenz

Reflection

English 1010 is a course based on the examines concepts of rhetoric, research, and argumentation placing a strong emphasis on the writing process, including invention, drafting, peer review, and revision, as described in the syllabus. In effective, I understand how to implement these skills to my writing process. The course textbooks were They Say I Say With Readings and Readings Rhetorically both of them came in handing. Since they provided me with tools that help me identify templates and readings that emphasized in a topic but with different opinions.

Assignments were four main assignments and a weekly module that was post it on Canvas. Canvas system work well for me since I will summit my assignment along with my group, and comment each others work. The module purpose was to get us in practice of how to prepare the assignments. The first assignment was a summary about one of the articles read for the modules. The assignment required an introduction to the author, representation of the main idea, maintain objective, keep it informative, and provide a coherent and cited the document. Even when seems to be a simple summary at the beginning I learn that is something that is more complex. My summary was about the article What You Eat Is Your Business by Radley Balko. This article caught my attention since it talks about obesity been a personal issue and not a public one. It gives strong points about how people should be responsible of it own instead of costing money on government for their obesity problems.

The second assignment was a rhetorical analysis which we have to choose on of the article from our readings and summarize the opposing views, set a main point, set reasons that support, show evidence, and explanation of the issue significance. I decided to write about the article What’s The Matter With Kids Today? by Amy Goldwasser the article had a powerful argument about humans been dependable on technology for the basic functions of life specially for teenagers, but it also contrasted the benefits obtained from it. In order to create this assignment we had to fallow a structure that consisted of an introduction and thesis, minimum of three rhetorical concepts, and a conclusion. Before starting with the rhetorical assignment, an effective tool was provided a set of questions that help determinate the trustworthiness of the article. The questions provided were about the context and rhetorical appeals such as ethos. Pathos, kairos, style, logos, and the organization with this it provided that structure to start the paper.

The last assignment was an annotated bibliography in which the theme was a free choice. An annotated bibliography is a set of sources listed in alphabetical order with a summary, analyze, and evaluation about the content of the source. In order to prepared for this, we had to take one day that we used to learn from the college data search base. In this data search, we look for articles about a theme of interest, after looking for they were going to be put in a format provided by the professor. The format consisted on providing the author, title, publication, summary, analyzation, evaluation, and a conclusion from all sources. After getting all the data organized in the annotated bibliography, a synthesis exploration need it to be created. The synthesis exploration consisted of a brief synthesis of the annotated bibliography structured with an introduction, body, and conclusion.

In this assignment, my topic of preference was illegal immigration in the U.S.. I choose this topic since that was one of the principal topics that had been around since Obama became president. I founded particularly interesting to find out about how illegal immigration can cause benefits or damages to the country. I have done research papers in the past, but this is the first time I had used this king of format. Even when the format at first seems to be a lot of extra work, at the end it became a handy rule in the organization of my paper. I was able to localize the data that I need it at the moment faster compare to just having all my data in a pile and look thru it.

Every one of the assignments mentioned above we will receive and provide a peer review either physically or electronically. The peer review was a excellent tool because provided a different prospective to ideas already placed. I still need to work on my role as a peer reviewer since this is the first time I have done thru the whole semester. My experience is not a wide as I wish it could be, but I learned to ask myself question about the paper I am reading in order to identify if the piece is been well stated.

Writing this portfolio was fun since it provided the chance to go back and think about what you have done thru out the whole semester. At first it seems to be a useless just something more to do in order to obtain a grade, but now I enjoy the fact of recapitulating all my assignments also help me realize the usefulness that the assignments give me.

Berenice Saenz

What’s The Matter With Kids Today?

The article What’s The Matter With Kids Today? Amy Goldwasser talks about computers, cellphones, tex messaging, instant messaging, and iPods impact that had cause among teenagers. She said that, technology advancement can be use as a tool of learning enlargement, and that is also being use by teenagers to develop their social network profile. Goldwasser also believes, “ We need to start trusting our kids to speak as they online”(Goldwasser,p. 239). Even thought,technology sometimes seems to be an obstacle in humans grown, is just a source of compact knowledge.

Goldwasser said, “There are about 33 million Americans who are fluent in texting, e-mailing, blogging, IM’ing, and constantly amending their profile on social network sites” (Goldwasser, p. 237). This statement is quite right and what is critically that the numbers grow every day; we should take the benefits that our teens are gaining. As an example, teens write about their feelings and emotions on their social network which creates a better reasoning and understanding on self-reflection, and helps them analyze real life situations. Texting has become more common that a phone call.

Now days, people want to multi-task their duties. Texting has become a convenient tool that helps instantaneity respond to massages while working on something else. Social network has made communication effectively, specially with those far away from us. Family members from another state or country had found a convenient tool that helps them communicate with their love ones. Many of the features provided by technology such as webcams, e-mails, social networks, and instant message, keep us update of what is currently going on without spending too much time writing a letter or even making a phone call. All this features are a free services, and does not limit to any size of the document, number of e-mails sent, and time spent in the webcam.

The internet had become a primary source of entertainment when people might what to explore their horizons. As Goldwasser states, “Teens now enjoying reading and writing more than before because it is less familiar to them and something different from being on a computer” (Goldwasser, p. 239). People especially teens will look for something different to consider besides what they already know. By being in their computer all the time eventually gets them tired, so they will look for something else to spend their time. Teens had advance their knowledge and acquainted the assumption that besides being on the computer chatting with their friends, they could use this source to complete their school duties. Her position does relay on the reality of how things that in the past were difficult to teen now had become a distraction for them.

Has the internet become an obsession to teens or is just society who expect them to be using it? Goldwasser states, “ The average teen chooses to spend and average of 16.7 hours a week reading and writing online” (Goldwasser, p. 239). This is not considered involuntary reading and writing, but is not that what teens do they write what they think and read about what they want. It has become a free alternative to know what you need to know. Teens show more interest in what grabs their attention since is something they want to do, the knowledge and understanding obtain will be greater. Our generation has set into do what you want as well as be allowed to do what ever you are capable of.

Goldwasser argues that we should combine forces with internet people and stop seeing it as an enemy. As she states, “If we work with, rather than against, the way this generation voluntarily takes in information - we might not be able to pick up the phone and expose tragic pockets of ignorance” (Goldwasser, p. 239). Instead of having people think that the internet is a waste of time stop and reflects upon and know that it has grown path to millions of information about history and literature.

Goldwasser has a valid point about how we should take advantage of technology instead of just complaining about it. We must develop a virtual life in our social networks, and that we do not care about the exterior world. We need to realize that most of our information comes from the internet that offers more conformity and accessibility to humans in many ways such as school duties, address founding, transferring personal information use one source to another as many others. We all need to start seeing internet as an essentially tool in everyone’s life, and we should stop fighting against and just join the movement and use the advantages.

Works Cited

Goldwasser, Amy. “What’s The Matter With Kids Today?” They Say / I Say: the Moves That Matter in Academic Writing. Ed. Cathy Birkenstein, Gerald Graff, and Russel Durst. New York: W. W. Norton, 2009. 153-55. Print.

Math 1030

Sat, 03 Dec 2011 04:51:24 +0100

The decision that everyone needs to take when buying a house is whether they should take a mortgage for 15 or 30 years. With a 30 year mortgage the borrower will get lower monthly payments, but higher interest rates. The advantage of a 30 years mortgage is that people can afford to buy a larger property. On the other hand in a 15 year mortgage the payment will be higher with lower interest rates. The advantage of this kind of mortgage is that people will gain more profit and own the property sooner.

Having a plan is a way to choose which option fits best for you. If the plan is to build equity as soon as possible, consider the 15 year mortgage plan, keep in mind that by having higher payments every month it will be hard to save money out of your income. If that’s the case a 30 year mortgage plan will be the one that better fits you since you will be able to get a bigger property and still have some left over from your income to save thru the year.

Renting is another option. The biggest advantage of renting is that you don’t have to be stuck in a same place for years, instead, you can simple move out if you dislike the area of work is far away from your current location. The disadvantage is that all the money you are investing every month is going to the trash since rent is not tax deductible and you are not gaining any benefits.

Buying a home gives the option to deduct your interest up to 1 million dollars. By using the house as security you can also deduct the interest up to $ 100.000. It also help you not to pay taxes from any profit make in the sale of the property.

Return and risk is a concern to everyone when planning to invest in a real state. Return is the award from investing. Return consists in periodic cash payments and appreciation in market value. Risk is the variability of possible returns from the given investment. As you get higher return your risk is higher as well.

During this analysis I had realized that buying a house is a more convenient option. Buying a home will benefit from gaining equity and also receiving money from taxes at the end of the year. I consider that a 30 year mortgage is the best option because, it provides more financial freedom, it will help you get a bigger house with lower monthly payments and you will still have extra money to be put into your savings.

Humanities 1010

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:29:48 +0100

Berenice Saenz

A spouse has been in a coma for eight years and kept alive on a life-support system. The parents of the person want to keep their daughter alive because they believe strongly that their child will recuperate and they believe in the sanctity of life. The spouse does not want to keep the person alive because the spouse sees no hope for recovery or a quality of life and believes firmly that the person would not have wanted to continue to live in this way or to be a burden to anyone and would have wished to die. You are the judge who has been presented with this case to determine who is right and whether or not the person should live or die.

As the judge in this situation I will incline toward the husband decision. My decision does that imply that i don’t value the spouse life, but we have to thing about what the husband has to go thru every day seeing his wife as she is. I will also consider the way that this situation is affection the husband financially, emotionally, and psychologically.

Before I have a clear decision I will examine all the changes that can give the wife the possibility to come out of the comma as well if in the case of she will be able to be a functional human being. By functionally I mean that is she should always will be a dependent upon someone to aid her with her needs or if she will have a successful complete recovery.

In Humanities class along the semester, we lecture and study diverse themes that help me to conclude my decision more thoroughly and complex.

Marginalized Voices unit we talk about racial, gender, and ethnicity. We talk and read stories that help me understand the necessities that people suffered thru. This section applies to this case since here the wife is the marginal voice, but what about the husband that has to go thru all the suffering and consequences that he will face in the future. In About Men, they don’t know how to bring their tenderness into the house and the lack of vocabulary to express the complexity of what they feel”. The husband does not be to disconnect his wife just because he is acting upon an act of love to her. Because, he is probably hurt to see her suffer that way she is even if he does not let the world know about it.

Freedom and Responsibility we talk about people who wants to be free and that they are responsible to get the freedom they want. On the Second Treatise of Government it says, “The executive law of nature, I doubt to be objected, that it is unreasonable for men to be the judge in their own cases, that self-love will make partial to themselves and their friends”. The husband has the right by nature to do what it will provide him self-love he cannot be condemn to be next to a wife who is suffering of a comma in which she should not even will wake up.

Death unit was appealing to me since death will always be a mystery until you faced, when you time has arrived. In the Introduction to Death it talks about, “ to examined the nature of our existence through our definitions of its end: and how we choose, if you will, to understand and value life as we reflect upon and represent its necessary conclusion death”. This helps me support the idea of unplugging the wife from life support since I believe that the husband knows his wife well enough to know that she will not like to live that way she is now. I think about the fact that we all expect to live an extended life, but I believe that not everyone will like to be planted in a bed more several years and expect that to be the life you wanted. We all want a life full of activities either emotionally or physically we want to feel and know what happening around us also we what to interact and be respond back. I set myself in the position of being in a comma and surely that is not how I want my life to end up like.

The last section we have gone thru is Sacred Text unit which is full of religious belief about life creation and how we all function because of a creator. The how the creator has set a purpose for humans to function in his world and that we should recognize that we all have a powerful one that has choose to create us and that we should worshiped. In the introduction to Sacred Text a quote by Thomas Paine states, “ I put the following work under your protection. It contains my opinion upon religion. You will do me the justice to remember, that I have always strenuously supported the right to every man to his opinion, however, different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself of his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right to change it”. The husband has the right to express his believes about his wife life even when the opinion about does not satisfy everyone else does not mean that its wrong. The husband needs to thing about his future, and what he will do with his life after the wife death putting his opinion does not makes him want to kill his wife in the contrary he tries to make it better for both of them.

Reflection

At first I register for this course because it requires me to take a Humanities class. Even on the first day of school our professor ask, who was in the class just for a grade does were my thought at the beginning. I was wrong I had obtained valuable information about the world humanities. Not necessary from learning every single piece that we had to read but from what the piece has to say about life and how it provides examples either my experiences or be believes.

I related myself more to two of the units topics the first one is the Marginated voices which one of the pieces talk about how the American with Hispanic ancestry had evolution the way to communicate among them. Also, the Death unit this one in particular make me think about what is about life that make us think that we are prepare to die. How we have to prepare ourself in order to received, but there is no way we can have answers to do questions since once you are death there is no way to go back. Now after this course, the way I think about humans has change in a way that now I can realize that everything happens for a reason people has ti suffer in the past in order for us to have what we have now. There are more things that go beyond our understating, but that does not mean that they are wrong in the contrary we should take them in consideration in order to increase our belief and doubts.

Resume

Mon, 06 Jun 2011 23:16:43 +0100

Berenice Saenz

1265 N Redwood Rd Apt # 121B

Salt Lake City, UT 84116-4713

ßCel. 801 6519976

berenice_151@hotmail.com

Profile

Enrolled in a criminal justice program.
Pursuing an Associates degree in criminal justice.
Considerable knowledge of modern law enforcement principles, procedures, and techniques.
Effectively reaction in emergency and stress situations.
Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with employees, other agencies and the public.
Ability to exhibit imagination, initiative, and problem-solving.
Ability to use discretion, and make positive impressions.
Ability to operate various computer programs such as Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, and Power Point.
Ability to communicate orally and in writing in English and Spanish.
Accomplished the P.O.S.T. exam with satisfactory results.

Experience

Supervisor, HMS Host; Salt Lake City, UT - 2009 - Present

Monitors and observes the day-to-day activities of subordinates, coordinates breaks for hourly associates, and keeps management informed of area activities and any significant problems.
Coordinates with management for on-the-job training of new associates.
Operates cash register and voids transactions as needed and maintains proper security of cash.
Transfers supplies and equipment between storage and work areas by hand or use of a hand truck.
Resolves customer complaints in a manner consistent.
Practices excellent food safety and sanitation practices.
Monitors compliance with safety guidelines, builds awareness about safety, and reports any safety concerns to management.

Education

Salt Lake Community College, Salt Lake City, UT - Associates Degree, 2012

Midway Baptist Schools, San Diego, CA - High School Diploma, 2007

Sociology 1010

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 03:05:17 +0100

The red ribbon know as the international symbol AIDS movement. As many year ago this red ribbon was only that a simple ribbon, but that has changed now its recognized world wide. This symbol is posted on commercial products like mugs, t-shirts, bags as many others. This ribbon shows society solidarity and donation to the ADIS association

Diversity in a Corporation

Mon, 18 Oct 2010 02:41:07 +0100

This paper was one that I had fun doing it at the beginning I was confuse with what this was about but then in came up to be a really easy one. The fun part was to choose a place an observe it but in a higher level with detail in order to study the way the company works. I was a relaxed paper that may me think about how corporations work and why they have their patters to fallow in order to provide a service that accommodates to the consumer. This paper help me to see all those things that have no importance noticeable to me before which makes you want to visit them. Now my view to a corporation has change I notice does details that make them special an unique from another business. Now I feel open mind about their job and effort that they put in order to make the business work.