Aice General Paper summer assignment 
Ashley Gonzalez
Aice General Paper
Current Events Essay
2014-2015
As you shut your eyes for the night and enter a profound slumber you’re no longer aware about what’s going on in the world around you, but that doesn’t mean that significant events cease to occur. In those eight hours of sleep the world still spins, wars still rage on, some people die, and others are lucky enough to see another day. There are over seven billion people in the world each with their own stories and living utterly diverse lives. Worldwide current events aid in developing global awareness, as well as help you understand that even though we might not all live close, we are all connected; what happens in one part of the world affects the rest. These next five current events have generated fiery debates throughout the summer of 2014 and have affected everyone in more ways than one.
Immigration, our country wouldn’t be here today if it wasn’t for it. But the United States has found they have to deal with the down side of immigration once again. In recent years, the USA found themselves deporting thousands of adults back to their homeland, but have recently ran into the problem of an increased amount of children coming across the border. Only seven months into 2014 and already over 50, 000 children, without the companionship of adults, have been apprehended at the border of the United States and Mexico. Many of these children, some of them younger than five years in age, are sent by family members here to America to escape the dangers and hardships of their countries; what they don’t know is that the trek to America places them in greater danger than they were in previously. Many adults, much older than the kids now making trips, endure many life threatening events before making it here. Young children are not mentally and physically prepared for those hardships. The problem now is when these kids are apprehended at the border and brought into the custody of the United States,
Aice General Paper
Current Events Essay
2014-2015
As you shut your eyes for the night and enter a profound slumber you’re no longer aware about what’s going on in the world around you, but that doesn’t mean that significant events cease to occur. In those eight hours of sleep the world still spins, wars still rage on, some people die, and others are lucky enough to see another day. There are over seven billion people in the world each with their own stories and living utterly diverse lives. Worldwide current events aid in developing global awareness, as well as help you understand that even though we might not all live close, we are all connected; what happens in one part of the world affects the rest. These next five current events have generated fiery debates throughout the summer of 2014 and have affected everyone in more ways than one.
Immigration, our country wouldn’t be here today if it wasn’t for it. But the United States has found they have to deal with the down side of immigration once again. In recent years, the USA found themselves deporting thousands of adults back to their homeland, but have recently ran into the problem of an increased amount of children coming across the border. Only seven months into 2014 and already over 50, 000 children, without the companionship of adults, have been apprehended at the border of the United States and Mexico. Many of these children, some of them younger than five years in age, are sent by family members here to America to escape the dangers and hardships of their countries; what they don’t know is that the trek to America places them in greater danger than they were in previously. Many adults, much older than the kids now making trips, endure many life threatening events before making it here. Young children are not mentally and physically prepared for those hardships. The problem now is when these kids are apprehended at the border and brought into the custody of the United States,