Week 6 1. James A. Tyner‚ “The Geopolitics of Eugenics and the Exclusion of Philippine Immigrants from the United States‚” The Geographical Review‚ 89‚ no. 1 (1999)‚ 54-73. In this article‚ Tyner explains the pseudoscience and logic behind the discrimination against Filipino immigrants during the early 1900’s. Using eugenics as justification‚ the government made it clear that America was to remain a white-dominated country with little tolerance for immigrants. A prime example of this anti-immigration
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the most important populations suffering in our world today. The aging society has a: Declining birthrate‚ Increase in the life expectancy of Americans‚ and consist of 13% (35 million) of the United States population. (Stanley‚ Baca‚ & Eitzen‚ 2008) When I think of the aging population in the United States I cannot let go of the thought that their future is going to be harder as a population to survive because of the statistics rising against them. The aging population includes many different people
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The value of education within the United States has been highly emphasized as an open opportunity towards chasing the “American Dream”. During the colonial era‚ New England colonists such as the Puritans from the Massachusetts Bay Colony‚ provided a system for public education to create a common ground for those that immigrated from the Northern and Western regions of Europe. While public education at the time was established to create an equal plane field within a new society‚ the development of
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manufactured woodwork. Meanwhile‚ the south was more focused on agriculture and farming. This elevated the demand for labor‚ more in the south than the north‚ due to the extreme potential in the economy. This demand for labor was fulfilled through a system called indentured servitude‚ “Indentured servitude was a common way for poor European immigrants in search of a better life to defray the cost of their transatlantic journey‚ by signing a contract binding them to a certain number of years of labor
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categories‚ federalism‚ confederacy‚ and unitary system. Federalism limits the power of the government by dividing the national‚ and the state government. State and Federal power is then again divided into legislative‚ judiciary‚ and executive branches. This all keeps no one group maintaining all of the power‚ it is a constant check and balance. The power of the state is what the national government does not have‚ and also has to be deemed as legal. Both the state and federal government have denied powers
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Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States‚ "its true office is to expound the nature and extent and application of the powers actually conferred by the Constitution." Alexander Hamilton‚ in The Federalist No. 84‚ went so far as to assert that the words "secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity" were "a better recognition of popular rights‚ than volumes of those aphorisms‚ which make the principal figure in several of our state bills of rights." An appreciation of
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most influential nation in the world‚ but has one of the lowest voter turnouts. Less than 57% of the United States electorate does not vote to the hurdles that it takes to exercise a basic right. The reasons for voter apathy include not registering‚ inability to get to the polls and the type of election. To begin‚ registration in the United States does not have automatic registration. Only some states have made “same-day registration” available or offering voter registration while getting a driver’s
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The United States of America has an extensive history of oppressing essentially everyone who is not a straight‚ white‚ land-owning‚ wealthy‚ cis-gender man and included within this list of oppressed is women. Throughout the ages‚ women have had to and continue to fight for many rights through social‚ economic‚ and political venues. One of these rights‚ and area of public policy‚ are reproductive rights. Reproductive rights are a broad area of public policy that encompasses sexual education‚ family
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Amish assimilation in the United States Amish assimilation in the United States To begin understanding the Amish style of assimilation we must first try to understand the Amish and their traditional beliefs and culture they brought to the United States during their immigration. Starting in the early 18th century‚ many of the Amish migrated to the U.S. Most of the members who remained in Europe rejoined the Mennonites. Few Amish congregations existed by 1900. On 1937-JAN-17‚ the last Amish congregation
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Chinese Exclusion Act‚ expanded ten years later by the Geary Act. The Chinese Exclusion Act replaced the Burlingame Treaty ratified in 1868‚ which encouraged Chinese immigration‚ provided that "citizens of the United States in China of every religious persuasion and Chinese subjects in the United States shall enjoy entire liberty of conscience and shall be exempt from all disability or persecution on account of their religious faith or worship in either country" and granted certain privileges to citizens
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