BR-4/2/14

I believe the most difficult thing about this discrimination  project is that my group, Asian-Americans, have to do everything together like raising your hand or putting are computers away.

Notes 4/1/14-4/8/14

• A heterogeneous society is composed of different people or cultures.
• An immigrant is a person that assumed to be legal within a different country.
• Reservation is public land given to the native Americans  by the government.
• A refugee is somebody that moves to another country to seek protection.
• Assimilation is when you change your culture to adapt to a different culture.
• populations that have grown would be: African american, Hispanic and Asian american.
• Minority populations exceed white populations in Texas and California.
• More females then men 
• African Americans have been treated bad longer then most 
• American settlers have brought diseases that hurt Indian population
• Poverty  plagues many reservations today
• Hispanic Americans have a Spanish speaking background  
• Chinese laborers often faced violence due to taking whites jobs
• Railroads were being built by Chinese laborers 
• Chinese exclusion act of 1882 lasted for 80 years
• All Japanese were evacuated from the u.s.
• Congress eventually admitted that it was wrong to do so
• Those who oppose Civil rights often believe you cant change morality
• Judicial decrees may not change the heart but they can restrain the heartless
• 1870-1950: no meaningful legislation
• Civil rights act of 1964 passed after 83 days
• Voting provisions were changed^
• public services^
• federal funding programs^
• employers and labor unions can also not discriminate^
• 1968=housing act- cannot refuse selling living space to a person due to race or religion 
• Equal opportunities must be given to both women and men
• Affirmative action requires employers to take positive steps to fix the affects of past discrimination
• employers must meet quotas
• reverse discrimination  is discrimination against the majority group
• The Bakke Case  was when Allan Bakke sued the university of California because he was denied access to their medical school 
• Quotas can be used when needed
• Within the next 25 years the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary  
• A citizen is a person that swears allegiance to the u.s.
• before 1860 citizenship didn't matter
• constitution declares that a person becomes an american citizen in two way: by birth or naturalization
• 90% of Americans are citizens  by birth
• naturalization is the legal process by which a person can become a citizen 
• naturalization is done individually 
• Congress can not take away your citizenship 
• marriage does not make you a citizen 
• congress has exclusive power to regulate the crossing of the nations borders
• 270,000 immigrants are allowed into the u.s. each year 
• 670,000 immigrants can today enter the u.s. each year
• People can be denied entrance to the u.s by there characteristics
• biggest reason for deportation are, illegal immigrant, or conviction of a serious crime   

BR-4/1/14

This shouldn't be mandatory with any new vehicles that are produced, but should be swayed into manufactures with installing them into new vehicles. I believe that these camera's built into cars would help prevent accidents and would be very helpful with dealing with drivers that are terrible with backing up or paying attention to their surroundings. This system would only be, but helpful to new cars, so I believe it would be a good thing to put within new cars.

BR-3/31/14

I believe racism is still an issue in 2014 these days in many place, including most of  West Virginia. Many people that I know can be very racist towards black people or other common races. These people have always been the same and most likely will not change their ways towards this issue. I believe that racism will always be an issue within society, but will most likely will become better as time goes on.

BR-3/27/14

I don't believe that they should have to serve for life, but they should have to work for a certain amount of years. The american people shouldn't vote for Justices, but they should also not let experienced people choose.

BR-3/24/14

This article is about an outbreak of Ebola that has killed fifty-nine people so far. Experts are not yet sure as to what has caused this outbreak. This outbreak comes with symptoms of vomiting and fever. Health officials are giving free treatment to all patients.  

Supreme Court Cases 3/20/14

Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow
This case was basically about saying the pledge in school and how it was an endorsement to religion within the school. The judge eventually ruled in Newdows favor. Later on though this was reversed.

Bethel School District v. Fraser
Within this case a student from a high school gave a speech, in which was beyond what the first amendment allows one to say. His school subsequently wouldn't allow him to graduate and he was kicked out of school for three days. They later ruled that the school had acted within the constitution with disciplining Fraser.

Grutter v. Bollinger
This case was about a student that didn't get admitted into a college even though having a 3.8 gpa. This student felt that she was being denied due to her race. They ruled the school did not use this with admitting there students and otherwise looked into ones background before accepting them.