Being An International Student in a Post 9/11 World
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free," just not your students.
"I knew what was going to happen after 9/11. It was understood," said Tariq Halela, a 21-year-old student at Boston University. What he understood was simple: for an international student, living in the United States would never be the same.
Halela, an Indian born Kuwaiti native, has been studying stateside for over two years. He is an accounting major and speaks four languages -- English, Arabic, Hindi and Gujarati -- fluently.
"I love it here in the states," he said. "That is why I was so worried when I got a call from the ISO [international student's office] saying I could be deported."
Confusion over the new immigration rules and regulations is what gave Halela his first deportation scare. With stricter visas guidelines, the culmination of new policies the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have undertaken is the Student Exchange Visitor Information System, or SEVIS.
Now, new international students can choose to study at any one of the over 7,000 SEVIS-certified universities in America. The schools, in turn, provide a
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X-raying shoes at the airports is one thing, but tracking and compiling information on college students seems a little much to some. Before SEVIS, the records of all students, including international ones, have been kept private under the protection of FERPA, the Family Education Records Protection Act. But now, FERPA protection has been waived for international student records, allowing the Federal Government to request information on topics such as "student misconduct," which includes criticism of the government and non-violent civil disobedience, and a student's field of study, red flagging some "sensitive" research work and majors for their potential to be used in weapons
The Declaration of Independence is one of the most important documents produced by an American thinker. Reading The Declaration of Independence presents the reader with a window into the world of revolutionary America. It conveys the dynamic nature of the time better than any written work of the period. The real importance of The Declaration of Independence lies not in the purpose for which Jefferson created it, to declare independence from Great Britain, but rather how future generations have interpreted Jefferson's words. Jefferson's document originally guaranteed basic rights for a select segment of the American population. Today it has become a document which has been interpreted to guarantee the basic rights of everyone living in America and abroad. In a way it has become a document with a life of its own. It has become something far more substantial than anything Jefferson or his contemporaries, writing within an eighteenth century mindset, could ever have believed it would become.
Immigrants must overcome many barriers to succeed in America. First, migrants frequently must learn a new language. Inability to communicate is a critical barrier for accessing the health care system (Urrutia-Rojas, Marshall, Trevino, Lurie, & Minguia-Bayona, 2006). Second, the processes of work and schooling for themselves and their families can be daunting. Lastly, immigrants use the established social network of longer duration residents for reference and knowledge (Nandi, Galea, Lopez, Nandi, Strongarone, & Ompad, 2008). For purposes of this report, there are three different types of immigrant: legal, undocumented, and refugees or persons seeking asylum. All three types of residents want to succeed and achieve their personal dream.
Gregor’s family loved him while he was an asset, but they despised him when he was a burden. When people lose value as laborers, they begin to lose value as a whole person, too. Thus, they also become a ‘bug’ in society because of their inability to continually contribute to the world. Metaphorically speaking, this is how Gregor felt. He was discarded at the slightest change in his laboring ability. Following the Marxist theory, economic and monetary principles far surpassed any emotional attachment in the Samsa family.
Gregor Samsa had no social life because his life was evolved around always working and providing for his family. He was alway working while his family lay around at home At work he was alway exhausted because of the constant travelling, and the not only that but he was always being tormented by his boss. Gregor’s time was alway being consumed by people, and and when he was transformed into a bug his family had no use for him so they lock him in his room. The little connection that Gregor had to society was taken away when he was transformed into a bug, because he could go outside or even communicate with his own family.
Friedman, N. (1960). E.E. Cummings: The art of his poetry. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press.
In conclusion, the Declaration of Independence was, still is, and always will be one of the most influential documents of American history. It told Britain that the colonists were fed up with their unfair and unjust rule over them. The document also led to many other colonies seeing what America did, and declare independence from their mother countries. The document not only changed America, but also changed the
...top loving him. Without his initial function, he became an outlaw of family life. Gregor eventually wanted the family to give up all hope in him, a hope that he wanted to exist but did not. “He thought back on his family with deep emotion and love. His conviction that he would have to disappear was, if possible, even firmer than his sister’s.” Immediately after this line, Gregor Samsa committed suicide. As a the family came to learn of Gregor’s death, the father said, “Well, now thanks be to God.” The sister appears to not be upset, but rather in a state of disbelief that the burden on their family is finally gone. When Gregor’s mother learns of his death, she questions it, to check the validity, and then tell her daughter to come join them with a “tremendous smile.” However, it is arguable whether he killed himself, or Gregor died of a broken heart.
The Declaration of Independence is the most important and oldest document in the United State’s History. The Declaration was drafted and signed to announce our Declaration Of Independence from Great Britain, by saying, “ The United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do.” The colonies have suffered enough cruelty and inhumanity committed against them, by the British Parliament. Consequently, the Declaration is to represent the colonies, to where as they were never allowed to before, in a manner to Great Britain. The document also represented the belief of the colonies, that liberty, truth, justice, and equality, is of their rights. After so long of drastically suffering the dirty treasons' committed against them by the British.
Gregor had a very sorrow life before his transformation into a beetle. He was unhappy about the job he was working. As a travelling salesman, he complained that he always worried about the connection between trains, “the irregular bad food, the temporary and constantly changing human relationships which never come from heart” (Kafka 2). He hated his job, if he didn’t have to pay his father’ debt, he would have quit the job 5 years ago (Kafka 3). At the first night after his transformation, he hardly slept because of hunger, worries, and felt of “murky hope” (Kafka 3). After his transformation, he was unable to work and provide the money to his family, so he felt
ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) deportations has raised frequently; Immigration arrests rose 32.6 percent in the first weeks of the Trump administration, with newly empowered federal agents intensifying their pursuit not just undocumented immigrants with criminal records, but also thousands of illegal immigrants who have been otherwise law-abiding (Sachetti). The numbers have tripled from last year, more families have been taken apart and not anyone has known what to do about the situation. In the 100 days since President Donald J. Trump signed Executive orders (EOs) regarding Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested more than 41.000 who are either known or suspected of being in the country illegally. This reflects of
The morning of September 11 was like any other. The sun rose from the east, and the day was full of life. People went to work as they were accustomed to, and everybody seemed safe from harms way. In airports across America: planes were taking their passengers to their destinations in record times. People went through airport security as usual, walking through the metal detector and sending their bags through the x-ray machines. Security at the airport was normal. Bags were checked for guns and explosives as they had been doing for many years. This seemingly routine day turned out to be far from normal. A group of people that belonged to Al-Qaeda had different plans for the people of the United States.
Gregor was a young man born and raised in a middle class family during the late-nineteenth century or early twentieth century. During this time period children were raised to follow on their parents steps; however, in Gregor’s situation this tradition did not took place due to the family financial situation. Gregro was force to work as a traveling salesman to help with the family’s business debts and during this process, he became the solely bread winner. It seemed that during the time that he was the bread winner of the household he became emotional disturb creating a disconnection between his mind and realty in the blink of an eye. On the novel the author describe Gregor was an educated, ethical, and responsible young man willing to go any length to help his family; however, one day Gregor went to bed and woke as a disgusting and giant bug according to Gregor’s
...he needs of society are egotistical, however still fascinating. Gregor also later thinks about how his pride at the beginning was so great because of how his parents leaned on him for supporting his family and how it faded once his parents began to expect him to care for the family and as a result he became a recluse.
In addition to the pressure created by his office manager and society, the Samsa’s, especially Gregor’s father, take advantage of him. Gregor earns the basic income to support his family. “But of course he actually could have paid off more of his father’s debt to the boss with this extra money, and the clay on which he could have gotten rid of his job would have been much closer, but now things were undoubtedly better, the way his father had arranged them.” The superficiality of the Samsa’s has put Gregor in a difficult position, which is a component causing Gregor’s metamorphosis. Gregor’s family in general, had given him the attitude he has on life. They took advantage of him to the point where he was the means of the family’s survival.
E.E. Cummings was and is a very important poet. He was also a painter, he appreciated two schools of art, and they were impressionism and cubism. Cummings liked that with both types of art you were to express “feelings about that subject,” or to disassemble pieces of a subject and rearrange them in a way that makes you visualize it differently. Picasso’s artwork certainly made Cummings think about what he was looking at because of that he decided to write a poem about Picasso’s artwork. Not only interested in the illustration aspect of things Cummings was also intrigued by the “auditory nature of words too.” E.E. Cummings specialized in a form of poetry that later on became a very artistic and important way of writing. Cummings focused on sight and sound in his poems, to actually make the text come alive. His purpose was to make you visualize or hear what the poem was saying.