Elian Gonzalez Is it possible for a six-year-old boy to successfully seek asylum in the United Sates against his father’s wishes? This is the main point of exploration in the April 21, 2000 article (off the wire) that appeared in The Plain Dealer. The article relates, “to be granted asylum, people must show that they were persecuted or had a legitimate fear of persecution in their home country because of race, religion, nationality, membership in a social group or political opinions.” According
Dear Rosa Delauro,After reading many articles in the newspapers and magazines that all state, 6 year old Elian Gonzalez has been in the middle of an international tug-of-war since he was found on Thanksgiving Day. Clinging to an inner tube at sea for two days drifting after his family and him were trying to escape from Cuba for freedom. I have decided that it is the right thing for little Elian to stay in the United States. The phone rings: "Your 6-year old son has just been found in the ocean, shipwrecked
The Fight Over Elian Gonzalez It began on Thanksgiving day, in November, 1999, when two fisherman pulled the body of a five year old cuban boy out of the waters off the coast of Florida. The boy was Elian Gonzalez. He was one of three survivors of a group of Cuban refugees seeking political asylum and freedom from communist Cuba under Fidel Castro's rule. Elian's mother, Elisabeth Brotons, along with her common-law husband and nine others, drowned when the boat carrying them to the United States
Should Elian Gonzalez go back to Cuba or stay in the United States? This seems to be the question drenching the media on a constant bases. Every newspaper, news broadcast, and magazine seem to have a story about Elian. Titles like “Elian’s Grandmothers are coming to the US”, seems kind of silly if you read the headline literally. I don’t mean to be cold but why do we care if Elian’s grandmother is coming to the US? Thousands of grandmas have come to the US everyday, but we don’t hear about them
Traditions are passed on generation to generation in every culture. The U.S-Mexico border consists of numerous customs that have lived for hundreds of years. This essay examines Jose’ Pablo Villalobos and Juan Carlos Ramirez-Pimiento essay “Corridos and la pura verdad: Myths and Realities of the Mexican Ballad” which discusses the corrido. Chapter six, “Everyday Border Heroes” of Patricia L. Price’s book Dry Place which illustrates the reasons to the devotion to unofficial saints. Futhermore
On November 25, 1999 a pair of sports fishermen found a raft floating with immigrants aboard off the Fort Lauderdale coast. Aboard were two adults and one young boy. The young boys name was Elian Gonzalez, he was five years old. Case 9A in the textbook Media Ethics by Philip Patterson and Lee Wilkins (2008) on page 213 provides the following information. Elizabeth Brotons Rodriquez and fourteen other Cuban natives were in hope of immigrating to the United States in hope of escaping the Castro Government
Transcendentalism is a philosophy that declares the primacy of the spiritual and transcendental over the material and hypothetical beliefs. It focuses on non-conformity, optimism and passive civil disobedience. Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson were models of these ideas. They focused on the fact that you should do something because it feels right to you not because its what everyone else is doing. Emerson believed that optimism exercised with confidence if the best way to achieve what
Amenda Rodriguez It is commonplace within films to replicate aspects of society like the formation of cliques, and/or groups that are subsets of the whole population. In these kinds of movies filmmakers indulge in the attributes of these subsection as well as the social orders, which facilitates them. Sociologists, like Norbert Elias, have theorized the creations and replication of social strata within Western society since before the 19th century. Norbert Elias’s infamous works theorized the creation
There are people who aren’t fully educated on the topic of immigration. This can lead to a naive view of a facet of their lives and terrible misconceptions on their entire presence. Many of these misconceptions are inherently negative; they concentrate into unsightly slums, the people can’t contribute to society because they don’t care, they bring their country’s problems with them. The truth is, these people are coming to seek a better life, and more opportunities to have that better life. Because
pharmaceutical ways or mass produced in large factories containing ingredients that have been formulated or resembles the natural This category contains illicit drugs such as methamphetamine commonly known as meth and many more drugs that are trafficked(Elian). These drugs have side effects that are life threatening such as physiological and psychological. The reason why these drugs are consumed is because of the reaction or the high the user experiences while taking the drug. The addiction occurs because
Elizabeth Vargas Bio, Wiki, Net worth, Affair, Divorce, Married, Children Short Bio Elizabeth Vargas is a well-known American television journalist who is known best for her work as an anchor in ABC News. Elizabeth Anne Vargas was born on 6th September 1962 in Paterson, New Jersey, U.S. She was born to father Rafael Vargas and mother Anne Vargas. Her father is a Puerto Rican colonel who worked in the U.S> Army while her mother is an Irish-American. Elizabeth Vargas attended the University of Missouri
García Márquez. Serenade – García Márquez tells the story of his parents’ courtship and marriage in the New Yorker. The Power of García Márquez – A New Yorker article from September 1999. Shipwrecked – García Márquez’ New York Times op-ed piece on Elián González. Love in the Time of Cholera Film – July 22, 2004, The Guardian. Stone Village has acquired the...
Throughout this week’s reading, I found that there was a heavy emphasis on the correlation between bare life for migrants and harsh realities of border control, which reflects our earlier discussions about territoriality and desirability. In the article, Bare Life, Doty argues that many unauthorized migrants are regarded as bare life individuals “whose deaths are deemed of little consequence” (Doty 599). This concept of bare life is documented in the journey of migrants like Mario Alberto Diaz and
very different compare with world average temperature is 13.9°C (57.0°F) in this century. Moreover. Another factor which may be a threat to the human settlement in space is extraterrestrial life also known as “Alien”. Many people might think that Elian is absurd, because no one has ever seen. Recently, scientists have found some evidence that shows on Mars may have had a life lived in before. According to Bontemps (2015), explain that Now, in a paper published in the journal Astrobiology, a geobiologist
I learned those vocabularies by understanding the whole sentence that includes this vocabulary first, and then I looked up for it in a dictionary to understand the exact meaning. Also, I looked for pictures which would make this new word stick in my brain. Furthermore, I tried to use that new word in my life and practice its spelling many times. Actually, some of them I didn’t need to practice their spelling because they are easy to remember, but the most important thing for me is to use them in
Plautus, a proud Roman playwright, is best known for his work as a dramatist and his comedic plays. Some of the few works that survived the time period, Plautus gives readers a look into the start of the comedic genre as it was developed. Daily routine and average people seem to be the basis of all of his works, especially most of the plays seen in the collection Plautus: The Pot of Gold and Other Plays. In this paper, I will discuss each of the plays included in the collection and their main themes
humans are often grouped into different classes based on factors like race or gender because no two people can be considered completely alike. In her book “The Concept of Justice and Equality: On the Dispute between John Rawls and Gerald Cohen,” Elian Saade, discusses the different views of two respected philosophers, regarding what is known to be social justice. After pondering about Rawl and Cohen’s explanations of the relationship between justice and equality, Saade comes to the conclusion that
The Life Journey of John Steinbeck Every great writer had their own influences, John Steinbeck was no exception. Steinbeck’s influences cam from family, friends, and his environment to write detailed descriptions to involve or influence the reader. Whenever someone reads one of John Steinbeck’s works they are in immersed in the scene he is describing, he makes you feel as if you are right there experiencing everything there first hand. Steinbeck had a relatively normal childhood growing up in Salinas
I believe that I have learned a lot in this class for the past ten weeks. At the beginning, I thought this class would only teach about how to make ethical decisions when we have a problem. However, it turned out that I learned beyond that. Not only I have acquired the lesson about ethics, I also learn to interact with people around me whom I never met before this class started. As Professor Lopez mentioned, BUS-L375 is a discussion class. As a shy type of person, I always prefer listening to other
Vivian Gonzalez Mr. Martinez-Ramos A.P. United States History May 3, 2000 McCarthyism was one of the saddest events of American history. It destroyed people’s lives and shattered many families. It threw innocent people into a whirlwind of mass confusion and fictional portrayals of their lives. McCarthyism spawned for the country’s new found terror of Communism known as the red scare. McCarthyism was an extreme version of the red scare, a scare whose ends did not justify the means. The Red Scare happened