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Immigrating from any foreign country, to America, is not easy.  For K. Oanh Ha, living in a crowded 3 bedroom apartment with twelve other family members was what she settled for in order to live her dream of being an “American.”  It was tough breaking from her strict Vietnamese traditions that her parents enforced, but being the normal American kid was all the mattered to her.  Going out was a huge ordeal, because she had to beg her parents to let her, and find someone to babysit.  K. Oanh Ha had eventually lost her accent, and claims she was just as American as her finance, who was an American, where she met at UCLA.  Although she would always have Vietnamese in her blood, moving to California and living there for twenty years helped her identify  herself as a Vietnamese-American.  Meeting her finance at UCLA, she was thankful she had college to turn too and finally get out and move on.  I think sooner or later, everyone should experience was it is like to live in the United States, and live the “American dream.”  With all of the opportunity we offer, everyone deserves a chance to succeed.

The amount of people with AIDs all over the world is extremely overwhelming.  AIDs is transmitted sexually, by food, water, air or other means.  Although, the epidemic is most common in African countries, the most likely source of the virus comes from U.S. homosexuals.  After reading Katzs’ article, it opened my eyes to the scary disease and made me wonder.  If women in Africa need to exchange sex inorder to get the material things she needs to survive, how is that fair?  I think more actions need to be taken in helping these women get what they need, without the risk of being infected with HIV/AIDs.  Because the women are more vulnerable than the men, deaths are usually what result in the end.  With just so much as water and sanitation, it could reduce the high rate of vulnerability to other diseases along with AIDs in African countries.  The fact that AIDs in spread so easily, scares me.  The rate of people infected goes up every year which is shocking.  When are people going to learn the consequences of their actions, and think before they act?  I think the first step for people to take, is to get tested, and have their significant other get tested as well.  Knowing is better than not knowing.

1)  What was the hardest transition for you to make after moving to the states?

 2)  What intimidated you the most about americans?

3)  What is the food like in Jordan?

4)  What is one thing teens do for fun on the weekends in Jordan?

Hilary Clinton’s Plans :

1)  She plans to create new jobs and restore fairness in our economy and make it work for the middle class and for all our people.

2)  She plans to improve health care by lowering costs, and improving quality.  She will give people a choice they are comfortable with and can afford.

3)  She will allow farmers to become more successful and stay in business by creating a Strategic Energy Fund that would inject $50 billion into research dealing with energy.

Barack Obama’s Plans :

1)  He plans to reduce the time it takes to complete your taxes; only five minutes.  And will provide $150 million workers the tax relief they need, and completely eliminate income taxes for ten million Americans.

2)  He will create higher wage jobs along with reducing the costs of health care.

John McCain’s Plans :

1)  He plans to lower taxes for the middle class, by saving families $2,700 a year on average or more.

2)  Finish Later . . .

Qualities I Look For:

1)  He/She makes sure all his decisions are in the best interest of the wealthy and poor communities.

2)  He/She is experienced and inspires people when they speak.

3)  That he/she follows through with all of their promises and changes they make in their speeches before they are elected.

4)  That their heart and soul is in to our country and making it the best it can be.

Issues That Are Most Important To Me:

1)  Taxes.

2)  Poor people are reiffing the same benefits as those wealthier people.

3)   Everyone single citizen gets the same opportunuties as the next.

What Author Alkman overall in his article that America and Americans rather ignore rest of the world then become more “globalized” with the rest of the nation.  He simlpy states, “Americans now pay less attention to international affairs, and read less forgeign new than at any time in the last two generations.”  With all the statistics Alkman mentioned through-out his atricle, it’s a huge eye-opener.  America should want to be more involved with what the rest of the world is doing, rather than neglecting them.  Everyone looks up to us, being the strongest and most powerful country in the world.  With our decreasing interest in the rest of the world, it starts with fewer Americans having passports, and the fewer number of Americans traveling overseas; which are just a couple examples.  With all the immigration creating such a diverse place to live here in the U.S., that should more than enough reason to stay in contact and help out other countries who want in on our success. 

Education has always been one of the biggest concerns in my life thus far.  Everyone wants to succeed and make a name for themselves in the world.  Education is what “would make the Bill of Rights real, and make democracy succeed”, states author Benjamin Barber.  Following the civil war, people were exposed more and more to the economy, advertising and merchandising of the entertainment industry, and just society in general. 

9/11’s impact on our country was evident.  For once, it was not the famour actor, or athlete in the limelight, but the citizens who shined.  People from all different communities were very important during the aftermath.  It opened many doors to citizenship, and “an opportunity to explore interdependence.”  All the citizens such as police officers, fireman, etc. were all recognized that day.  I think what they accomplished was brave and showed character, and they deserve everything. 

America has been named “the Melting Pot” because of the multi-ethnic society its become.  Societites all over the U.S. experience immigrants from many different countries.  Author Pico Iyer described America like this, ”America’s main role in the world order is not as a military superpower, but as a multicultral superpower.”  He tells the reader what it is like to wake up one day in Southern California, and what he experiences on a daily basis.  Having been to california twice myself, me and my family members felt like outsiders because for the first time we were surrounded by foreigners, instead of the other way around.  We have become increasingly diverse and now where ever you may be from, you can get a college education where ever you would like; doesn’t matter who you are, where you’re from, or what you look like.  Every country is their own, and upholds their own values and traditions, but because we are becoming more and more global, no one knows what the future might bring.

Hi everybody!  This is my first blog ever.  I’m going to brief you on some facts about me to start.

 I have a huge family of five siblings.  I love music and dancing, and having fun in general.  My free time I spend time with my family or friends, ( they are my life ).  I’m really close with my twin sister Kelly.  We do absolutely everything together; she is my other half.  I’m also close with my uncle Jerry.  He is basically a second Dad to me. 

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