Research Project

My Research Project is about Illegal immigrants crossing over the border of mexico to live and work in Texas. It has an interesting affect on Jobs there. My first thoughts were about why the Mexicans crossed the border into the United States in the first place. I learned that Mexican illegal immigration started after the Mexican Revolution in 1910. People were fleeing their country and came to the United States for a job and to get away from chaos in Mexico. I also learned that most of the Mexican illegal immigrants work for less than minimum wage in agriculture construction and service oriented jobs which puts them at or below poverty level. I am interested in the topic because my family owns a farm in Texas and I've met an illegal immigrant and it made me curious.

My National History Day project is on how illegal immigrants cross over the border of Mexico to live and work in Texas and how this affects aspects of life in that state. Illegal or undocumented immigrants from Mexico are people born in Mexico that enter the United States illegally by crossing the border or by allowing their student or work visas to expire. It is hard to determine exactly how many illegal immigrants are in the United States, but it is believed that the population is between 7-20 million. In 1910 there was the Mexican Revolution. The revolution caused a lot of turmoil in the country of Mexico so thousands of people traveled north into the United States to get out of the chaos and find jobs. 

Reading Times

30 min Sunday 1/19/14
90 min Monday 1/20/14

NHD Project

I am doing my National History Day project on Immigration from Mexico to Texas and how it effects people that live in South Texas. A lot of people that live in South Texas either work on a farm or own a farm. People hire illegal immigrants to do work on farms. (driving a combine, helping out with stuff) People that live in that area don't mind illegal immigrants, but if a person that doesn't really know much about them would probably be against it.

My Dad owns a farm in south Texas and I have met illegal immigrants down there when we went down there. The man I met spoke surprisingly good English and he had a license and a registered truck. I still think that illegally immigrating into America is a bad thing to do, but I don't have a problem with the illegal immigrants them selves.

Annotated Bibliography- 45 min
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian- 30 min
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian outside of class- 45 min

Deven: Interpretation of Evil

In the news, there was a story about a man who was going into people's homes and assaulting women. The man tried to assault a lady across the street from my house. The lady fought the man off and he ran away. The man sneaked in through an unlocked door and then he assaulted her. The man hit her in the face with a suitcase and bruised her arms when she was trying to block the hits. On the news they said that there were multiple occurrences similar to this one and the description of the man was the same every time.

I think this is a terrible thing to do to begin with. The man shouldn't be sneaking around and assaulting anyone. This kind of stuff ruins people's life. This is my interpretation of evil. Just last week someone stole my Dad's bike and it could have been the same guy that assaulted the women. One thing that worries me is that my grandmother lives alone and she is very close to where I live. I feel like there are too many people like this in society.

Chanler - What would happen in a world where it was the child's choice to go to school? Would you go to school?

If I had the choice to go to school or not I would choose to go to school. I would choose to go to school because people can't survive in this world without a good education. The only reason I wouldn't choose to go to school is if there was some sort of way to instantly learn things like in the matrix. If there was such a thing as that, I would choose to learn all of the basic material and maybe some extra stuff. I don't think skipping every bit of school possible is necessary.

 I would skip elementary school if I could. Elementary school in my opinion is a waste of time. I don't think I need an entire year of school dedicated to learning the Alphabet. I think middle school is somewhat important. High school is definitely the most important part of school. High school is where you find out what you want to do in life. College is where you go to get good at what you want to do and that isn't worth skipping.

Writing Center Expierience

When I went to the writing center I got a lot more help with my paper than I was expecting. I know this is kind of a generic answer, but I didn't think I would get as much help as I did. I didn't have too many questions when I went, I really just wanted to get it done. The writing center showed me some more ways to lengthen my paper when it was too short. My paper ended up being long enough after I got home and changed a few things and edited a few paragraphs.

I thought signing up for an appointment was easy and reliable. I went online scheduled the appointment in about thirty seconds and my appointment was setup. When I arrived at the writing center I got my priorities strait on what I wanted to do and I got on it immediately. We went through the paper seeing what sounded weird and what sounded alright I made notes to the paper and highlighted things that needed to be changed. after school the same day I went back into my paper and started changing things.

Reading Times 12/2/13

Lord of the Flies
William Golding
11/18/13 30 min
11/22/13 45 min
11/23/13 15 min
11/25/13 30 min