Immigration
Extra Credit Articles
- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/olayiwola-a-alara/the-sensitive-issue-of-immigration-reform_b_5699019.html (interesting article about the US being a nation of immigrants)
- http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2014/08/26/mexican-president-pena-nieto-lashes-out-at-us-mayors-who-oppose-immigration/ (Mexico's president's thoughts on immigration in the US)
- http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/05/opinion/garcia-illegal-immigrants/ (article about the term "illegal immigrant" being inaccurate)
- http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2014/09/04/the-unsung-economics-of-immigration/ (Why we NEED immigration)
- http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-new-immigrants-california-economy-20140903-story.html (Just how integrated are immigrants in our society?)
- http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Low-skill-jobs-hard-to-fill-as-Obama-considers-5740418.php (What would we do without immigrants?)
- http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/sep/18/scotlands-referendum-american-revolution (This article compares the American revolution with the recent vote in Scotland as whether or not to stay part of the England)
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/26257865 (Article about current revolution in Ukraine)
- http://guardianlv.com/2014/09/mexican-independence-day-remembers-grito-de-dolores-revolutionary-call/ (The story of Mexico's independence)
- http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/09/29/352417457/hong-kong-tense-as-democracy-activists-face-down-police (Modern day fight for freedom in Hong Kong)
- http://news.discovery.com/history/can-revolutions-like-ukraines-spread-across-the-world-140221.htm (Cool article talking about how the spirit of rebellion is contagious)
- http://endslaverynow.org/blog/entry?title=ISIS%2C%20Yazidis%20and%20Crimes%20of%20Sex%20Trafficking%20in%20Iraq&uid=Brooke%20Hathaway (This article talks about ISIS and how they are making women and children they capture into slaves)
- http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/05/19/modern-day-slavery-america-must-fight-epidemic-human-trafficking-here-at-home/ (This article talks about human trafficking. It focuses on the sex trafficking of children. )
- http://money.cnn.com/2014/10/21/pf/labor-trafficking/index.html (This article discusses slave labor in the United States. It highlights the process of how people find jobs and instead of finding freedom, they find bondage.)
Extra Credit Articles
- http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/08/31/344306508/native-american-artists-reclaim-images-that-represent-them
- http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/09/01/343984726/to-model-manhood-immigrant-dads-draw-from-two-worlds (This article focuses on the difficulty of finding your identity when you are the product of different cultures)
- http://www.npr.org/2014/01/31/265694831/can-the-open-data-revolution-change-our-democracies (Awesome video about the "data revolution")
- http://www.npr.org/2014/09/27/351917730/confined-in-beijing-ai-weiwei-directs-alcatraz-exhibit-from-afar (Awesome artist rebelling against China's government)