In addition, many lawmakers fear that revealing the possible presence of aliens living amongst normal American citizens might create a panic of monumental proportions, and no reasonable Congressman wants that to happen either.
Nevertheless, the growing body of evidence to the contrary indicates that the time has come to recognize the truth and take proactive steps to address the situation rather than just twiddle the nation's collective thumbs in hopes that the problem is not real or that it will go away on its own -- because it will not. Eyewitness after eyewitness has confirmed that they have actually seen aliens living in the United States and many of these eyewitnesses have impeccable credentials. It is difficult if not impossible to discount the testimony of government or law enforcement officials who are trained to be reliable and accurate observers and to the extent that the government does so is likely…...
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Minerd, Jeff. (2000, May). "Aliens: A Social Phenomenon." The Futurist 34(3): 16.
Waterhouse, Rosie. (2003, September 15). "When the Mind Plays Tricks." New Statesman
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2 million of the 2.5 million wage-earning farm-workers live here illegally (Murphy 2004). That accounts for a lot of cheap labor, and many claim that without it fruit and vegetables would rot in the fields, toddlers would be without nannies, linens at hotels would go unlaundered, commuters would be stranded as taxis sat driverless, and construction would come to a halt (Murphy 2004). However, Borjas claims that this ripple effect would not last long, noting that in states such as Iowa, where foreign-born residents are rare, there are people working in hotels, restaurants, and all the other jobs that supporters claim can only be filled with illegal aliens (Murphy 2004). In fact, according to the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 87% of illegal immigrant live in just 15 states (Murphy 2004). Borjas points out that if there were no illegal aliens to tend the gardens, Californians who wanted nice lawns would…...
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Pinney, Marcus. (2004 March 22). A constitutional dilemma: the conflict of the Title VII alien exemption clause with the Civil Rights Act of 1991. Houston Journal of International Law. Retrieved November 18, 2006 from HighBeam Research Library.
Moreover, the construction of the Giza pyramids was solid enough to withstand the test of time due to the "attention to precision," (Guardian's Egypt). One of the core reasons for suggesting alien intervention in the construction of the pyramids is that it is difficult to imagine human beings from that long ago -- who had no electricity -- being capable of an engineering marvel as amazing as the pyramids. There are no existing architectural blueprints; plus, the only indication that a mason might have made a mark is in a lone inscription on one stone (Guardian's Egypt).
Moreover, recent evidence shows that slave labor was most likely not used in the construction of the pyramids ("Egypt: Secrets of an Ancient orld"). ithout slave labor or imported labor, a massive number of local workers would have been used and it is difficult to imagine organizing and coordinating a labor force of that…...
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"Aliens Built the Pyramids." Retrieved online: http://www.outerworlds.com/likeness/aliens/aliens.html
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Guardian's Egypt. "Guardian's Giza." Retrieved online: http://www.guardians.net/egypt/gp1.htm
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STRUCTURE
Introduction and assumptions
Thesis presentation
Literature review
Methodology
Explanatory statistical analysis
Descriptions of illegal aliens impact on higher health costs
Conclusions
RESEARCH PROPOSAL (II)
The correlation will be made based on:
Observed increased number of unpaid medical bills at health units in California
Statistical data on the proportions of these unpaid bills belonging to illegal immigrants
Analysis of background factors that encourage this trend
WHY THIS PAPER?
Addresses more than simple statistics, going in-depth into some of the causal factors
Analyzes the background of illegal aliens and the societies they form as a direct cause of increasing health costs
Clearly links the increasing number of unpaid bills to increasing number of illegal immigrants in California
FACTS to REMEMER
1993-2003: 60 hospitals in California were forced to close, mainly because of unpaid bills from illegal aliens (Cosman, 2005)
MediCal in 2003 had 760,000 illegal aliens, up from 2002 when there were 470,000" (Cosman, 2005)
In 1994, 74,987 anchor babies in California hospital maternity units cost $215 million and constituted 36%…...
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Obligations
The status of aliens in a Contracting State is one in which the EU has spent much time and energy attempting to clarify. At the root of the issue is the question of whether the State has sovereignty (and can thus determine for itself what services aliens are provided) or whether the EU holds sovereignty over the State (thus granting rights to aliens within the State). Yet in spite of all the clarifications issued by the ECH, the issue is far from settled. Indeed, recent court case suggest as much. As Freeman, Hawkes and Bennett (2014) indicate, the "Court's approach in N. v United Kingdom undermines the level of protection that the ECH may afford "aliens without a right to stay" in the field of health care" (p. 158). This undermining is a direct result of the conflict between member States of the EU and the ruling members of…...
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Individuals who are arrested for a deortable offense can be held under mandatory detention by the U.S. Immigration Services until the immigration roceeding takes lace, even though their only crime may be that they entered the U.S. without a visa or stayed without a visa (Steadman ). Aliens in such roceeding may get a lawyer, but unlike in criminal cases, the government is under no obligation to rovide one for them (Steadman ).
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Stylistically, the combination of documentary and what Spielberg was used to seeing in war films gives the picture a sark look -- not beautiful, not inviting, but touching nonetheless. Filmworkers, though, are now so used to filming in color that the production designer had to redo the sets to make them darker or lighter in contrast to the actors. The costumes, as well, had to be of a different color and texture than the sets and the actors (Schindler's List - Behind the Scenes Production Notes, 2010)
Music- the music is one of the more powerful elements in the picture. Since there is little color, it is the music that provides the sense of emotion and evolution of character within the film. In a characteristic interplay between Spielberg favorite John Williams, Williams remarked that the film needed a more classically oriented composer for this score. Spielberg replied, "Yes, John, you're right,…...
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Contact With a Sentient Extraterrestrial Alien Species
I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world. -- U.S. President onald, Speech to the United Nations General Assembly, 42nd General Assembly, September 21, 1987
As the epigraph above indicates, even national leaders recognize the potential for first contact with a sentient extraterrestrial alien species and its implications for humankind. In fact, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute has been actively scanning the heavens for the past 3 decades and many scientists and even theologians believe that it is only a matter of time before humanity finally establishes contact with a sentient extraterrestrial alien species. Whether this first contact is in the form of a beamed message or a so-called "close encounter" where humans actually encounter aliens, this historic event will fundamentally transform humanity's views about the appropriateness of the…...
mlaReferences
Brin, David, "The Dangers of First Contact: The Moral Nature of Extraterrestrial Intelligence and a Contrarian Perspective on Altruism," Skseptic, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 28-31.
Buzan, Barry & Richard Little, The Logic of Anarchy: Neorealism to Structural Realism. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.
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Alien and Sedition Acts
In 1798 the newly established United States of America found itself in a situation where it believed that war with France was imminent. In fact, the "Quasi-War" as it became known, was a situation where the two nations were fighting each other on the seas, but without formal declarations of war. In response to this situation, the Federalist controlled Congress passed a series of four laws which collectively became known as the "Alien and Sedition Acts." While the official purpose of these laws was to safeguard the United States in a time of impending war, they were really meant to weaken those who opposed Federalist policies: the Democratic-epublicans under the leadership of Thomas Jefferson.
The "Alien and Sedition Acts" were four individual acts passed by a Federalist controlled Congress and signed into law by Federalist President John Adams. These acts were the "Naturalization Act," which increased the time…...
mlaReferences
"The 'Sedition Act'." (1798). Avalon Project. Retrieved from http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/sedact.asp
Alien Life on Earth
Scientists believe that all known life forms descended from a single common ancestor, a microbe that lived approximately 3.5 -- 3.8 billion years ago. Their belief is based on an understanding that all life forms have liquid water as their foundation, and they contain the same "building blocks" (Toomey 26). Researchers in the new field of synthetic biology have raised questions about another kind of living organism, independent of the building blocks already understood and unrelated to the last universal common ancestor (LUCA) from which all known life forms came. It is an intriguing idea that is attracting more interest as scientists continue to find evidence of this alien, or "weird" life on earth. The weird life is said to inhabit what is called the shadow biosphere.
Because little is known about weird life, scientists are considering myriad possibilities. The basic molecule might be other than DNA,…...
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Cockell, Charles."How the Search for Aliens Can Help Sustain Life on Earth." CNN. Cable News Network, 04 Oct. 2012. Web. 06 May 2013. .
Grant, Andrew. "Life Could Survive on Earth-Sized Moons of Gas Giant Exoplanets." Science News 183.3 (2013): 5-6. Web. 6 May 2013.
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Part 2- When I think of child labor, I think of Charles Dickens -- Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, and the other novels that showed how in the Victorian Era, only wealthy children had childhoods. And then, in America, I think of the factory mills of the north producing cotton, dangerous places to work, and mines that used children because it was easier for them to be in tunnels. However, in the modern world, I think of not only younger children working in factories, mostly in Asia to make American and Western European sporting outfits, tennis shoes, etc., but of the market for child slaves and prostitutes from Eastern Europe and Asia. As for causes of child labor, it seems to me that it is a function of capitalism and the market -- capitalism requires some sort of cheap labor for certain items that people want. Greed being what it is,…...
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Child Labor Public Education Project. (2012). University of Iowa. Retrieved from:
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Brady, Fullerton and Cross, (2010). More than Just Nickels and Dimes: A Cross
-National Analysis of Working Poverty in Affluent Democracies. Social Problems. 57 (4): 559-85. Retrieved from: http://www.soc.duke.edu/~brady/web/Bradyetal2010.pdf
Officials in border states see the matter as far more than a scholarly legal debate. Pam Slater, a San Diego County supervisor, called the current system "a travesty" that is bankrupting state and local governments. Educating 355,000 citizen-children of illegal aliens cost California taxpayers $1.7 billion in fiscal 1995-96, for example.
An offer of financial support to children born in the United States is far too great a lure," she said. "This loophole must be closed (p. 5)."
Educating illegal immigrants' children is reflected in the test scores of the border state public schools, and other school systems with a large population of illegal immigrants. While federal and state law prohibits the collecting of information that would specifically target Hispanic children as the problem behind low test scores, one might conclude that for some school districts the language barrier might contribute to those low test scores.
However, while we cannot pin point language…...
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Therefore, the claim asserted by espondents and sustained by the court below would, in practical effect, amount to a right not to be tried at all for an offense against the U.S. armed forces. 339 U.S. 763, 782 (1950).
The Court examined the issue of whether the military authorities had jurisdiction to try the offenders. It reasoned that military authorities have had a historical right, during and after hostilities, to punish those who have violated the laws of war, and this history predates the existence of the United States, and therefore, the existence of the Constitution. espondents' convictions were the result of a military commission exercising this historic right, and it was the military commission's sole ability to determine whether the laws of war applied to espondents and whether espondents had violated those laws. There is nothing in the Constitution giving the Court appellate jurisdiction over these types of military…...
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Siegel's 1956 film version of The Invasion of the Body Snatchers uses a number of realistic techniques like undistorted camera angles, and shots of mundane activities and locations to establish the rationality and logic of the daytime world of small-town California. As the movie begins to shift into the nightmarish world of the alien invasion, the shots become increasingly distorted, dark and gloomy, showing the slip into the subconscious, emotional existence. Here, the movie begins to adopt a moral stance, as we see that the main characters are truly at their most human as they live through the overt terror and emotion of the night time distortions of logic and reality. It is in the daytime world of logic that they can explain away the loss of their humanity to the aliens, but in the nighttime their humanity is revealed as the emotional, subconscious mess that defines them. As…...
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers. 1956. Director: Don Siegel. Producer: Walter Wanger.
Starring: Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, King Donovan, Carolyn Jones, and Larry
Gates.
These measures included laws, which denied services to undocumented residents, alerted police to assume ICE functions, penalized for employers who hired the aliens, and made English the official language. In Arizona, ordinary citizens were encouraged to report businesses, which hired suspicious foreign-looking persons. Hispanics were the major targets of this xenophobia because they were believed to be the major law violators. Statistics showed that there were approximately 12 million undocumented immigrants, most of them Latinos or Hispanics, in the U.S. The national bias against them showed up in studies, which considered only them in determining how much they were costing the country in services. ut did they really drain the economy? A spokesman for the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission did not think so. A 2004 study on "foreign-born" citizens of Virginia alone concluded that Asians outnumbered Hispanics. The Commission found that these "foreign-born" citizens were not a…...
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While people often lump the American colonies together, there were significant differences between the New England colonies, Middle colonies, and Southern colonies. These differences were not only geographical, but also based in who had the grants for the colonies, their favor in the British government, and who eventually settled in the lands. These differences initially impacted how successful the American colonies were and how prosperous they would become. They eventually impacted industrialization and, in many ways, could be cited as one of the root causes of the eventual American Civil War and even some of....
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