My Sources

All of my sources may not have been included in my annotations. I used the Powerpoints on Moodle as my sources and I used Google for images.

Immigrants

In 2011, when most Americans say immigrant, they automatically think of people of Hispanic/Latino descent. Yet, there are immigrants of all ethnic backgrounds. Even Justin Bieber is an immigrant. Because America is considered a big melting pot of people, most people's roots can be traced back to another country-making them an immigrant of some sort.  There are laws against illegal immigrants and people constantly rant and rave about "protecting our borders". These people do not sympathize with the push-pull factors that cause people to illegally come into the U.S. In the documentary, Which Way Home, some of the young boys left their native countries because of their family life. Others left to seek new opportunities and to seek jobs to support their families back home.

Birth Cohorts

Birth Cohorts affect individuals through the cohort effect and the period effect. The cohort effect is likely to experience similar life course events at roughly the same time. For example, if a young woman is about to graduate high school and she is about to give birth to her firstborn. The period effect focused more on common history. Everybody that was alive for the 9/11 terrorist attacks was affected by this event. More recently, people that were alive in 2008 were alive to witness America's first mixed race president take office.

The Millennium Generation

The Millennium Generation was born between the 1980's and the late 1990's. This group is the most ethnically diverse and they are most likely to grow up in a nontraditional family. They also are very connected to the media.The problem with this generation is their reliance on technology. For example, in some classrooms, students do not take physical notes, instead, they take notes on their iPads and laptop computers. Socially, people interact indirectly and use technology to interact. For example, text messaging or social networking on sites like Facebook and Twitter.