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Back to the Future Part II (1989)
IMDB rating: 7.00
Plot: This movie picks up where the last one left off; with Doc Brown and Marty going into the future to help Marty’s future offspring. After doing that they returned to their own time, only to discover that things have changed. They discovered that while in the future, Marty’s nemesis, Biff Tannen got the sports book that Marty bought so that he could know the results of sports events and make a killing, but Doc Brown nixed his plans, but Tannen who overheard their conversation, got the book and the time machine and went back into the past and gave the book to himself, who has not only amassed a fortune but also extremely powerful. So Doc and Marty have to go back to when Biff got the book and get it away from him. And it seems that it was in 1955 on the night of the dance that Biff got the book. So not only must they get the book but they must also avoid the other versions of themselves.
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Directors: Zemeckis Robert
Actors: Fox Michael J.,Lloyd Christopher,McClure Marc,Tolkan James,Siemaszko Casey,Di Cenzo George,Flaherty Joe,Fleischer Charles,Wilson Thomas F.,Weissman Jeffrey,Zane Billy,Cohen J.J.,Evans E. Casanova,Koch Jay,Gherardi Charles,Logan Ricky Dean,Comedy,Action,Sci-Fi,Adventure,
What do you think about this article. (Its about American immigration)?
American Immigration Past and Present: A Simulation Activity
Historical Overview
Throughout its history, America has served as the destination point for a steady flow of immigrants. During the colonial era most migrants came from northern European countries. Their numbers declined with the onset of the Revolutionary War during the 1770s, but immigration later picked up strongly again during the 1840s and 1850s. New arrivals came from several European countries during this period, but most came from Ireland and Germany, where devastating crop failures forced many residents to leave their homelands. Many settled in New York City, where the population increased from 200,000 residents in 1830 to 515,000 in 1850. By 1860, New York was home to over one million residents. More than half of the city’s population at that time were immigrants and their American-born children.
After the Civil War, America’s growing industrial economy required the addition of many more workers, and this need was filled once again by immigrants arriving from Europe. Approximately 25 million arrived between 1866 and 1915. While earlier immigrants had come mainly from northern European countries such as England, Germany, and the Scandinavian countries, by the 1880s most new immigrants were arriving from southern and eastern European countries such as Italy, Poland and Russia. Like their Irish predecessors, most of these new arrivals were poor and uneducated. Many were peasants from rural regions who were being pushed out by Europe’s industrial revolution.
With the U.S. entry into World War I in 1919, immigration declined dramatically, and remained low through the Depression era of the 1930s and the World War II years of the early 1940s. The number of new arrivals began to increase again during the late 1940s, and has risen steadily since that time.
Recent Trends:
Today’s immigrants arrive from all parts of the world. The current phase of immigration history began in 1965, when strict quotas based on nationality were eliminated. In 1978, the United States government set a single annual world quota of 290,000, and this ceiling was raised again in 1990 to 700,000. During the 1990s, immigrants have arrived at a pace that at times has exceeded one million new arrivals per year, and have settled in all parts of the country.
Issues to Consider
Although immigration provides one of the most colorful chapters in our country’s history, it has also brought a host of problems which have not been so easily resolved. For example, cultural differences and language barriers among different ethnic groups have frequently given rise to hostilities between them. Also, immigrants’ inability to quickly assimilate themselves to the norms of mainstream American social life have often prevented them from realizing the economic advancement they sought when they left their homelands. Furthermore, today the nation’s economy has reached a point of maturity, and avenues for rapid economic and territorial expansion have largely been closed. It is by no means clear that we can provide steady employment for the large number of immigrants who continue to arrive at our shores with the hope of attaining better lives for themselves.
For these reasons, it is essential that we examine current policies in order to assess whether they best serve the interests of both American citizens and of those immigrants who arrive with the belief that opportunities for a good life will be available here. At issue is the general question of whether we should continue our longstanding policy of openness, or "close the gates" in order to protect the existing levels of prosperity that most American citizens enjoy.
Specifically, we need to consider these difficult questions:
* How many immigrants should we continue to admit?
* Should we continue our present policy of one general quota, or should future immigration be restricted to specific nations and/or races?
* On what criteria should we base these policy decisions?
* How should we enforce these policy decisions?
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These are my questions.
If you were a republican, what would say about this
If you were a democrat, what would say about this
If you were an immigrant what would say about this
right or wrong?
* How many immigrants should we continue to admit?
Only as many as needed to replace the current population, we are full.
* Should we continue our present policy of one general quota, or should future immigration be restricted to specific nations and/or races?
All non-whites should be barred from migrating to the USA.
* On what criteria should we base these policy decisions?
Making the USA a better place.
* How should we enforce these policy decisions?
Withdraw the military from Iraq and Afghanistan and put them on the southern border.
There are two ways to look at this, as an American, or as a non-American.
Hermie Butmar | Feb 02, 2010
