In 1945 World War II was coming to an end and America had been a dominant force. The United States came in with mobility, firepower, economic command, mechanical disposition, and smart planning (Atkinson, 2016). As a result of the war, the United States established an army base in Germany. My grandfather, had enlisted in the army and was assigned to a post in Germany. My grandmother lived there for four years with him after they got married. During those four years, my mother was born in Germany on an army base. In 1952 the Revision of Immigration Act had been in process since 1924 limiting the amount and what type of immigrant can come into America. The Johnson-Reed Act of 1924 limited specifically the Chinese and Japanese, creating conflict …show more content…
Housing prices dropped 21%-50% and the bank was taking houses and foreclosure was high (Fligstein & Rucks-Ahidiana, 2016). My uncle and his family were victims of this crisis. The bank took his house in foreclosure and they lost everything, they then moved to the cheaper state of Utah. This affected me and my family by breaking us up. In 2014 the HPV vaccine was approved. The World Health Organization helped develop and regulate the vaccine that would cure many people using guidelines and trials (Prahbu & Eckert, 2016). I had to get a series of three shots to prevent the HPV virus. This virus can potentially lead to cancer, so it helped me in the long run that the vaccine was approved and that I got the vaccine. Now in the present year 2016, there is a major student debt crisis. Students are forced to take out loans due to the price of going to a university, the courts believe it is the students responsibility to know what they are getting into and the kind of money that is associated with schooling (Pollack, 2011). Due to how much debt I would be in if I had gone to a university in the states, I chose to go to a university in Canada, and so did my twin brother. It saved a lot of money for both myself and my parents. A Canadian university was a better choice overall and in a financial
In 1952 this hope materialized. Due to the Korean conflict the roles shifted and America tried to undo some of its prior offenses against the Japanese population as it became allied with Japan in the face of the threat of Communism. Thus in effect the McCarran–Walter Act struck down” race as a basis for citizenship eligibility” and “between 1952 and 1965, more than 40,000 first-generation Japanese became U.S. citizens, many after decades of waiting” (Densho). But by that point it was already too late to undo the wrongs that have been done both through the interment camps and prior restrictions; the lives of many Japanese and Japanese-Americans were already ruined. For most there was nothing to return to.
In the 1920’s there was a resurgence of Nativism that led to massive immigration restriction. The National Origins Act of 1924 had a goal to limit specific nationalists, ethnic, and religious groups that could enter the United States. They did so by allowing only a certain percentage come into America per year. For example, based on the number of immigrants during the Gilded Age if there were four million individuals of Anglo-Saxon descent living in the U.S., only eighty thousand, two percent, could come into
To rid this threat, congress passed the Immigration act in 1924, which greatly reduced the number of Europeans that could enter the country. Now, only 2 percent of each nationality was eligible for citizenship. Asians were completely excluded from the right. (“Anti-immigrant sentiment in the 1920s, 1921-1924” DISCovering U.S. History, Gale;
My family lived through the foreclosure crisis and was seriously affected by the tragedy of banks closing, home values decreasing dramatically and innocent people losing their homes. My mother was aloan officer for nine years who helped many families purchase their dream home. While being a single mom, she was the only one providing for our family for many years. She went from earning a comfortable income to not making any money or earning hardly any income, barely enough to support a family of three. The lenders that were left made the guidelines so strict that it became harder and harder for borrowers to get a home loan.
The 1965 Immigration Act, which resulted largely from the civil rights movement and Democratic Congress of the 1960s, played a vital role in the change in demographics of the United States (“History of U.S. Immigration Laws,” 2008). Replacing the existing system of assigning specific countries a limit on the number of people that could immigrate to the United States each year, the 1965 Immigration Act established quotas for each hemisphere: 170,000 immigrants a year for the Eastern Hemisphere and 120,000 a year for the Western Hemisphere (Hatton, 2015). Although the limit was expanded to 700,000 immigrants a year in 1990 and has been adjusted many times in the years since (“History of U.S. Immigration Laws,” 2008), the 1965 Immigration Act has been the most significant of all of the immigration reform legislation because it allowed more immigrants from individual countries to come to the U.S., a
“The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. The law did away with the racially discriminatory national origins quota system, which had governed admissions to the United States since the 1920s, and created what we have today: An immigration system largely based around family reunification and—to a lesser extent—employment-based
Japanese Immigrants in the United States War can affect people in plenty of cruel ways leaving them in hopelessness. During World War II, Americans of Japanese descent lived through racism and fear. The War caused enough fear to put these Japanese Americans through unnecessary labor. They were put into camps to be removed by other American citizens. Sadly, Japanese Americans were forced to prove their already made loyalty to America.
Immigrants from all over the world were eager to come to America, as many of them still are today, to free themselves from religious standards, communist governments, and simply for a fresh start. Fear lead the United States into punishing innocent Japanese Americans; evidence did
The Immigration Act of 1965 had developed a new Asian America. Race for years had been a primary factor of whether you were allowed into the country or not. People like JFK were concerned because it looked bad to the world. As a result, this act significantly caused racial segregation and integration to disappear. On factor of this act were jobs.
People stopped using banks. Millions of people lost all their savings when many banks ran out of funds and closed. Your father and mother are among several million persons who have lost their jobs. Your family has no money to buy food because the banks. People began losing money, and were forced to sell their stocks at much lower prices.
This was not a welcoming time for immigrants of Asian descent. This act also furthered the stance of limiting diversity and
College is one of the most important and life changing times in the life of an American. Leaving high school behind and venturing out to the adult world is an amazing experience that every individual should experience. However, young adults from every corner of the country leave college with crippling debt or do not go to their preferred college of choice. College education should be cheaper as it will help families and students financially and give them the satisfaction with having the opportunity to go to their first choice for college.
Loans allow receiving a college education seem like a smoother process considering that such a hefty amount to pay is divided so that it can be paid for in moderation. Despite the fact that it’s split into many payments, it’s still a large quantity all in all so unless indebted students aim for high income jobs, there would many years of difficulty to come after college. For this reason, undergraduates make it their goal to go after jobs which would prevent them from being constantly pressured to pay off debt. Thus, student debt is both a crisis and a reason to encourage persistence towards greater ambitions (Hillman, 41). It is a tremendous thing when a student seeks to be financially comfortable or even rich in the future but not when it is for the wrong reasons.
Society often believes college is a necessary experience for a better future, but I argue that the future will not be any better when student debt becomes a part of life for those who follow that mainstream belief. Most parents often dream of the great colleges and universities that their children will get accepted into; however, they fail to think of the cost to attend those institutions. Financial aids! Financial aids! Yes there are financial aids that students can apply to lessen the student debt.
The crisis had threatened the collapse of many other large financial institutions but was prevented by the bailout of banks by national governments. Nonetheless stock markets still plummeted worldwide. The downturn in the economic activities hence resulted in evictions, foreclosure of smaller banks and companies and prolonged unemployment