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Final Project Presentation.

After reading the interview, first of all I feel really happy for Marcos that he finally got the asylum after waiting for so long, I know how hectic and long this process can be, I can understand how nervous he was since I went throughout an Immigration process and sure is similar. I really admire him for having the courage of going inside of the…[Read more]

Interview transcription

LTS 360

Emely: Hola, como esta?

Barbara: Bien gracias

Emely: Que bueno! Donde nace Barbara grullon?

Barbara: En la Republica Dominicana, Caimito La vega

Emely: ¿Cuantos años tienes?

Barbara: 79 anos

Emely: ¿Qué edad tenías cuando llegaste al pais?

Barbara: 19 años

Emely: Cual fue el motivo de venir aqui a los E…[Read more]

1. Write a question for Meghan Preiss.

What was the most difficult thing in your career?

1. Write a reflection on Alex Rivera’s talk

Alex’s webinar was really interesting he mentioned couple of things that were very engaging but the one-part I really liked was when he was talking about the man from Los Angeles, how he was able to represent for…[Read more]

Hello Professor, Thank you for the feedback and comments. Here I searched more about deportations. “In the 105 years between 1892 and 1997, the United States deported 2.1 million people. … Bush, about 2.0 million people were deported, while between 2009 and 2016, during the Presidency of Barack Obama, about 3.2 million people were deported”.

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-How was the process of filming, connecting with the families and sharing their stories?

-How you felt/feel emotionally with these stories?

-What was the most challeging thing, during the filming ?

1. Why/How/When was this program or category created in the US? Is it an active program/category or is it expired/never activated?

Unfortunately, deportation has been a present topic in the United States since the 18th century in which the first deportation was of poor Irish people in Massachusetts. In 1798 the alien sedition act was passed by…[Read more]

1. Who are the members of society that will bring “the next big thing” into our lives and what’s your expected result?

I think that the humans bringing  “the next big thing” are the ones already making changes on their own, risking everything, trying a new business opportunity or starting their own business, like Jon Gray and his friends, s…[Read more]