ASSIGNMENT #2 TRANS-NATIONAL AMERICA

Nieves Micolta

Class: POL 166

Professor: Barry Murdaco

Lehman College

TRANS-NATIONAL AMERICA

     Trans-National America is failure of the “melting pot.”Refered as a place where different people are mixed together. According to Bourne, Americans at the time trying to assimilate the immigrants cultures into their own. Moreover, this people came over this country not to be part of Native American cultures and adopt all it ways, but in Search of freedom and better job opportunities. Some escape from the  chaos and the slavery of the old world. 

    My understanding about this passage, is that America would not be America without all of these ethnic groups. Is how this country made of immigrants, forming the most wonderful multicultural society where everybody have different behavior, language,beliefs and needs. Also, the immense economic contributions that these immigrants gives to this country. Even though, sometimes people have been treated as slave in this country, I believe that most of them found the freedom that they never had.

     I chose this article because I believe that everybody have the right to decide what to do with their life and how to live better. Immigrate to another nations sometimes is the best choice for some people, where they can have better opportunities for them and their family. Unfortunately, some of our countries can not offer too much due to the poor economy and lack of knowledge. That is the consequence of delinquents and crimes etc. 

Assignment #1 Power

Nieves Micolta

Class: POL 166

Professor: Barry Murdaco   

Lehman College

Reflection Essay On Power

            “Power has been observed in different ways by political scientists and sociologist”according to Bachrach and Baratz in 1962. In the other hand, sociologist find that power is “highly centralized” while political scientists describe it as “widely diffused.” Basically, “power is divided between different groups”(dahls). A familiar American example is the division of power between the federal and state governments. America governance is a hybrid arrangement that combines elements of both centralized and decentralized political system.

          This passage makes me understand why is the reason to pay two difference income taxes (federal and State); and where do my income tax money go. In addition, the government has the power to obligate all the citizen and residents of the united states to follow this rule. Likewise some people do not agree with this because they think the government uses our money for unnecessary things, like wars that only causes more innocents dead and conflicts between nations, instead to invest the money in education, for examples more after school programs etc…

          I chose this passage about power because as citizen I see a lot of injustice. That’s not fair that the upper class always gets the benefit of all our effort and the lower class has to keep working everyday, follow rules and we never gets anything for it. An example is the public transportation, that’s the worse service in new york city, the most of time dirty and homeless sleeping on the sits etc. Moreover, some people believe that government power does not work as much as they pertained.