The Dream Act

Examples of The Dream Act in the following topics:

• Considering categorical data exercises

  • (a) What features are apparent in the bar plot but not in the pie chart?
  • (b) What features are apparent in the pie chart but not in the bar plot?
  • The same survey from Exercise 1.48 also asked respondents if they support the DREAM Act, a proposed law which would provide a path to citizenship for people brought illegally to the US as children.
  • Based on the mosaic plot shown on the right, are views on the DREAM Act and political ideology independent?
  • The box plot shows the support of the DREAM Act based on political ideology.

• Civil Rights of Immigrants

  • For example, in the second half of the 1800s, the Irish population in the U.S. exploded, and anti-Irish sentiment resulted in a plethora of discriminatory practices in housing, employment, and governance.
  • It was not until the passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 that significant numbers of immigrants were once again allowed to enter the U.S.
  • The Immigration and Nationality Act reversed laws that limited the number of immigrants who could enter from any given country, and instead put in place policies that encouraged the immigration of skilled workers and family members of U.S. citizens.
  • The Dream Act is an example of recently proposed legislation that would allow children born to parents who are illegally in the U.S. to attend public universities and become citizens .Although the Dream Act has not passed as federal legislation, a California version was passed in 2011.
  • The California DREAM (Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors) Act is a package of California state laws that allow children who were brought into the US under the age of 16 without proper visas/immigration documentation who have attended school on a regular basis and otherwise meet in-state tuition and GPA requirements to apply for student financial aid benefits.

• External Benefits: Influence the World Around You

  • Can words really change the world?
  • When Martin Luther King, Jr. stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech, he put his faith in the power of public speaking.
  • King's faith was justified; that speech is credited with paving the way for the 1964 Civil Rights Act, a bill that took important steps toward making his dream a reality.
  • With the invention of radio and television, listeners who could not attend in person were still influenced by the words of the speaker.
  • If studying the art of public speaking will give me the tools to influence the world around me, how will I use them?

• Stages of Sleep

  • (Also typical are the rapid eye movements for which the REM phase is named.)
  • Many sleep experts think that these eye movements are in some way related to dreams.
  • Sleep spindles are generated in the reticular nucleus of the thalamus, and may represent periods in which the brain is inhibiting processing to keep the sleeper in a tranquil state.
  • Most memorable dreaming occurs in this stage.
  • Partial paralysis occurs, perhaps to protect organisms from self-damage through physically acting out scenes from the often-vivid dreams that occur during this stage.

• The Nature and Meaning of Dreams

  • Numerous theories, both psychological and neurobiological, have been proposed to explain the elusive mystery of the purpose of dreaming.
  • For centuries people have pondered the meaning of dreams.
  • Over the years, numerous theories have been put forth in an attempt to illuminate the mystery behind human dreams.
  • While there has always been great interest in the interpretation of human dreams, it was not until the end of the nineteenth century that Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung put forth some of the most widely-known modern theories of dreaming.
  • It was in his book The Interpretation of Dreams (published in 1900) that Freud first argued that the motivation of all dream content is wish-fulfillment, and that the instigation of a dream is often to be found in the events of the day preceding the dream, which he called the "day residue."

• Producing an Emotional Appeal

  • This story stresses the value that the hospital had on improving the child's health.
  • s "I Have a Dream" speech .
  • The speech uses rhetoric to convey the point of equal opportunity for all people.
  • He frames his vision for the future with the famous phrase, "I have a dream."
  • s "I Have a Dream" speech.

• The Flowering of Black Freedom Struggle

  • During the 1960s the black freedom struggle included the 1963 March on Washington, the 1964 Freedom Summer, and the 1965 March in Selma.
  • Representatives from each of the sponsoring organizations addressed the crowd from the podium at the Lincoln Memorial.
  • During this march, Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech, which was broadcast on live TV .
  • Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 which suspended poll taxes, literacy tests, and other subjective voter tests.
  • When Congress passed the Voting Rights Act, only about 100 African Americans held elective office, all in northern states of the U.S.

• Wind power

  • Even the United States is getting in on the act.
  • In 2012, American wind turbines pumped out 50 gigawatts of energy (enough to power 15 million homes) and every year the number grows (as do the total number of jobs wind turbines create).
  • (Seager, Ashley, ‘Alternative Fuels: Now It's a New Game and Clean Energy is No Longer a Dream', The Guardian)
  • Most users of wind power seem to agree that the benefits outweigh the disadvantages.
  • Additionally, the use of wind power was found to positively influence the entire local region where it was located, which led to increased community pride and cohesiveness.

• Expansion and the Mexican-American War

  • With the end of the wartime alliance between Britain and the Native Americans east of the Mississippi River, American settlers moved in great numbers into the rich farmlands of the Midwest.
  • In the 1830s, the federal government forcibly deported the southeastern tribes to the Indian territory (now Oklahoma) via the "Trail of Tears. "
  • While land ownership was something most Europeans could only dream of, contemporary accounts show that the average American farmer owned his land, fed his family far more than European peasants, and could make provisions for land for his children.
  • Major events in the western movement of the U.S. population were the Homestead Act, a law by which, for a nominal price, a settler was given title to 160 acres of land to farm; the opening of the Oregon Territory to settlement; and the Texas Revolution.
  • Other significant events included the opening of the Oregon Trail; the Mormon Emigration to Utah in 1846–47; the California Gold Rush of 1849; the Colorado Gold Rush of 1859; and the completion of the nation's First Transcontinental Railroad on May 10, 1869.

• Land Policy

  • During the 19th and early 20th centuries, the United States acquired much of the present-day American territories after the 13 colonies.
  • The famed expedition of Lewis and Clarke from 1803-1806 embodied the dream of a continental empire.
  • The Guano Islands Act, passed on August 18, 1856, provided for U.S. claims to unoccupied islands containing guano deposits.
  • Of those remaining unquestionably under U.S. control due to this act alone are Baker Island, Jarvis Island, Howland Island, Kingman Reef, and Johnston Atoll.
  • On July 25, 1898, during the Spanish–American War, the United States invaded Puerto Rico and, in 1917, the Jones-Shafroth Act granted all the inhabitants of Puerto Rico U.S. citizenship.