Thursday, February 25, 2010

Security versus civil liberties # 3

I don't agree with Posner at all. Posner wants our nation to have security at times where he feels like we need it the most, for example, right after 9/11. I think we need it way after we are attacked. I feel this way because during 9/11, we came together as a nation and we became strong and stood side by side; almost 9 years have gone by since 9/11 has happened and i fell like we are more vulnerable now then every before. We are just sitting around thinking everything is going to be good since we have troops over in Iraq for some odd reason. I bet some people don't even know why we have troops over there in the first place. I also don't agree with Posner when he starts talking about our rights as a citizen, i feel like we don't have as many rights as we did before. When it comes to freedom of speech, we should just take that off the Bill of Rights. After 9/11 our airports have been so strict of passengers, which i love and totally agree with; but when a citizen that was born and raised in the United States looks like a Muslim or someone that is from the Mid-East will be watched and eyed down just because of the way they look which is completely wrong. I'm surprised they pilot doesn't ask them to get off the plane. I feel like the United States isn't standing up to its standards like it once did and its very disappointing to saw but its the way I see it.

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Immokalee: My Home

I feel like the "communities" that are being represented here are travelers. Which to me is immigrants now. The Indians back in the day would come down to the south during the winter because their crops would freeze over in the north. After traveling down here so much, they decide just to stay here and make their life here. Which in today's world, people from Mexico, or China or anywhere else in world come to America to make a life for themselves.
I grew up in the Bronx, New York and it was completely different then the way Immokalee is. I feel that Immokalee is a place where people came with nothing a built something amazing. When i was living in New York, thing were already done with and everyone minded their own business, but in Immokalee, it seemed that people would help each other out. The natives would help the travelers and the travelers would do the same for the natives.
Immokalee seems to represent the old and the new American Dream. It represents the old American dream because it shows how native Americans came down to Florida to make something of themselves and they native Americans would learn to be like a Floridan and make nice with neighbors and travelers. They would try to fit in, just like in the old American dream; but their story represents the new American dream because it shows how when the native Americans came down to Florida they tried to keep some on their customs.
FARMING! Is what is going to drive Immokalees future. It seems to be working for over 100 years and I feel like its never going to end because Immokalee is a perfect place to crop fields and bring in food to Publix's and other well known shopping centers.
I think Immokalee is going to be in the same place it is now because it hasn't changed in such along time. It is going to be the place to get food from crops and be the swap lands that people love.