Immigration Review

What surprised you most about this information?

What I thought surprised me about the information was that people actually were going through hard times that couldn't be fixed so easily. I didn't expect for Britain to eve go through a bad farming season that even the food they had would 't be enough to last until things got better.  

 What seemed quite obvious about explaining this data set?
I thought that it was pretty obvious that more immigrants came over  during the California gold rush because getting to america was cheap and they'd be able to get easy money from the California gold rush. To me it was a win win situation.  

Looking at the overall trend and incorporating what you know about the US presently, predict and defend the immigration trend for the next two decades.
Describe how you made a decision on how to visually represent the information.

To me I think that in the next two years more people from china would be coming here. The reason I think this is because since the Apple iphone5 and stuff came out more Chinese people will be working in sweatshops making them at least wanting to come here to get out of their previous life overworking for less than minimum wage. Maybe people from Libya will come here too due to their current issue.   

What parts of group work were challenging?

Um, I guess nothing because everything was on a google doc and we could see everyone's work and how far they were with the notes and time period. 

What would you do differently if you had this project to do over?

I think I would put in more years into the project so each person could have an equal amount of years instead of one or two people having to do more because it's a bit unfair... Well at least to me. :/


Click Here To view My groups Presentation. 

Immigration visualization project

With your blogpost, include your reflection related to:
  • What surprised you most about this information?
    America today makes it seem like were getting invade by mexican immigrants and there are plenty of movies that say the same thing, but there aren't movies that talk about all of the other many immigrants that come from other countries. 
  •  What seemed quite obvious about explaining this data set?
    I think that it obvious that when the increase of population happened a little bit more then it averagely did it was most likely because of one of the many incidents that happened over the years.
  • Looking at the overall trend and incorporating what you know about the US presently, predict and defend the immigration trend for the next two decades.
    It gonna be the same for the same years america has been steadily increasing. 
  • Describe how you made a decision on how to visually represent the information.
    We thought that it would be better if we all worked on a format that we all are used to using.
  • What parts of group work were challenging?
    My last year i couldn't find any information.
  • What would you do differently if you had this project to do over?
    I would pick different year to do.

    https://docs.google.com/a/scienceleadership.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AhCY1CAZ-yLJdGtXNVdvMmxMcXBCV3JzTC1BRG1rbmc#gid=0

US Immigration 1830-2000

Daniel Varnis (ME)
Danielle Little
Lexus Forman
Steven Webb

Click HERE to view our groups Keynote Presentation on US Immigration from 1830-2000.

With your blogpost, include your reflection related to:What surprised you most about this information?
The one thing that mostly surprised me about this information was that a majority of the immigration was caused by things that happened outside of the US. So there were more negative things out of the US, than positive things in the US causing people to migrate here.

What seemed quite obvious about explaining this data set?

The one thing that seemed most obvious about this data is that a majority of the immigrants decided to move out of there "homeland" because living situations weren't as fit as the US.

Looking at the overall trend and incorporating what you know about the US presently, predict and defend the immigration trend for the next two decades.

For the next two decades, I predict that the the immigration rates will most definitely rise dramatically, since it's been doing that for the past 50 years. They will also rise, because it seems like there are many bad events going on in other parts of the world (i.e. Middle East/Western World), that would give the immigrants to option and decision to move from there to the US.

Describe how you made a decision on how to visually represent the information.
The way that I formatted mine in the presentation is, the top shows the decade. Then under it, there is the number of immigrants, then how much they increased or decreased. Under that there is the "Push Factor", and some side-notes that go along, making it reasonable. I chose this layout, because at first, you see how immigration rates differ year to year, then under it will give a better understanding of why the immigration rate was changing the it was.

What parts of group work were challenging?
The most challenging part about group work is trying to stay in contact with each group member, trying to ensure the fact they complete the part that they were assigned. Collaboration is key in projects like this one.
What would you do differently if you had this project to do over?
To be completely honest, there is nothing I would do different if I did this project over. It seems like everything I did met the expectations I set for the final result.

IMMIGRATION VISUALIZATION PROJECT

The thing that really surprised me while I was finding information for this project was the fact that a lot of immigrants that came were protestants and the catholics were very upset about them coming to the United States. The Catholics thought that the immigrants were going to over power the Pope for some reason because the immigrants came in large numbers. To me the obvious thing was the fact that the immigrants were coming to the United States in large numbers. It was obvious that sense millions of immigrants were coming to the United States that the population would increase. The government didn't really think that when they established the rights for immigrants to migrate to the United States. Therefore they shouldn't complain. Knowing that they've established new laws due to the over population of the United States, for the future I believe that the government will do what ever they can to put an end to immigration. I decided to present this information by including a lot of factual information on immigration and also providing a lot of visual pictures to better illustrate whats going on in those time periods sense this is a time line. The most challenging things that happened while working in a group was making sure that everyone stayed on topic and that everyone was on task. We had to also make sure that everyone submitted something at a certain time. It was challenging to sometimes do the work because some of the group members already had something to do for other classes. Time management was very difficult. If I were to do this project next time I would include more useful information and I would have better graphic so that people would understand my timeline much better. 


http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12754089/Immigration%20Project%20(History).pdf


Immigration Visualization Project


Link to our project: 

http://www.dipity.com/kikisary/Immigration-Visualization-Project/

  • What surprised you most about this information?
    The thing that surprised me the most was the fact that not all immigrants come to the United States because of the economic situation in the immigrant's countries. There are other factors such as health care, wars, etc. 

  •  What seemed quite obvious about explaining this data set?
    That the immigration rates have gone up and down throughout history.

  • Looking at the overall trend and incorporating what you know about the US presently, predict and defend the immigration trend for the next two decades.
    I think if till rise even more. Even though I really wish this didn't happen, it's gonna happen. The economic situation in the immigrant's countries is getting worse and worse, and this will force them to move. 

  • Describe how you made a decision on how to visually represent the information.
    We thought dipity.com was a really nice website to represent our information. It looks really nice and it was really easy to work with. 

  • What parts of group work were challenging?
    Doing the research. It was kind of hard to find factors for every decade. 

  • What would you do differently if you had this project to do over?
    I would pick another website and do more research. 


Immigration Visualization Project

Here is the project. 

Reflection:
  • What surprised you most about this information?

That fact that even though there was so much stuff going on many people were still coming to the U.S. even with the fact that there were race wars going on.


  • What seemed quite obvious about explaining this data set?

That fact that when the depression started less and less people were coming to America seemed quite obvious because people want to go somewhere where they can make money and better their lives.


  • Looking at the overall trend and incorporating what you know about the US presently, predict and defend the immigration trend for the next two decades.

I feel as though over the next two decades immigration will go up. With the changes to be made by President Obama's next term (hopefully) with the new rights for all more people should want to come to America so that they can express themselves and their love. Plus we are starting to be an on upturn for the economy so that should pull people in as well.


  • Describe how you made a decision on how to visually represent the information.

We picked images that would be bright and draw you. We wanted something that would show the main point of those decades but could stand on its own if it had to to tell a story.


  • What parts of group work were challenging?

Really nothing was challenging with my group. We worked really well together and gathered a lot of good information so there was nothing really challenging or hard.


  • What would you do differently if you had this project to do over?

I think I would find more push and pull factors for places outside of America. So I would find people who came here and where they where from and do the push and pull factors of that place and then compare it to America.


Immigration Visualization Project

Here is our project!

Reflection: 

·       What surprised you most about this information?

Out of our whole project, what surprised me the most was how much of an impact the wars had on the different countries that were feuding. During WWI and WWII we saw the population increase for the United States and decrease for the other countries. Also, when the government put in their acts and laws to remove illegal immigrants, the population stayed very high. To me, I thought that there were two possible things that did and did not happen: The government did not take all of the illegal immigrants out so it did not have a big affect on our population or our country does not have as much illegal immigrants as we think. From the start of the 1940's to 2000, we see the immigrant population increase because the call for workers rose dramatically.



·        What seemed quite obvious about explaining this data set?

During the times there were wars that the U.S was apart of, we see that there is an increase due to the need of workers. We also see that in 1871-1921, there is an unsteady change in the immigration population. This is because there are a lot of push and pull factors in different parts of the world such as protests wars, jobs, and economic or crop growth/value.



·       Looking at the overall trend and incorporating what you know about the US presently, predict and defend the immigration trend for the next two decades.

In the next two decades, the immigration population will continue to grow in a steady rate from where is it right now due to the need for cheap labor, workers with out rights, and educational factors. Also, the United States offers a lot of things for their citizens and tries to protect them.



·       Describe how you made a decision on how to visually represent the information.

I anted to present my project in a presentation format because I knew that my group and I eventually had to present it. I chose to place the information in a list form and explain each push and pull factor as the presentation went it. In the beginning of our presentation, there is a push and pull factor chart that our presentation is based on. In all, I think that my group showed our information cleanly and I feel that we can explain everything clearly.



·       What parts of group work were challenging?

The part of the group work that was most challenging was adding the final touches to our project. For example, as in pictures, citations, and all of the other touched that comes with finalizing our project. Another thing that was challenging was getting all of the work together and typing it up.



·       What would you do differently if you had this project to do over?

I would change up the format and add more pictures to the presentation. Also, I would want to add more presentation. Overall, this was a fun project.

 

Immigration Project.

​https://docs.google.com/open?id=0Bxb1fS964nElVmVYWUVKVlJUMVE


  • What surprised you most about this information?
    What surprised me was that when WWII was going on, many people left America, even when there was no war in our country.
  •  What seemed quite obvious about explaining this data set?
    Something that was very obvious about this information was that many immigrants came to America in the 1800's because of all of the job opportunities. 
  • Looking at the overall trend and incorporating what you know about the US presently, predict and defend the immigration trend for the next two decades.
    I feel as though many people will immigrate to America because of the technology enhancements, but it could also go the opposite way due to the lack of jobs, and our economic slump.
  • Describe how you made a decision on how to visually represent the information.
    We chose to use flyers because we thought it would give America a way to almost tell people when they are welcome and when they aren't. This is caused by different reasons, but for the most part America as a country has the last word.
  • What parts of group work were challenging?
    One hard part was group collaboration because we had a few days in class to work on this and for one of those days it was me by myself because my partners were absent. 
  • What would you do differently if you had this project to do over?
    If I could do this over, I would take the time to really look at every decade and every nationality that came to and from America.
  • IMMIGRATION VISUALIZATION PROJECT

    ​Our Project.

    • What surprised you most about this information? Not much surprised me about it because I like to study about the past and I knew about the grate depression and I knew the effects of it.
    •  What seemed quite obvious about explaining this data set? That there was a rapide decrees in U.S. immigrations. 
    • Looking at the overall trend and incorporating what you know about the US presently, predict and defend the immigration trend for the next two decades. I think in the next two decades there will be another decrees and then a even't bigger increase.
    • Describe how you made a decision on how to visually represent the information. We basically chose three parts in the graph and grouped them together then we would just represent them as one part each.
    • What parts of group work were challenging? The arrant any problems when your group is good and the only challenges would be if a member wasn't there like how I was out on Tuesday 
    • What would you do differently if you had this project to do over?
      If I need to do this project over I would look up more sites to get better information. 

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