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• 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.
  
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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. 

• 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. 
  
  
  

·       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.

• 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. 

I believe that the Patriot Act is something that is beneficial for our world today. It is just a matter of conscience if we think that it invades our privacy. We somewhat have to take into account, which we would like more for our lives: privacy or security.

            Personally, I value the safety and security of my life over the privacy I can have. What people don’t know doesn’t hurt them. If we went our whole lives without knowing what the government could do, then we wouldn’t even know that our privacy was being violated!

            Obviously, that wouldn’t be an issue if we all lived in a world where everyone respected other peoples’ privacy. However, that’s where security comes into play. If we are “invading” the privacy of the citizens, that is a way that the government can ensure the safety of the people, also, ensure the safety of the ones they affect. If one person is considered a criminal, then the government has a right to patrol their actions to certify and monitor their doings to safeguard the country for a potential threat. It’s only right.

            The Patriot Act definitely has its advantages and disadvantages. Many people may disagree with what it does for them and us, but they don’t know that it could be protecting them from dangerous prospects. Safety over privacy should not be something that calls for a lot of consideration and thinking over. It should be instinct that we want to continue to survive and want to make sure we’re as safe as possible.