Lucas Blogs - WRIT150

A Retrospective View On WRIT150 I think what I learned most of all from WRIT150 is how to research. Especially on my WP3 and WP4, finding all sorts of sources from interviews, websites, and old newspapers, I learned the best ways to access this information and how to look for specific resources. I learned to search for counterarguments as well as supportive details to my work. For example, my WP3 over the medical inequality of illegal immigrants, I spent a great deal of my time researching. One of the things I had to really dig for were supporting deals for how Medicaid had positive effects on communities and therefore should be instituted in more communities. It was a piece of information I sought out to find after the final writing of my rough draft, and luckily I was able to find a research study on Medicaid expansion into 17 hospitals in underserved areas. Using similar research strategies, I spent a great deal of time first informing myself on the Black Panther Party. It is a bit ...

One of the primary sources I am using for my WP4 paper over Japanese Interment Camps is an interview with Victor Nishijima, a man who was forcibly removed from his home in correspondence with the Executive Order of 9066.  First, Nishijima describes the Japanese phrase, shikata ga nai. shikata ga nai means "it cannot be helped". Many Japanese people used this philosophy to justify the unfairness and situations that followed WW2 including the internment camps.  Nishijima talks about how he was staying in a hotel in Oakland, when a light shines outside telling him to "go home". He talks about how his family had to go down to Japanese Interment Camps. He had friends who would drive long ways down to come visit him. He talks about the different reactions to going to camp among his family.  Nishijima describes the discrimination and how Executive Order 9066 affected his family and himself. He recalls going from feeling like something to feeling like nothing. America putti...

The topic that I will be choosing for WP4 is the re-evaluation of the cruelty and violence of slavery. The Southern states were shockingly violent to their slaves, with "disciplinary" and cruel tactics, such as lynching, whipping, rape, etc. However, in most schools, while it is true that it is taught to lower maturity students, slavery is often depicted more as an economical issue with human right bearings. The severity of the inhumanity of slavery is seldom taught to children. While it may not be an option to teach younger children, creating mandatory lessons and an emphasis on the violence to high school and college students would be extremely beneficial.      Slavery is a large part of our history whether we like it or not. Thousands of communities are still recovering from the aftermath and effects that it had on their relationships with other people, culture, and their socioeconomic status. Being able to learn the true acts and colors of slavery will help more indiv...

       In my WP3, I will be writing about undocumented immigrants and their right to health equity.  Some of the sources I found were using keywords, such as "Undocumented immigrant health". Some of the links I believe will be most helpful in writing this essay are the following: Challenges with Undocumented Immigrants in the United States The University of Alabama at Birmingham posted in article in January, 2020 discussing the challenges that undocumented immigrants face in the United States. Some of the issues listen include health care policies that were enforced to not include undocumented immigrants. The article goes in-depth on how this not only affects the undocumented immigrants, but it also hurts the general public. The article examines the issue with HIV medical care for lower socioeconomic undocumented immigrants and much more   https://sites.uab.edu/humanrights/2020/07/16/challenges-with-undocumented-immigrants-in-the-u-s/   Are the Un...

     The group that has multiple social determinants preventing them from achieving health equity that I will be writing about are undocumented immigrants. Undocumented immigrants face a handful of problems, including inability to work at high-paying corporate/social security screening companies, the inability to get a drivers license or residence in their own name, among other things.  Many undocumented immigrants do not qualify for affordable health care services. Many laws are in place to prevent undocumented immigrants from accessing publicly funded services.      Consequently, many undocumented immigrants are forced to work lower paying labor jobs. Many of them live in lower socioeconomic areas, with worser education and less opportunities for medical care. The inability to live freely causes a lot of issues for them. Growing up in a pre-dominantly Hispanic neighborhood in Texas growing up, a lot of my classmates would tell me about their family'...

       Central Park, the most visited urban park in the U.S. and most filmed location in the world, was created with the disregard of an entire history of people. The predominantly black community of Seneca Village, located in the current day Central Park, provided immigrants an opportunity to live happy, good-livings while working away from the heavily segregated areas of New York City. Around half of the African Americans who lived in Seneca Village owned their own house, making it the most populous area of black homeowners in New York during the 19th century (Barker). In historical context, while slavery continued to rule the South, Seneca Village was an area where African Americans could live happily and own land. One of the ongoing restoration efforts is the Seneca Village Central Park Conservatory that has been undergoing archaeological excavations and further research in order to provide informative tours that explain what life was like in Seneca Village (Ba...