Thread: Want to help with my 10th grade daughter's homework?

My 15 year old daughter just asked me 5 questions in a survey for homework in Civics & Economics Class. It is due tomorrow. She needs responses from at least three people whom she already has. However, since the questions do/can deal with the illegal alien invasion, I told my daughter I'd put the questions in a forum for some other feedback. One of the three respondents she has is I believe a dingbat open borders nutjob who thinks "We're a nation of immigrants so let's just let them all in.

If you will respond here in this thread, I will copy into a word document and my daughter can show her teacher the responses with what she already has. I will delete the part of my former paragraph that mentions a dingbat, okay!

Here are the questions:

1. What or who is an American?

2. What is so great about America?

3. What is so bad about America? [Note: Here my response was the millions of illegal aliens invading the USA]

4. The worst thing in American history?

5. The best thing in American history?

Since this is a class of 10th graders and their teacher, please keep it clean and not too "radical," although we all know high schoolers are some of the best cursers and anti-socials around and are often taught by liberal socialists.

What is an American - One who is loyal to Country and family, one who believes we have but one flag.


What is so great about America? - The small towns, where there is a community of neighbors who support each other in times of need or grief, who still enjoys and shows up in hundreds, to watch the Memorial Day Parade full of home made floats, Veterans and school childrens proudly marching with flowers and the American flag in their hands.

What is so bad about America? - Gives away too many American's jobs, by either outsourcing or hiring people who are not citizens.


The worst thing in American History? - The murder of Abe Lincoln. Or the innovation and manufacturing we have lost.

The best thing in American History? - The innovation and manufacturing we used to have.

Thanks for the feedback, Moosetracks.

I'm not asking anyone here to do my daughter's homework for her; it's already done. I was just wondering if anyone wants their comments on what is happening in America to be read by a teacher. I wonder sometimes what they teach kids in schools today about diversity. I know the teachers must have their hands tied many times with all the illegal aliens flooding the country and all their children. Ditto for other goverment workers such as those in welfare as well as hospital ERs. Still if no one is willing to speak out, well . . .

1. What or who is an American?
An American is someone, either born here or legally immigrated here, who stands up for this country, loyal ONLY to this country.

2. What is so great about America?
We have rights and freedoms that no other country can compare to.

3. What is so bad about America?
We tend to let others run over us because we are such a caring country like letting millons of illegals invade our country.

4. The worst thing in American history?
What's happening right now is the worst thing in US history! People entering this country illegally and trying to turn America into their country. Big business interests overriding the wishes of the American citizens.

5. The best thing in American history?
The end of slavery.

Easy questions, tough answers.
1. Legally an American is born here or could be born in another country by having parents that are American citizens or a person that wants to go through our immigration process by agreeing to live by the laws of the land, forfitting their allegance to their former country, being willing to protect and serve this country when asked, learning English and being a productive citizen. Emotionally it's a deep love and respect for the people who founded this country and those who have fought and died to protect our freedom and way of life.
2.The freedoms we have such as being able to vote, have a voice when things aren't going well, being able to practice our own relegion or not have to, picking hopefully what profession we'd like to work in, painting your house purple if you feel like it, getting an education, being able to travel across the country and to others, having children or not, getting married or not, reading books, listning to music,watching movies without the government screening them. Knowing I'm free to express myself without fear of being beheaded or something. Trusting that if laws are broken that the judicial system will be fair in it's punishment. Just to name a few.
3.I'd say we've taken some of our freedoms for granted. We've forgotten that with those freedoms comes responsibility and it's much easier to put the hard stuff in someone elses lap. Government has been taking too much of that away and not doing a good job. Like the illegals here and there are laws written that should be obeyed and we have to fight as citizens to have them enforced.
4.To me it was the Oklahoma City bombing, Trade Center and 911 because it was the first time I ever experienced the terror of that and that we weren't in a protective shell.
5. Having the Berlin Wall come down. Guess it's because it was the first time I realized that 9x's out of 10, it's the government, not the people we have to fear.


Hope it helps.

Thanks here to all for your feedback. What really got me started and thinking about this idea was the first question, "Who is an American," and a response my daughter received outside of this thread of, "Anyone who lives in America." Say WHHHHAAAAATTTTT!!!

legally or philosophically?

legally from wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_citizenship

However she may want to add that birthright citizenship is wrong because it abuses a law intended for freed slaves so criminals can continue to break the law (illegals staying here without getting deported) as long as she doesn't have a bunch of those illegal alien gangbangers in her school who would jump her after the class.

Acquisition of Citizenship

Natural-born citizens

Most United States citizens are natural-born, meaning they were born in the United States or born to United States citizens overseas.


Birth within the United States

Children born in the United States (including, in most cases, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Panama Canal Zone before it was returned to Panama), are U.S. citizens at birth (unless born to foreign diplomatic staff). A birth certificate is considered evidence of citizenship.


Through birth abroad to two United States citizens

In most cases, one is a U.S. citizen if both of the following are true:

1. Both their parents were U.S. citizens at the time of their birth
2. At least one of their parents lived in the United States prior to their birth.

A person's record of birth abroad, if registered with a U.S. consulate or embassy, is proof of their citizenship. They may also apply for a passport or a Certificate of Citizenship to have their citizenship recognized.


Through birth abroad to one United States citizen

In most cases, one is a U.S. citizen if all of the following are true:

1. One of their parents was a U.S. citizen at the time of their birth;
2. Their citizen parent lived at least 5 years in the United States before their birth; and
3. At least 2 of these 5 years in the United States were after their citizen parent's 14th birthday (see note below).

A person's record of birth abroad, if registered with a U.S. consulate or embassy, is proof of their citizenship. They may also apply for a passport or a Certificate of Citizenship to have their citizenship recognised.

Note: If born before November 14, 1986, one is a citizen if their U.S. citizen parent lived in the United States for at least 10 years and 5 of those years in the United States were after their citizen parent's 14th birthday.

Different rules apply for those born before 24 December 1952.


Naturalization

Naturalization is the process by which one becomes a citizen of a country. If not a U.S. citizen, one may be eligible to become one through naturalization. A person who becomes a U.S. citizen through naturalization is not considered a natural-born citizen. Consequently, naturalized U.S. citizens are not eligible to become President of the United States. For example, as of 2005, the current Secretary of Commerce and the current Secretary of Labor cannot succeed to the presidency because they became U.S. citizens through naturalization. Ordinarily, the Secretary of Commerce and the Secretary of Labor are tenth and eleventh in the presidential line of succession, as established by the United States Constitution and the Presidential Succession Act.


Eligibility for naturalization

To become a naturalized United States citizen, one must be 18 years of age at the time of filing, a legal permanent resident (LPR) of the United States, and have resided in the United States for five years less 90 days before they apply (this requirement is reduced to three years less 90 days if they (a) acquired legal permanent resident status through marriage to a U.S. Citizen, and (b) have remained married to and living with that citizen since their marriage). They must have been physically present for at least 30 months of 60 months prior to the date of filing their application. Also during those 60 months if the LPR was outside of the U.S. for a continuous period of 6 months or more they are disqualified from naturalizing (certain exceptions apply for those continous perios of six months to 1 year). They must be a "person of good moral character", and must pass a test on United States history and government. Most applicants must also have a working knowledge of the English language (there are exceptions for long-resident older applicants and those with mental or physical disabilities), although this requirement is not intended to be an onerous one, since the test requires that they read and write simple sentences in English, such as "The United States is a democracy". However, some applicants fail the language and civics tests, and others are deterred from applying for naturalization by virtue of the test requirement.


Expeditious naturalization - children

Effective 1 April 1995, a child born outside the U.S. to a U.S. citizen parent may qualify for expeditious naturalization based on the physical presence of the child's grandparent in the U.S. In general the grandparent should have spent 5 years in the U.S., 2 years of which after the age of 14.

The process of naturalization, including the oath of allegiance, must be completed before the child's 18th birthday. It is not necessary for the child to be admitted to the U.S. as a lawful permanent resident. Details


Child Citizenship Act of 2000

Effective 27 February 2001, the Child Citizenship Act of 2000 provided that a non-U.S. citizen child (aged under 1 with a U.S. citizen parent, and in the custody of that parent, automatically acquired U.S. citizenship:

* on that date, if admitted to the U.S. as a permanent resident
* immediately upon subsequent admission to the U.S. as a permanent resident, if still aged under 18. Details

NoillegalsAllowed,

Thanks for the additional info. I'll send this on to the teacher and soon.

Annie

1. An American is a citizen, either by birth to an American citizen or by naturalization, or a legal resident in the process of becoming a citizen. Being an American in fact is different than being an American at heart or in spirit: on 9/11, half the world was an America at heart.

2. The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ made and makes America great. When this great God ceases to be preeminent in America's beliefs and actions, then America ceases to be great in God's sight, no matter the population, the military firepower, or the GDP.

3. What is bad about America is that she is forgetting or abandoning God.
"Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,
The people whom He has chosen for His own inheritance." - Psalm 33:12
"The wicked will return to Sheol,
Even all the nations [peoples] who forget God." - Psalm 9:17

4. The worst thing in America is the apostasy or falling away from trust in God and Jesus Christ His Son. It may have started before the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in 1917, but certainly the rise of atheistic communism has influenced the United States in dire ways.

a) The "eat, drink, and be merry" way of life brought back from Europe after World War I overcame the Calvinist work ethic of responsible Americans, leading to the Crash of 1929, the Great Depression, and the change from hard money, backed by gold or silver, to fiat money authorized by the Federal Reserve Banks as needed by the U.S. Government and its spendthrift, self-promoting politicians. Now the U.S. is $8.3 trillion in debt and on the brink of becoming a third world country like the Latin American banana republics, at the mercy of European bankers, Arab oil sheiks, and a newly-capitalistic government in the communist Peoples Republic of China.

b) The ACLU, founded by in 1920 by communists with the intent of destroying the United States, undertook a long-range plan of removing from America the knowledge of God and faith in Jesus Christ. The ACLU backed many of the following cases, which have had the cumulative effect of banishing YHWH from the public consciousness like some unspeakable four-letter word.

The Scopes "Monkey Trial" (1925) undermined belief in the Bible, and even though Scopes lost his case, evolution replaced creation in America's science curricula.

Emerson v. Board of Education (1947) decided in favor of students riding public school buses to Catholic schools, but Justice Black's enshrined opinion has since taken on the tenor of fact.

"The 'establishment of religion' clause of the First Amendment means at least this: neither a state nor the Federal Government can set up a church." Originally, several states among the original thirteen recognized a denomination supported by that state as its established church.

"In the words of Jefferson, the clause against establishment of religion by law was intended to erect 'a wall of separation between church and State.' Reynolds v. United States, supra, at 164." In the mind of Jefferson, such a wall was intended to keep the State from interfering with the church, but not vice versa.

"The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach. New Jersey has not breached it here." Judge Black confused then Pres. Thomas Jefferson's letter to the Danbury (Connecticut) Baptist association in 1802 with the U.S. Constitution (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), written primarily by James Madison in 1787. Jefferson did not sign the Constitution, he was not at the Constitutional Convention of 1787, and he was in France as a U.S. Minister when the First Amendment was drafted. No matter. Neither the Constitution nor the First Amendment ever mentioned any wall keeping the church, much less Jesus Christ or God, out of federal, state, or municipal government. http://www.wallbuilders.com/resources/s ... sourceID=9

In Engel v. Vitale (1962), the Supreme Court outlawed state-sponsored prayer in public schools. The Honorable Justice Hugo Black once again delivered the coup de grace to prayer to God in American public life. "Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon Thee, and we beg Thy blessing upon us, our parents, our teachers and our Country." That prayer plainly crosses the line, at least the line the ACLU set for America. http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/fac ... rac/47.htm

In Abington v. Schemp (1963), the Supreme Court outlawed devotional Bible reading in the government schools, although studying the Bible as literature or history is acceptable. In his majority opinion, Justice Brennan wrote, "A too literal quest for the advice of the Founding Fathers upon the issues of these cases seems to me futile and misdirected..." So much for original intent... and maybe even stare decisis.

"On every question of construction, carry [y]ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed." -- Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Supreme Court Justice William Johnson, June 12, 1823

In Epperson v. Arkansas (196, the Supreme Court invalidated an Arkansas statute that prohibited the teaching of evolution.

In Roe v. Wade (1973), the Supreme Court ruled abortion laws an unconstitutional invasion of privacy. The Fourth Amendment reads, "The right of the people to be secure in their persons... against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated..." This was a ruling cut from whole cloth, since there is no mention of privacy in the Fourth Amendment or in the U.S. Constitution, as amended. But the Declaration of Independence did enumerate unalienable rights to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." And the First Amendment did mention free exercise of religion, which includes the Fifth Commandment, unless the Supreme Court has... no, we won't go there.

In Stone v. Graham (1980), the Supreme Court ruled that the Ten Commandments cannot be posted within the public schools.

In Segraves v. State of California (1981), the Supreme Court overrulled Segraves' contention that class discussion of evolution prohibited his and his children's free exercise of religion.

In McLean v. Arkansas Board of Education (1982), a federal court held that a statute requiring public schools to give balanced treatment to "creation-science" and "evolution-science" violated the Establishment Clause. The court declared that "creation science" is not in fact a science. Well, excuse me! I don't think that evolution is in fact a science, but rather an areligious dogma defying the Creator.

In Wallace v. Jaffree (1985), the Supreme Court struck down an Alabama law requiring public schools to set aside a moment of silence for meditation or prayer. Justice John Paul Stevens wrote: "...the Court has unambiguously concluded that the individual freedom of conscience protected by the First Amendment embraces the right to select any religious faith or none at all."

In Edwards v. Aguillard (1987), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional Louisiana's "Creationism Act," which prohibited the teaching of evolution in public schools except when accompanied by instruction in "creation science." The Court found that the term "creation science" advanced the belief that a supernatural being created humankind, thus impermissibly endorsing religion. So much for the Declaration of Independence.

In Lee v. Weisman (1992), the Supreme Court ruled that including clergy-led prayer in a graduation ceremony sponsored and supervised by the government public school violated the Establishment Clause. However, in Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe (2000), the Supreme Court clarified that its decision did not prohibit students from praying on their own. (Wouldn't it be amusing to see the Court try.)

In Freiler v. Tangipahoa Parish Board of Education (1997), a U. S. District Court rejected a policy requiring teachers to read aloud a disclaimer whenever they taught about evolution. The Court wrote that, "...the School Board is endorsing religion by disclaiming the teaching of evolution... to convey the message that evolution is a religious viewpoint that runs counter to... other religious views." The decision also recognized curriculum proposals for "intelligent design" as equivalent to proposals for teaching "creation science." In 2000, the U.S. Supreme Court let the lower court decision stand.

In bin Laden v. America (2001), the Supreme Court reaped the reward for banishing God from America.

Undeterred, the Supreme Court, in Lawrence v. Texas (2003), ruled that laws regulating homosexual behavior (sodomy) were an unconstitutional intrusion upon the right to privacy (mentioned nowhere) in the Fourth Amendment.

In the Terri Schiavo case (2005), the Supreme Court three times let stand Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Judge George W. Greer's decision to dehydrate Terri Schiavo to death, over the cries of her parents, the U.S. Congress, and most of the American public who had not swallowed the Kool-aid presented them by the mainstream media.

In 2005, Pres. Bush nominated to the Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito, both pro-life Roman Catholics. If there should be another retirement, his replacement would probably change the hostility toward God that the Supreme Court has shown for the past 59 years.

http://www.reclaimamerica.org/Pages/ACLU/ACLUhome.html
http://www.reclaimamerica.org/PAGES/NEW ... story=2859
http://www.stoptheaclu.com/
http://dianedew.com/aclu.htm
http://www.americanprotest.net/links.php

c) In his book, "The Myth of Separation," David Barton illustrates the drastic rise in social ills beginning in 1963, a year after organized prayer was banned in public schools. For girls under age 15, pregnancies annually rose from 5,000 in 1963 to nearly 27,000 by 1985. SAT scores that had been on the increase until 1963 plummeted for 17 straight years. The sexually transmitted disease rate for teens fifteen to nineteen had fallen in 1960, 1961, and 1962, but it drastically increased in 1963 and has ever since then. The divorce rate among born-again Christians is now over 50%, no better than among non-Christians, if not worse.

d) Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures, without which "no one can be truly considered educated," has become so shallow that even among born-again high school students, according to a recent Barna poll, only 19% believe that there is such a thing as absolute truth.
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"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ." - Patrick Henry

Congress and President George Washington in 1789 passed the "United States Annotated Code", Article III of which states:

"Religion, morality, and knowledge, being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged."

"Statesmen, my dear Sir, may plan and speculate for liberty, but it is religion and morality alone, which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free constitution is pure virtue; and if this cannot be inspired into our people in a greater measure than they have it now, they may change their rulers and the forms of government, but they will not obtain a lasting liberty. They will only exchange tyrants and tyrannies." "We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." - John Adams

"We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God." - James Madison

http://dutyisours.com/founding.htm

5) The best thing in American history is that God kept America for Jesus Christ and His followers. Although the American Indians had it first, and Leif Ericcson found L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland, in 1004, it remained mostly unpopulated. In 1492, when the Muslims (Moors) were conquering Spain and threatening to overrun Europe, the Holy Spirit was prompting Columbus to find the New World.

"It was the Lord who put into my mind (I could feel his hand upon me) the fact that it would be possible to sail from here to the Indies . . ." "There is no question that the inspiration was from the Holy Spirit . . . Our Lord Jesus Christ desired to perform a very obvious miracle in the voyage to the Indies, to confront me and the whole people of God." - from the Introduction to Christopher Columbus’ Book of Prophecies.

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