http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/index.html Academic Papers registrered by Student Voices users http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/my_tears_in_print-774.html As I look back over history and where we are today, I am left in aw. Oh how I have prayed that this day would come, and now that it has, I can exhale and let go of something’s that Sat, 29 Nov 0049 07:00:00 GMT http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/my_tears_in_print-774.html http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/the_fight_isn’t_over_yet!-749.html   According to the Associated Press , Obama had 186 solid electoral votes and 100 leaning electoral votes, and McCain had 122 solid electoral votes and 41 leaning electoral votes, on Oct.29. In the end, they estimated six states and 89 Sun, 29 Aug 0006 07:00:00 GMT http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/the_fight_isn’t_over_yet!-749.html http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/equalitynot_just_a_black_thing-648.html     When it comes to Barack Obama and Rev. Al Sharpton’s opinions on racism, many would agree that they are polar opposites. In fact, some would even go so far as to say that they aren’t even fighting Sun, 28 Feb 0045 07:00:00 GMT http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/equalitynot_just_a_black_thing-648.html http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/is_there_a_doctor_in_the_house-632.html It has been illegal for employers to knowingly hire unauthorized workers in the U.S. since The Immigration Reform and Central Act of 1986. However, in the 1982 Plyler v. Doe Supreme Court case, taxpayers were required to begin paying for the Tue, 29 Aug 0030 07:00:00 GMT http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/is_there_a_doctor_in_the_house-632.html http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/welcome_to_america-586.html   Immigration Illustration Sponsored by Student Voices - MATT.org Vote | Share | Details Sun, 29 Aug 0062 07:00:00 GMT http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/welcome_to_america-586.html http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/beyond_red_vs_blue__the_pew_research_centers_political_typology_questionnaire-502.html The Political Typology is a longstanding effort to sort voters into homogeneous groups based on their values, political beliefs and party affiliation. The current report is based on a two-part survey of 2,000 Americans interviewed in December 2004, most of whom Mon, 28 Oct 0020 07:00:00 GMT http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/beyond_red_vs_blue__the_pew_research_centers_political_typology_questionnaire-502.html http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/book_his_panic-_why_americans_fear_hispanics_in_the_us-432.html A rare, unflinching look at one of today’s most important issues--from one of today’s most well-known journalists. In this insightful, well-researched book, Peabody and Emmy® Award-winning journalist Geraldo Rivera examines the growth of the Hispanic population in the U.S., fueled Sat, 31 Jul 0056 07:00:00 GMT http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/book_his_panic-_why_americans_fear_hispanics_in_the_us-432.html http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/the_hunting_party_is_a_must_see!!-424.html The Hunting Party is inspired by the true story of a disgraces war journalist who enlisted the help of his former cameraman and an eager...journalism major to track down an infamous war criminal still on the loose somewhere in the backwoods Thu, 29 Aug 0065 07:00:00 GMT http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/the_hunting_party_is_a_must_see!!-424.html http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/immigration_reform_and_regional_security-164.html How does this tie into immigration policy? The security implications are vast. A failure of immigration reform and the continuation of anti-immigratory policy will provide those who threaten regional security with a tool to further foment anti-American sentiment. One could place Mon, 28 Jan 0032 07:00:00 GMT http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/immigration_reform_and_regional_security-164.html http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/legal_vs_ilegal_immigration_amnesty_to_what-163.html   Can’t stand media communicators and even congressmen using the term "Legal Immigration" (versus the "Illegal" kind) as to imply "Just" or "Fair" without any understanding of the fact that for generations immigrants have come to this country just Tue, 27 Oct 0044 07:00:00 GMT http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/legal_vs_ilegal_immigration_amnesty_to_what-163.html http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/studying_abroad_in_mexico_as_a_mexican_american-130.html I was born in Mexico but I have spent the majority of my life in the United States. My parents brought me here when I was only a baby and although we would make frequent trips back to visit we would normally only stay Fri, 28 Jan 0046 07:00:00 GMT http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/studying_abroad_in_mexico_as_a_mexican_american-130.html http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/the_true_challenge_-_translated-129.html The True challenge El Verdadero Reto Por Eduardo Vázquez, Instituto Tecnológicoy de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) I am convinced that in order for a productive relationship to exist in short and long term between Sat, 28 Jan 0058 07:00:00 GMT http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/the_true_challenge_-_translated-129.html http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/living_democracy_video_contest-127.html Learn more about the video contest with Living Democracy TV from Pearson Education here: http://www.pearsoned.com/pr_2007/092807.htm Fri, 29 Jun 0036 07:00:00 GMT http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/living_democracy_video_contest-127.html http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/students_would_exchange_voting_rights_for_ipod-125.html According to the following article, "A new survey found college students willing to hand over their vote for a new iPod. More than half of NYU students said they would give up voting for life in exchange for $1 million dollars." Thu, 28 Aug 0038 07:00:00 GMT http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/students_would_exchange_voting_rights_for_ipod-125.html http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/mattorg_blog_on_the_dream_act-124.html The DREAM (Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors) Act has been introduced several times in the US Congress and would provide a path to citizenship for immigrant students and individuals wishing to join the US military. Learn more Tue, 31 Jul 0042 07:00:00 GMT http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/mattorg_blog_on_the_dream_act-124.html http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/wto_us__mexico_new_challenges_to_come-118.html              The international system presents a special scenario. A collection of more than 150 sovereign states are the main components and actors, but there is no power or institution that can enforce any treaty or law to any state. In an Wed, 30 Jun 0006 07:00:00 GMT http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/wto_us__mexico_new_challenges_to_come-118.html http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/mexicos_financial_crisis_the_tequila_crash-117.html The Mexican crisis raised, throughout the world, a number of questions regarding the sustainability of the market oriented reform process in the world. The crisis and eventual demise of the Mexican exchange rate peg was, both sudden and dramatic. It not Wed, 30 Jun 0062 07:00:00 GMT http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/mexicos_financial_crisis_the_tequila_crash-117.html http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/financial_crisis_of_94_the_tequila_crash-116.html Mexico’s financial crash in 1994 is a clear example of the vulnerability of financial markets. To have a better understanding of the American investors’ point of view in the Mexican financial market, I chose to write about the famous 1994 financial crisis Sun, 29 Jun 0032 07:00:00 GMT http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/financial_crisis_of_94_the_tequila_crash-116.html http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/student_voices__its_best!-57.html            There have been few events in my life that have influenced me so much that they have actually changed me. Such was the pioneering event that took place at the University of the Incarnate Word Wednesday morning on March 21st. Tue, 30 Mar 0023 07:00:00 GMT http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/student_voices__its_best!-57.html http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/student_voices_in_mexico!!-55.html             Hey guys! Well, once again has Student Voices lived up to its purpose! Last May 25 th , Student Voices held another panel in which students from Mexico and the United States got to speak their minds on topics of Fri, 30 Apr 0051 07:00:00 GMT http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/student_voices_in_mexico!!-55.html http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/reverse_culture_shock_dealing_with_misconceptions_after_returning_to_us_from_mexico-51.html Returning to the US after living in Mexico for four months was much harder than I anticipated.   I had heard about “reverse culture shock” and read all the brochures my university gave me, but nothing prepared me for what hit Fri, 29 Jul 0029 07:00:00 GMT http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/reverse_culture_shock_dealing_with_misconceptions_after_returning_to_us_from_mexico-51.html http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/border_policy__cultural_consciousness-49.html The current relationship between Mexico and America is a product of liberal economic policies coupled with globalized forces of production.   Many vital jobs in American are filled by Mexican immigrants, occupations that if unfilled would likely disable certain sectors of Tue, 27 Feb 0048 07:00:00 GMT http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/border_policy__cultural_consciousness-49.html http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/policy_statement__hispanic_education-48.html The education of Hispanic children is at a serious crossroads.   Hispanics are the fastest growing minority population in the United States today, yet Hispanics lag behind the rest of the population in the area of education.   One of the Mon, 27 Feb 0019 07:00:00 GMT http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/policy_statement__hispanic_education-48.html http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/policy_position_paper-47.html Issue: Many immigrants come to the U.S. with low educational backgrounds, which create stereotypes that immigrants are uneducated and low wage earners.   Children of immigrants are often placed in classes where leaning is often difficult because of a Sat, 26 Feb 0029 07:00:00 GMT http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/policy_position_paper-47.html http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/beatriz_paredes_-_beatriz_paredes_–_pri_partido_revolucionario_institucional-46.html By Eduardo Vazquez, Instituto Tecnológicoy de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) translated by Student Voices This is the first of 3 submissions that will present a profile of the leaders of PRI, PAN and PRD, the three mayor political parties Fri, 27 Nov 0044 07:00:00 GMT http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/beatriz_paredes_-_beatriz_paredes_–_pri_partido_revolucionario_institucional-46.html http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/fence_or_no_fence-44.html Roberto, a Mexican immigrant to Boston, is in the country legally and has been paying taxes for nine years. His wife, Lupe, applied for a visa to join him but was denied. Together, they made the decision to have her enter Tue, 29 Apr 0055 07:00:00 GMT http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/fence_or_no_fence-44.html http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/new_matt-sponsored_immigration_blog!-43.html MATT is the partnering sponsor of a new daily-updated, non-partisan blog on immigration! It launched on Monday, June 25 but its success is dependent on readers like you who write comments, send in tips, etc. Visit it here: Mon, 30 Jun 0066 07:00:00 GMT http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/new_matt-sponsored_immigration_blog!-43.html http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/qa_common_misconceptions_about_immigrants_to_the_us-42.html I had the opportunity to ask Shuya Ohno , who works with the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition (MIRA) ,  about incorrect stereotypes regarding immigrants to the United States.  Born in Japan, he moved to an immigrant-rich neighborhood in New Fri, 28 Jan 0052 07:00:00 GMT http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/qa_common_misconceptions_about_immigrants_to_the_us-42.html http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/would_richardson_get_the_latino_vote-41.html Bill Richardson, despite having an Anglo name, is half-Mexican—and proud of it. The two-time and very popular governor of New Mexico, one of the border states, he has an impressive résumé: he has been the U.S. ambassador to the United Wed, 30 Jun 0006 07:00:00 GMT http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/would_richardson_get_the_latino_vote-41.html http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/hillary_obama_and_richardson_the_new_faces_of_us_politics-40.html     As the 2008 U.S. presidential election slides past first gear, I realize that the political landscape today is finally at least somewhat representative of the electorate in this country.     While the Republican candidates for president remain—mostly—of the Mon, 28 Sep 0039 07:00:00 GMT http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/hillary_obama_and_richardson_the_new_faces_of_us_politics-40.html http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/a_trip_to_la-37.html As I stare out from my hotel room in Los Angeles, I see a landscape of cool concrete, pinned down by palm trees. The sun seems to hang perennially high, and I think there is some kind of force, centrifugal perhaps, Sun, 31 Jul 0063 07:00:00 GMT http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/a_trip_to_la-37.html http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/personal_statement_on_finding_my_guatemalan_identity-36.html     “Y volando, volando, volando, deslizo, me encuentro más alto, más alto que el sol. Y me extraña el mundo de un paso tan lejos de mí, una música dulce cantada sólo para mí…” A quick silence. Then the boom of Tue, 28 Jan 0055 07:00:00 GMT http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/personal_statement_on_finding_my_guatemalan_identity-36.html http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/on_being_latin_american-35.html My freshman year in college, I learned that the American government, for its U.S. Census purposes, invented the classification “Hispanic” to define all those who have familial roots in Latin America. I, for one, was born in the United States Fri, 27 Feb 0033 07:00:00 GMT http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/on_being_latin_american-35.html http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/from_the_washington_post_bush_commits_himself_to_immigration_reform_while_in_guatemala-32.html The following is an article that appeared in the Washington Post on March 13, 2007:   In Guatemala, Bush Vows to Push Immigration Changes By PETER BAKER Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, March 13, 2007; Page A10 Thu, 30 May 0015 07:00:00 GMT http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/from_the_washington_post_bush_commits_himself_to_immigration_reform_while_in_guatemala-32.html http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/raids_on_undocumented_workers_and_businesses-31.html There has been a recent increase in the number of immigrant raids on businesses in the United States.  As a hot topic for recent political debates, our country is torn between how to deal with the estimated 11million undocumented people living Sat, 29 Apr 0047 07:00:00 GMT http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/raids_on_undocumented_workers_and_businesses-31.html http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/three-digit_increases_or_measurement_errors-29.html As the Christmas season arrives, I’m reminded that many of us might send money to a family member or friend in Mexico.  Two years ago I sent $120 to Cocoyoc, Morelos to my grandmother during Christmas.  The dollar amount seems insignificant, Wed, 29 Apr 0050 07:00:00 GMT http://studentvoices.matt.org/english/your-voice/three-digit_increases_or_measurement_errors-29.html