This opinion story seems to focus on jobs. He explains how the illegal immigrants have 8 mill of our jobs, so depending on who becomes senate will determine the outcome of immigration reform.

This news story's frame seemed to be focused on the personal affects towards Alvarez. Also somewhat on the fact that the ICE was raiding to boost their statistics. This story focuses on Alvarez, for the article talks of the suit relating to him and not the others because they could no longer be contacted.

This is not journalism, this is more of a rant from a blogger. This is, however, an opinion piece and promotes a bonding social capital amongst those who might be against immigrants. Then it is also a negative bridging social capital because it is preventing the immigrants for a fair naturalization.

This opinion story includes fault lines of ethnicity and geography. Ethnicity, for it speaks of Latinos and the impact they have. The geography, because it states the republican and democratic stances on the immigration topic. When considering Gan's guidelines it consists of ethnocentrism because it talks of the behaviors of the latino voters.

This news story, has ethnicity fault lines because it talks about the latinos who have been falsely accused of being violent. As far as the herbert gan'd guidelines, this article contains ethnocentrism. It shows ethnocentrism is because the article talks about the immigrants behavior and how they are not violent.

This news story promotes social capital. It encourages the latino voters to come together and help promote an immigration plan.

This opinion story promotes social capital by calling Americans together to get rid of illegal immigrants. It also hinders social capital between human beings, because it is cruel to just kick people out, some who have been trying to become legal citizens for years but still get no answer from the government.

This is definitely a good journalistic entry. It gives us good information on the Dream act and what it is about, although it doesnt let us know how likely it is to be passed and if it was or was not passed. Questions: a. Did this article explain the complexities to the issue? Yes it explained the complexities of how its not the childrens fault and that they should be given a chance to good education. b. Did this article offer a depth understanding of the issue? Yes it gave good info. c. Did this clarify questions or raise more? It clarified, but also raised the question on how likely it is to be passed. d. How will this impact the public dialogue about this issue? I think people will be fighting for it ... More »

This was an okay article, somewhat dry. It gave some good information and quotes, but the boy who was thinking about becoming a nurse didnt sound sincere. A better quote would have shown the usefulness of this fair. Questions: a. Did this article explain the complexities to the issue? There were no really complexities to this issue just trying to get kids realize the fun in healthcare. b. Did this article offer a depth understanding of the issue? There was no real depth just info on what happened. c. Did this clarify questions or raise more? It clarified the questions on why they were throwing a healthcare fair. d. How will this impact the public dialogue about this issue? This wont really impact the public, it is ... More »