1) Tell me who the players are. What groups of people or individuals in both countries are using their power, or responding to power? What did they do? Be specific, ie 'industrial workers in Chicago," not "the average person"; "they had a sit-down strike," not "they protested.") 

The key players in the United States during and after the ww2 are the president and the government. The U.S. government is using it's power at the the time to deny or chose which immigrants can enter the u.s.

2) Tell me the key things that were going on between the United States and your country during the time you're going to write about. Try to be as specific as you can with dates and events. 

During this time the war was going

more of my bibliography

1. Race and Color: Jamaican Migrants in London and New York City

Nancy Foner

International Migration Review
Vol. 19, No. 4 (Winter, 1985), pp. 708-727

Published by: The Center for Migration Studies of New York, Inc.

http://www.jstor.org/stable/2546105

This article explores the significance of race among Jamaicans in New York City and London. What it means to be a black Jamaican, it is argued, depends on the racial context of the receiving area. Although in the United States and Britain Jamaicans face racial prejudice and discrimination, there are advantages to living in New York. Being part of the larger black population cushions Jamaican migrants in New York from some of the sting of racial prejudice and provides them with easier access to certain occupations and social institutions.

2.Law and Contemporary Problems
Vol. 21, No. 2, Immigration (Spring, 1956), pp. 382-400

Published by: Duke University School of Law

http://www.jstor.org/stable/1190510

this article is about the law that was started to choose which immigrants were allowed in the united states and the rules of selecting the immigrants during and after world war 2. Franklin D Roosevelt was president at the time and he allowed to men named McCarren and Walters start this law.

3..Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
Vol. 533, Trends in U. S.-Caribbean Relations (May, 1994), pp. 48-69

Published by: Sage Publications, Inc. in association with the American Academy of Political and Social Science

http://www.jstor.org/stable/1048574

Emphasis is on the five major insular migrations arriving in the United States during this century: Cubans, Dominicans, Haitians, Jamaicans, and Puerto Ricans. This article also discuss the treaties and laws of immigration during and post world war 2 in the United states.

4.Oral History
Vol. 30, No. 2, Living with the Past (Autumn, 2002), pp. 49-59

Published by: Oral History Society

http://www.jstor.org/stable/40179682

The memories of family and community in the childhood of Jamaican-born migrants to Britain and North America. This article discuss why these immigrants chose to migrate to the U.S. instead of Britian in the post world war 2.

5.

Effects of the Immigration Act of 1965 on Selected Population Characteristics of Immigrants to the United States

Charles B. Keely

Demography
Vol. 8, No. 2 (May, 1971), pp. 157-169

Published by: Population Association of America

http://www.jstor.org/stable/2060606

Recent changes in immigration law have affected the characteristics of immigrants coming to the United States. The major changes in immigration policy contained in the 1965 Immigration Act, which amended the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952.

research/ bibliography

While reseaching on the country of Jamaica for my research paper i found that Jstor was the most helpful. Jstor was very easy to function and also Jstor has the option to email the web page and the citations to your self. I also found some great culture and history about jamaica on google scholar, the information included pictures and very deep facts that I never knew.
I find the country of Jamaica very interesting because its so close to the U.S. and also there are so many immigrants from Jamaica leaving here in America.

My bibliography

1. Title:  Recapturing Distant Caribbean Childhoods and Communities: The Shaping of
the Memories of Jamaican Migrants in Britain and North America
Author(s):  Paul Thompson; Elaine Bauer
Source:  Oral History, Vol. 30, No. 2, Living with the Past  (Autumn, 2002), pp.

This article was about natives of Jamaica migranting to the U.S. I found this sorce on Jstor.


2.Title:  Population Mobility and the Survival of Small Farming in the Rio Grande
Valley, Jamaica
Author(s):  Amani Ishemo; Hugh Semple; Elizabeth Thomas-Hope
Source:  The Geographical Journal, Vol. 172, No. 4  (Dec., 2006), pp. 318-330
Publisher(s): Blackwell Publishing on behalf of The Royal Geographical Society
(with the Institute of British Geographers)

This article is about the effect that the U.S. has on farming in jamacia. I also found this sorce on Jstor to.




I really wanted to use Jamaica as my country however im having a hard time finding a time period and topic i would like to focus on. I will be changing my country to Korea probably. Im very confused and need to find a country soon because I need to get started on this paper ASAP.

hearts and minds

In the film Hearts and Minds a lot of the footage was to drastic for me. Being that I am very anti war, I can't believe people can be so heart less and hurt women and children. The voices that were most important to me are the voices of the civilians. I feel their voices are the important because they are in the middle of a war that they have no part of but the war is ruining their lives and land. I found the mass grave site very disturbing the way they had all those graves already dug and awaiting dead bodies as if they knew their people were going to die.
I think its not right how they exposed the Vietnam people in the films and photos. However on the other hand i feel that America needed to see the damage they were doing to Vietnam so people in America can try to stop it. I also believe that is why  president Bush didn't expose what was going on in the war on Iraq, because he knew that it would cause outrage with anti war groups in America.
I believe that the ideology of power led the United States into war with Vietnam. I feel that America wants every other country to believe that America is the most powerful country. I also feel that America think they can go to other countries and destroy land and then take it over. Basically America need to mind their business in cases where America isn't involved.

china, jamaica,india

I am very undecided about what country I would like to choose. It is either between Jamaica, India or China. I dont know much about these countries but I'm willing to do research to find out about their history with America.
now that I looked up these countries I think I might choose jamaica. I am not sure what time period I would like to use for my research paper.

Why are you interested in this country and its relationship with the U.S.?

I find this country interesting for two reaons. One being, 1.5 million people from the U.S. visits there every year. Second reason would be that between 1518 and 1870 Jamaica had a huge slave trade going on. I find both af thes time periods very interesting.

Talk about what you noticed in your Wikipedia entry. What kind of information was your Wikipedia entry good at providing? What information did it have that wouldn’t be useful? What doesn’t it tell you that you’ll want to find out?
I noticed that wikipedia has a lot of information, however alot of it wasnt as useful such as the sports they play in jamaica.

How do you think have people from this country and the U.S. come into contact with each other: through immigration, migration, war, cultural exchange, economic exchange, or something else?
I think people from Jamaica comes into contact with the U.S.through immigration, tourism, economic exchange and cultural exchange through music.

Sad Lucy?

In Lucy Jamaica Kincaid, the way Lucy describe her first impressions of her arrival in the United States is very descriptive. When she arrived in the United States it was the middle of January and it was a cold gray black night. As she was driving to her destination someone would point out famous land marks to her. Lucy said that before arriving here that when she thought of those places they made her happy and would always bring her out of sadness. However Lucy says that once she see the places they look ordinary, dirty and worn down from so many people. Lucy also said that this was not her first bout with disappointment of reality and it wouldn't be her last. When arriving at her destination Lucy rides and elevator for the first in her life. Lucy also compares her home in Jamaica to her home in the United States, in Jamaica she lives in a house were as now in the United States she is staying in an apartment. Also she realized that in Jamaica she didn’t have a refrigerator and now she was sitting at a table eating left over food from the day before that just came out of the refrigerator. Lucy said that everything she was experiencing was such a good idea that she could imagine she would grow used to and even like it. She says when she fell asleep it was not because she comfortable but because she couldn’t handle to take anything else in. The next day when Lucy got dressed to leave the apartment she realized she was not in the tropical climate anymore because she thought just because the sun was shining that it was warm outside and she hard a rude awaking when it was very cold outside.
                 I would describe Lucy's first impressions of the United States depressing however rather normal feeling of an immigrant. Most immigrant stories that I have heard were greatly like Lucy's story. Before arriving here most immigrants imagine the United States as this great land of freedom and riches, however when they arrive here they are overcome with reality that the United States is just another place that you have to work hard for what you want in life and being that they are immigrant they have to work ever harder.