Author: Brian Brown

At first, I was quite confused as to why this movie is on the syllabus when we’re talking about the mating and dating market and the evolution of it in history. This movie is about how a teenage girl gets exposed to an evil spirit and then possessed. She begins to do things like levitating and speaking in unknown languages. Her mother gets very worried and tries to find assistance by seeking two priests. She gets tested by medical professions and the data shows that there is nothing wrong with her, when there clearly is. Her evilness gets more clear as it trends to get worse and the suggestion of an exorcism to remove the evil spirits inside of her comes into play. They try the exorcism and one priest who tried to provide assistance dies and the other believes he is unable to help. Then, the priest that backed out comes back to take his life for the teenager, freeing her from the evil spirits. But what does this have to do with the sexual market in America? The daughter in this movie doesn’t have a father figure (her parents are divorced) and maybe that’s the message being sent with the whole idea of the exorcism? Maybe she was possessed for her lack of a father figure in her life? Or, the reason for her being possessed is her figurative response to her parents divorce? Or it may have to do with the difficulty of a single-parent? How does this movie relate to the sexual market?

This film is about the lives of many homeless people living underground. They extracted themselves from society for a better living situation due to their economic income and position. Your typical homeless person is prospering underground, living without having to pay bills while having access to electricity. These people are independent, appearing to be quite situated underground. They talk about how they are okay with living in this situation and how adaptable we are as a species, being able to deal with rats and trash. Each person builds their own place to stay with what they have and make their money anyway they can. Some people dig through trash and sell it and others will sell bottles and cans. Some make up to $60 a day. Unfortunately, a business needed to use the underground where the homeless people were staying for transportation reasons. But, the homeless people had enough time to get everything they needed to move out and they were able to join a homeless shelter that supported them. This film shows that even if you have nothing, it’s best to start somewhere and eventually you will get where you are trying to go even through adversity. It shows that we are very adaptable people and we can make a living out of nearly anything. It shows that money is not the defining factor of whether or not you can live your life. These people appeared to be happy and smiling with specific individual goals throughout transitioning. It shows that expectations change and we, as a human race, are very adaptable and vulnerable to new and different perspectives. This theme or message relates to The Case for Trump in perspective that Donald Trump was a business man and he didn’t have very much political experience, but was able to transition to a better position through adapting.

Most of all Mexican natives reside in the United States, and Mexico should see that as an issue. And they do, yet it is just not illuminated on the media. More than 12 million migrants from Mexico, including legal and illegal, live in the US. They make up most of the immigration to this country. Immigration affects the economy greatly. Not only the economy is suffering from immigration, but also market pools, as well as the family and social culture. 

Mexican immigrants leave their own native land and leave behind open jobs that aren’t fulfilled that ruin its own economy. How is the economy supposed to function without low-skilled workers in Mexico? Without the proper labor and jobs being fulfilled in Mexico, the country would collapse, and it would be chaotic! If most of the population is leaving Mexico, who is buying? The demand for goods will decrease which leads to less business. With all the families seeking a better life, the economy would fall apart in Mexico leading to the collapse of the country. Low-skilled Mexican natives leave their families in search for a better life to prosper until they can help out the rest of their family. Leaving children behind, growing in a single-parent household or lack thereof, don’t develop properly. With the absence of one or both parents due to immigration, children are more likely to grow up without the proper development which could lead to them becoming criminals in their country. Therefore, immigration causes higher crime rates, a bad family structure culturally and a lower population rate since crime isn’t attracting. 

“People leaving their country for jobs in another country is a very or moderately big problem.” Mexico sees the problem with labor by American business owners to their people. They government in Mexico feels the economic effects of the workers leaving their own country. They see the crumbling of the family that leads to more crime. And the economy is just suffering in demand. This is an underground topic that isn’t exposed in the media too often and it should be recognized to the United States. 

In Chapter 8 of We Wanted Workers, the economic benefits from immigration is discussed and questions are brought to our attention. Most of the economic benefits are driven by the relationship between an immigrant and the native. Immigrants give natives an incentive to work harder and be more productive. Immigrants also work for less, meaning that the price for services may decrease, “somebody’s lower wage is somebody else’s higher profit” (pg. 113). But, as it may seem that millions of immigrants could change the economy significantly, natives don’t benefit that much but the immigrants do. But, it does depend on the level of skill of the immigrant. If the immigrant is highly skilled, they are much better off benefitting the natives rather than low-skilled immigrants. Borjas then went into the idea of productive spillovers and if it is a possibility. Do immigrants need to bring production into the economy when the immigrate? Is it a necessity for immigrants to be high-skilled and intelligent workers? Where should the line be drawn for the status of skill of an immigrant?