Trans-national America by Randolph Bourne. 

         This article is about the idea of the melting pot in the United States. Bourne speaks about how we are all foreign born or the defendants of foreign born. He mentioned that we all have a reason for coming to the United States. "The early colonist came over with motives no less colonial than the later." (P. 2 ph. 2 Bourne). "They came to get freedom and live as they wanted." The colonist also came so that they can escape the chaos going on in their own country. 

      I chose to write about this article because I am an immigrant. I was interested in learning a little bit more about how the whole idea of the melting pot started. I always thought that it was a great idea to call The United States a melting pot. As I got older, I noticed that others weren't too interested in learning about a culture different from there's. (p. 2 ph 2 Bourne) They did not come to adopt the culture of the American Indian." A lot of the times I see that people look at you differently once they hear you're an immigrant. I laugh at the thought of them thinking differently of me when they are too defendants of foreign-born. This article gave me a better understanding of why the colonist came here and also how the U.S is not much of a melting pot after all.  

Americans Name Government as No. 1 U.S. Problem by Justin McCarthy

       I don't believe anyone can truthfully say that the government isn't the number one problem in the United States. If you look at the graph on economy, government and unemployment from March 2014 and March 2015, you can see that there is a higher percentage for government than there is for economy and unemployment. Although the economy is one of our most problems, the government  will always be at the top. From 2000 to 2015, there's been a huge difference to how satisfied people were by the direction of the United States.

        When I hear the word politics, the first thing that comes to my mind is government. So when I saw that the title of the article had the word government, I just had to read it. I too believe that the government is the number one problem in the United States. I feel like they aren't completely honest about everything  that is going on. How can we make or try to make a change if there's a lot of things that we aren't aware of. The sentence that stood out to me the most, was "While dissatisfaction with government is by no means a new issue to the American people, it has not in recent months been as clearly the leading problem as it is now, given that fewer Americans mention the economy." More and more people are probably starting to see that the government isn't being truthful.