I – Search Paper (should everyone be entitled to the same benefits?) By Laura Kinsey Do you think everyone should be entitled to the same benefits for the people who lay down their life for your freedom? Does a CEO of a corporate 500 company have the same benefits as the janitors in his/her business? I highly doubt it, I bet if he wanted to, he could hop on the company jet no questions ask. Do you think his cleaning crew has the same opportunities? I bet most of the cleaning crew has never even been on a plane, much less had the privilege of using the company jet. Does the Restaurant owner have to come to work everyday to make a living? No, he/she has employees to call in and do the work to make the money for them. Exactly my point. In this class we have learned about a few things that I would like to further research for myself. I feel like today people feel very entitled and want things that they have not contributed to. The topics I am most interested in is the GI Bill, Social Security benefits and Unemployment. We were asked in a recent module if we thought everyone should receive these benefits. To me these are all amazing benefits that this country has that others do not, but I do not think EVERYONE should get these. I think in order to get these you should have to contribute in some kind of way. We all are supposed to pay taxes. Taxes and other garnishments that they take from our checks every month are what go to fund these types of programs. If you are not working and paying taxes, then why should you get to enjoy the benefits that others pay for? So first I want to find the first idea for how these programs came about and how they have changed and developed over the years and at the end of this paper I would like to know your opinion on the matter. So first we will look at the GI Bill. It was created in June 1944 after WWII. The intentions was for veterans to have options for loans for school, homes etc. It was mostly for veterans to use for continuing their education and going to college. To provide people in the working class a higher education in a way never done before. It also provided medical care for veterans. To me this all seems like very small but great things our country is doing to try and help/repay veterans for sacrificing their own life so that you and I can have our freedom and our own opinions like we are all doing right now with writing these I-search papers. Next, lets look at when and why social security came about. It was created in August 1935 with the intentions of paying retired people over the age of 65. After they have worked all of their lives and contributed to society, they can now hang up their boots and let the younger generation contribute, and the retired can still have a income/paycheck during their retirement. So, again why should young people be entitled to those benefits when they have not contributed. And we wonder why the government says that by the time the millennials are old enough there probably wont even be anything left in the social security fund. To many people are on social security collecting money and not enough people are paying into it to keep it going. So last but not least let us look into unemployment. Unemployment was created within the social security act in 1935. Its purpose is to keep the economy stabilized when someone loses their job of no fault of their own. Do you remember a few short months ago when most people received a stimulus check? The idea was not to give you free money. The idea was to give people money so they could unintentionally keep the economy stimulated. Unemployment is founded on the same idea. Yes, it gives us money to pay our bills and buy groceries and such but if we didn’t have that money then the our landlords couldn’t pay their mortgage, the mortgage company would eventually go out of business with no one paying. It is a domino effect then next thing we know we are in another great depression and the government will play dumb like they have no idea what happened or led to such things. All of these programs are created for a reason and are meant to be used when needed and not for convenience. As Americans we have gotten complacent and lazy and expect things to be given to us when in reality we can get out and work to make our own living but we would rather keep asking for more but contributing less. I do say we because I as a fellow American have used some of these benefits at one point of my life. I do work and have worked since I was 15, but things to happen and I lost a job. Thankfully I had these options to help me until I got on my feet again and got another job, well joined the military and getting to use my GI Bill to further educated myself just like I am now in hopes to do bigger and even better things in the future. Not only for myself but for my children and all the generations after me. So, I will leave you will this. After reading all of my rambling, do you believe that EVERYONE should be entitled to these benefits or others like them and why? Maybe you can change my mind or educate me in another way that maybe in am missing. I am looking forward to anyone who replies to my paper. Thanks for reading, our semester is almost over guys. Let’s finish strong!! Happy Thanksgiving to everyone and happy holidays. Works Cited/ References https://www.ssa.gov/history/briefhistory3.html#:~:text=The%20Social%20Security%20Act%20was,a%20continuing%20income%20after%20retirement. https://eligibility.com/unemployment/history-of-unemployment-insurance

Zenos R. Miller World War 1 Diaries. 1. This is very much a diary of many men who became prisoners of war in 1918. It is a very personal diary about his life and things going on in it. Like being in the military and being promoted and then being called out to war. He is piolet and gives great insight to what he was doing and thinking, and how the military operated during this time. I have to ask myself what make him think to start a diary? Also, who found it and did they know that this diary would one day be apart of history and displayed in a museum. 2. https://transcription.si.edu/project/17875 Zenos R. Miller World War 1 Diaries it is now held and displayed by the National Air and Space Museum Library. I am not 100% sure who the audience would have been intended for because when most people write a diary they are writing for there own memories and very rare that we write with intentions of someone else finding it to read. 3. Context: During this time, we were in World War 1 and this pilot gets shot down and taken as a POW (Prisoner of War) along with many other men. Reading some of this diary is eye opening to things people went threw during these times. 4. Implications/Conclusions: Looking back at this article/diary and the time frame we are learning. I still have to ask myself How was this found and then left for people like us century years later to ready and examine. Makes me want to start writing a diary for myself as a military woman, mother and student in hopes that one day someone might also find my thoughts and use in history books to come. 5. Discussion Question: What would you have done is you found this yourself? Also, after reading this does it make you want to start a diary as well?

http://informationwanted.org/items/show/3570 What do I notice or wonder? I chose this article because it is based in the south and from my hometown of Georgia. It amazes me that someone is taken from their home and loved ones to be enslaved and they then are able to reconnect after 30years. She was sold many times and moved all over the south and couldn’t keep in touch with her family. This article also interested me due to how they were able to get in contact with one another via sending letters. In today’s time if I want to find someone I just hope on the internet and Facebook searched them and bam we are back in contact and I never had to leave my couch. Time and Place This article was from 1884. This is during the time that slavery was still a common practice and is why many slaves chose to leave the south to avoid being bought and sold as slaves. She was mistreated so badly that she finally had enough and ran away. She made it to some ships that protected her and then she went to cook for the army where she was treated better than her past. Conclusion Now that the war was over and she could try to find her family again she did. She was married and started writing many of letters to try and reach her family. She was able to finally reach her children by sending a letter to the Minister of the Gospel in Georgia. It might have taken almost 35years but there are some slaves that never have that time to continue searching. It makes me happy that she never gave up hope and was able to find her family once again. her mother after 30 years of separation.