In 2014, Obamacare started helping out 7.3 million people. It was the largest increase of social welfare in a very long time. The first case of Ebola was documented in the United States. It is said that it came to this country from Liberia and West Africa. The illness affected more than 22,000 people and killed about 9,000 of them. Lastly, republicans took over a majority of the Senate, which caused a lot of difficulty to the Obama Administration. In 2015, a lot of violence took place. In the beginning of the year, riots took place over the situation regarding Freddie Gray. This took place shortly after the incident in Ferguson, Missouri. The shootings in San, Bernardino took place as well. This was also organized my Islamic terrorists. Shortly following this, Islamic terrorist also attacked Paris. Other non-violent things took pace in 2015; such as Donald Trump started running for president and Pope Francis made his first visit to the United States. The first thing I remember to happen in the year 2016 was that Leonardo DiCaprio won his first Oscar. A NASA mission finally made its way to Pluto. It is also Obamas last year as president and Donald Trump became the president …show more content…
I tried very hard to think about ways in which the history can relate to my jobs at the time, but I found it very hard to find the relationships between them. At the end of my research, I ended it on learning that NASA’s mission (New Horizons) finally reached Pluto, which is what it was set out to do . This was interesting to me and I actually did some more in depth research on this. When doing so I discovered that this mission was actually launched in 2006, and has taken 9 years for this device to make it’s way though outer space. This made me chuckle because in 2006 is when I first entered the working world. I feel this this event symbolizes my growth in my career. Just like the name of the mission, New Horizons, I too was just starting and learning about the possibilities out there for me. At this time I was not quite sure what I wanted to be, just like NASA was not sure what it was going to find. However, as time went I I discovered what my passion was and in 2015, decided to really pursue it. I have finally reached the end in deciding what I want to be at the same time that the New Horizons device reached its final