Saturday, November 10, 2012
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A Class Divided Summary
The Documentary was based on eye color with two different
groups. These two groups were in third grade and all of them were white. Jane
Elliot, the teacher began to ask the class whether the people in America are
treated equally. The children replied yes and pointed out that the blacks and
the Indian Americans were not treated like “brothers”. She did this experiment to help the students
to understand how discrimination affects lives.
She divided the class over two days the first day the blue
eyed were the superior and the the second day she made the brown eyed
superior. Some ways that Elliott made
one group feel superior is by having five minutes extra recess, they can drink
directly from the fountain and can play on the playgrounds equipment. And the
other less superior had to drink with a paper cup form the fountain, couldn't play with the superior group, they couldn't play with the playground equipment
and had to wear collars around their neck so they could be easily seen.
In conclusion I think that this was very important lesson
for the students it would help understand how discrimination works and how it
can emotional affect people. I think it’s a good idea that she did this with a
young students as they can learn from a young age not to discriminate.
People With Disabilities
People with
Disabilities have achieved many things some more than an ordinary person will
ever achieve. The only different is that
they might find it difficult to learn or express their emotions as shown in the
“Down’s syndrome in 21st century” video.
Some families take this as blessing towards them as some children with
disabilities are more discipline. But people with disabilities should not be
looked down on. For example the Katy Perry video it showed a girl who vastly
improved in social behavior and had a chance to sing with Katy Perry. A great
example of an extraordinaire person with disabilities is Stephan hawking who is
a theoretical physicist. In conclusion they should not be treated differently
than others.
The Quotation Quiz
Goal 3 Culture & Communication
Outcome 4
Name: Hamad
Baharoon ID# h00253007
With a partner, research the internet to find the missing
categories. Write the meaning of the quote in your own words from your own
ideas:
Cultural Views
Speaker
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Quote
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Meaning
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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A people that values its
privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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People with privileges must help unprivileged people in order
to keep their principles with their privileges otherwise they will lose both.
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Martin Luther King
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All men are caught in an
inescapable network of mutuality.
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Every person is linked somehow.
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Sheik Zayed
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"A nation without a
past is a nation without a present or a future. Thanks to God, our nation has
a flourishing civilisation, deep-rooted in this land for many centuries.
These roots will always flourish and bloom in the glorious present of our
nation and in its anticipated future.
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Any country that doesn’t value
its past, can’t appreciate its present or future. This country, thanks to
God, has a rich past, does well for now and its expected future.
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Every individual is
a meeting ground for many different allegiances, and sometimes these
loyalties conflict with one another and confront the person who harbors them
with difficult choices.
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Sometimes it’s hard to
choose what allegiances to follow because it may conflict with another.
|
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Mohandas Gandhi
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A nation’s culture resides in the
hearts and souls of its people.
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Cultures exists in the acts
of the people
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Traditions deserve to be
respected only insofar as they are respectable – that is, exactly insofar as
they themselves respect the fundamental rights of men and women.
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Different cultures should
respect rights of both genders.
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ML King Jr.
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God doesn’t care about skin
color. God cares about freedom for everyone.
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Desmond Tutu
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My humanity is bound up in yours,
for we can only be human together.
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All humans are equal and
there is no difference.
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Frank Borman
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The view of the Earth from
the Moon fascinated me—a small disk, 240,000 miles away. It was hard to think
that that little thing held so many problems, so many frustrations. Raging
nationalistic interests, famines, wars, pestilence don't show from that
distance.
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Looking at the earth from space,
one wonders why we can’t get along decently.
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Pablo Casals
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The love of one’s country is a splendid
thing, but why should it stop at the border?
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A person should love not only his country
but others as well.
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DD. Eisenhower
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A world that begins to
witness the rebirth of trust among nations can find its way to a peace that
is neither partial nor punitive. With all who will work in good faith toward
such a peace, we are ready, with renewed resolve, to strive to redeem the
near-lost hopes of our day.
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If people of the world can’t get
along, nothing will work.
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Sheikh Zayed
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Many countries go to war and then
towards reconciliation. The history of mankind is full of stories of wars
between people and states that have come together after fighting for long.
Why can't Arabs be like them?
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Countries have fought and
then made peace this has happened many times. Arabs should learn from this.
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Matrin Luther King
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People should be judged by
their acts rather than where they come from.
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For it is often the way we look
at other people that imprisons them within their own narrowest allegiances.
And it is also the way we look at them that may set them free.
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Don’t judge other people
because of their allegiances.
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Monday, October 22, 2012
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