This quotes makes me think of the movie that we are watching in class which is Freedom Writers. The children all become close to one another, and start getting involved in the community. They planned activities and got the lady who hid Anne Frank to go their school. Everyone in that class had problems, whether it had to do in being in gangs and fighting. The teacher made them get that idea out of the students head, and introduced them to the Holocaust, to see what other people went through. The guest speakers really touched the students, and changed them into more respectable people.
2) Community requires a willingness to see people as they are different perhaps in their minds and in their bodies, but not different in their splits or in their willingness and ability to contribute to the mosaic of society."
Everybody is different, and that's why the community wants to see them for who they are and not for anything else. They want people to accept them in the community for what that individual person is. They do not want to be judged, they just want to fit in. It's good for people to be different, and for people having their own type of personality.
i love that first quote you have, it really emphasizes the importance of acceptance and how important it is to help each other. someone with a real education is a person who can relate to others and knows how to be a part of a whole, not just an individual.
ReplyDeleteI like the first quote and it went hand in hand with freedom writers, when they got over the idea of the gangs they were able to learn and see what people went through in the holocaust and it really changed their lives.
ReplyDeleteI liked the frist quote and how you related to the movie of freedom writers. and i do agree with you that the movie touched on the point that this students are no longer indiviuals they become a community and help one another becuase the all have smilar problems to deal with everyday.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with you. Nobody should be labeled, nobody should be left out. People are people. Its unfortunate the way things are and the way people look at one another. Especially kids- they can be the worst.
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