Thursday, March 22, 2012

Prejudice Can Lead You To So Many Things



In this article a young 17-year-old name Trayvon Martin went to the nearest convenient store to buy a bag of skittles and a bottle of ice tea. George Zimmerman the neighborhood watchmen saw a teenage boy in a hoody which was Trayvon Martin. He took it as a threat and called the police asking if he could fire his gun, however, they said he was not allowed to shoot anyone. He ignored the police and went towards the 17-year-old boy and fired his gun. The social media took this action as a racist attempt to kill the young boy. Now people all around the U.S are protesting towards this horrible racism act.

Prejudice can lead to many horrible think but mostly to injustice because if one person doesn’t like someone that person won’t always agree with him or would try to harm him in some way. Like in this case George Zimmerman felt prejudice to Trayvon Martin and that leaded Zimmerman to kill Martin. There were no cameras or any witnesses so he claimed that he acted in self-defense.

Some of each individual’s responsibility is to learn about others customs and cultures so they do not become prejudice and therefor their innocents will not be harmed. There wont be anything against each individual to harm each other.  Another responsibility as an individual would be to protect the innocent, it doesn’t matter if it’s someone you know or someone you don’t, you should always to the right thing and protect the innocent.

Many people are afraid of something they don’t even understand making them act the way George Zimmerman did on February 26th. He didn’t understand that Martin was more than just a black person in a hoody; he was a human being that had a bright future ahead of him. They way Zimmerman acted not only affected Martins feature it also made his parents loose a son and his brother to loose his only brother.

People are blinded by racism and discrimination that they don’t see what even really matters. Like if Martin was a girl I think he would have had higher chances of survival. Its horrible in what people keep in there minds about other people, instead of wondering if the person is a good and polite or if he was rude and uncivilized they wonder and judge them by there color. Its messed up that its counted suspicious if a black man is walking on the road and its normal for a white man to do.

Zimmerman made a fool out of him self, its sad that Trayvon Martin is dead today and George Zimmerman is still out there not being arrested for he has done. He should have been arrested a month ago for the racism act he just pulled of. I hate that we live in a world that people still can’t get along with each other as one.





Wednesday, March 14, 2012

To Kill A Mocking Bird Chapter 8


Finding out that Mrs. Radley died was horrible and we were shackled from going to that house. Jem and I think Boo was the on who killed her even tough Atticus making up a story that she died of natural cases. Jem started interrogating Atticus to find out if he was making up the story or if he was telling to truth, but Atticus was in no mood to answer back.  After a while Jem and I apprehended that Atticus was upset and  didn’t not ask more questions.
We came home early that day; it was bizarre, cold, and snowing for the first time in a while. 75 years has elapsed since it has rained the last time. It was nice not having the hot sweltering weather and instead having a nice and cold weather. Jem and I wanted to build a snowman, but there was not enough snow so we waited for more snowflakes to fall. But that was still not enough, so Jem had an idea to make a snowman out of dirt and then covering it with the little snow that we had. He started putting the gentle snow meticulously on top of the snowman. When Atticus saw the snowman he started lionizing it, and complimenting Jem and I. Soon the snowman started looking like Mr. Avery, so Jem and Atticus conspired to put a hat on the snowman to disguise it.
After finishing building the snowman a fire starts in Miss Maudie’s house, it was calamitous. Having a fire while it was snowing was a total anarchy to all of us. Looking in front of the house and everyone crowding. It was just a matter of time when we went there and assimilated into the crowd.
Seeing the huge fire that struck on Miss Maudie’s house made it imminent that it was going to collapse.

Dear Lily

Dear Lily,


            How are you? 5 years has elapsed since we had seen each other. I hope you are having fun with August. Is she treating you good? The day still haunts me, when Zach was apprehended and May committed suicide. How long has it been since you have seen your dad? I hope he is not bothering you anymore. Ever since so many white people have interrogated me, it has been a calamity. Each day I stay here, I assimilate on to the crowd even more.
                       
How is your relationship with Zach? Has he proposed? I want you to know that I am so proud of you and how strong you have been lately. Please be meticulous when you are on the streets alone, there are still many bad people out there. Right now over here there has been a huge anarchy, how about over there?
I bet you are so smart as August has put you in school and you must be learning a lot lately. How is school? Have you made new friends? Are they nice to you? Are they lionizing you like they did with your mother?  Please reply me back when you read this. I miss you so much.

Loves,

Rosaleen