PART ONE:
Discriminated for believing
PART TWO:
Dear read,
Today you are going to read about a person or people being discriminated against just for their beliefs. You are going to read about how rough and tough some people if not many peoples lives were because they believed in things that others didn’t. Millions of people were discriminated against, sometimes not for what they believed in but for what they were such as African Americans, native Americans, and all minority groups throughout the United States and world. Everybody was discriminated sometime in their life whether they realized it or not and everybody was also the discriminator to someone in a specific situation whether they realized it or not. Most people aren’t proud for being the discriminator but they don’t really know how bad it actually hurts until they are put in the shoes of the many people being discriminated against.
There are many reasons why I chose the theme “Discrimination” for the book I read “7 Days at the Hot Corner”. In this book there are two main characters named Scott Latimer and Travis Adams. These two guys are 12th grade seniors that go to Thompson High School. They have been best friends ever since their earliest years of being in middle school and never let anyone break their friendship up. Everything was going fine for these two high school students until Travis brought Scott an article out of the school newspaper talking about a gay student in their school. After being kicked out of his parent’s house for being gay, Travis is forced to admit that the kid in the school newspaper was him and right from there everything changed. All throughout the rest of the book Scott discriminates Travis in ways he doesn’t even imagine. He never even really realizes how much and how bad he is discriminating Travis even after seeing the pain Travis is going through. Scott always just brushed it off because he was constantly always focusing on baseball and baseball has always been his main priority; relating everything him and everyone else does to the game. But Scott finding out Travis is gay almost ruins their relationship as friends because Scott has never seen Travis as a homosexual and thinks its very weird even though they have been best friends since the start of middle school. Scott doesn’t see Travis’ side of the story. Scott doesn’t understand that Travis can’t control who he likes and is attracted to and just wishes Scott and his family would accept him for who he is and not just discriminate because his beliefs and feelings are different than Scotts. Travis just wants to be treated like everyone else and not have to go through all the troubled times he has to go through just because he has different feelings than most people when he can’t control it. In conclusion there are many reasons why I chose the theme “Discrimination” for the book I read “7 Days at the Hot Corner”.
PART THREE:
Police report.
On the day of January 16, 1935 a 23 year old Caucasian male named Jorge was seen breaking into a yellow Mercedes around 2:00 A.M. After he was successfully in the Mercedes he was able to deactivate the alarm that was going off. The alarm was loud enough to wake up the owner of the car which was a African American male at the age of 45 named Tony that had been a firefighter for the city of New York for 20 years and retired this past summer due to health conditions. After the alarm of the car woke up Tony he walked outside to see Jorge stealing his flat screen televisions out of the back of his seat he quickly ran over to see who it was. Before Tony could get to the car, Jorge had opened the car door and pulled out a 9 mm pistol and shot Tony 3 times. He was shot 2 times in the right arm and once in his stomach shut below his liver. Tony then went crawling back into his house where he grabbed his 12 gauge shotgun and walked out of the house heading toward the yellow Mercedes. As Jorge saw Tony limping to the car with a 12 gauge shotgun he quickly hopped out of the car with Tony’s televisions and money that was hidden by Tony just incase there was an emergency. As Jorge took off for the woods Tony took aim and shot Jorge in the back which dropped him straight to the ground. Tony then picked up his cell phone and called 911 where we were there in just under 4 minutes. After hearing both sides of the story the cops put Tony under arrest for attempted murder and Jorge was sent to the hospital in minor conditions. That next day Tony and Jorge appeared in court for the situation and the Jury came to a decision that Tony would be sentenced to life and Jorge was set to 3 years on probation for carrying a concealed weapon without a license.
Newspaper Article
On a warm sunny day in Alabama, five African American students were found playing near pond in the back of a white mans yard. Everybody knows about this crazy white man and how not to ever step foot on his property. After the Caucasian man spotted the five kids he pulled out a rifle and shot two of them dead in the head. After cops arrived the man denied the killing of the two kids and said it was a random hunter sitting back in the woods. The policemen believed the phony story and didn’t arrest him or prosecute him in any way. They let him go with just a warning not to have a concealed weapon without a license and his life went on.
Living in a white community ever since he was born and the community has been strictly white and was racist to African Americans since the 1800’s. Knowing that the community was racist against blacks the man was let go with just a warning and three weeks later the other three African American boys were found and put in a juvenile detention center for 6 months.
Obviously these little African American boys were given very harsh consequences for going on private property when they didn’t even know they were doing anything wrong and the white man was let go way too easily after murdering two children. Where these punishments fair at all? Could you call this discrimination? What makes that one white man different than any of those 5 African American Boys?
A day in the life of….
A day in the life of a homosexual or a African American or any minority that isn’t respected as equals to the whites is probably the hardest thing anybody could go through. Being a white and not an African Americans or any minority group and being respected by society more than anyone, it’s still really tough to see those who have to go through the tuff life of being one. They are hated and discriminated against because of what they believe in and it isn’t fair. Everybody has their own beliefs and many have the same. But even an African American or Mexican that has the exact same beliefs has any ordinary white person will always be treated differently for what they are. What makes a minority any different from a white person? In my opinion nothing, they should be treated the exact same with the same rights as anyone living in this country. People that are discriminated against have to go threw name calling, racial agreements, not having the same rights, and is looked at differently just because of the color of their skin or their beliefs. Whether anybody believes it or not you are always discriminating but how much you discriminate and the way you discriminate is what means the most. People that are discriminated against have a tough life whether you see it in the person or not and there are things that they have been called and heard people say that could ruin people’s life. Nobody realizes what these people have to go through and the only way to stop it is to stop discriminating. Its going to be impossible to completely stop discrimination, but reducing it heavily will change many lives all throughout the United States and the world.
PART FOUR:
Reflection
For group one I chose a newspaper article because there are many ways to show discrimination in a made up article and I read articles everyday that deal with discrimination in some type of way. For group two I chose a police report because there are crimes every second of every day. But the crime wasn’t the key in this genre, what was the key was how each person was being looked at by the policemen, government and society. Being who you are is what you can not control but being persecuted or arrested just because you are black, or Mexican or even white in some places isn’t fair to anyone. Being arrested when you clearly did nothing is not a equal way of anything and no matter what it will happen. I did this police report because I want people to see that people that do something bad in their life are being treated way more harshly then they should be and that explains discrimination in full. Also in the second group, I chose “a day in the life of…” because nobody realizes what a day in the life of a minority or African American can be like. Nobody knows exactly what they go through until they walk into their shoes for the same amount of time the person was in them. Its sad how bad some of these people’s lives that are being discriminated against lives are and how much they have to go through. Last reason why I chose “A day in the life of….” Is because these people go through things I couldn’t even imagine and hopefully this writing will help a lot of people realize what they are doing and hopefully some day we can stop discrimination all together.
When I did this project I didn’t find much difficulty or problems except for maybe a couple. The only problems I had were the time of this project. I felt like I didn’t have enough time to finish it even though I had plenty to finish my book. I felt like the timing was good for the reading of the book but I felt like there was not enough time finishing my project. Also I thought the last genre choices were all hard to do and required a lot of work. One last thing that I thought was difficult was how the project was due on a Sunday on spring break and it’s very easy to forget to do it when you are on spring break. My reactions to this project are good. I thought it was good choice of a project at the right time. I am happy that we had a project on the book we just read because I actually learned a lot from the book by doing the project. I learned a variety of things in each genre. I mostly learned about my book more and each genre really helped me see the views of many that are being discriminated each and every day.
PART FIVE: repentends
“I have come to see more and more that one of the most decisive steps that the Negro can take is that little walk to the voting booth. That is an important step. We've got to gain the ballot, and through that gain, political power.”
--This is a quote given by Martin Luther King Jr. on January 1, 1957 at the NAACP Emancipation Day Rally enspiring all those African Americans to stand up for themselves because they are getting discriminated every day
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