Month: September 2018

Blog post: What is the problem in these scenarios in the readings you divided with your group members? Is there a solution offered? Use the TRIAC paragraph format and quote. Be sure to identify which reading you did.

What I am reading is Strangers on a Plane, and the main character is talking about is a girl and how she is afraid to fly and how she has an accent. one of the problems in the readings is that what she is saying that people judge her on how she looks and the way she looks, she also says that “Accent by itself is a shallow measure of language proficiency, the linguistic equivalent of judging people by their looks. Instead, we should become aware of our linguistic biases and learn to listen more deeply before forming judgments.” what she is explaining that when people have a different accent as each other, people tend to make judges against each other. Also, with people having an accent, “it can lead to real discrimination in job interviews, performance evaluations and access to housing, to name just a few of the areas where having or not having a certain accent has profound consequences.” there is basically no solution for people, but people need to get their act together. 

Blog Post—Why is “us” and “them” thinking a problem?  Choose an example of us and them thinking from Adichie to discuss.  Use the TRIAC paragraph format and quote from Berreby, Sapolsky, and/or Adichie.

Don’t forget that your self-assessment in the Google doc is due Friday.

An example of the us and them is the method “were all in this together”  because maybe som epeople are not very nice people and people who you can’t work with which isn’t good. An example of this is working in a kitchen as a group and most of the people are working together, but one person isn’t doing a very good job because they are slacking off and they can slow down the kitchen. Another example on how bad this is is that 19 men went to save people from the burning houses on 9/11 and risked their lives, but they weren’t apart of “Us”. “19 young men decided they could kill thousands of people they had never met, because those victims didn’t count.” They risked their lives to save people who they didn’t know

 

 

Write a blog post in which you explore the 3 kinds of power that Andrews proposes as necessary to successful movements.  Use a movement you know about or can imagine as an illustration.  You can use the itgetsbetter.org movement by reading Savage in Emerging.

In Andrews article, he explains 3 different types of power for a social movement. The first power he expresses is cultural power. Its when people share public opinion, language, and behavior. Some of the ideas that the people brainstorm basically go nowhere. But forming a group and a community to at least try makes a statement in our society. Cultural power isn’t that easy though, its hard to change peoples attitudes and beliefs as they go along.

The second power that Andrews explains is disruptive power. This is more costly for people to join the status quo. For example, when people are on strike for better pay or work conditions, they have a chance for losing their jobs fully and not being able to work. usually, disruptive power causes counterattacks between its people. Jerry Jones was going to bench his players for protesting the national anthem, but before he was with protesting the national anthem.

Lastly, the third power is the organization power. People organize a protest so they can get a lot of people to join and and hope to start a movement and make a statement in what they want. This also has some risks, if people don’t show up to this or the police find out and shut this all down. A example is Ghandis protest and what he did. he organized all these people for civil disobedience “don’t fight back”

A movement I know is the Womens march. the Womens march is very important because they still want equal rights as men, and they are fighting for better rights. they gather tons of women with signs and posters.

 

 

 

An illustration that Duhigg states is when Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on the bus to a white person. It actually started a movement between black people and rebel. There were tons of friendships and relationships forming after Rosa Parks was put in jail. This started a movement, and black people weren’t showing up to their jobs until they got equal rights as the whites did. “And the Power of those friendships became apparent as soon as Parks landed in jail. (p. 89) All of the people became friends and stated a community to rebel together. they were all angry. “So when she was arrested, it triggered a series of social habits– the habits of friendships– that ignited an initial protest.” (p. 88) They were all angry and come together to protest together, as a group and a family.

Quotations should always be integrated fluidly. Locate 3 places where Duhigg includes quotations, noting the strategies he uses to integrate quotations into his sentences. Write a TRIAC paragraph that illustrates and analyzes 1 of the 3 places that Duhigg uses a quote.

A few quotes would be Duhigg talking about Rosa Parks on page 89, Another quote on page 97 when he is talking about christ and faith, lastly, another quote would be 91 when he is talking about political movements. Generally, what Duhigg is talking about is Civil Rights Movement, and Megachurches.

Everyone deserves to be treated equally, no matter the skin color or who you are, it is important to treat everyone with respect. Rosa Parks is a very important and influential black women. She stood up for herself when she was just very young. Rosa parks was sitting in front of the bus (where whites were supposed to sit), she stood her ground and stayed in the front of the bus. She ended up getting in trouble because blacks were suppose to sit in the back while whites sit in the front. She ended up going to jail. This shows that blacks and whites should be treated equally. Duhigg says “Rosa parks called her parents from the police station…” “Another negro women has been arrested and thrown into jail because she refused to get up out of her seat on the bus for a white person to sit down” Now since Rosa Parks did this, all the black people are not giving up their seats. white people were fascist to black people, and blacks didn’t get as much rights as the whites did. Everyone should be treated the same, and with respect, no matter your skin color or how you look, kindness goes a long way.

 

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