35 Dumb Things Well-Intended People Speak Analysis

Tim Wise’s lecture was very interesting and made me see a side to race that I haven’t seen before. Many things stood out to me throughout his lecture, one being his perspective on why the slogan now and days is “black lives matter” instead of “all lives matter.” He made the point that being white and have white lives matter is the norm for many but when it come to black people they are felt as being outside the norm. One thing that could be done to join these races together is finding a way to change it for “black lives matter” to “all lives matter.

2. This statement is true, and I know this because in life, many bullies treat their victims very badly, like they aren’t human. But, at the same time, the bullies figure out that one thing that hurt them the most. The author is trying to convey the message to not bully others, because not only does the victim get hurt, but the bully gets hurt, too.

How would you feel if you had to apologize for something that wasn’t your fault? Cassie didn’t like it when she had to apologize to Lillian Jean when it wasn’t even her fault. This is evident when Cassie had to apologize to

The week had been strenuous, yet productive. The multiple meetings with fellow organizations and countless hours of volunteer services depleted my energy. Add the hours of academic work, and well, I could never complain that my life was uneventful.On this eventful day, the Social Justice Fellows were holding our monthly guest speaker meeting. Although at the time I was feeling lethargic, the monthly meetings always gave me a boost of inspiration. I have an affinity towards academia and activism, but an even stronger affinity towards intellectual discourse. Which these meetings never left me disappointed.

In the poem to This Day by Shane Koyczan It symbolizes bullying and that words can actually hurt someone and so can sticks and stones can also hurt people but that it is not right to call people names because it can hurt them but they don’t show it and it is wrong to bully people with words and other

I had to explain to my boyfriend how disproportionately people of color are affected by climate issues. One of the issues alliance brought up was, a child of color goes to the hospital for asthma related attacks in southern California three times more than a white child. This is due to lack of education, lack of equipped staff, lack of proper air ventilation, and lack of health care access. Obviously the dust in the air isn’t personally attacking children of color, but the way Americas education system is set up leads to these circumstances.

From the looks of things it has. Everything is disputable if you believe it is. In the New Yorker article, “The Things People Say,” Elizabeth Kolbert explores the social implications of the Information Age as well as the new reality created as a result. Kolbert begins by introducing the scene of Representative Mike Castle’s town hall meeting receiving a woman’s question of President Obama’s origin of birth. Kolbert highlights that Representative Castle “appeared flummoxed.” She explains the question is connected to a widespread phenomena named as the “birther movement” (Kolbert). It was a movement based on the belief that Barack Obama is not a United States citizen and thus ineligible to be president. The “birther movement” started as an idea

On October 4th I attended one of the Courageous Conversation Series and this one in particular was about ways in how to participate in protesting. This was presented by a professor in the sociology department on campus, Paul Prew. I feel as if people were nervous to ask questions because people were of different races and felt as if they would offend people.

The event I attended was the showing of the speech I’ve Been to the Mountaintop by Martin Luther King. King’s speech provided a lot of insight on the topic of injustice as well as peaceful protesting. Afterwards, different panelists came together and debated about this speech and what they took away from it. This event definitely put me out of my comfort zone in terms of ethnicity, and made me realize many things.

I was able to gain and strengthen my public speaking skills when I entered a impromptu speaking contest. This organization allowed for a manifold group of people to come together to promote professionalism, success and most importantly a more diverse agricultural work force. If I was given the chance to change anything about the experience I wish I could've started out with a much more accepting mindset because I felt my previous assumptions hindered my absorption of what was presented to me at the first meeting and first few workshops. I would also want more students to be exposed to this opportunity so the definition and mold of what a minority is according to society could be redefined. With this, I, along with other students and teachers, worked to establish a Jr. MANRRS Chapter at CHSAS. Overall, this experience enlightened me and made me more comfortable with a very hostile topic, especially

III, Bullying can affect anyone, so you can gain something from this speech by being informed about bullying

Apologies are very important and quite powerful in societies. People vary in how they view apologies, specifically, children compared to adults. Children and adults are very different considering their emotional development and it plays a large role in how they view apologies. Previous research on apologies targeted adults, so there is not much known on how children view them. This is why Smith, Chen, and Harris (2010) conducted a study focusing on how children view apologies on an emotional level. The two emotional functions they studied was how a transgressor expressed their remorse and the victim’s alleviation of upset feelings after a moral transgression took place.

This situation has stuck around with me for a long time. I think it’s important that we understand that even though we think that there are certain things that are situationally implied, this can be dangerous thinking because quite honestly you don’t know what the other person is thinking and if you assume you can end up hurting someone. My age is not an excuse, my awkwardness and inexperience in relationships is not an excuse, there is no explanation other than my failure to do the right thing. When I said I was sorry to her I meant it and I still mean it.

Apologizing can be a gate way to forgiveness when you right your wrongs in a situation but to gain someone forgiveness is only earned with a small sincere apology.

Strangely, these two crucial words often get lost or conveniently forgotten during the apology process, as if by uttering them we reveal weakness. But you’ve already acknowledged fault and personally owned up to the problem, so set your ego aside and don’t choke on the words. Your ability to be direct and specific will convince the injured party you understand the gravity of the situation and can empathize with them in the predicament you’ve perpetrated. Take a deep breath, make eye contact, and state clearly: “I’m sorry. I apologize.” That’s not weakness; that’s courage.