A Class Divided Essay

In the film “A Class Apart” we were able to depict the fight for the civil rights the Mexican-American people in Southwest had to do to be able to have their rights recognized as citizens. It tells us the story of the relevant Supreme Court case called Hernandez vs. Texas which helped end the discrimination towards Mexican-American people.

After watching 13th it didn't make me upset at all, it made me very sorrowful, to see some of the things that African Americans had to go through. I wonder how it would feel to be kidnapped and brought to another country, to be enslaved and then freed to only be, enslaved in a different way. Know that I have watched this documentary it oped my eyes on why things are how they are know. Everything that they said in the documentary was linked together one way or another, it’s like putting together a puzzle with a lot of pieces. One thing that really stuck with me from the documentary was when they were saying that, a lot of the african american leaders around the 1960 were either killed, imprisoned or fled the country and that's why there is not a lot of African American civil right leaders, because maybe people seen what happened to the civil right activist and didn't want the same thing to happen to them. After all I don’t blame them I would want to play it safe to. On the other hand I don’t feel

In the video, “A Class Divided,” the video shows a teacher from Iowa named, Jane Elliot who wants to teach her students the importance of discrimination. During her experimentation, she starts off her lesson by asking questions such as, “What is brotherhood?” “What is discrimination?” and “How are we supposed to treat people who look different than us?” Elliot then proceeds to ask her class if they would like to know what it feels like to be discriminated. Her emphasis in this experiment is to show how it felt to be discriminated. Elliot was inspired to do this experiment when she was listening to the television the night after they assassinated Martin Luther king. She kept hearing the news reporter say things like: “who will look after your people?” and “How will your people manage?” After this she knew she had to explain to her class in a way they will understand. Elliot decided to divide the class into two categories: the brown eyed kids and the blue eyed kids. At first the blue eyed kids were the superior race while, the brown eyed kids were the lower race. Being the inferior race meant that they had to wear blue collars around their necks in order to differentiate their eye color. Of course, the brown eyed kids had restrictions. They could not play in the playground, they could not befriend nor socialize with the blue eyed kids, and etc. The kids had a chance to walk in

After watching declining by degree film, my thoughts that American institutions have most defiantly been market driven and more commercialized in the past few years and have focused more on building reputation and facilities rather than a progressive education system. Also, the documentary focused on many different issues that influences directly on the student’s performance. For example, classes size, admission fees and part time faculty. It shows how all these factors affected students.

Compared to the older generation of media and education to the contemporary modern day uses of media and education, these institutions are much differently based on the time period. My perspective of this issue is going to be much different than someone who is much older than me. The occurrence of dramatic events changes their perspective, this in other words is know as experiences. Our experiences make us who we are. Stereotype is a common term I use to describe a lot of the social issues that I continue to see throughout my lifetime. We all judge a book by it’s cover and the experiment by Jane Elliot called A Class Divided explains how humans in the previous age before the 2000s understand society. This experiment determines that humans don’t

This documentary was an exercise in response to the assassination of Dr King. Jane Elliot a third grade teacher from Iowa decided it was time to create a microcosm society after Martin Luther king Jr was killed. She performed this experiment in two separate places between kids in her all white Christian school and between adults at an Iowa State prison system on human relations. This came after they had made him a “heroes of the month for the month of February at the middle school which she teaches at. She tried to figure out a way to explain this scenario to her third grade student as to why Martin Luther King was assassinated. Jane Elliot decided to use the eye color experiment where she placed people with blue eye and brown eyes in separate groups and see how each group function when they’re discriminated against. The result of the experiment helped bring people closer as brothers and led people to understand how it felt to be discriminated against. Although Mrs. Elliot carried out this experiment with a different class of people, it would have been great to run this with

The Holding Ground documentary was powerful and highly effective in showing the struggle of the Dudley Street and the Roxbury neighborhood and their struggle to in effect take back their neighborhoods. The people in the video were passionate about their community and faced many obstacles like illegal dumping and arson for profit as well as a committee of people who had no idea about the community making decisions without having anyone in the community representing them. In the documentary, Robert Holmes, Jr a Trustee at the Riley Foundation discussed how the board was having a community meeting. He originally thought that Che Madyun was sent in as an agitator. He then realized that she was just passion about her community and had valid points.

As a victim of sexual assault, this documentary was far from easy to watch. Not only did I relive the terrors of my own personal experience, but I was also able to capture the emotions behind the experiences of each victim that told their story throughout the documentary. The Hunting Ground was a true eye opener in regards to what truly goes on behind closed doors and how relentlessly one could turn their back on the situation. The Hunting Ground follows the stories of undergraduate rape survivors and their journey to justice. The documentary also sheds light upon the victim’s Universities and Colleges and how their school’s Sexual Misconduct and Violence policies had deeply failed them.

Income Inequality is at an all-time high in the United States, and it has increased significantly since the 1970s, and now has reached levels not seen since 1928 during the Great Depression. (Pew Research Center, 2017). Today the top 1 percent takes home more than 20% of all U.S income. The outcomes of income inequality are worse in the unequal countries (Wilkinson and Pickett). The Divide documentary primary purpose is to show the growing divide between the rich and the poor in the US and UK. The individuals being interviewed have one goal in common, they are all striving for a better life for their families. The evoking emotions of the intense stories told by the interviewees and feeling empathy for the economic state display the use of

I watched a the scene where the new teacher saw the school and class room she would be working in, as well as, the students she would be teaching. The school/homeless shelter was in a very impoverished area which was reflected in the building. It was sad to see but even sadder to think that, that wasn’t just a scene in a movie, that is reality for many Americans. The scene also showed how social class can gravely affect one’s education. This is just another reason why I want to inform myself on the topic because changes need to be

The first video “blue/brown eyes” is an institutional stereotype because there are signs of unjust treatment of people based on their appearance in the school. For example, when the teacher said blue eye people are better than brown eye people, the facial expression of the brown eyes pupil changed into sad mood in the class as they felt discriminated; during break the blue eyes started fighting the brown eye. Another very interesting part of the video is when the teacher asked who is not being treated fairly in the United States and the answer was “black people”. This tells me how serious blacks are unfairly treated in the United

The documentary “The Take” tells the story of factory workers in Argentina who take matters into their own hands when their factories shut down. They do this by starting the factories up again without oversight from their bosses. This documentary relates to the Eras of economic and political development in South America we have learned about in class because it has to do with the neoliberal phase where the middle class economy was destroyed. This was during the International Monetary Found (IMF) policies. During this time the factories were being closed and all the money that went with it fled the country. The alternatives presented to globalization and neoliberalism is simply a different management structure with the motto “occupy, resist,

The documentary “Maker” presents the audience with many different perspectives about and different projects regarding the Maker Movement. This documentary begins with the words, “human beings have been making things for over one billion years.” This sentence was so interesting to me, because of how powerful it is. Human beings have been creating tools and technology since the first human being existed. Everyday people make things. Without creating things, human beings would not exist today.

The documentary begins with high school seniors receiving their acceptance letters from various colleges and showing their diverse reactions. The responses vary from crying tears of joy, to jumping up and down and screaming. The families around these students would join in the excitement to celebrate the big step towards their new chapter in life. Most of the reactions show just how emotional this time was for the whole family. The documentary then jumps straight to showing welcome weeks that all college campuses partake in for incoming freshmen. The music in the background quickly subsides and it’s replaced with college presidents speaking to incoming students about college memories and the experiences that each student will make during their

I have met so many people who have given me a new perspective to look at the world, who struck me with their values and characteristics, who have become inspirations in my stories. I would like to tell stories that reflect certain problems and bring awareness to the society. Here is a story that I would like to explore in depth: