The Crash
Today was like all the morning having to get up with of yelling and screaming of my parents downstairs. I was tired I usually got up go downstairs and they would be quiet so that I wouldn't notice. How pathetic I thought they try so hard for me not to listen to them yelling all the time, but I can and I do hear them. When I wake up in the mornings I do, when we go to school I do, when I get picked up from school, while I do homework, we have diner, and I fall asleep with them yelling at each other. They will never change. But today was going to be different. I got ready for school got my breakfast, and waited in the car. My father got in second while my mother closed the door of the house. I put in my headphones and blasted them
Communication is important in our lives as it enables us to interact with one another, and allows us to form and build upon relationships with other people. However, when communication is not effective or colored by personal biases, it may lead to conflict. In the movie Crash, the characters are faced with a number of social issues, born from their inability to communicate with one another as well as their perceived notions of racial and cultural biases. Through the interactions between the characters this film allows us to understand how interpersonal communication affects individuals be it with strangers, friends, or family.
Now I guess it’s time to tell you guys what happened with my parents and my families situation. So, it all starts the last day of 10th grade. I came home and they were both there sitting on the couch waiting for me.
On 6Mar18 at 1114 hrs. I, Deputy Halbasch, was dispatched to Co Rd 18 near the lake access to Boulder Lake for a traffic accident.
Many movies try to tackle huge issues that face society in hopes that the ideas presented will encourage society to change. In Crash directed by Paul Haggis, he tackles the idea of racism through cause and effect between multiple groups of people in the different races. The world has been racist and intolerant of people different from themselves. Millions of people have suffered due to the prejudice of people that couldn’t understand the change of differences among one another. Long time ago, in the United States people who were not straight white, that didn’t have blue eyes or blonde hair but had darker skin were classified as inferior to anyone else. Racism has been a problem since the very first day two men of different races met. Even now, racism is still considered a big issue in our society. The movie Crash shows good examples of how racism against oneself is caused by fear, misunderstanding, deals with the issue of stereotypes and the idea of innocence and has an element of kill or be killed with the imperfections of life.
Some cars slowed down and pointed their headlights in our direction. They probably saw our vehicle’s tracks in the smashed snow. One family stopped and rolled down their window.
It was late October, 2011, when my parents told me we’re moving. I didn’t believe them. “What kind of joke is this? This is jaw dropping.“ But later, a sudden coldness hit at my core and I realized that they were serious. More deliberate questions popped in my mind. “Why would we move? What about my friends? Who is going to pay for the house?” These were all questions that initially ran through my jumbled mind. My parents refused to answer my questions. This however, got me extremely angry. How could they force such a change in my life and ignore my questions? My parents were being bitter, not because they were making me move, but because they were completely ignoring my feelings and questions. My opinions, pointless and powerless, meant nothing to them because the choice has already been made. After all, I’m pretty sure no one would like to move to a new country and adapt to a new environment.
This movie has a very good outlook on racism and on how we should treat others. Another example was a married American couples, their car got stolen by two African American guys. Who felt insulted by the women look and decided to revenge to them by stealing their car. Sometimes people hurting others by looking at them, especially if that person was discriminated before he will experience that feeling most of the time. Later on in the movie we observed that lady being very rude to her housekeeper, she didn’t like the way she completed her work, in most case just because she was not American. Also, she was arguing about the Mexican guy who was replacing their door key. I think by putting all this characters together the movie crash was trying
I responded to the above location in response to a private property vehicle accident Unit 1 was a 2007 Chrysler Aspen driven by Talia Cornett. Unit 2 was 2012 Ford Fiesta owned by Minna Mcleod.
When winter approached my car was transformed into a frozen ice block along with the rest of Indiana. As the days passed, frigid sheets of snow and ice that covered the roads and stores covered my car as well. At that point, I realized my car was ugly and nearly worthless, but my parents wanted me to remain positive, focusing on what the car did do. My vehicle had functioning heat and four-wheel-drive for the snow; however, none of that matters if the car is too cold to start. As the winter progressed, the car became more and more difficult to drive. Though I knew the moment I had been waiting for was quickly approaching, my parents and I didn't have the money for a new car to replace it, and that's when I experienced a change of heart and
When your parents tell you that they are disappointed in you it's worse than being yelled at. As a child you never want to hear your parents say that to you, even as an adult it hurts. Its as if a piece of you is cut off and lost forever. So when I was sitting there watching my mother
I was sitting backstage of the Pasadena City College auditorium waiting for my name to be called. I had been practicing my speech in the mirror for days and made sure to give it to several friends and adults to check for any mistakes. Although nothing could completely prepare me to talk in front of the 1750 teenagers attending the Adelante Young Men's Conference. The fear of stuttering or mispronouncing a word kept me from focusing on perhaps the most meaningful moment of my life. As I thought about a show I had watched a couple days before called “Crashing” starring Pete Holmes a failing comedian who is always being booed off stage by unimpressed crowds, I could feel myself digging a bigger and bigger psychological hole. So I did the most logical thing I could imagine and thought “Why am I here in the first place?”
For years growing up, I always counted on getting my driver’s license the day I turned sixteen. I never really put much thought into the awareness and heed that is required while behind the wheel. I was an immature girl, not thinking about what consequences my actions could hold. My adolescent views of the world were about to land me in a world of hurt.
I woke up on a beautiful sunny day in Salmon Idaho. I got out of bed and got my dirty ripped overalls on. I went out to my shop and started working on the truck my neighbor wanted me to fix up. When all of a sudden I heard a two trucks pull in. They dropped off a crappy “one star hand me down ford to try to fix up. With some part time cash from driving a tractor,” I got to work fixing up my new one star ford. Once I got into the dirty grease covered oil smelling engine there was a couple of problems. Then transmission was nearly completely gone, the engine was too small for a racing truck, it needed new wheels, axles, and a bunch of other stuff.
Today when I woke up I had wish last night was a dream, however when I asked mother it was not. I hade so many questions I was so confused, however I had to leave for school. School was not that greater either I got into an argument with my mean teacher and left the class and went to study hall. Then I got called down the office and had a big argument with the principle about my dad and me not facing the facts about my father. I couldn’t believe that she had the nerve to say these things that was truly mean. to me My father is coming home just not yet! Then the principle yelled at me for being a poor student, I really dislike him.
No I’m not saying my life is completely awful, I do have good moments but not as often as I do bad ones. A plethora amount of problems started with my mom and somehow moved its way towards my dad and then my siblings. Everything isn’t how it should be and where there should be love there is hate and it just makes everything even more stressful when trying to focus on work and education. My dad is the type of person everyone wants to know and love but behind the walls of the house he takes all the anger in him and releases it like a tormented dragon on the knights he calls his family. My mom is a people pleaser but that gets in the way a lot because she tries to please so much that all the stress she gets from the day she holds back comes back home with her and wrecks everything. My house is a constant alarm clock going off that has no snooze button. There is never a silent moment. There is never peace.