What Could Happen If We Ignore The Past

I read The Back of the Bus, by Mary Mebane. In this essay Mebane tells us about a real life situation that she witnessed as a young girl. The situation occurred in the 1940's, while segregation was almost at it's worst. Mebane talks about the tension between the people on the bus when a white man got on and there was only one seat left, next to a black man. During all the tension the bus driver tried to tell the black man to move but, as he did a black woman stood up fighting for the black man and his seat. The bus driver realized they were at the last stop and let the situation go, as if nothing happened. I believe that the black man shouldn't have had to move but for his sake, he should have moved so he wouldn't have had to face the harsh

It is important to know what happens in the past and to celebrate what we have, and to acknowledge it. If we make the same mistakes again and again, people would be battling for everything. Almost no one would treat each other nicely. The traditions we do show us to remember what was important to others before us. Traditions let us know what was good to do in the past. Legends and stories help us remember the past and let us know who was important before, and where these stories came from.

When he had arrived in Buffalo, Lewis’s first reaction to when they had finally reached his Uncle Otis’s home. “When we reached my Uncle O.C’s home and Dink’s house, I couldn’t believe it, They had white people living next door to them...on BOTH sides.” (Lewis and Aydin March Book 1: 43) Segregation in the north wasn’t a big deal to people in the north than it was in the south and from that he experienced a lot during that visit in the north. Once he had returned back home, he knew what was different now, he understood what the problem and differences were while he was up in Buffalo and at home. It came to him when school time was coming back around in the fall. “ In the fall, I started right the bus to school ,which should’ve been fun. But it was just another sad reminder of how different our lives were from those of white children.” (Lewis and Aydin March Book 1: 47) Between the black and white community, Lewis saw how “degrading” it was when it had came to school. They didn’t have the nice playground, the nicest bus, roads, and the ugly, sad sight of the prison full of black men and only black men, but he had managed to get pass all of the gloominess with a positive outlook of reading. “ I realized how old it was when we finally climbed onto the paved highway, the main road running east from Troy, and passed the white children’s buses..We drove past prison work gangs almost every day the prisoner were always

In the second paragrpah were it states ''Two youngsters from New Jersey-sixteen-year-old Edwina Johnson and her brother Marshall, who was fifteen-arrived in Montgomery to visit relatives during the summer of 1949. No one told them about the city’s segregation laws for buses, and one day they boarded a bus and sat down by a white man and boy'' the reader learns that bus segregation was an issue in Montgomery at that time. Also the reader can infer that in New Jersey, buses were not segregated, since the Johnsons did not see that their actions would be a problem and in paragraph three of the excerpt he confirms '' Up North, they were accustomed to riding integrated buses and trains. They didn’t see now why they should give up their

This follows with a lot of the other things we learned, because up until this point almost everybody had to follow rules no matter what, the people did not get to say if they wanted to do something or not. And as we learn about different societies, we also learn about the different religions that they had. Each society is different; the Indus Valley was the only place that had Buddhism. It is important to know the different religions and see how they evolve as we see more societies pop

Tradition (culture?) plays a huge role and the start of The Good Earth and later diminishes. People believe that you should respect your elders, listen to the gods, and follow what life is planned for you. If one were to speak against their elders, they would no longer earn

Some people think there is no reason to know about the past, their excuses are “Oh, well it already happened, there’s nothing we can do about it” or “They’re already dead so it doesn’t really matter anyways”. But it really does matter, without learning what happened in the past we will make the same mistakes over and over again. Why do you think we have to learn about all the wars and what caused them? It’s so that everyone knows what mistakes were made so that it doesn’t happen again or what could happen when everyone isn’t treated equally. We basically learn lessons without having to suffer through mistakes that people in the past have made. It has to do with something like when we make really big mistakes, sometimes it haunts us forever and we want to make sure we never make the same mistake again. Without learning about the past, more people would still think certain things are okay.

This topic is about the believes and the traditions. It’s important to know the beliefs and the traditions of who ever came before us because then we can all be different from different people.

Rosa Louis McCauley Parks is an African-American Civil Rights activist whom the United States Congress call “the first lady of civil rights” and “the mother of the freedom movement”. Her bold titles match her bold actions, as on December 1st, she disobeyed her bus driver upon giving up her seat to a white passenger and was soon arrested. As the White American’s privileges over ride the African American’s rights, rules are also made to maintain that statues quo. The front of a bus and it’s seats, are for the white passengers while the back of the bus is for the African Americans. The centre is allocated for African Americans as well, however there is an imaginary ‘colour line’ which will move further and further back to fit the white passengers who would get on the bus. It is also the bus drivers job to announce when an African American passenger had to move to allow a white passenger to sit down, to add, a white passenger and an African American are not allowed to sit with one another as the African American would be forced to move to allow the white passenger to claim the seat.

“Doesn’t think any segregation law angered black people in Montgomery more than bus segregation,” ( Parks Rosa 108). “For half of my life there were laws and customs in the South that kept African Americans segregated from caucasians and allowed white people to treat black people without any respect,” ( Parks Rosa 2). “She ignored what the white bus driver said to her,” ( Parks Rosa 1). Even though she refused to give up her seat on the Montgomery bus, she was arrested by two policemen for disobeying the laws of

It is important to learn about those who came before us in order to understand how exactly this world came to be the way that it is. History is known to repeat itself, so learning about the past can help to prevent things like world wars from happening again. However, not everything can be prevented. Studying the past also shows us how things such as the death penalty was handled. Learning about Socrates and ancient Greece teaches us philosophy as well as where the modern day democracy came from.

Why is it important to know the beliefs and traditions of those who came before us? What could happen if we ignore the past? Well what I think that could happen if we do ignore the past is that we wouldn't care about our ancestors and about how Martin Luther King made the blacks do everything that the white can do. My thoughts and feelings and reflection how it impacts in my life is by the fighting and by the civil rights. People wouldn’t care about some of the President's sacrificing themselves for us. And theyre probably be no rights and no holidays because of the people in the past made them up. Probably no more civil rights and maybe total chaos going around everywhere like fighting.

A religious family in the story Why I am a Pagan by Zitkala-sa, talks about how this little girl was taught certain things that her family has always gone by. What she was taught, she now holds close to her life dearly, while also relying on it every moment of the day. Her life shows us a different view on cultural identity, how she was taught something important not only to her, but in everyone else’s as well. By showing her what the kind of men in her life mean the most to her. She says something about her religion, how it reflects her past, present, and future, along with what she stands for. She says, “I was taught long years ago by kind missionaries to read the holy book, these godly men taught me also the folly of our old beliefs.” (Zitkala-sa 2) In her culture, and

Early belief systems created a bond between people that led to communal rituals and ceremonies. People formed communities with their shared beliefs in deities. In simple words, early belief systems

This is my relation and reflection on to of the text I have read.First I want to answer the question what could happen if we ignore the past?Also the question Why is important to know beliefs and traditions?So when you read this I will be answering all of those questions in my writing.