The poem that I had just read was pretty creepy. If I were to en dup like the skeleton and the poet (the person’s voice peaking), then I would feel the same anguish that the poet felt as he/she was tar and feathered and then burned alive. Could there be a death far worse than that? Overall, despite the fact that the poet wrote of that horrible fate that befell the man/woman, it was very well written. One can feel and experience the emotions that person was going through. It’s almost as if you were experiencing the pain that the person felt before he/she died.
When I read the first few sentences, I thought that it would end like “The Lottery” and the villagers would kill the old man, but it turned out well. The story reminded me of a few Japanese folktales that I read a little while ago. In those stories, the elderly are seen as the grandfather in this story: wise and full of experience. I liked how Ivan listened to his daughter’s wisdom and kindness and brought Grandfather back to their house. Even when there was a famine in the village, they didn’t tell anyone about Grandfather. It shows that they care about their family members after all.
I think that the picture of the “white” water fountain is really depressing. I’m really glad that we don’t have segregation in our country anymore, but I know that there are still racist people in the world. It makes me sad that people are still like that, and it also irritates me because they should know by now that being racist is really ridiculous and that no one will listen to them. Except for their crazy friends, that is.
Once again with the segregated restaurant, it’s just like the “white” water fountain. I have no idea why people could act like that in the first place. It’s not like everyone looks the same anyways, so why did people separate people based on their skin color? That’s just silly. I would side with Martin Luther King, Jr and Rosa Parks if I was in their time.
I had never heard about the Rosewood Massacre before today. It’s horrible how people lynched others because a rumor (that could have been possible). An entire town was abandoned because of the attack. What kind of people could do that? It scares me that even in the 20th century there were lynchings, but one can never tell what certain people can do especially if they’re angry. In the article, I read that there had been other lynchings and a publicized incident before the Rosewood Massacre, which also creeps me out. How many people during that time saw the incident and say nothing about it?
After I read the article about Wiesenthal, I wondered how so many Nazis could escape. Then I thought about all that they had done and it made even less since to me, unless they got help from each other. I think that Wiesenthal was a pretty impressive guy to catch so many of the Nazis that had escaped. I’m glad that Wiesenthal put them in prison and he didn’t kill them, despite all the wrongs done to him by those people. I thought that that was awesome of him, because otherwise he would be just as bad as the Nazis themselves.
Out of the thirteen actor and actresses, I only recognized three of them, and I only saw one of them (or group) in a movie. The others did not light up any light bulbs in my memory at all. I only know Charlie Chaplin, Shirley Temple, and The Marx Brothers, and out of them, I have only seen The Marx Brothers in a movie. The other two I only recognize. But the one movie that I did see was pretty funny. Is it a coincidence that they’re all Caucasian?
When I first saw this picture (the one with the people harvesting crops or farming), I had no idea what I was looking at. But I think I know what I’m looking at now. They’re either African American (“black”) people farming, or they are farming on a really large plantation (so to speak). I can’t really tell because of their huge hats, long sleeved shirts, and long pants. Plus their gloves.
Those poor people. I can’t imagine what it’s like to live in such a way, living under a tent, probably starving to death. Eve my experiences with camping, hiking, and crawling around caves couldn’t compare to something like that, right? This reminds me of the Great Depression, which was around the early 20th century. Many people lived in shacks in clumps, which were called Hoovervilles. But they weren’t exactly living under a tent like this family.
I remembered seeing this picture from last year in social studies class. It symbolized the Great Depression and the hardships that people endured during the time. This picture was very much like the last one except that it seems to be only the single mother and her two children. What does this woman do to survive with her children? What would happen if one of them got sick or if she herself got sick?
The final picture is like two of the others (the third and the fourth). It’s almost like a mix of the two. I wonder how people felt when the government stopped segregation. Did they feel shame or guilt? Perhaps they tried to make it up to the people hat they had wronged? I bet that there were quite a few who didn’t change their signs and kept trying to segregate “whites” and “blacks”. So what did the government and other people do about that?
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