Good evening Ceciley:
You are missing work from your blog. Namely you are missing the 10 questions and topic that you were supposed to post Friday, April 14. By not posting these questions, you have significantly delayed getting feedback from me and having a clear direction for your next essay.
Sunday, April 16, 2017
Monday, April 10, 2017
Wiesel and Steinke
As children we are given certain tools and taught a handful of humanity laws by our parents and other adults. Humanity laws are laws that aren't documented by the official government or congress but are just known rules about how to respect and care for man-kind. The saying "help thy-neighbor" goes really far when the help is truly needed and cannot be achieved by the neighbor himself. As I was reading "The Perils of Indifference" by Elie Wiesel, I understood more of how vital it can be to help "thy- neighbor" when the help can save multiple lives.
Elie Wiesel wrote a speech and he performed his speech at the White house lecture in front of Bill and Hillary Clinton. In his speech he spoke about his experience as a little boy in the Holocaust and how his first feeling of liberation since the Holocaust began was that feeling he got after being rescued by American soldiers. He begins to define indifference after speaking about the violence that plays a part in American history, in World history. When he defines indifference he say's that it's easy to chose to be indifferent because it's like choosing no side, but when it comes to choosing no side it could also mean the victim of the antagonist will remain a victim in other words being indifference is like saying they do not care.
Like Elie Wiesel describes how being indifferent can negatively affect one side or the other, the author of Friendswood, Renee Steinke, gives a vivid imagery of how indifference played a role in the relationship of multiple characters in the story. A girl named Willa got raped after attending a day party at a football players house and one of her classmates and new friend-to-be, Dex, witnessed it happen and kept quiet about it. While she was being bullied and marginalized in school and the guys who initiated the rape were walking around acting like nothing happened, Dex was contemplating tellling someone. In the beginning of the story he was indifference about telling someone, anyone about what really happened to her to bring her situation to justice.
Wiesel and Steinke's examples of indifference both tied to how the consequences of not being able to choose a side especially for the sake of humanity, can cause the situations to escalate. The ending result of remaining indifference can also be chaotic and end a lot of lives.
Elie Wiesel wrote a speech and he performed his speech at the White house lecture in front of Bill and Hillary Clinton. In his speech he spoke about his experience as a little boy in the Holocaust and how his first feeling of liberation since the Holocaust began was that feeling he got after being rescued by American soldiers. He begins to define indifference after speaking about the violence that plays a part in American history, in World history. When he defines indifference he say's that it's easy to chose to be indifferent because it's like choosing no side, but when it comes to choosing no side it could also mean the victim of the antagonist will remain a victim in other words being indifference is like saying they do not care.
Like Elie Wiesel describes how being indifferent can negatively affect one side or the other, the author of Friendswood, Renee Steinke, gives a vivid imagery of how indifference played a role in the relationship of multiple characters in the story. A girl named Willa got raped after attending a day party at a football players house and one of her classmates and new friend-to-be, Dex, witnessed it happen and kept quiet about it. While she was being bullied and marginalized in school and the guys who initiated the rape were walking around acting like nothing happened, Dex was contemplating tellling someone. In the beginning of the story he was indifference about telling someone, anyone about what really happened to her to bring her situation to justice.
Wiesel and Steinke's examples of indifference both tied to how the consequences of not being able to choose a side especially for the sake of humanity, can cause the situations to escalate. The ending result of remaining indifference can also be chaotic and end a lot of lives.
Monday, February 6, 2017
After reading East Chicago lead contamination galvanizes residents by Craig Lyons and Drinking Water in Newark Schools Known to Have Lead Problem at Least 6 Years Ago by Patrick McGeehan, I got and understanding that both environments were going through a lead contamination in there water crisis. Both neighborhoods were informed that there was lead contamination in the water. The steps the towns took to resolve the issues were so contrasting. The mayor in East Chicago took matters right away and sent out letters to notify the residents about the contamination and that they needed to evacuate their houses because of contamination compared to how the school district and government took action was very different and ethical how the mayor in East Chicago listened to his citizens and pushed for his community to have the contamination resolved by the higher government officials find a solution. In East Chicago, Maritza Lopez reminds me of how Lee was in Friendswood. She was aware of how severe the problem of having lead contaminated water and she tries to notify her neighbors and the people in the community because things get done better with a larger group of people's support and just to spread awareness. I believe that if Friendswood's mayor continues to bypass the small percentage, of water that's not considered 'highly leveled' for lead, the situation wont die down it will only continue to develop into a bigger problem, like how the lead contamination continued to be pushed to the side in Newark. Only to believe that if it's not labeled as "high levels of contamination' it's not worth getting funds from the government to replace the pipes and work towards having clean water.
Monday, January 30, 2017
Reading Log Questions
1. In the book Friendswood Willa is Dani's bestfriend and Dex's assigned partner in class. Willa's relationship with her parents was healthy, after her dad's schedule at work changed recently she hasn't been as willingly open to them. She hadn't told her parents about her visions. "She wrote down a list of the visions that had appeared so far. There had been a little girl, reaching up with both arms for Willa to hold her." She had visions in her dreams about people and flashes of certain colors. I believe the origin of these visions came from an affect of living in a neighborhood that was chemically contaminated. Willa could have also gotten these visions has a birth defect, because Willa's parents were friends with Lee and Lee's daughter died because of the chemical contamination in Rosemont so I concluded that Willa's parent's could have lived there before.
3. Hal is Cully's father and he is a real estate agent. In the book Hal has been struggling to sell off houses, sometimes he's successful at other times he's not, such as now. His relationship with Darlene isn't 100% put together because Hal is having an affair, but it seems like Cully has a good relationship with her and as a family are happy.
4. Lee is the mother of Jess and the ex wife of Jack. While living in Rosemont because of the chemical exploitation in that town, her daughter Jess dies from blood disease. Because of her daughter passing, Lee started trying to get closer out of finding proof of reasons why her daughter died. Towards other people in town Lee looks out of it and crazy, but many sympathy her lost.
5. The chemical dumping that happened in Rosewood ending up having people get cancer and die from it. It started off as something only miner and people were just questionable about the soil, but EPA kept tasting the soil and clearing it for being clean. Then things like a slug that was able to cause pain and leave sores on people started happening. The EPA and Garbit Company were responsible for the chemical dumping and it's effect on the town. The community outside of Rosemont use the chemical dumping as small talk and how it had an effect on some people in town, such as the guy at the gas station who has a mental issue.
6. Friendswood in a way reminds me of the Flint, Michigan story. The Flint, Michigan story is of how the water became contaminated through the lead pipes. It started about 2 years ago in April when Michigan changed there water source, because the pipes were contaminated with corrosive chemicals and lead. People who drank the water became sick much like how the chemicals in the oil caused people in Rosemont to become sick.
7. As the role of EPA they are supposed to make sure the communities environment is safe. The governmental agencies did not fulfill their role properly as they were supposed to make sure when they tested all the things they tested that they were clean and in no way damaging to life.
1. In the book Friendswood Willa is Dani's bestfriend and Dex's assigned partner in class. Willa's relationship with her parents was healthy, after her dad's schedule at work changed recently she hasn't been as willingly open to them. She hadn't told her parents about her visions. "She wrote down a list of the visions that had appeared so far. There had been a little girl, reaching up with both arms for Willa to hold her." She had visions in her dreams about people and flashes of certain colors. I believe the origin of these visions came from an affect of living in a neighborhood that was chemically contaminated. Willa could have also gotten these visions has a birth defect, because Willa's parents were friends with Lee and Lee's daughter died because of the chemical contamination in Rosemont so I concluded that Willa's parent's could have lived there before.
3. Hal is Cully's father and he is a real estate agent. In the book Hal has been struggling to sell off houses, sometimes he's successful at other times he's not, such as now. His relationship with Darlene isn't 100% put together because Hal is having an affair, but it seems like Cully has a good relationship with her and as a family are happy.
4. Lee is the mother of Jess and the ex wife of Jack. While living in Rosemont because of the chemical exploitation in that town, her daughter Jess dies from blood disease. Because of her daughter passing, Lee started trying to get closer out of finding proof of reasons why her daughter died. Towards other people in town Lee looks out of it and crazy, but many sympathy her lost.
5. The chemical dumping that happened in Rosewood ending up having people get cancer and die from it. It started off as something only miner and people were just questionable about the soil, but EPA kept tasting the soil and clearing it for being clean. Then things like a slug that was able to cause pain and leave sores on people started happening. The EPA and Garbit Company were responsible for the chemical dumping and it's effect on the town. The community outside of Rosemont use the chemical dumping as small talk and how it had an effect on some people in town, such as the guy at the gas station who has a mental issue.
6. Friendswood in a way reminds me of the Flint, Michigan story. The Flint, Michigan story is of how the water became contaminated through the lead pipes. It started about 2 years ago in April when Michigan changed there water source, because the pipes were contaminated with corrosive chemicals and lead. People who drank the water became sick much like how the chemicals in the oil caused people in Rosemont to become sick.
7. As the role of EPA they are supposed to make sure the communities environment is safe. The governmental agencies did not fulfill their role properly as they were supposed to make sure when they tested all the things they tested that they were clean and in no way damaging to life.
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