https://padlet.com/stephen_rezack/axr4hkbsqp2u Honors English III - Period 1 - 12/5/2017 en-us 2017-12-05 12:56:18 UTC 2026-02-26 07:35:31 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/File.png stephen_rezack https://padlet.com/stephen_rezack/axr4hkbsqp2u/wish/213680175 In this article written by Toni Morse, it covers whether or not “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” Should be censored if not banned from schools. She comes to a conclusion of how that the part that troubled her most of all was not the race issues but the social chaos, personal morbidity, and the moral complications. That this book was not meant to be offensive towards anyone but to be able to teach those the mistakes of those who have wronged. By banning these books it is only preventing everyone form progressing further in society. Essentially blocking the views that teaches us the wrongs of our ways and showing us the foolishness and toll of what our past casted upon those who live in it. By banning this book it not only erases the mistakes we have made but takes away a part of history and literature.]]> 2017-12-06 13:31:21 UTC https://padlet.com/stephen_rezack/axr4hkbsqp2u/wish/213680175 stephen_rezack https://padlet.com/stephen_rezack/axr4hkbsqp2u/wish/213684466 In this poem the author Naomi Nye shows how people even today can still make progress. How when in need we are still able to unite as a people and not dwell on the past. To be able to separate our differences and comfort those in need. In the book 'The Adventures of Huck Finn' Huck and Tom united in the end to help Jim escape, even though both Huck and Tom were raised to believe blacks to be lesser they separated themselves from society and decided to do the right thing. Nye said in the end “This can happen anywhere. Not everything is lost”. She is just saying how even though in a few hours people came together through an inconvenience to comforting each other. How it is still possible to happen on a larger scale and help society as a whole to move along from the past and unite.]]> 2017-12-06 13:41:30 UTC https://padlet.com/stephen_rezack/axr4hkbsqp2u/wish/213684466 stephen_rezack https://padlet.com/stephen_rezack/axr4hkbsqp2u/wish/214461976 In this article the author Joe Neel is showing how every one believes there to be discrimination of their own race. He especially focuses on African Americans and how it is having an effect on their state of mind and life span. What caught my attention with this is how people separate themselves from each other and how it makes a significant change in health. With discrimination it can affect the mental health of some people shortening their life span. According to the article the difference of life span is about sixteen percent. This only shows how we as a society may be slightly improving but in a long term are not progressing from our mistakes.]]> 2017-12-08 12:53:25 UTC https://padlet.com/stephen_rezack/axr4hkbsqp2u/wish/214461976 stephen_rezack https://padlet.com/stephen_rezack/axr4hkbsqp2u/wish/214984534 In this newspaper article from the Portland Press Herald the author addresses how racism was affecting her decisions made in life. By focusing on education the author is showing how society hasn't yet accepted everyone to be equals. While whites were moving on to higher education, people of color were fearing that attempt of higher education would cause them to lose everything. With this fear society itself cannot progress. We are not moving forward if we all don't believe in the same cause. Otherwise it would be hopeless to pursue this goal if it doesn't benefit those who are truly affected by it]]> 2017-12-11 13:00:37 UTC https://padlet.com/stephen_rezack/axr4hkbsqp2u/wish/214984534 https://padlet.com/stephen_rezack/axr4hkbsqp2u/wish/215382434 In this story this white couple graciously accepts some black people into their household for which they wished to experience the blacks culture. While even though they treated these colored people as if they were family they still never understood them. People can lead themselves to false conclusions. Allow them to justify their actions by making up reasons or excuses. Never did they think in the story that they wanted to be treated as any other person to have privacy or to be equals to that of themselves.  In the book 'The Adventure of Huck Finn' Huck started in the book treating Jim as if he were there just for his own amusement. Pranking Jim, hurting him, and lying to him. Huck later knows how Jim has feeling and begins to treat him with the respect he deserves. This can be related to our society with how people can stereotype others coming up with false conclusions and understandings. We as a society will shouldn't be able to judge those without fully understanding them but this is not likely to happen. For we don't progress in this way. We make it seem as if we use our intellect to draw conclusions without knowing others. But the real fact is we don't know them. That is why with the way we are right now we aren't progressing with our society.]]> 2017-12-12 12:58:51 UTC https://padlet.com/stephen_rezack/axr4hkbsqp2u/wish/215382434 stephen_rezack https://padlet.com/stephen_rezack/axr4hkbsqp2u/wish/215758867  In this article by Stephen Henderson, Henderson explains how Americans share many different views and how discrimination can cause a gap between people. In Charlottesville VA a group of white supremacist tried saving their statue of Robert E. Lee, with no success they were confronted by a group of blacks and chaos broke out. We see how things as petty as this can have such a large affect. How others passion for things can lead or stem from discrimination. Our separate views are continuing to separate our society and will continue as we try to fix them. There will rarely be a middle ground to a solution. We are no longer progressing as a society just trying to delay conflicts that seem inevitable. In order for us to progress any further as a people we would have to put the past behind us and learn from it, not try and erase it.]]> 2017-12-13 12:51:30 UTC https://padlet.com/stephen_rezack/axr4hkbsqp2u/wish/215758867 stephen_rezack https://padlet.com/stephen_rezack/axr4hkbsqp2u/wish/215766674 Racism as we know it is a tool that separates us and as long as it exist will continue to separate us. While it is not socially accepted in the US many believe it still exist and many of which believes it is towards themselves. Whites believe reverse racism is affecting them and blacks believe racism hasn't stopped hurting them. Can it be both. Can this fine line of race be battling on both sides? Is Racism simply causing Racism? All we really know is that Racism is there. With the course of action we are taking we are not creating a solution. We are holding on to the past of which we have never seen. Holding on to pain of which we have never felt. In order for us to move on we have to embrace what we have become. To not look for a problem but to solve the problems we already have. Adding more conflicts to the solution is just adding more problems we need to solve. We already have a list of problems large enough that it may not even be solved in our children's lifetime, so we shouldn't try to make that list any longer. For Society to stop moving sideways we need to stop looking behind us.]]> 2017-12-13 13:17:11 UTC https://padlet.com/stephen_rezack/axr4hkbsqp2u/wish/215766674 stephen_rezack https://padlet.com/stephen_rezack/axr4hkbsqp2u/wish/216457878 In this interactive video it explored the idea of why the N word shouldn't be offensive any longer. How people are still holding onto this idea. With this way of thinking people are just giving more power to this word than it really should have at this point. by giving it more power than it has it consumes others ideas. While today the N word is just a pop culture idea, others will continue to cling onto the past of it being an offensive term. Similar to the term Jay which used to be an insult when car companies introduced the term jay walking giving people the idea how walking in the road in front of cars was bad because they didn't want to be a jay. Similar to the book 'The Adventures of Huck Finn' Jim has much influence with the word choices he uses with Huck, Jim saying how Huck was a friend and how you shouldn't makes friends ashamed. Jim's use of the world friend gave his argument more power into making Huck feel guilty of his actions leading to him eventually apologizing. This shows how powerful words can really be and in order for our society to progress we are going to have to no longer give this word so much power or no longer attach ourselves to it. Or we really aren't progressing in society at all.]]> 2017-12-15 12:49:53 UTC https://padlet.com/stephen_rezack/axr4hkbsqp2u/wish/216457878 https://padlet.com/stephen_rezack/axr4hkbsqp2u/wish/216824213 In this article Paz-ando brings facts from the past and recent events of police brutality to determine where we stand as a society on racism. While the past does show mistakes and triumphs we as a society have made, it should not define what we have become. Letting the past define our future only blinds us to what we are trying to escape. Similar to the book The Adventures of Huck Finn, Huck has a moral battle with himself whether he would comply with society and turn Jim in or make his own path and help Jim. Huck eventually strayed from society for he saw the trail of chaos that followed from society's trail. Today society like any other in the history of our world is doomed to make some mistakes the same. Yet it is a burden that we must erase to progress. By getting away from this cycle of which we continue we will be able to alleviate the problems from it allowing us to move forward as a whole.]]> 2017-12-18 00:31:19 UTC https://padlet.com/stephen_rezack/axr4hkbsqp2u/wish/216824213 https://padlet.com/stephen_rezack/axr4hkbsqp2u/wish/216826700 This was a GoFundMe campaign to produce a book that would help end racism in America. Celebrities and people from all around helped contribute to the cause by donations and endorsements. The point is that our society was able to come together to fight against racism as a whole. Like in the book 'The Adventures of Huck Finn' Huck and Tom were able to unite and save Jim. Bonds we make between each other are what we use to create our society. So if we learn to make a bond that intertwines everyone one could essentially get rid of all discrimination. Having us all rely on each other. However it is a unlikely cause in general. We all have separate visions for this world. Some show visions don't cross paths with others. So it would be likely for everyone to completely move forward making our society stay in place and only delay what stances we should be making.]]> 2017-12-18 01:14:34 UTC https://padlet.com/stephen_rezack/axr4hkbsqp2u/wish/216826700