"A Quilt of a Country" Multimedia Project by Marlee Guenther https://padlet.com/marlee_guenther20/kmjvsofmphd By: Marlee Guenther en-us 2016-09-13 19:09:24 UTC 2025-09-27 14:14:21 UTC hello@padlet.com Quote Connections marlee_guenther20 https://padlet.com/marlee_guenther20/kmjvsofmphd/wish/123597463 Earlier in the unit, we studied the quote, "We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race." This ties to the idea of "community added to individualism" (Quindlen, 22) included in "A Quilt of a Country." Both of these ideas describe how our differences don't affect who we are as people, and our unity is based on how different we all are. ]]> 2016-09-13 19:15:30 UTC https://padlet.com/marlee_guenther20/kmjvsofmphd/wish/123597463 "Are We All Bigots?" marlee_guenther20 https://padlet.com/marlee_guenther20/kmjvsofmphd/wish/124150498 The video titled "Are We All Bigots" and the text "A Quilt of a Country" both express the idea of bigotry. In "Are We All Bigots," it is shown how team rivalry can affect people's views on each other.  For example, when the two boys watched the videos of their rival teams failing, they immediately grew happier. This relates to the Quote, "What is the point of a nation in which one part always seems to be on the verge of fisticuffs with another, blacks and whites, gays and straights..." (Quindlen, 45). Both "Are We All Bigots" and "A Quilt of a Country" show that people are always pitting against each other for unimportant reasons, which ties to the whole theme of bigotry.]]> 2016-09-15 17:36:05 UTC https://padlet.com/marlee_guenther20/kmjvsofmphd/wish/124150498 Quindlen's Claim/Evidence marlee_guenther20 https://padlet.com/marlee_guenther20/kmjvsofmphd/wish/124154900 Quindlen's claim in "A Quilt of a Country" is that America is not a united nation. In the second paragraph, she states, "Children learn in social studies class and in the news of the lynching of blacks, the denial of rights to women, the murders of gay men. It is difficult to know how to convince then that this amounts to 'crown thy good with brotherhood,' that amid all the failures is something spectacularly successful" (Quindlen, 14). This shows that America has a treacherous past of inequality and discrimination. This is a key piece of Quindlen's argument because it exemplifies how America has always been a nation of bigotry.
       Another supporting quote from Quindlen's text would be "Other countries with such divisions have in fact divided into new nations with new names, but not this one, impossibly interwoven even in its hostilities" (Quindlen, 47). This quote explains that America is made of many different parts that have separated each other. Both of these pieces of evidence prove that America is not a nation of equality. ]]> 2016-09-15 17:46:58 UTC https://padlet.com/marlee_guenther20/kmjvsofmphd/wish/124154900 Current Event  marlee_guenther20 https://padlet.com/marlee_guenther20/kmjvsofmphd/wish/124166404 In "A Quilt of a Country," Quindlen develops the idea that America is a nation built on the fact that we are a self-dividing country. A current example of this would be the discrimination of Muslims, and pretty much anyone of a Middle Eastern descent. Ever since 9/11, Americans have been less accepting of Muslims. It's like we've divided them all out and labeled them 'terrorists.' Anna Quindlen states that, "...these disparate parts were held together by a common enemy..." (Quindlen, 50). In this situation, Americans have turned Muslims into their common enemy. Hate crimes have been committed, privacy has been invaded, and rights have been violated. 
Source: https://www.aclu.org/feature/anti-muslim-discrimination]]> 2016-09-15 18:12:51 UTC https://padlet.com/marlee_guenther20/kmjvsofmphd/wish/124166404 marlee_guenther20 https://padlet.com/marlee_guenther20/kmjvsofmphd/wish/124180628 2016-09-15 18:44:50 UTC https://padlet.com/marlee_guenther20/kmjvsofmphd/wish/124180628 Socratic Seminar marlee_guenther20 https://padlet.com/marlee_guenther20/kmjvsofmphd/wish/124444916 One discussion in the Socratic Seminar that I found was insightful was the discussion about how America is held together by a common enemy. People brought up 9/11, the Cold War, the Vietnam War, and other tragedies in America. This helped extend my knowledge and think more about Quilndlen's claim that America only unites because of common enemies when people shared their viewpoints with the class. At first, I was kind of questioning whether or not I agreed with this claim. But once the class discussed it, I felt that I gained more knowledge on how our country really is tied together by common enemies so I could form an opinion.]]> 2016-09-16 18:04:47 UTC https://padlet.com/marlee_guenther20/kmjvsofmphd/wish/124444916 marlee_guenther20 https://padlet.com/marlee_guenther20/kmjvsofmphd/wish/124446650 2016-09-16 18:09:12 UTC https://padlet.com/marlee_guenther20/kmjvsofmphd/wish/124446650 Song marlee_guenther20 https://padlet.com/marlee_guenther20/kmjvsofmphd/wish/124613060 A song that connects with "A Quilt of a Country" is "War" by Bob Marley. In "A Quilt of a Country, Anna Quindlen mentions, "the notion that all men are created equal, though everyone knows that most men consider themselves better than someone" In "War" by Bob Marley, the song is held together by the notion that inequality still exists, and in Marley's point of view, it causes war. Marley states, "Until the philosophy
Which hold one race superior and another
Inferior
Is finally
And permanently
Discredited
And abandoned
Everywhere is war."
Both "War" and "A Quilt of a Country" express that racism is a problem in our world today. http://www.metrolyrics.com/war-bob-marley-bob-marley-ml-video-5ng.html


Read more: Bob Marley - War Lyrics | MetroLyrics ]]> 2016-09-19 02:17:07 UTC https://padlet.com/marlee_guenther20/kmjvsofmphd/wish/124613060 9/11 marlee_guenther20 https://padlet.com/marlee_guenther20/kmjvsofmphd/wish/124616429 The link I have chosen on 9/11 explains how our nation has improved since 9/11. The main focus of this article is that we became more united as a nation than we have ever been before. This connects to one of Anna Quindlen's claims that America is held together by tragedy/common enemies. 9/11 made us support each other, protect each other, and empathize with each other.
Link: http://www.nj.com/business/index.ssf/2011/09/911_united_america_and_taught.html
Picture Link: https://aspanational.wordpress.com/2011/08/31/911-ten-years-later/]]> 2016-09-19 02:53:42 UTC https://padlet.com/marlee_guenther20/kmjvsofmphd/wish/124616429 marlee_guenther20 https://padlet.com/marlee_guenther20/kmjvsofmphd/wish/124617217 2016-09-19 03:03:58 UTC https://padlet.com/marlee_guenther20/kmjvsofmphd/wish/124617217 marlee_guenther20 https://padlet.com/marlee_guenther20/kmjvsofmphd/wish/124617328 2016-09-19 03:05:50 UTC https://padlet.com/marlee_guenther20/kmjvsofmphd/wish/124617328 marlee_guenther20 https://padlet.com/marlee_guenther20/kmjvsofmphd/wish/124617618 2016-09-19 03:09:18 UTC https://padlet.com/marlee_guenther20/kmjvsofmphd/wish/124617618 https://padlet.com/marlee_guenther20/kmjvsofmphd/wish/377778587 2019-08-28 06:54:27 UTC https://padlet.com/marlee_guenther20/kmjvsofmphd/wish/377778587 Video Analysis https://padlet.com/marlee_guenther20/kmjvsofmphd/wish/1699572548 In the video it talks about the pleasures people get from satisfaction on seeing there rivals fall. In the article it talks about how people have discriminations over each other. As said in line 30-32"in which Jewish boys would walk several blocks out of their way to avoid the Irish divide of Chester avenue. 
They would take on pleasure from the mind of the discrimination towards them. Not just that but, Quindlen understands that with the diverse lines of discrimination is it hard to come to agreement (lines 68-71)]]> 2021-08-27 00:54:15 UTC https://padlet.com/marlee_guenther20/kmjvsofmphd/wish/1699572548 mbur2841 https://padlet.com/marlee_guenther20/kmjvsofmphd/wish/1707220812 The text title " A Quilt of a Country " and the video titled " Are We All Bigots " both basically explain how we are the main example of showing bigotry. In " Are We All Bigots " it talks how we all persecute each other on our skin color, religion, and even our genders. It shows how even if we were all on rival teams, it can change the way we view our people's daily lives. We can only consider how we judge it, and not except their differences. In the text " A Quilt of a Country," Anna Quindlen expresses how ," When
photographs of the faces of all those who died in the World Trade Center destruction are assembled in one place, it will be possible to trace in the skin color, the shape of the eyes and the noses, the texture of the hair, a map of the world. " This explains even though many different people were in those buildings or on stand-by. We still tend to talk down on certain individuals, meanwhile there was every ethnicity in those areas. But, they still only nit-pick and how they fall apart piece by piece. So, both " A Quilt of a Country , " and " Are We All Bigots " consistently set against each other for indescribable points. But, never sees through on the main issues. The hate and mean bigotry that they are giving out.]]> 2021-08-31 14:19:34 UTC https://padlet.com/marlee_guenther20/kmjvsofmphd/wish/1707220812 song - Jonathan jmcd1782 https://padlet.com/marlee_guenther20/kmjvsofmphd/wish/1714193973 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sn19xvfoXvk
the song I chose was stand up the reason I chose this song was because how in the article was because of these lyrics 
"I'm gonna stand up
Take my people with me
Together we are going
To a brand new home
Far across the river
Do you hear freedom calling?
Calling me to answer
Gonna keep on keepin' on"
In this song it is about Harriet Tubman wanting to free slaves and bring an end to discrimination and I think its similar to A quilt of a country because they want to bring an end to discrimination ad hostilities in the United States and have equality. A line I connect to this from the Article is "What is the point of a Splintered whole." because what is the point of having racism when the United States is suppose to be the land of the Free.]]> 2021-09-03 01:54:57 UTC https://padlet.com/marlee_guenther20/kmjvsofmphd/wish/1714193973 Video Analysis - Jonathan Mcdougle jmcd1782 https://padlet.com/marlee_guenther20/kmjvsofmphd/wish/1714197583
In the video it talks about the pleasures people get from satisfaction on seeing there rivals fall. In the article it talks about how people have discriminations over each other. As said in line 30-32"in which Jewish boys would walk several blocks out of their way to avoid the Irish divide of Chester avenue. 
They would take on pleasure from the mind of the discrimination towards them. Not just that but, Quindlen understands that with the diverse lines of discrimination is it hard to come to agreement (lines 68-71)


]]> 2021-09-03 01:56:16 UTC https://padlet.com/marlee_guenther20/kmjvsofmphd/wish/1714197583 Current Event-Nichols F. https://padlet.com/marlee_guenther20/kmjvsofmphd/wish/1714273331 in quilt of a country Quindlen states, "Once these disparate parts were held together by a common enemy, by the fault lines of world wars and the electrified fence of communism. With the end of the cold war there was the creeping concern that without a focus for hatred and distrust, a sense of national identity would evaporate, that the left side of the hyphen--African-American, Mexican-American, Irish-American--would overwhelm the right." I think that this text relates to George Floyd, while it is a dark subject to talk about, it does relate to the text, on how people put their hatred into events that are happening and George Floyds death accidentally started a number of things but while BLM and the burning down and raiding of every building in city's but the point is, people did that together. weather or race or religen they roited togather]]> 2021-09-03 02:23:10 UTC https://padlet.com/marlee_guenther20/kmjvsofmphd/wish/1714273331 Current Event- Jonathan jmcd1782 https://padlet.com/marlee_guenther20/kmjvsofmphd/wish/1714274259 A current event happening was the Black Lives Matter Movement, and it is a decentralized political and social movement protesting against incidents of police brutality and all racially motivated violence against black people. It relates to a quilt of a country because both the BLM movement and a quilt of a country focus of discrimination, racism, but being united and stronger together. It also shows how both are fighting both there wars figuratively speaking.

In the BLM it tries to unite the U.S.A by bringing equality to race. In a quilt of a country it also does that and especially in the 4th paragraph when she starts to state reasons on what's the point of being divided races. In the end i think that both the BLM movement and quilt of a country both take an activist approach and fight against what is right.

my sources being 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Lives_Matter
https://blacklivesmatter.com/]]> 2021-09-03 02:23:31 UTC https://padlet.com/marlee_guenther20/kmjvsofmphd/wish/1714274259 9/11 Link/Picture- Jonathan https://padlet.com/marlee_guenther20/kmjvsofmphd/wish/1717272534 https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/our-brief-moment-of-national-unity-after-the-911-attacks-was-just-that--brief-can-we-ever-get-it-back/2020/09/10/91e93af8-f376-11ea-bc45-e5d48ab44b9f_story.html]]> 2021-09-05 09:06:40 UTC https://padlet.com/marlee_guenther20/kmjvsofmphd/wish/1717272534 9/11 Link/Picture- Jonathan jmcd1782 https://padlet.com/marlee_guenther20/kmjvsofmphd/wish/1717413808 In the article it talks about how after the 9/11 attack people started memorializing the deaths and what happend. People came together mourning there deaths. AmErica sure became stronger after this having people from races to different  political types c9ming together. This relates to a Quilt of a country because it talks about how during the 9/11 attack people where able to put away there differences and come together as a country to become unified.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/our-brief-moment-of-national-unity-after-the-911-attacks-was-just-that--brief-can-we-ever-get-it-back/2020/09/10/91e93af8-f376-11ea-bc45-e5d48ab44b9f_story.html]]> 2021-09-05 12:47:05 UTC https://padlet.com/marlee_guenther20/kmjvsofmphd/wish/1717413808 "Are We All Bigots" Analysis- Nicholas F. https://padlet.com/marlee_guenther20/kmjvsofmphd/wish/1721288065 The video "Are We All Bigots" this video support this claim that Quindlen makes in her argument, "What is the point of a nation in which one part seems to be always on the verge of fisticuffs with another, blacks and whites, gays and straights, left and right, Pole and Chinese and Puerto Rican and Slovenian?" in "Are We All Bigots," it shows how people only need something small that the other side did to start to harm that side and maybe start a fight could start a fight. you can see an example of this at 19:20-20:20.]]> 2021-09-07 08:15:51 UTC https://padlet.com/marlee_guenther20/kmjvsofmphd/wish/1721288065 9-11 article Nicholas F. https://padlet.com/marlee_guenther20/kmjvsofmphd/wish/1721462218 https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/race/news/2016/09/15/144286/hate-and-discrimination-in-the-wake-of-september-11/

Summary
Most importantly, we must realize that since 9/11, a different kind of terror has been inflicted upon some Americans, based on no more than the color of their skin or the manner of their worship. Anyone perceived as Muslim—whether actually Muslim, Sikh, South Asian, or Arab—suddenly became associated with the face of terror. Since September 11, 2001, the U.S. Department of Justice reports that more than 800 hate-related incidents targeting Muslim, Sikh, South Asian, and Arab communities have occurred across the country.

 "Today the citizens of the United States have come together once more because of armed conflict and enemy attack. Terrorism has led to devastation- -and unity." This article tie's with the statement above in a very okay way? it ties with is because they are coming together seeing a threat but they're also looking at the wrong ones. society then were bigots towards Muslim, Sikh, South Asian, and Arab people for one smallish thing.]]> 2021-09-07 09:52:41 UTC https://padlet.com/marlee_guenther20/kmjvsofmphd/wish/1721462218 9-11 picture Nicholas F. https://padlet.com/marlee_guenther20/kmjvsofmphd/wish/1721468296 https://twitter.com/joudyharb i found this of the internet so i don't think you'll find it through this link but you can try]]> 2021-09-07 09:56:31 UTC https://padlet.com/marlee_guenther20/kmjvsofmphd/wish/1721468296 song Nicholas F. https://padlet.com/marlee_guenther20/kmjvsofmphd/wish/1721573537 https://www.lyrics.com/lyric-lf/5623578/Leo+Barrion/Improbable

its a bad song but it works out here. This line here "
I know that us two is
Improbable
If out of some thin air
But know that you are still
Someone I care
Even if I'm in despair
"it relates  to this line " Terrorism has led to devastation- -and unity "

now its a long stretch, but it could be that now because of a threat(9-11 in this case), the person is in despair and now sees "someone" as more American than the left side of the hyphen. still a long stretch but it works
]]> 2021-09-07 11:15:42 UTC https://padlet.com/marlee_guenther20/kmjvsofmphd/wish/1721573537 Connection to an event Nicholas F. https://padlet.com/marlee_guenther20/kmjvsofmphd/wish/1721586065 “In “ A Quilt of A Country,” Quindlen develops the idea towards the end that, " With the end of the cold war there was the creeping concern that without a focus for hatred and distrust, a sense of national identity would evaporate, that the left side of the hyphen--African-American, Mexican-American, Irish-American--would overwhelm the right." this is shown by the Gorge Floyd thing where a cop saw a African-American as only African and well that cause a major outburst. so big of an outburst they had to redo the trial because the public was unsatisfied the first time.]]> 2021-09-07 11:24:56 UTC https://padlet.com/marlee_guenther20/kmjvsofmphd/wish/1721586065 SONG mbur2841 https://padlet.com/marlee_guenther20/kmjvsofmphd/wish/1721646525 A song that connects to " A Quilt of A Country " is Broken World by Five Finger Death Punch. I have never once heard of this band, nor their music but one part of the song really speaks to the message. 

We live in a world that's turned so cold
Now that our integrity has been sold
We're living inside this broken world
This broken world
This broken world

This world is changing in to day out, while yes people are changing in many different ways. There will always be those people who want to do terrible things and don't care what those actions are. When Quindlen wrote, " These two are our defining ideals; they are also in constant conflict." It's constant conflict on accepting others for who they are, but when they are the same person as you. Why is it so hard to understand ?


]]> 2021-09-07 12:05:57 UTC https://padlet.com/marlee_guenther20/kmjvsofmphd/wish/1721646525 CURRENT EVENT mbur2841 https://padlet.com/marlee_guenther20/kmjvsofmphd/wish/1721660348 In the text Quindlen wrote, " With the end of the cold war there was the creeping concern that without a focus for hatred and distrust, a sense of national identity would evaporate, that the left side of the hyphen--African-American, Mexican-
American, Irish-American--would overwhelm the right." With what she said was completely true, and the main event going on right now to support that is BLM. In the article , " What is Black Lives Matter and what are the aims," it talks about BLM and what it means to POC. " Among its main goals are stopping police brutality and fighting for courts to treat black people equally. Its demands for equality also include mental health, the LGBT community and voting rights." This ties to what Quindlen is saying because when an African American person is seen on the street, American doesn't seem to matter anymore. They would just be named to another " African " on the street.]]> 2021-09-07 12:13:39 UTC https://padlet.com/marlee_guenther20/kmjvsofmphd/wish/1721660348 9/11 Picture/Link mbur2841 https://padlet.com/marlee_guenther20/kmjvsofmphd/wish/1721673621 In the summary of the 9/11 article on Britannica.com. It talks about the attacks on the 9/11 about how the Islamist terrorist group al-Qaeda went against the United States the morning of Tuesday, September 11th , and coordinated terrorist attacks. In the text Quindlen talked about , " It is difficult to know how to convince them that this amounts to "crown thy good with brotherhood," that amid all the failures is something spectacularly successful. Perhaps they understand it at this moment [in the aftermath of 9/11], when enormous tragedy, as it so often does, demands a time of reflection on enormous blessings. " This explains how are we supposed to see the good without the past constantly repeating itself. No maybe not in the ways it did 200 years ago, but in more confidential ways and orders. 



https://www.britannica.com/event/September-11-attacks]]> 2021-09-07 12:20:58 UTC https://padlet.com/marlee_guenther20/kmjvsofmphd/wish/1721673621