Critical thinking assingment 7

How to Write Homework for Class 

 

 

The example of how to write the reflection for class, using MLA format first.

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                                                   Title: Reflection 1

 Point 1) Differences aren't really what divide the people but what they have been taught that those differences signify. (Illustration A) Coates demonstrates how what truly separates people from each other is based on societal differences not actual culture. (Illustration B) "And I saw that what divided me from the world was not anything intrinsic but the actually injury done by people intent on naming us, intent on believing that what they have named us matters more than anything we could ever actually do" (120). (Explanation) The power structure tries to maintain segregation by making groups feel like they can't or shouldn't socialize with others who "are different from them. The truth is no matter how differences people are, they all are human.

 

(Point 2) The word of a white person seems to represent more "value" than the word of a person of color. (Illustration A) Coates exposes us to various examples of how a white person's word is taken over the word of a person of color. He explained how a black boy was killed by a white man because he wouldn't lower his music and his killer wasn't punished for that.  Coates stated, (Illustration B) "Destroying the body was permissible--but it would be better to do it efficiently" (112). (Explanation) Many feel like they can mistreat people of color because the system tends to take their version of a story over the person of color.

 

 (Point 3) People of color are constantly being deprived, devalued, dehumanized and the system is in some ways supporting--even engaging in-- this behavior. (Illustration A) Coates illustrates how people of color "live in a system of plunder." In other words, people of color, throughout history, are constantly being stolen from, in most cases, you can say they are having their right to succeed, to live stolen from them. He expressed, (Illustration B) "They are an elegant act of racism, killing fields authored by federal policies, where we are, all again, plundered of our dignity, of our families, of our wealth, and of our lives" (110). (Explanation) People of color have had their land, culture, history, and bodies stolen from them and somehow they have managed to find parts of it slowly if not completely.