1.) Beneatha no longer wants to be a doctor because she doesn’t care anymore and feels that “it doesn’t seem close enough to what ails mankind.”
2.) Asagai defined “realists” as people who only see mankind as going in a circle and “idealists” as those who see the changes taking place in the world.
3.) Asagai asks Beneatha to come back to Africa with him.
4.) Mama thinks that she has had too great of hopes and dreams to be realistic.
5.) Walter is going to speak to Lindner again.
6.) Walter does not take Lindner’s money because he believes his father has earned his family the right to live in their new house.
7.) The plant may represent the little bit of hope that the family always had that they would be able to leave their little apartment and start a new, better life in a house or somewhere else.
Writing as a refrigerator that hates its job.
I hate my job so much. People store their food in me, then forget about it and let it go bad, and I just have to sit and put up with it until they figure out that it’s still there and get rid of it. Sometimes they fill me up so much that I can’t hold it all, and it spills out onto the floor when they open me, and then they hit me and yell at me for not holding everything. And I can’t even complain - all I can do is put up with it and look out this window at the same view I see every day. At least today was different … some poor helpless people got in a big car crash right outside. I felt sorry for them, lying there in all that tangled metal … actually there was no tangled metal, just some dented bumpers. But then they got out of their cars and one man was all sad about his brand-new car being smashed up, and the other man was so angry and started beating him up for hitting his car. I understood the sad man because I get beat up too … I don’t know how people can think to be so mean. Now that I think about it, I don’t know how I think at all. I’m a refrigerator. Do you ever have one of those times where you wonder how you can do something, but you’re worried to wonder too hard because you think that if you question it too much you won’t be able to do it anym
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1. Why did Walter ask Ruth what was wrong with her?
She seems not to care about anything he tries to say to her.
2. Why was Ruth upset when Walter gave Travis the money?
She had been trying to convince the boy that they did not have the money.
3. Who are Willy and Bobo?
Willy and bobo are Walter’s friends.
4. Walter said, “Damn my eggs . . . damn all the eggs that ever was!” Why?
He is angry that his wife won’t respond to him about his hopes to start a better life in a new business.
5. Who is Beneatha?
Beneatha is Mama’s daughter and Walter’s sister.
6. Why was Mama getting a check for $10,000?
Her husband died and she is receiving his life insurance check.
7. Why did Beneatha say she wouldn’t marry George?
He flaunts his money and is very business-oriented.
8. What was Beneatha’s attitude towards God?
She thinks He doesn’t exist and that humans are solely responsible for everything ever done.
9. What happened to Ruth at the end of Act I Scene One?
She is slapped hard by Mama for denouncing God.
1.) The author thought that the test revealed that he was racist because it showed that he was faster to shoot armed black people than white and took longer to holster his gun in the presence of unarmed blacks than unarmed whites. This may reveal subconscious racist tendencies.
2.) I think these tests do measure “unconscious” racism because it reveals that people’s minds may react more quickly to judge certain races than others. It doesn’t seem to show conscious racism as it does not ask questions directly, which would allow the test-taker to choose based on conscious preference, but asks you to choose an option spontaneously based on what a person in an image is holding, but shows that people may be choosing based in part on the race of the person in the picture.
3.) The author may think that sexism is harder to fight than racism because men and women have been associating far longer than black and white people, allowing more deep-seated stereotypes to form.
4.) “Men typically view women as unsuited to jobs requiring one to be rigid and strong.”
5.) The author thinks that the real challenge for women is that when they try to break away from the stereotypes associated with them, they are viewed as wrong or strange. I think this is true.
6.) According to the author, this problem could be overcome if people received a lot more exposure to women of the non-stereotypical types at an earlier age. I think this may work.
After viewing the DSPs, I was surprised at how I did not see very much of a story in some of them. I understood a few of the stories, such as the one about the boy wanting to become the head samurai (my least favorite video however due to its somewhat lazy re-use of dialog) and the one about 2 girls wanting to ask the same boy to Tolo, but not many of the others. My favorite was the one with the two hikers and five Darth Vader cut-outs as it was quite funny.
The Raisin in the Sun movie made me realize that America really was just as bad as many other countries about segregation not many years ago. Black people were thought to be unclean and perhaps even evil, and were frequently turned away from everyday places like stores or even communities where they lived due only to the color of their skin. Now, however, this has been corrected and there are no laws regarding the separation of people based on nationality (except for laws against it). Now anyone can enjoy or use any facility or enter any place and not be given restrictions based on their skin color. I have personally always lived in a time when race and ethnicity were not something that anyone paid any mind to when letting people into places or selling people property. I think that the future will continue the new tradition of integration of races, and perhaps the issue of segregation in other countries will one day be resolved as well.
Our group’s idea for a story involves man by the name of James Carter in the present-day town of Nowhere, Utah. Carter is a “mean” guy whose biggest aspiration is to win millions in the lottery. However, he knows that he must obtain the winning ticket in order to do this. He is in major debt and needs the money to get himself in the clear. He resorts to illegitimate means (i.e. long-distance correspondence with “the right people”) in order to obtain the ticket he needs. Finally, he gets the ticket and is on his way to trade it in for his prize money when suddenly he is knocked down by someone out of view, who turns out to be the sole member of the “Nowhere Mafia,” consisting of this man and most of a cat (which may just be stuffed animal). The man takes the ticket to turn it in himself.
“Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.” - Blaise Pascal
I agree with this quote as it can be seen as true in many world situations today. Justice without force - a law-enforcement system with no ability or willpower to dictate right from wrong and punish those who go against the law - is powerless, merely a meaningless system that serves no purpose or function to better the lives of the people, often making them worse as a result. Force without justice - punishing people at random for crimes you know they did not commit and abusing one’s power over others to hurt them without any reason for doing so - is tyrannical, an evil misuse of one’s given begotten authority.
Many countries in the world have police forces that either can do nothing against the criminals in the area (i.e. places where the mafia rules)
or are working for the government, who in turn wants to abuse people without reason (i.e. China). This rule applies especially to these types of places and will probably always continue to be true somewhere in the world. Unless someone does something about it, nothing will ever improve.
The problem is perhaps that no one involved realizes just how wrong the situation truly is. For instance, a police officer in an Italian district (not to single out these locations as stereotypical places for these types of situations, but I hear these are true in these areas, so I’m using them as examples) that is controlled by oppressive mafia may not realize that he was given the authority by the government to be above these false rulers and put an end to their reign of terror. Someone in the Chinese government might not view their random killing of their own citizens as wrong when in fact the rest of the world loathes them for it (and they may not even recognize this world view of them either). As a result, nothing ever gets done to correct the problems in the justice/power systems, and it continues forever.
Law 12: Use selective honesty and generosity to disarm your victim
I think that this law would definitely be useful in many situations. I think that it ties into the saying “Keep your friends close and your enemies closer” because being generous and honest part of the time can convince anyone, even your enemies, that you are honest and generous all of the time. Holding the door for someone once or twice will make them less suspicious when you slam it shut on their hands later. It is important to establish a balance: enough good must be done to cover up for the bad. It is a good idea to allow the good to slightly outweigh the bad as the amount of good you do for someone is inversely proportional to their suspicion when you “accidentally” act against them. Don’t do too much good all at once however, or you will end up with a person who trusts you so much that they will leave you if you act against them even once as they will feel abandoned or let down.
1.) Banquo’s “cursed thoughts” are nightmares about the three witches.
2.) Macbeth tells Banquo that he has not been thinking about the witches and what they said.
3.) Banquo will follow Macbeth and do whatever he says.
4.) The tension of preparing to kill the king causes Macbeth to see the dagger.
5.) The bell is a signal to Macbeth that Lady Macbeth is prepared for the king’s murder.
I think that Macbeth should ignore his wife and live life the way he wants to, whether that include killing the king of his own accord or not. If he really wants to kill the king, I think he should go along with his original plan of getting the king and guards drunk, but if he wants not to do it more than he wants to go through with it, he should go somewhere far away so he cannot act on his idea until his urge to kill the king passes and he can return and live safe from his own unfounded ambitions.
