The Laramie Project should be used in the Museum of Tolerance, because of the impact it had on me and it described how the tragedy happened in Laramie. During the documentary the community have said that they are tolerant of differences but they somewhat mean it. Some of the people in Laramie have hate towards the minority group such as people who are gay, but they don't show it and keep to themselves. During day 2 of the film, one of the members asked this man on what were his opinions on people who are gay. The man was very strongly against people who are gay and he would tell his children that what these people are doing is wrong and that he wouldn't want to see his children be like that. What the man has said was a very strong opinion, also on that day there was a protest that the mayor did not like people who are gay and there were other citizens of the town agreeing with him. This shows that some of the people there in the Town of Laramie have more of a hate towards people who are gay and have little tolerance. Doc O’Connor narrates. “Matt would not want the perpetrators to die. He’d want to leave them with hope” As members of the …show more content…
audience, or readers, we are invited to identify the ones that were insulting the doctor for his sympathy to Matt with the perpetrators, and on the same time feel angry with them because we have just been informed about Matt’s death and immediately after, feel sorry for them because Matt would have forgive them. This procedure that we inevitably go through while experiencing the play, exposes the hypocrisy of the Laramie society and on the same time elevates Matthew Shepard that stands above it. To be tolerant of differences is to set aside your hate and feelings towards whatever is bothering you and accept it. Don't allow negative joking about a certain group. Encourage your new found tolerance with everyone around you. Be respectful to others, don’t start conflicts and let it go. You might not agree with the person and their beliefs or opinions, and that’s okay. We’re all different. That definitely doesn’t mean you have to become best buddies and switch over to their way of thinking, but once you accept that it’s okay to “agree to disagree” it should be a lot easier to have discussions with people. The community setting tolerance as a goal is suitable. They must learn to be tolerant so that there is no hate, they must be willing to accept people for who they are without judging them. They will start small with tolerance, then when the community is ready they will set a law against hate crime, help people embrace for who they are and that will help the community to promote peace. There will be people in the community who will not change. Those people will be challenging to be tolerant of, but will help other's who want to be tolerant. Here are some quotes of being tolerant,“It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.” by Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha, and “Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.” by Albert Einstein, You might unknowingly contribute to a culture of violence by saying hurtful words, expressing hate towards a person of the minority group, and giving excuses of what you did wasn't harmful or has an impact.
Violence comes from when you have a hate towards another person who is different or goes against what you believe. Violence has been attributed to many causes including mental illness, brain damage, child abuse, and social deprivation. A large proportion of violent acts are committed by individuals whose psychology is very different to that of the general population. understanding the origins of violence remains in understanding the broader picture - the type of environment that raised the individual, the effect it had on his developing brain, and the already existing, genetic predisposition the person has towards
violence. The Laramie Project should be in the Museum of Tolerance because of how it shows for what the community really is. And some of the people who are gay that live there are afraid to talk to others in Laramie because of how the people are.
Bridge to Freedom provides the historical documentary behind the events that served as the narrative for Selma. Instead of a drama, the viewers receive an actual documentary that shows the confrontations between the marchers and the government. Like Selma, it highlights the violence, the deaths, and the beatings, but also goes further back in time to show society’s treatment of African Americans.
Recommended by Jennifer, I went to go see the documentary, Bending the Arc, presented by UGA division of Partners in Health. Before the movie started, we the audience got an honor to talk (via SKype) to Dr. Joia Mukherjee about her field of work, her passion, her membership with Partners in Health, and just her life in general. The incredible yet heartbreaking story of Dr. Paul Farmer, Ophelia Dahl, and Jim Yong Kim and their journey with Partners in Health begins with the snap shots of Haiti in ruins and the terrible conditions the natives were facing due to lack of basic healthcare. It all begin with the Alma-Ata Declaration of 1978 where the world leaders came together and decided to have health care for all, starting with the poorest.
Throughout the US, millions of POC students exposed to the traditional, rather outdated version of US History. Never do the textbooks explicitly mention and/ or explain the terrorizing, constant stripping down of others’ cultures and appropriating it into the dominant group of predominantly white, Anglo-Saxon and protestant. For many Mexican American students, they can’t relate to anything in the text, nor do they share an interest in the coursework provided. The way US history sets up doesn't teach and somehow excludes Indigenous backgrounds or for the most part was never taught in the classroom but, rather briefly mentioned in one or two paragraphs. Immigrants from diverse groups built this country yet their culture is consistently shown
Recently, the effect that violent media has on society has been the focus of many psychological studies. According to an article published in the New York Times, research has found that: “Exposure to violent imagery does not preordain violence, but it is a risk factor” (Pozios, Kambam, Bender, 2013). There has yet to be a direct link between violence actually causing people to go on these massive shooting sprees that have been so common lately. It is natural and understandable for the
Many experts do not accept that biology alone creates children who kill. They believe that violence is a learned behavior. Being abused or witnessing domestic violence is an environmental factor in ju...
There are many factors that lead people to use violence. They use violence when they are stressed, angry, feeling hatred, drink too much alcohol, use drug. Children are more likely to grow up as violent men if they are influenced by their parents, brothers, sisters and friends, all of whom use violence.
Throughout human history, violence, for the most part, has been a perpetual struggle we’ve faced. It does not discriminate against location, color, or creed, and it has an impact, lasting or not, on each of us at some point during our lives. Living in a Western country, many of us have become accustomed to the idea that true violence only lives in the ravaged lands of warring countries or the dilapidated streets of rundown neighborhoods, but in truth it can be found anywhere. Community center’s, schools, churches, and even the most secluded towns all encounter violence, though sometimes behind closed doors, everyone is vulnerable to it. But what prompts it to occur exactly? Violence itself stems from the causality of several different factors,
As far as the gay issue, I don't give a damn one way or the other as long as they don't bother me. And even if they did, I'd just say no thank you. And that's the attitude of most of the Laramie population. They might poke one, If they were in a bar situation, you know, they had been drinking, they might actually smack one on the mouth, but then they'd just walk away. Most of `em, they would just say, 'I don't swing that way,' and whistle on about their business. Laramie is live and let
The statement suggests that those with no history of violence within their family and/or those who had a good upbringing will most likely not go on to commit violent crimes. At first this does seem like a reasonable suggestion to make. However, once we look deeper into this topic we uncover more complex explanations that are used to understand the phenomenon that is violent crime. Psychological perspectives are widely used throughout the world of criminology in order to help comprehend why crime is committed and the patterns that occur between the type of offender and type of crime. There perspectives are broken down into four main areas within psychology; Biological/Evolutionary, Social/Learning theory, Psychoanalytical/Psychodynamic and finally
4. Dodge, Kenneth A., John E. Bates, and Gregory S. Pettit. 1990. “Mechanisms in the Cycle of Violence.” Science 250: 1678–83.
The first research that I encountered was James Gilligan’s M.D. book (1996) titled, "VIOLENCE." Gilligan separates the "epidemic" of violence into three areas; "The Pathology of Violence," "The ‘Germ Theory’ of Violence," and "The Epidemology of Violence." His research shows that people act violently as a means to attain, what to them is, justice. Gilligan found that most violent males, on an individua...
Ordinary people can be violent as an act of self defense. Take Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs in which safety comes in as the second fundamental need following the physiological needs.Safety is crucial to the lives of the people and therefore needs to be obtained all the time. If humans aren’t safe, they tend to forget everything that comes after that, such as love, esteem, etc. In the study of the Hierarchy of needs, Gwayne states that “people who are deprived of lower needs such as safety may defend themselves by violent means. (Gwayne, 1999) This explains that violence comes in necessary because it is the initial reaction on
In psychology, the term aggression refers to a range of behaviors that can result in both physical and psychological harm to oneself, others or objects in the environment. Aggression can take on a variety of forms, including: physical, verbal, mental, and emotional. Aggression can also serve a number of different purposes such as asserting dominance, to intimidate or threaten, or to express anger or hostility. Everyone has experienced anger at one point in their lives and some of us have channeled that anger into violence, perhaps by throwing a punch during a heated argument or after too many beers at the bar. Then there's aggression on an greater scale, in the form of murder, wars and genocide. Trying to understand what fuels the different levels of human aggression, from fist fights to nation-on-nation battle, has long preoccupied human biologists.
This is a critique of" Roger And Me", a documentary by Michael Moore. This is a film about a city that at one time had a great economy. The working class people lived the American dream. The majority of people in this town worked at the large GM factory. The factory is what gave these people security in their middle working class home life. Life in the city of Flint was good until Roger Smith the CEO of GM decided to close the factory. This destroyed the city. Violent crime became the highest in the nation, businesses went bankrupt, people were evicted from their rented homes. There were no jobs and no opportunity. Life was so bad that Money magazine named Flint the worst place to live in the entire nation. When news of the factory closing first broke, Michael Moore a native of flint decided to search for Roger Smith and bring him to Flint.
Specifically the nurture side you can bring up children or even adults who look at things in the media or play games and become violent because of the things they see and because they want to do what they see. They are influenced by the violent acts they see which are bad because they continue the acts of violence. The things they see around them and see through the media turn them into the violent people we hear of in the world.