4M1 - Unit 7
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Participation
Step 1: Community
1. What is your vision of a good community? What exactly would make it good?
My vision of a good community is where everyone in a community comes together to
help each one of them to feel safe and needed. What makes a community a good is
with people that never judge each other especially the poor or the LGBTQ community.
Not judging them will help make a good community because it shows that everyone has
respect for in the community and treat everyone as brothers and sisters like God wants
us to see everyone, as brothers and sisters.
2. What are the 3 key themes in Paul’s teaching to the Corinthians? Describe each
one and give an example.
1.
Although we all have different gifts , we are all loved equally by God.
Each person has different gifts to offer the community. No two people are alike. We all
have our own parts in the world that we need to do to support the people in need.
2.
We need one another.
Every member of the community is different, it’s like parts of the body. Without every
everyone's help the community won't be able to be one and become successful.
3.
Solidarity is key
This is what holds a love-centred community as one. If one is hurt everyone is hurt, if
one is happy than everyone is happy.
3. On page 147, we find three basic requirements for community life. List each of
the requirements and summarize it in your own words. Then pick one and
describe how community will be hurt in its absence.
1.
The right and responsibility to contribute to the common good.
Everyone in the community has the right to work for the good of everyone to make
justice in the community. Everyone has their talents and gifts to share with everyone to
make a good impact into the whole community.
2.
The right to access the benefits and resources of the community.
Everyone in the community has the right to be able to access into education, the life that
God intended them to live, if not “their life is threatened”.
3.
Human rights.
Everyone in the community has their human rights. Those rights include their materials
needs, a guarantee of fundamental freedoms and the protection of relationships that are
essential to participation in the life of society
Step 2: Exclusion
Read “the Anatomy of Exclusion” on pages 150-154 of Living Justice and Peace
4. Think of a time you were excluded from a community. How did it affect your
sense of dignity? How did you respond to the exclusion?
A time I felt excluded from a community is when I moved to my new school in Grade 8.
As the new kid I was constantly looked at and judged everywhere I went. No one
wanted to talk and every time I was in class I felt like there were so many eyes staring
at me. It affected me emotionally because at my old school I was really extroverted and
when I moved I turned into an introvert partially because of my homesickness but
mostly because I was the new kid. I dealt with this by participating in most class
activities and getting to know everyone slowly which I then started to finally fit in.
5. Take notes about how people of different races are portrayed during several TV
shows. Write down the race of each character, the role played (doctor, a police
officer, criminal) and whether she or he was portrayed in a positive, a negative ,
or a neutral way. Then, answer these questions: what racial groups did you see?
How often did each group appear? How were people of different groups
portrayed? finally , discuss how television might affect perceptions about
different racial groups.
The types of TV shows I watched was “On My Block”. The different types racial race I’ve
seen watching the show was the hispanics and African Americans. The hispanic group
appeared the most more than the African Americans. The hispanic groups were always
part of gangs and they would always have to watch their backs from the african
americans because both sides didn't really like each other.
After seeing this show people might view hispanics and African Americans as being
always part of gangs and always violence even though that’s not always the case.
Step 3: Gender Identity and Equality
6. Define Feminism in your own words.
Feminism in my own words is when a person believes that the female rights isn't that
powerful enough and how they don't receive the amount of rights they should need.
7. What does the author suggest were the early signs of feminism in the 1960’s?
What the author suggests the early signs of feminism in the 1960’s was protests,
marches, and demonstrations to progress social movements.
8. Why does the author suggest that the word “feminist” still packs a punch?
The author suggest that the word “feminist” still packs a punch because when he says
that, people think he is a feminist.
9. How are feminist issues “societal issues”?
The feminist issues are “societal issues” because the combine feminist issues with other
social issues like racial, and class issues. With combining the two issues, it is easier to
see the discrimination between the two.
10. What are the ways that sexism has gone underground?
The ways that sexism has gone underground is because the realities of race and
gender in country either go unnoticed or are minimalized.
11. After having read the article can you identify yourself as a feminist woman or
a feminsit minded man? Why or why not?
After reading the article I see myself as somewhat a feminist minded man because I
beilieve in feminism, I think that they should reciveve the right amount of rights. But I
believe in equality therefore I see myself as treating and helping everyone see each
other equally like brothers and sisters in God's ways .
12. How might Jesus answer #11
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If Jesus were to answer the question, he would want all one of us to treat others like
brothers and sisters. He wouldn't want other people feel less powerful or have no rights
because he wants each one of us to be equally the same
Step 4: Transforming Racism
13. What is your emotional response to this history?
My emotional response to this history is that it’s not right for us to judge not only African
Americans, but every race in general. It’s important for us to treat each other with
respect and I also feel like no one is better than another person. It makes me feel sad
that humans treated each other like this back then and I’m glad that times have
changed but there is still room for improvement.
14. Complete the survey on 21st Century Racism in Canada
1.
18%
2.
75%
3.
40%
4.
75%
5.
3
6.
4
7.
50%
8.
2
9.
5%
10.4%
15. Check the answer key at the back of the unit guide. What does this trigger you
to think about?
1.
18% (wrong 28%)
2.
75% (wrong 100%)
3.
40%(correct)
4.
75%(wrong 100%)
5.
3(correct)
6.
4(Wrong 6)
7.
50%(correct)
8.
2(Wrong 3)
9.
5%(correct)
10.4%(correct)
What this triggers me to think about is that most people in the world have not the same
amount of rights as others .
Step 5: Inclusion
17. List and summarize the 5 areas we need to search in our hearts. Write a
paragraph reflecting on one area that you would want to focus on in changing
your own heart.
Attitudes about difference and diversity
This shows about how we behave when we are around people that different than us
Self-acceptance
This whos that people have a hard time accepting themselves often fail to accept others
The roots of our fear and hatred
This shows that we fear that often people will harm us in anyway. Do we take our anger
towards someone who has hurt us by hating all those who seem to be like her or him.
Responding to prejudice
This shows how we respond to prejudice that is directed against us.
Our basic approach to life
This talks about if we put most of our efforts into serving our own needs.
18. List and summarize the four areas for examining the heart of society.
Historical patterns
Talks about the cycle of exclusion rooted in history.
Patterns of power
Talks about who holds the power in society
Opportunity for all
Talks about how if people have access to the benefits of society such as good
education.
Honesty
Talks about how We must ask ourselves honestly accepting the patterns of exclusion so
they can be addressed, or pretend to think that they are no such thing. We must ask
ourselves of accepting the gifts of diversity
1. Keep a list of the main characters of the movie. Take notes on each of their
feelings about race. How did their perspectives influence their behaviour? What
were their blind spots? What were their virtues?
Farhad:
He is racist towards Daniel and blames him for not doing his job but daniel did do his job
and told Farhad what was wrong with the door but he didn't listen and blamed Daniel. In
the movie Farhad tries to shoot at Daniel but Daniels daughter came to protect him.
After Farhad realizing that the bullets were blanks daniels leaves the scene and Farhad
realized that if it wasn't for the blanks, the daughter would be dead.
Officer John Ryan
He shows racism against black people, as when he was insulting Shaniqua Johnson for
being black and thinking that she is preventing his sick father from getting his sick care.
His perspective influences his behavior because the way he thinks that Shaniqua is
preventing him from getting medical care for his dad.
Daniel Ruiz
As he works everyday, people like Farhad thinks that he is a criminal because he is
hispanic and just trying to scam him for not being able to fix the door locks but it was the
doors problem. Later on he was accused for not changing his door lock and for breaking
into the store by Farhad.
2.Discuss the episode in which Ryan pulls over the married couple. Who holds
power in this situation? Is this “power with” or “power-over”? Explain. Who in
that scene do you most relate to? Why? What would you have done in Thomas’s
Place.
The person who holds power in this situation is Ryan because by law he is a police
officer and who is able to pull them over. In this situation, Ryan and the married couple
is power-over. This situation is power-over because Ryan is has the ability over the
married couple to arrest them or shoot them since he has a gun. Since Ryan is carrying
a gun the married couple can't do anything but just stand there and listen to what Ryan
is telling them to do. I have not experienced anything like the married couple in the
movie, but if i were to relate to the most would be Anthony. As Anthony seeing his wife
being molested by Ryan, he had no power to do nothing and also if he tried anything he
would have to face the consequences which would most likely end up bad for them
both. If i were to experience something serious as the married couple I would have felt
scared and powerless like Anthony. If i was in Thomas, as a cop to cop I would’ve
confronted Ryan and told him if the thing he did was the right thing to do or just a little to
much. Also since Thomas is a police officer he has the right to speak up and file a
sexual assault for molesting the wife as that what I would have done if I was in place.
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