...3/31/2016 A Class Divided Research Paper Winquist09 Login Join The Research Paper Factory Join Search Browse Saved Papers Search over 100,000 Essays Home Page » Other Topics A Class Divided In: Other Topics A Class Divided A Class Divided Everyone is likely to some form of discrimination or prejudice. On April 5th, 1968, a teacher in Riceville, Iowa named Jane Elliot conducted an exercise on her third grade class students that dealt with the concept of discrimination that would grow up to be a renowned experience. The exercise was the result from Martin Luther King’s assassination. The documentary is an eye opening into the world of racism and discrimination. The dictionary defines racism as “a doctrine that one race is superior†and discrimination as “the denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups because of prejudice or for other arbitrary reasons†Throughout the American society . and through its history you can find discrimination. The documentary shows us that discrimination doesn’t just go to the extent to the color of your skin or what your ethnicity is, but can fall into any physical characteristics, your social status, where youâ €™re from, having a developmental disability, simple as being a woman and what not of other things, and in this case the color of your eyes. Nevertheless, we past judgment and prejudice based on these types of things where the person themselves are not ...
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...Chelsea Mason March 11, 2010 CMST 10 Jane Elliot held a very interesting experiment for a lesson in discrimination. She divided her class of third graders into brown-eyes and blue-eyes and made certain rules for each group. For one day the blue-eyed children were “more superior” then the brown-eyed children. On the days that the children were part of the less superior part of the class, their thought process wasn’t on track like any other day. During and after this experiment, the children learned how unfair it was to be divided just because of the way that they looked. It made them fight and when they were dived it didn’t matter that they had been friends for a long time. At that time all that mattered was that one was better than the other one. This lesson seemed to have a lasting impact on these children because when they met up later in life they talked about how they were teaching their children not to discriminate, and how they ignored people when they would get looks for talking and hanging out with a black person. It just shaped the way they would think for their lives. If they wouldn’t have been part of this experiment they may not have the same thoughts, but because they got to be up close and personal to segregation and discrimination they got to see what it was really like. When Jane Elliot did this experiment later on with the adults, they seemed to try to stand up a little bit more to her about how she was treating them. She separated the different eye colors...
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...From the moment our country was created, one of the main liberties we asked for was the idea of equality, “that all men will be created equal.” Although this has been a part of the American ideal since 1776, American’s have not fulfilled this liberty. Individuals do not admit it, but many are still prejudice against minorities, particularly African Americans. In the 1960’s, around the time when Martin Luther King Jr. was fighting for civil rights for people of color, a 3rd grade school teacher, Jane Elliot, from Riceville, Iowa was busy at work in an attempt to recreate the negative emotional and physical effects of racism within her classroom. She created an experiment in which she divided her students into unequal groups as a way of creating artificial stereotypes, prejudices, and discrimination. Jane Elliot eventually expanded her experiments into the adult population. She has done these experiments on corrections workers in prisons, as well as college students. Through all these experiments, Jane Elliot has made many conclusions and generalizations that can directly relate back to the real world, and hopefully aid in solving the problem of racism. Jane Elliot’s experimentation with stereotypes first began within the walls of her 3rd grade classroom. Before the experiment began she asked the students for their opinions on minority groups. Many of the students answered with statements regarding black people as being dumb and different than whites. They also discussed how African...
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...novel and film. He has to be careful with plagiarism that is what his professor talked about in the class. Before begin writing hence, Dylan wants to know more about plagiarism. Dylan, conscious about plagiarism copies direct quotations from the source and places quotation marks around it. He knows that copying a direct quotation from a source or a paper without placing quotation marks is counted as wrong work which is a plagiarism. He also acknowledges the quotations by crediting the source by work citing. Picking up a statement from a source and crediting means avoiding a plagiarism. Readers will have a clear idea about where the statement is extracted from. Quoting and paraphrasing, both are fine as long as their sources are credited. He takes Steinbeck's ideas or words and puts them into his own words, Dylan paraphrases by crediting the source by citing it. Paraphrasing is equally important as quoting to keep in mind while writing a paper to avoid plagiarism. If someone's ideas or words are taken without changing words, and is not quoted and not credited then it is considered a plagiarism. There are whole bunch of things Dylan has to consider while writing his paper. He should not have his friend or someone to write papers for him. Using a paper written by someone else other than himself is a plagiarism. Submitting a paper or an assignment for more than one class, and downloading or buying a term paper from the web are all considered plagiarisms. Plagiarism is...
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...Ms. Elliott was a woman that went above and beyond her job as a teacher, and took it upon herself to teach her children something school would never teach them typically. She taught them moral values and the unfairness of prejudice and discrimination. I found the experiment interesting; I was wondering what the children would get out of this discrimination experiment. The reactions of the children were obvious that they learned their lesson on understanding discrimination because they lived through it themselves. The social interaction between the students and Ms. Elliot was completely changed during the experiment. The children who had once been best friends with each other have turned on because they are no divided on not equal to each other. Once their teacher, the authority figure, told them one group was better than the other, the recognized different social identities for each other. The adults reacted differently to the experiment. I don’t think they exactly saw Ms. Elliot as an authority figure because they are of more of a similar age to her. Watching the adults reaction to the experiment made me somewhat uneasy. The brown-eyed adults went along with everything she said and felt a power of authority because they were told that they were better than the blue-eyed people. I think that this activity wasn’t nearly as successful for adults as it was for children. Children are completely open to new aspects of learning at their young age, but a lot of adults already have...
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...Ginger LaBar Professor Shifu English 101 October 8, 2014 DD1 Gender Bias: The Effects on our Young Women As a mother of a sixteen year old daughter, I am very worried about how media objectifies women and what an impact social media has on her. She spends many hours a day on her phone, on facebook, and in front of the television. I have already witnessed the effect men have had on her at such a young age. She just started dating, which is very heartbreaking as a mother to witness. She already feels inferior to men and has allowed them to take advantage of her. “You can’t be what you can’t see.” This is a quote by Marie Wilson. As I have tried to be a good role model for my daughter, I have made a lot of poor choices that have affected her tremendously. Unfortunately, I had to make those mistakes to learn from them and that has made me the independent woman I’ve become. As a parent you hope your children do not have to follow in your footsteps, but sometimes to realize your self-worth you must experience life on life’s terms and hopefully learn and grow through them. Because of the gender roles that still exist between men and women, we must make changes in our society to insure a better future for our daughters. As a mother, daughter and sister growing up I definitely saw that there was a difference between men and women. Although my Mom was a strong woman she definitely relied on men and filled the role as a typical housewife. Young women need...
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...Kiana Stinney | A Class Divided | Reactionary Paper | | Period 1 | 5/16/2013 | | Watching A Class Divided really brought along a lot of different feelings. First and foremost I learned from watching the kid’s scene that you work better when you feel better and when you feel confident. The scene that I’ll probably remember most is when Ms. Elliot did the test on the adults. It was shocking and interesting to see how adults act in such a situation where as they are being discriminated against. I hope it showed many people how African Americans felt and sometimes still feel. The part that surprised me was the scene with the kids, when one group felt like they were in power; they completely turned on the other group with no remorse. Best friends became worst enemies, and they didn’t even think twice about it. I feel as though Ms. Elliot’s way of showing these kids about discrimination and racism was very effective, in a way she provided an answer to the question “why would anyone want to murder Martin Luther King?” When the two boys fought at recess the teacher asked if responding with violence made him feel better, he replied no. His answer goes to show that responding with violence is ineffective and a waste of time and energy. There were many quotes used but this one really stood out to me; “Help me not judge a person until I have walked in his moccasins”, a self-explanatory Sioux prayer quoted in the documentary. This prayer related to the brown eyes/blue eyes...
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...Jane Elliott - A Class Divided C. Love University of Life Research Techniques for Educators October 13, 2015 Jane Elliott - A Class Divided (You Tube Video) The Jane Elliott Video was very insightful to how racism is taught through generations of people. I believe the experiment has helped many people including those who want to learn to be fair and just human beings. The children were used as research participants involuntarily, they were at school that day because they were sent by their parents, and they did not go agreeing to be involved in a research project. The children could not get up and freely leave so yes the research was involuntary. The children were not old enough to understand fully the objectives of research however they were smart enough to voice what they had heard and was taught. The results of the documentary featuring Mrs. Elliott and the students did provide valuable information that has helped society and probably will continue to do so for years to come. Today if that was done Mrs. Elliott would probably be fired and lawsuits filed against her and the school in which she taught. I believe the method she used was brilliant, the collars and differentiating between blue and brown eyes, it should be done again in this period and time in a controlled setting. Most of the children did not suffer any harm except the one little guy that suffered from the physical fight. A number of children were hurt inside from not getting extra food or time on the...
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...“A Class Divided” In this documentary, Jane Elliot, a third-grade teacher at the time, conducted a two-day experiment that involved teaching about discrimination and prejudice; she wanted to demonstrate to her students that you can’t judge people based on their physical features. Elliot’s students also experienced what it was like to walk in the shoes of many minorities such as African-Americans and Native Americans. Elliot reached a stunning conclusion after the experiment, the children’s academic performance improved. Later, Elliot conducted this experiment with adults and reached similar conclusions than that of her earlier experiments. One theme in this documentary focuses on discrimination and prejudice as ideas that are put into peoples’...
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...and those emigrating from the other nations. Americans spend a serene and contented life, whereas the Mexicans live a substandard and boring life. The motive of Cándido Rincón to bring his wife to the US was to make their US dream get realized. But the native people always cast a suspicious eye upon the intents of the immigrants. Though there are some miscreants living in every society, they make every other person subject to suspicion. In the novel, where the man with the backwards cap creates the problems for the other people, they make the other people find the same suspicious treatment for themselves. The plot of the story opens accident of Cándido Rincón, who is hit by the car of Delaney Mossbacher. Delaney Mossbacher is a middle-class, nature writer. Cándido is a Mexican, illegally living in the US. Candido gets badly injured. But, on being offered a nominal amount of twenty dollars, he is ready to reconcile with Delaney. The accident just puts a timely effect upon Delaney and he is soon able to resume his normal routine of life. His unshaken routine of life gets disturbed when a coyote comes rushing into their lawn and kills their pet. The act of coyote is linked with the Mexican immigrants living in Aroyo...
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...data in a visual form. The visual display of statistical data in the form of points, lines, areas and other geometrical forms and symbols, is the most general terms known as Graphical Representation. Statistical data can be studied with this method without going through figures, presented in the form of tables. Such visual representation can be described in the sections that follow. The basic difference between a graph and a diagram is that a graph is a representation of data by a continuous curve, usually shown on a graph paper while a diagram is any other one, two or three-dimensional form of visual representation Types of Diagrams I. Simple bar chart II. Multiple bar chart III. Component bar chart IV. Rectangles and Sub divided Rectangles V. Pictograms VI. Pie Diagrams Simple Bar Chart A simple bar chart is used to represents data involving only one variable classified on spatial, quantitative or temporal basis. In simple bar chart, we make bars of equal width but variable length, i.e. the magnitude of a quantity is represented by the height or length of the bars. Uses of Simple Bar Chart: 1. Vertical bar chart is an effective way for presenting a time series. 2. Vertical bar chart is also an effective way for presenting qualitative classified data. 3. Horizontal bars are useful for geographical or spatial distributions. Simple bar chart showing the profit of a bank for 5 years. Multiple Bar Charts: By multiple bars diagram two or...
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...KINGDOM ANIMALIA - They are multi-cellular -they are heterotrophs -it is divided into two: Vertebrates and Invertebrates CHARACTERISTICS OF K.ANIMALIA 1. SESSILE- they are permanently attached at the base. 2. SYMMETRY- it may be : a. Bilateral- can be divided into two equal part b. Radial- can be divided into several equal parts c. Spherical- d. Asymmetry- if you divide it, the parts are not equal to each other 3. BODY SURFACE- dorxal (upper body) and ventral (lower body) 4. BODY CELLS- it has three layers: e. Ectoderm- outer part f. Mesoderm- middle part g. Endoderm- inner part 5. BODY ENDS- posterior (back end) and anterior (front end) 6. BUDDING- an asexual reproduction where in buds are formed. 7. AUTOTOMY- it is the self-cutting of an organism 8. REGENERATION- a kind of reproduction where in a cut part grows into new organism like the parent 9. SEGMENTATION- the body of an organism is divided into linear partition. I. INVERTEBRATES- organism without backbone a. Phylum Porifera * the pore-bearing organism * Their bodies are perforated by many pores. * They are multicellular but have no true tissue * REPRESENTATIVE: Sponges b. Phylum Coelenterata * Hollow-bodied organism * They are the ancient group of invertebrates with a rich fossil record * Radially symmetrical * The use their tentacles to capture food * They have two germ layers: Ectoderm, Endoderm * A good...
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... Essay Report Socialization Socialization is the process by which people learn the characteristics of their group. It is how we learn the way of society. It is the life time process that has begun since the day we were born. In this process we acquire the knowledge, skills, attitudes, values, norms, and actions that appropriate to society. These are influenced by the agents of socialization which are family, education and peers. The affect of socialization can be seen in A Class Divided by Jane Elliot. She influences the lives of people by showing what it feels to be discriminated. She uses the agents of socialization to teach these people. Family The family is the first and most important part of socialization. The family influences who we are and who we will become. Although the family is not seen in A Class Divided, it is known that they still had an influence. During Elliots experiment with the student it is known that none of the parents had objected to what was being taught to their children. The families were also helping in this process by not encouraging discrimination. Another factor that we see is that the students that had gone through the process now had their own families. They were teaching their children about equality and about discrimination. Education Education and school is another important role in the socialization process. The time that we spend in this...
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...Quiz Submissions - Socrates and Plato Essay Question ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form Plato divided society into three groups. Briefly describe each of these groups Your answer should be at least three full paragraphs (about five sentences each). Producer provided the necessities of life and its material, economic goods, and services. The groups included farmers, shoemakers, carpenter, shopkeeper, importers, bankers, and general laborers. Producer were considers as lowest class. If notice the people in this class would be people that are in middle to upper class in our society. But to Plato people that are in lower class have the most freedom and economic gain. They can live or own land and marry whom they wish, as long within the bounds of laws. Producers are concern with material acquisition and physical comfort. Plato called the second group originally, Guardians. Plato stated that people in this group are concern with welfare and society as a whole. They would protect their people from both external and internal enemies. The trained guardians are divided into two groups depending on their abilities. One of the two divided group was called auxiliaries. Those in this group correspond to policies and enforced rules of the rulers. Auxiliaries are ambitious, assertive, and desire honor. The third group retains its highest title as the guardians. Members in this group are the ultimate rulers of the state. This group is...
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... TEACHER’S ACTIVITY | PUPIL’S ACTIVITY | 1. PRAYER Class, stand up and let us pray.(The teacher will call a student to lead the prayer.) 2. GREETING “Good morning Class”You may now take your seat. 3. CHECKING OF ATTENDANCE Alright, before we start let us check first your attendance. 4. CHECKING OF ASSIGNMENTClass do we have an assignment? Pass your notebook in front and we will check it later. 5. ENERGIZERClass, do you like to sing and dance? Let us sing your mathematics song. | (The assign student will come in front and pray.) Good morning Ma’am. Good morning classmates it’s nice to see you. (The assign student will stand and tell who is absent in the class.) Yes Ma’am. (The student will pass their assignment.) Yes Ma’am. (The student will sing together with the teacher.) | 6. DRILL Class I have here a flashcards that contains of number that you need to answer orally. 5x4 =6x6 =7x8 =1x5 =9x6 = 7. REVIEW Class, before we start our new lesson. Let us have a short review to our past lesson.What was our lesson yesterday? Choose one flower and see the given number. And get the Least Common Multiple. 1. 12 and 6 2. 10 and 5 3. 16 and 8 8. MOTIVATION Class, did you play a basketball? I divided you into two groups. I need three volunteer in each group. Each group have...
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