The War Between The Classes-Essay

There are many different kinds of races, skin color, ganders and sex orientations existing in the society which we are living in. Though most people are appealing equality as much as they can, but discrimination is still hiding in our life. Especially the racial discriminate is mutual in each races. In the book “The War Between The Classes”, white rich men discriminate other races people. However, Amy’s father—–a Japanese man also prejudice white people. Two races are not accept each other. Because of any reasons, majority grope discriminate minority grope. This situation mad the hate and prejudice are sowed in minorities’ heart deeply. So that two gropes started grown apart. Majority grope and minority grope were prejudicing and discriminating each other. In the book “The War Between The Classes”, many details show that not only majorities discriminate minorities, but also they were prejudiced by minorities.

Writer didn’t show strangely that majority grope discriminates minority grope, but there are some details can tell us that this situation is existent even in a school. On the page 31, “For that matter,” the teacher continued, his attention back to the class, “How many of your black students have Latino or white friends? Friends, not acquaintances? And how many of you Latinos have black friends?” In the book “The War Between The Classes”, these classes are not living together equally. From the teacher’s spoking, we can know easily that he partitioned students for three classes, they are black, Latino and white, and the discrimination is in the school and this situation is about majority grope discriminate minority grope. On the page 15 “He is not like us. They are all the same, these hakujin. I work with them every day.” The speaker of that is Amy’s father. We can easy to know that Amy’s father is a bigot with white people. On the other hand, that demonstrates some white people are discriminating Amy’s father, and this causes Amy’s father have prejudice for them. Discrimination is happening between at least two gropes who discriminate each other. In the book “The War Between the Classes”, majority grope is one of those gropes. The grope they discriminate is minority.

Although majorities discriminate minorities, the latter don’t want to accept this situation. In the book “The War Between The Classes”, Amy’s father have some prejudices for white people. On the page 12 “This would never happened if you had been out with a Japanese boy,” Papa went on. “A Japanese boy would have had proper respect. He would have had you home on time!” Amy’s father believes blind that Japanese boy is better than a white boy for his daughter. This shows he has prejudice for white people. From his word, he think every Japanese boys are all would have  had Amy home on time. The question is Amy’s father didn’t say “other white boys” or “other boys”, he said” Japanese boy”. So in his mind, Japanese boys are better than white boys. So he prejudice with white people. On the page18, Papa had not seen Hideo for nearly a year because Hideo had married without his consent. He had forbidden Mama and me to see him as well. As a human, if my son had married without my consent, then I will congratulate for him. Though he didn’t ask my consent, I will not forbidden my family to see him. Amy’s father’s behaver shows he has prejudices for white people. Majority grope discriminate minority grope, cause the latter produced hate and prejudices for majority. Amy’s father is good example for this. His co-workers discriminate him, so the prejudice even discrimination were born in his heart deeply.

In the book “The War Between The Classes”, because of majority grope discrimination leads that minority grope feel self-contemptuous. This emotion made minority grope deepen the hate and prejudice for majority grope. On the page 6, being the only non-white in his crowed, I didn’t always feel entirely comfortable. The word “non-white” shows Amy does mind that she is not a white people. Amy divides people with classes, they are white people and non-white people, and these two classes are not in the same status. She didn’t feel comfortable shows that she thoughts that non-white people has a lower status than white people. So she is self-contemptuous. On the page 9, “Are you one of them, or one of us? Do you know who you are and will you stand up for it, or are you gonna let everyone else call your shots?” Juan is same with Amy on this question. He thinks there are “white people” and “non-white people”. “One of them” and “one of us” show Juan thinks these two classes are apart. On the hand, he against white people, because he asks Amy stand with “us” but don’t stand with “them”. This emotion clearly shows he is trying to get in a same status with white people and avoid to be discriminated. Above all, Juan feels self-contemptuous. All minority people know that they are not the owner of where they are living, so they realized that they are not in a same level with majority people, this emotion produces self-contemptuous, and self-contemptuous breeds prejudice.

Whatever is white people, yellow people or black people. We all should equally to each other. However, characters in the book “The War Between The Classes” are not. Discrimination is growing apart them. Just like Mr. Otero said: “In a moment you’ll remove your color bands, but think how many people can’t remove theirs—their skin color, or the labels of poverty.”, it tells us that many people are living with discriminational suffers. This book shows us that discrimination is evil and contemptible, and appeals us stop it. In the book “The War Between The Classes”, writer just shows us how evil race discrimination is. However, there are not only race discrimination in the world, but also have ganders, sex orientations’ discriminations. If majority grope can’t stand in the same status with minority, the circle of discrimination will be endless.

Favourite presentation

My favourite presentation is the poem named “Lost Time” by Ingrid Vacha. This poem was about appeal people don’t lost their time. In the beginning, Ingrid said she had calculated how many time left of her life.  She thought time is precious and we are wasting it. Finally, Ingrid called us should do something valuable. From start to final, this poem showed speaker’s the sense of urgency and she tried to transmit this emotion to listeners for encourage us save time.

I like this one because it shocked me. Before that, I was wasting l lots of time on the online game named League of Legends. I tried to wake up from this game but I don’t have determination to do that, it led me always ended in failure. Now, I felt the urgency emotion and my heart was filled by determination. This presentation helped me a lot, that’s one reason why I like it. Another reason, I had the same point that don’t lost time for a long time. Though I can’t controlled myself to leave the game, I still wanted to spend my time on something valuable. I thought there were many people are losing their time such as me, I can’t help them at all but this poem can. This presentation is helpful for us, so it is my favourite one.

If you had to perform a spoken word presentation in front of the school, what topic would you present on and why?

I present on stop the war. In the world, many places are withstanding the pain of wars. People died every minute whatever is child or adult. I had saw a picture about a refugee boy felled on the beach, he died. The war is unhuman deathly, so we should prevent it even we will exhaust the last blood.

In the story “The Friday Everything Changed”, the main idea is people have to be brave and stand up for themselves. For example, Alma is brave to stand up for herself. “Alma Niles, put up her hand and said: “Why can’t girls go for the water, too?” This shows Alma wants to change the unfair situation, and has courage to do something. The next example, when you stand up for yourself, the rest might be not terrible like what you’d imagined. “I’ll think about that,” she said—as if, you know, she would—“and I’ll let you know next Friday.” This shows teacher thought that Alma’s point was right, and teacher was trying to change the rule. The last example is “‘Next week’ said Miss Ralston, closing the school register, tidying her books, ‘next week Alma Niles and Joyce Shipley will go for the water.’” This shows Alma proved that girls are not weaker than boys and changed the rule finally. Alma is a courageous girl who tried to gain an advantage for girls. She succeed finally. So people should stand up for themselves when they are facing to unfair.

 Nowadays, social media is popular in our life, but there are some mistakes need to solve. So there should be a guide to teach people how to use social media responsibly. For example, iPad is a convenient devise for some people, but someone are letting it to be the camera. Sometimes use it means you’re blocking the view for others. If no one teach it, people probably won’t sense that behaviour is wrong. The next example, many people are use phones when they are walking or something else. That’s dangerous, because when you are texting with your phone, you won’t pay attention to the way you walking, even there is a pool in front of you. There are many people made accident because of it. The last example, social media is swallowing our affection. People think chat on online is better, although their friends are front them; they think share food on Twitter is more important than have a great meal with family. We are looks like using the social media, but the true is we missed the “real” communication. That’s why there should be a guide to teach people how to use social media.

The ending of the story “Rules of The Game” shows, Waverly just 9 years old, wants independence from her mother.  Waverly shows this when she states. “I imagined my mother, first walking briskly down one street or another looking for me, then giving up and returning home to await my arrival. After two hours, I stood on creaking legs and slowly walked home.” This shows she ran away from home, to get away from her mother, but she came back. Waverly did not resign herself to lose, so she tried to get independence in different way. The other example is, when Waverly became a “chess star”, there is a big divergence between her and her mother. “I wish you don’t telling everybody I’m your daughter.” My mother stopped walking. This shows she wanted her keeps silence and does not t tell anyone. But her mother Lindo did agree with her, and ostentatious to everyone. Waverly was angry with her mother, so that makes Waverly wants independence from her mother. The last example is, in Waverly’s mind that sometimes her mother’s action disturbed her when she practise chess. “My mother had a habit of standing over me while I plotted out my games. I think she thought of herself as my protective ally. ‘Ma, I can’t practice when you stand here like that.’ One day I said.” This shows Waverly don’t want her mother always stood around her. She want her own area, so that made she wants independence from her mother.