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I think that neither society failed Freddy and Mike nor did they fail themselves. I think that it is a mixture of them both. Mike Tyson needed to toughen up to live in the neighborhood he did to get ahead; it also got him ahead in life. He did a lot of bad things, but the justice system kept sending him places to reform him. He eventually got to make something out of himself. The bad stuff that Mike did made him who he is today, and he was still able to get money and live a somewhat decent life in the end. He made off of his decisions on his own, society made the bad choices a lot easier, but there were other options. Mike even changed and was very respectful so that he could go to fighting training. We all have difficult choices in our lives, and sometimes it’s the most difficult paths that we need to take. Freddy Gray had a bad life. Things were not easy for him, but they were not easy for anyone where he grew up. Life was against him, but he could have stood up and changed himself....

First articl e    Race This article talks about how racism was a recent thing, and that it was only from the Western world. In the ancient world they believed that some races were better than others, but they believed that they could help the other races to become civilized. They did not believe that they would never be as good; they just thought that they were not raised the right way. It was because of the western world that racism and bigotry became a thing. The western world began to think that people of darker skin had less intelligence, and this made them lesser than the white world. After that began darker skinned people were thought of as slaves, stupid, and below everyone. This ideal was made by westerners in the time that they began to colonize the new world. Mexicans were also thought of as lesser for the skin color they inherited. Not only did major slavery exist in the main world, but western civilization was the cause of a huge genocide. Hitler killed, or tor...

1 Not only can we kill our own kind, but we can make them feel like they wish they were dead. Humans are social creatures, so excluding a person from the group can make them wish they were dead. We can also kill someone’s spirit. We are cruel and make fun of people all of the time. We bash them and bring them down with condescending names, harsh words, and disrespect. Not only can we kill physically we can kill a person mentally. We know how to break your spirit, break your mind, and break your body. When your mind and spirit are broken you most likely will wish you were physically dead. 2 We all have a civilized side, and a savage side. It is up to us to choose what side is able to dominate our lives. If you do not consciously choose what sides you will let take over it will be up to your surroundings. If you are surrounded by civilized people, you are more likely to have a stronger civilized side, but if you hang out with a ban, savage crowd, your savage side will have many op...

1.        No, I remember Krueger talking about this and some of the younger kids. The foreshadowing could be how specific he was with the rocks, and how strict the parents seen. He lulls us with how happy and joyful they seem. 2.        In a small village in the past, this would never happen in a big town, or in modern day. Less likely. I would not think a happy little village would attack on of their own like that, 3.         They all show the individuality of humans, they all have their own families and lives. Tessie was loud, and wanted to change the traditions that they have stuck with for a long time. 4.        The beginning shows a happy village, and then it turns out to have this awful and sad tradition. We think of a lottery as a good thing that you want to win, but they have it being an awful, and painful stoning. 5.     ...