IMPORTANT NOTE: PLEASE BE SURE TO BE UP TO DATE WITH YOUR READING. CHAPTER 11 WILL BE VERY IMPORTANT TO TOMORROW'S CLASS!
WRITE: Formal Essay #3:
Synthesis of Outcasts United
This paper will be three - five pages long. Same format. Each family will work on the same topic (five possible topics in all). This will focus our conversation about Part I (give or take a chapter) to five areas. I am assigning it this way so that you may use your families for guidance and help. Topics will be assigned during class today. How? By a a little method I call the "Costal Circle of Death." Fear it!
Use afternoon module today to begin preparing your thesis/argument with your family members. Also, each family should be able to provide interesting oral insights for each topic. Consider resources (some are even posted to this blog) to assist you in crafting your answer. Check out websites. Read the interviews. Listen to the audio and podcasts. Watch videos. Attribute and cite these resources. Integration, relevance and attribution of sources will be graded. Use Hacker to guide your creation of an MLA works cited page (Don't worry about perfection in this area, yet, we will go over this next week). I have highlighted the pith (look it up, Skube) of each topic to keep you centered.
The Five Possible Topics:
1. Soccer. This was an interesting year to read this book, because soccer is pretty much sweeping the world. When played beautifully, as Coach Luma might say, soccer is one of the world's most fluid and graceful games. How does the nature of soccer reflect and influence the ways in which the Fugees respond to the challenges of life in Clarkston? What about the game makes it so particularly compelling for children who have endured war, violence, and displacement? This may call for some research on the game, it's importance to the international community, etc. In the most basic terms, examine the sport as an impetus (Skube) for coping with refugee life. The thesis should speak to how the game correlates to the Fugees themselves.
2. Coach Luma fits the Fugees. There is a great deal about her past that makes her the perfect Coach for the team. Her story is not EXACTLY like those of the boys, either, though she is also a Clarkston "outsider" in terms of her nationality. This topic calls for a comparison/contrast between Luma and the Fugees. In what ways does her experience as an immigrant compare and contrast with the stories of the Fugees? In what ways do both these similarities and differences affect the bond between the coach and her team? Research on this topic should center on Luma herself and probably the country of Jordan.
3. Chapter 3 describes a study led by Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam that states that inhabitants of the hyperdiverse communities tend to withdraw from collective life and distrust their neighbors. You are going to examine, analyze and relate these findings to OU. Discuss whether or not they surprise you. Call upon specific references from the book that support his report. Then discuss possible methods for how communities such as these can overcome such obstacles. Research for this one has a lot of possibilities. You could look up information on similar communities. You can look into Clarkston yourself. You can look for success stories on how such communities overcome such obstacles in other places. Do not be afraid to make your own decisions on potential solutions. Do not fear using your own personal reference or experiences to brainstorm potential solutions.
4. At its core, this is a book about outcasts in general. While the book has narrowed our focus on cultural outcasts, it is obvious that outcasts come from all spheres of influence. Your job will be to choose, then analyze an outcast from a place in culture that specifically interests you. Who is this person (background info)? Why is/was this person considered an outcast? What did the person do to be considered an outcast? What effect did the outcast status have on this person’s life? What conclusions can you come to about the person? Was the label outcast justified? End the paper by explaining how the label ouotcast is different than the label applied to members of the Fugees. EACH FAMILY MEMBER MUST CHOOSE A DIFFERENT PERSON!
5. In Chapter 11, Beatrice makes some interesting points about the differences in the cultural acceptance of child rearing techniques. She speaks specifically on the effectiveness of corporal punishment. Consider Beatrice's comments. Do a little research on corporal punishment for the purpose of child rearing, especially in other cultures. Do not hesitate to share personal insight on your own experiences, especially if you experienced a varied cultural view on the subject. Then, after you have analyzed Beatrice's points, take a stand on the subject yourself.
Paper will be due at END OF MODULE Monday, so that you may have time to confer with your family for some editing before turning them in. DO NOT PLAGARIZE!
To do well on this keep Costal's Keys in mind. Focus on writing a great introduction with a focused, argumentative thesis. Watch for mechanical uses! I will be unforgiving on sentence structure. Support your family!
Kristin Donath - working thesis -
ReplyDeleteHaving little connection with their family or the new language troubles Luma and refugees who come to a new country alone. Luma’s life struggling experiences molded the person and coach she became which made her fit in with the refugee boys. These strong connections they shared tied together an everlasting, unforgettable bond.
During a time in which a country is in neutrality, equality and austerity chaos, one may feel the need to depart from their homeland. Luma and the Fugees have experienced the difficulty in adapting to a new country. As the bond between Luma and her players became closer, Luma soon realized, she wasn’t the only one facing the issue of disapproval and anxiety. In fact, the Fugees faced far more difficult problems than Luma.
ReplyDeleteCorporal punishment, despite its reasons to be legal and performed on children is becoming a crime in countries such as India, China, and Liberia because children are being put in comas, breaking bones, being marked up with scars and bruises, and even dying. In America, this type of punishment is abolished for the better and safety of the children.
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ReplyDeleteClarkston, Georgia, what was once a small white town where minorities were too timorous to reside at has changed so drastically to the point where it became one of the most hyperdiverse communities within the United States. Refugees and immigrants were flooding the town from every direction on the compass. The sudden overflux of such diverse ethnicities surged a rapid decrease of communication and trust within Clarkston.
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Robert Putnam, Harvard political scientist, produced a study that validated the fact that “distrust between the ethnic groups will rise with diversity, but not within a group.” Despite the allure and attractions that Clarkston holds for its varied newcomers, Clarkston is the perfect example of distrust within a community because of all of the minorities moving in. Whites are losing their jobs to the immigrants, which brings a sense of hatred and jealousy between the townspeople. The different ethnic groups also seem to isolate themselves from each other, lacking communication and understanding between the groups. These problems, and many other problems that lie within diverse communities, can be fixed by many ways.
TIM, NIKKI, SHARNICE, ANYE
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ReplyDeleteJamie: Cho killed 32 people, wounding about 15 others. The shootings lasted for about 2 ½ hours. The Massacre was completely unexpected coming from a quiet, shy college student. Little did anyone know that he was bullied throughout his life and days before was recently diagnosed with an anxiety disorder which only helped him make his decision.
Kira:They had deceived them all. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris had once been model sons and well-rounded individuals. What happened to turn them against society and lead to one of the worst high school shootings in United States history? To this day, not one person knows the real, underlying reasoning to their actions and they are still puzzled as to what happened that fatal day over ten years ago.
Dylan and Eric had transformed, from outgoing, social butterflies to completely encasing themselves in dark shadows of high school. They were outcasts by choice as a result of their high school experiences. Had they not been bullied, or teased for being different, would they have had to outcast themselves?
Eugene:All the white face looking down upon the girl, casting an evil shadow. Eyes tear through her poor innocent soul, trembling in fear. Little girl’s parents hug their daughter to block the pain by the eyes shred through them too. Tears and agony passes through the family continuously.
Sandra Laing, a black born baby to white parents, faces discrimination throughout her whole life, leaving her as an outcast. The town mocks her life and treats as if she weren’t human.
Soccer has been an entertaining sport for many refugees because it brings unity and gives them a chance to release their anxiety every afternoon. Soccer was their voice. Since it was an inexpensive sport, it was all they had back in their country. Playing soccer gave them a chance to fit in in Clarkston and protest against racism as a team.
ReplyDeleteIt’s surprising and overwhelming how the passion and commitment for a sport can change lives. In Outcast United, refugee children struggled through poverty, hunger, and violence in their homeland, but still remained loyal to the love for soccer. While seeing family members killed and living in refugee camps with fear in Africa, the refugees were still able to make time to play soccer. Soccer is a therapy for the refugees. Soccer is not a sport that is played by a single player; it’s about teamwork and dedication. Therefore, it influences the refugee children and their families’ faith and determination to create a new life in America through structure, passion, and duty.
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ReplyDeleteOJ Simpson, a convict, ex-football player, or outcast to society. What is he most known for, his astounding years in the NFL or his murder trial? In OJ’s life so far he has been convicted of a murder, and has been incarcerated twice. He is currently in prison and the way he is living now I don’t see OJ having his freedom in the near future.
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thesis paragragh...
ReplyDeleteAccording to historians, the earliest records of games similar to soccer occurred during the second century B.C. Over the ages, the different versions of soccer such as Mob soccer showed how the game was played with no mercy; entire villages would go against each other and the injuries were immense. In other countries such as England, Rome, and Greece, soccer was used as a method to bring people together. Soccer shows that the nature of this sport taught different cultures, tribes, and countries that life is like an extreme soccer game. In a game, players have to endure the challenges that arise on the field and have to learn to communicate with other teammates in order to reach the goal.(thesis) In Outcasts United, the Fugees used the nature of the game to overcome the damage of war, separation, and violence as well as putting behind their past and dealing with the challenge of living in a new country with different cultures, languages, laws, and social views.
In a time in which a country is in neutrality and austerity chaos, one feels the need depart from their homeland. Luma and the Fugees have experienced the difficulty is adapting to a new country and are expected to survive. Most of them had suffered of unimaginable hardship, one boy was forced by soldiers to shoot his own best friend, another watched his father killed, and all of them had been robbed of their childhood. On the other hand, Luma had a perfect peaceful life that everyone wished for. But she decided to escape from Jordan to find her freedom and independence without the social and financial safety net her parents provided her.
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