Sunday, February 24, 2013
The Price of Public Violence
The Sunday, Feburary 24th' New York Times' Sunday Review section includes an article titled "The Price of Public Violence" (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/opinion/sunday/the-price-of-public-violence.html?ref=opinion&_r=0) which comments about recent events and their consequences. After reading the article, summarizing it in the blog and stating the author's and your opinion, be ready to discuss your views and the author's in class for extra credit.
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This article by Mr.Alex Kotlowitz was pretty interesting and we should take it so seriously. It breaks my heart every time someone had been shot either due to gang violence or shop lifting or for something stupid. Nowadays, that's all you see on the news. How do we get affected psychologically? It's painful. It scares the hell out of us. Imaging sending your kid to school and that kid never had to come back. We should do something about Gun Violence.
ReplyDeleteFifteen year old band majorette, Hadiya Pendleton, was shot on her back while being at a park with her friend in Chicago. She attempted the Presidential Ceremony only a week earlier. Doesn't this leave you with a bad taste on your mouth? How will her friends ever digest this nightmare? That's the point that the author was trying to make by writing this article. He said: " By themselves. Somewhere along the way, we need to focus on those left behind in our cities whose very character and sense of future have been haltered by what they've experienced on the street." The author is just trying to give a wake up call. We have those who had been murdered and those who had witnessing all those tribulations. what do we do with them? He believes that more counseling should be done as well as some mentoring after school programs. That's the only way we can try to help those who had been wounded either emotionally or psychologically.