3) Life Choice: The Powers That Be? [Categories: Life Choice, Making Connections]: Please copy and paste the following bullet points into your blog post and complete the following:
Introduction After reading My Name is Margaret (Maya Angelou), I will be writing about whether or not I support Margaret's choice in breaking the casserole dish along with the two green cups, for being oppressed by her racist boss Mrs. Cullinan. I will also write about a time I chose to not be oppressed. Did you agree with Margaret's choice to break the casserole dish and two green glass cups? In the reading My Name is Margaret (Maya Angelou), the main character has to deal with many factors of being oppressed, listening to authority figures who belittle her. Margaret was treated with little to no respect by her authoritative figure, who was her boss. At first Margaret tried to not resist with being oppressed by being called Mary. She tried to laugh it off but, after a week of Mrs. Cullinan’s calling her Mary she was getting to her breaking point. Margaret's breaking point was when Mrs. Cullinan’s SCREAMED MARY! at that point Margaret has had it and dropped the food tray and! let the Casserole dish along with the two green cups fall to the ground and shattered. This was what Margaret had to do to stop working there she did not want to end up being treated with no respect anymore. When have you made an important choice to either resist or not resist oppression, challenge the status quo, or refuse to obey an authority figure? When I was in the fourth grade I moved from Sharon Hill to Prospect Park, in the fourth grade, I quickly made some a few friends that were in my class and in the first week at being at this new school a kid decided to push my friend and tried to bully him during recess. Growing up in Sharon Hill as a fourth grader i knew these actions cannot be tolerated. I asked my friend what that was about and he told me that he danced with his girlfriend at the Fire House Dance. My friend wanted to punch the kid and his friends at recess but I told him he can't do that because he would get into a lot of trouble, so we revised the situation and decided that it would be best to confront him the next time we weren't in school, sure enough his friends went to the same playground we decided to go to. we decided to play them in basket ball 2 vs 2 after about the first 5 minutes the other kids decided to push us and play rough we didn't stop yet though. About 10 minutes into the game the kid punched my friend! so I decided to help my friend and we ended up having a 2 vs 2 fight on the basketball court until some dad walking his dog ran over and stopped us.
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Sabatino
9/15/2017 03:21:04 am
Thanks for publishing this post! I appreciate your response to the reading and your telling of a personal story.
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9/17/2017 07:47:02 pm
Don, I think you did a really good job explaining Margaret's breaking point and the events that led up to it. I enjoyed reading your perspective on the story.
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Zun
9/18/2017 01:48:32 pm
Don, I like your view on your story. In your story,i think you gave your friend the right suggestion not to punch during the recess. If not, your friend will get a lot of trouble.
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Regina King
9/19/2017 02:55:47 pm
Hello Don Hart,
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mohnad soliman
9/21/2017 09:19:22 am
I agree with the family decision too.
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Kacie Montano
9/24/2017 10:32:48 am
Hi Don, I liked your story about your friend, it was the right decision to tell your friend not to punch the kid.
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