Final Reflection of the Week

Well first of all before I came to Vassar College for the week program, I wasn’t really interested in history or at least didn’t know a lot of what was involved with the different segregations between whites and blacks. I knew about the basic events for example Martin Luther King Jr. and his “I Have A Dream” speech and Rosa Parks and why she didn’t want to give up her seat for a white man from the bus because she was tired. I learned so much from the classes for example The Emmet Till story. I knew that there were a lot of murders and violence going on but just watching the documentary, how a 14-year-old boy got brutally murdered and thousands of people shared that pain. Something else that changed me was watching the other documentary we saw yesterday about Martin Luther King Jr. and the Montgomery Boycott. It’s a lot better watching a film about the event instead of reading from a text. I learned and evolved from this week.

My writing about the movement evolved over the course of the week through the different methods we discussed about. For example, reading different articles and connecting different ideas together with quotes and especially getting feedback from my peers. I’ve always connected different ideas with my essays at school and usually get feedback from my teachers and peers. But, here I got a lot of feedback from my friends and that helped. Especially the notebooks in the Internet. It didn’t only helped me but it was something fun to do. Usually, I would use blogging for personal, high school, funny things like the websites such sconex or myspace. We as a class made different connections with the films or the quotations from different texts. One connection that I made that I put in my personal notebook, was about the documentation of the Emmet Till story and how a 14 year old boy was murdered and I compared that with the Boondocks film and how uncle ruckus thought that black people have to respect white people and if they don’t then they get beaten or even killed. That is exactly what happened to Emmet Till. He whistled to a white lady and only a few days later he was murdered. This is one example of the different similarities or differences we found with he different articles and films we discussed about.