Fifth Diary

Topic: Americans are very interested in self-improvement.

Details: Some people said America like a melting pot. Some people said America like a salad bowl. Recently, mosaic is another work to describe America. I like the last one because these three describing words show a self-improvement for Americans. The beginning of America is a melting pot; white and black people work together to build the new nation. After a while, America became a salad bowl; existing of slavery led the civil war; segregation and unfair treatment led the civil rights movement. However, in 21 century, Americans like a mosaic, people with all skin color is working hard and making tons of contributions to the country. So, I believe Americans are very interested in self-improvement and they really made a huge self-improvement in this 300 hundred year.

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Fourth Diary

Question: What observations did you make in the movie that depicts the unequal treatment of African Americans?

Answer: In the movie which we watched on last Wednesday, I made couple observations that depict the unequal treatment of Africa Americans. First of all, the theme of the movie is talking about school bus. White kids can take school bus but black kids can not. Then, compared their school utilities, we can easily see white kids have a much better environment to study but black kids do not. We can also see tons of differences between white and black people. e.g. their jobs, houses, clothing, church, etc.

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