Monday, May 19, 2014

Hate such a strong word

This graph just goes to show you how an increase of fear can influence violence.Has the graph shows through the years there have been few hate crimes against the Islamic race. Then came September 9th 2001 when is was believed that Islamic terrorist hijacked an airline and drove it into the twin towers killing hundreds and injuring thousands.Now this tension increased the fear of this race tremendously and now everyone who is or was associated with that group is looked upon to have to same motive.Thus creating fear among the common folk which leads to racial profiling and unnecessary violence in other words hate crimes.So for that year of 2001 hate crime for the Islamic race was at an all time high.Following the years after it had a steady decrease but never back to how low has it used to be.So the graph depicts the change of increase and decrease in hate rather well I would say this is the world we live now.We fear the unknown .Such has in Zeitoun when he was arrested, the officer or military personnel at the time asked for his I.D.Zeitoun handed it over and because of how he had looked he didn't bother to look at it he just took it away has a means of him not having identification .In other words a hate crime ,I do not care that you are out here helping people doing my job you look like a terrorist so I'm going to treat you like one.Perfect example of a hate crime and with out I.D Zeitoun is ceseptable to any type of treatment they saw fit. In other words cruel and unusual punishment.They fear of the unknown is mans greates Phobia.

Monday, May 12, 2014

Zeitoun Double Quote Hero

Zeitoun hero or Coward ??? 
Zeitoun the story of a man who had done great things at a price. It is argued constantly whether or not he was a hero or a coward trying to avoid deeper problems.I do believe Zeitoun was a hero. in my opinion though I would argue that ,Zeitoun was a hero of circumstance. A hero of circumstance is a person whose actions in a certain situation go above and beyond the norm and this only happens because said person decides that he/or she has nothing elese more important to take care of so in the meantime he/she diverts thier energy and resoucres to helping out others. Altough he had a lot of supposed reasons and excuses to why he chose to stay behind and not leave with his family. A little background behind this Zeitoun is a hard working individual from syria who comes to america and ends up being successful with his business ventures, has he owns his own painting industry and multiple properties with 6-18 different tenants.Now there is a category 5 level hurricane on the way and most civilians  and residents in the area that can flea and evacuate do so. "Honey,I think we should go" this is zeitoun s wife suggesting that they should also flea,but,Zeitoun he has worked so hard to make his dreams come to fruition that he decides he is going to stay to try and protect his business, and he has his family flea  {50-51}. This is where Zeitoun begins his questionable cicrcumstational Heroism. The hurricane comes through and the streets are flooded, people are stranded buildings have capsized. Everything is in dismay and on top of that you have different types of millitary and police personnel areesting people and taking ithem away.In the midst of all this chaos here is Zeitoun realizing that he migh have made a mistake in stayin since mostly everything around him  is destroyed. With no family or friends he begins somewhat of a crusade where he goes out in search of fellow survivors.He constantly performs this action and brings them back to his building where he provides food shelter at the bare minimum level that he can.This is why I say he is acircumstational hero,becaause he only began to do what he did given the circumstances he was in, and at times he felt like giving up.I beleive if Zeitoun family had decided to stay with him his biggest concern would have been forget everybodyelses let me take care of my family. Thus making him a circumstational hero,in y opinion. It does make a reference to thier family pride and reminsecne of his dead brothers memory,"Be strong,Be brave,Be true, Endure." Were some of the famous words from his brother momahed.
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Monday, May 5, 2014

Zeitoun

Zeitoun could've cared less about the category hurricane he stayed behind to try and protect his business. Helping people in the process was just him being a Good Samaritan in his brothers name. Zeitoun and his wife are having an argument about wether or not to flee but he chose to stay behind(50-51).he decided that protecting his business would be more important in the end than being the man of the household and being with his family.He must if taught protecting the business would've been protecting his family but in all honesty what could he have done against a category 5 hurricane. He just wanted to be there to see if his hard work went bye bye to be there to say the final goodbyes.He didn't really honestly think he could've been able to protect a whole entire business by himself.