Freakonomics
What was your personal reaction to this reading selection?
The book Freakonomics has reconfirmed my thoughts on the racial divide which continues to plague the world we call our own. Today African Americans still face discrimination and have been forced to acclimate to the racism which divides whites and blacks. Although we as a nation have made progress, our plan to promote black capitalism and equal treatment has fallen short. My opinion rests solely on my own personal experience of growing up as an African American young lady. Sometimes I often wonder if it is us that is holding each other back. We have grown to blame those who no longer harbor control over the accomplishments that were are capable of. It is important that we rise up to be more than the statistics, honoring the title of the race which does not see life without struggle. The average African American child: has either grown up in a household where no one in the immediate family has exceeded the threshold of gradating from high school, was born to a teenage mother, is living in environment where violence is common on a regular basis as well as living with a single parent who is the main breadwinner.
If you were to create notes to help you remember the most important points from your reading, what style of notes (lists, outlines, thought bubbles or webs, etc.) would you use and why?
If I were to create notes to help me remember the most important parts I would you use the web as it organizes information in way that is universal to everyone. The web also allows me to clearly express my thoughts.
The book Freakonomics has reconfirmed my thoughts on the racial divide which continues to plague the world we call our own. Today African Americans still face discrimination and have been forced to acclimate to the racism which divides whites and blacks. Although we as a nation have made progress, our plan to promote black capitalism and equal treatment has fallen short. My opinion rests solely on my own personal experience of growing up as an African American young lady. Sometimes I often wonder if it is us that is holding each other back. We have grown to blame those who no longer harbor control over the accomplishments that were are capable of. It is important that we rise up to be more than the statistics, honoring the title of the race which does not see life without struggle. The average African American child: has either grown up in a household where no one in the immediate family has exceeded the threshold of gradating from high school, was born to a teenage mother, is living in environment where violence is common on a regular basis as well as living with a single parent who is the main breadwinner.
If you were to create notes to help you remember the most important points from your reading, what style of notes (lists, outlines, thought bubbles or webs, etc.) would you use and why?
If I were to create notes to help me remember the most important parts I would you use the web as it organizes information in way that is universal to everyone. The web also allows me to clearly express my thoughts.
I believe that all Americans have lost the sense of what we are about. We live in a country with equal opportunities, but then people (Across all people groups) sit at home, thinking that the government will take care of them. What happens if we end up being like countries similar to North Korea, where the government does virtually nothing for their people, and everyone is poor.
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