Importance of Setting in a story

1. Where has each of the above stories been set?
Ans: In the Real Durwal by Jhumpa Lahiri, the story is set on the stairwell. In the adventure of the speckled band by sir authur Canan Doyle, the story is set in Watson's house. In pride and prejudice by Jane Austen, the story is set on neighbourhood in a town.

2. What time period has each of the stories been set in?
Ans: In the Real Durwal by Jhumpa Lahiri, the time period is set in the present, while in the adventure of the speckled band by sir authur Canan Doyle, the time period is in 1883, early April in the morning. In pride and prejudice by Jane Austen, the time period was set in the early 19th century England. 


3. What clues do you get from the setting about the story it is going to turn out to be?
Ans: The setting of the Real Durwal by Jhumpa Lahiri tells us that the story was going to have a moody and unhappy feeling. The setting of adventure of the speckled band by sir authur Canan Doyle tells us that the story was going to have a suspicious and mysterious feeling while the setting of In pride and prejudice by Jane Austen, gives us a very amiable feeling and and gives us a loving effect.


4. Ans: The setting of the To Kill A Mockingbird is in Maycomb County. Scout, formally known as Jean Louise Finch, talks about how her brother Jem, older by 4 years, broke his arm badly at the elbow when he was thirteen. To this day she insists that the entire incident began with the Ewell family, the most wretched family in Maycomb County, but Jem disagrees. He believes that the whole thing started way back when Dill came from Meridian, Mississippi, to spend his first summer in Maycomb with his aunt, Rachel Haverford, the Finch's neighbor. To take a broader view of things, Scout suggests that it all started when General Jackson chased the Creek Indians north and Simon Finch, their ancestor, moved up the river and built Finch's Landing. Because they couldn't decide who was right, they asked their father, Atticus, and he says that they were both right. Scout begins relating the stories of her childhood that build up to the night that Jem broke his arm.

Telephone conversation

This is the poem.
            The price seemed reasonable, location
            Indifferent. The landlady swore she lived
            Off premises. Nothing remained
            But self-confession. “Madam,” I warned,
5         “I hate a wasted journey—I am African.”
            Silence. Silenced transmission of
            Pressurized good-breeding. Voice, when it came,
            Lipstick coated, long gold-rolled
            Cigarette-holder pipped. Caught I was, foully.
10         “HOW DARK?” . . . I had not misheard . . . “ARE YOU LIGHT
            OR VERY DARK?” Button B. Button A. Stench
            Of rancid breath of public hide-and-speak.
            Red booth. Red pillar-box. Red double-tiered
            Omnibus squelching tar. It was real! Shamed
15         By ill-mannered silence, surrender
            Pushed dumbfoundment to beg simplification.
            Considerate she was, varying the emphasis—
            “ARE YOU DARK? OR VERY LIGHT?” Revelation came.
            “You mean—like plain or milk chocolate?”
20         Her assent was clinical, crushing in its light
            Impersonality. Rapidly, wavelength adjusted,
            I chose. “West African sepia”—and as an afterthought,
            “Down in my passport.” Silence for spectroscopic
            Flight of fancy, till truthfulness clanged her accent
25         Hard on the mouthpiece. “WHAT’S THAT?” conceding,
            “DON’T KNOW WHAT THAT IS.” “Like brunette.”
            “THAT’S DARK, ISN’T IT?” “Not altogether.
            Facially, I am brunette, but madam, you should see
            The rest of me. Palm of my hand, soles of my feet
30         Are a peroxide blonde. Friction, caused—
            Foolishly, madam—by sitting down, has turned
            My bottom raven black—One moment madam!”—sensing
            Her receiver rearing on the thunderclap
            About my ears—“Madam,” I pleaded, “wouldn’t you rather
35         See for yourself?”

Introduction
Written in the first person narrative point of view, the poem “Telephone Conversation” by Wole Soyinka is a poetic satire against the widely-spread racism in the modern Western society. The poem is about a telephone conversation in England between the poetic persona seeking to rent a house and an English landlady who completely changes her attitude towards him after he reveals his identity as a black African. The motif of a microcosmic telephone conversation, therefore, is employed by the poet to apply to a much broader, macrocosmic level where racial bigotry is ridiculed in a contest of human intelligence, showcasing the poet’s witticism as well as his ingenious sense of humour.

Q1. This poem is full of colours not just that of skin, what you think these colours signify?
       Ans:  This poem used many colours to signify different things in the passage. Firstly, dark and light was used and the metaphor " plain or milk chocolate" further creates a visual image for the reader to imagine the colour of the author. Dark and light was used most often and this may be because the author wanted to show the contrast between the author and the landlady. Next, the colours signify the discrimination of dark-skinned African-American as the landlady was very reluctant to rent the flat to the speaker. Lastly, the colours also shows that the speaker is a black and that he did not like being discriminated by others. This can be seen from the incident where the speaker keep explaining that he is not really that dark-skinned/black. In conclusion, the dark-skinned African-American were discriminated during the past and the colours used in the passage further enhance the dark-skin the speaker has. The conversation shows how unwilling the landlady wanted to rent the flat to him, showing the discrimination of dark-skinned African-American in the past.
Q2. What does their dialogue reveal about these two characters?
       Ans: The dialogue in this poem reveals the different origins of the two characters. In stanza 1, which is the start of the conversation, the speaker was already asked about his skin colour and his origin. The landlady immediately felt the pressure as she was unwilling to take a dark-skinned African-American in. This poem shows that the two characters, the landlady and the speaker are white and black respectively. Many colours were then used to describe the different parts of the speaker. This may be because the author wanted to show the deep contrast between the two characters. The landlady may be convicted for renting her flat to a black because she was not really that reluctant to rent the flat to the speaker. There may be a rule then that a white could not help the black or something like that as the passage revealed that she was not really that reluctant from the "..." used. In conclusion, the two characters in the poem showed the deep "grudge" or different between a white and a black. This may be due to the discrimination of African-American in the past.


Q3. The poet dramatises a battle, who wins finally and why?
       Ans: In this poem Telephone conversation by Wole Soyinka, a "battle" was happening with the winner being the speaker.This is because the speaker was insistent on renting the flat. The white lady was rather to rent her flat to the speaker and kept asking him questions. The speaker showed that he must rent the flat regardless of anything as he said, " I hate a wasted journey." The speaker seemed to know that he is being discriminated as he states, " I am African". He seems prepared for the battle as he had already told the landlady his origin. Then, as the whitelady tried to insult or humiliate him with the different metaphors like "plain or milk chocolate" and insisting that he is a black. He eventually won when he showed his anger. We could see that he is kind of angry from the different "Red" used in the passage to describe the surroundings, more for describing the atmosphere. He eventually said, " wouldn't you rather see for yourself?" in the last line of the last stanza. He seemed to be furious when the landlady kept asking the colour of his different body parts. In conclusion, the poet won the battle dramatised in the poem most probably because he was more well-spoken and because he was very insistent on renting the flat.

Harper Lee

Harper Lee

a.     About the author

Ans: Nelle Harper Lee was born in Monroeville, Alabama, the youngest of four children of Amasa Coleman Lee and Frances Cunningham Finch Lee. Her mother's name was Finch. Her father, a former newspaper editor and proprietor, was a lawyer who served in the Alabama State Legislature from 1926 to 1938. As a child, Lee was a tomboy and a precocious reader, and was best friends with her schoolmate and neighbor, the young Truman Capote. In 1944, Lee graduated from Monroe County High School in Monroeville, and enrolled at the all-female Huntingdon College in Montgomery for one year, and pursued a law degree at the University of Alabama from 1945 to 1949, pledging the Chi Omega sorority. Lee wrote for several student publications and spent a year as editor of the campus humor magazine, Rammer Jammer. Though she did not complete the law degree, she studied for a summer in Oxford, England, before moving to New York City in 1950, where she worked as a reservation clerk with Eastern Air Lines and BOAC. Lee continued as a reservation clerk until 1958, when she devoted herself to writing. She lived a frugal life, traveling between her cold-water-only apartment in New York City and her family home in south-central Alabama to care for her father.

b.     Biodata.

Ans: Harper Lee was only five years old in when, in April 1931 in the small Alabama town of Scottsboro, the first trials began with regard to the purported rapes of two white women by nine young black men. The defendants, who were nearly lynched before being brought to court, were not provided with the services of a lawyer until the first day of trial. Despite medical testimony that the women had not been raped, the all-white jury found the men guilty of the crime and sentenced all but the youngest, a twelve-year-old boy, to death. Six years of subsequent trials saw most of these convictions repealed and all but one of the men freed or paroled. The Scottsboro case left a deep impression on the young Lee, who would use it later as the rough basis for the events in To Kill a Mockingbird.

c.      Novels written by her.

Ans: Harper Lee wrote several novels which include To Kill a Mockingbird, Snow! Snow! Snow!, Matar un ruisenor, Ne Tirez Pas Sur L'oiseau Moqueur and Sparknotes to Kill a Mockingbird.

d.     Awards received.

Ans: Harper Lee received the Pulitzer Prize (1961),  Brotherhood Award of the National Conference of Christians and Jews (1961), Alabama Library Association Award (1961), Bestsellers Paperback of the Year Award (1962) 
Member, National Council on the Arts (1966), Best Novel of the Century, Library Journal (1999), Alabama Humanities Award (2002), ATTY Award, Spector Gadon & Rosen Foundation (2005), Los Angeles Public Library Literary Award (2005), Honorary degree, University of Notre Dame (2006) 
American Academy of Arts and Letters (2007) and the Presidential Medal of Freedom (2007).

e.      Why was To kill a mockingbird a significant novel to Harper Lee?

Ans: She was best known for her 1960 Pulitzer Prize winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird, which deals with the issues of racism that were observed by the author as a child in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama. Despite being Lee's only published book, it led to Lee being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom of the United States for her contribution to literature in 2007.

Trials of a Southern Belle and Southern Gentlemen

Trials of a Southern Belle and Southern Gentlemen

a.     What were the rules of etiquette for Southern gentlemen and ladies?

Ans: Dresses continued to grow fuller from that time on, until they reached several yards in circumference. They were held out by petticoats, and of course corsets were a must. Throughout the Antebellum period, Southern women continued to delight in showing off their shapely bodies. The dress of men during the Antebellum period was much more conventional than that favored by the women. The ministers dressed in all black and the majority of other men wore black, gray, and dark colors in general. Their clothes remained the same, with a “high stovepipe hat; a long frock coat, at first full and later fitted; trousers with straps beneath the instep; a puffy cravat skillfully knotted to create an impression of deliberate negligence”.

b.     What did southern ladies do to pass their time (hobbies etc)?

Ans: They have hobbies such as baking cakes.

c.      Pictures of the Southern ladies and gentlemen.

Ans: (shown)

d.     Identify characters characters in the novel that fit the mould of true southern belles and gentlemen and those who don’t? Explain why they fit the mould and why they don’t?

Ans: Gentleman- Atticus- He has all the etiquettes above and he is also very helpful. Belle- Miss Maudie- She is very kind and bakes cakes, then, she gives the cakes to her neighbours.

Montgomery Bus Boycott and Scottboro trials

Montgomery Bus Boycott and Scottsboro trialsa.     State the specifics of each trial and why they were significant?Ans: Parks was arrested, tried, and convicted for disorderly conduct and violating a local ordinance. After word of this incident reached the black community, 50 African-American leaders gathered and organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott to demand a more humane bus transportation system. However, after any reforms were rejected the NAACP, led by E.D. Nixon, pushed for full desegregation of public buses. With the support of most of Montgomery's 50,000 African Americans, the boycott lasted for 381 days until the local ordinance segregating African-Americans and whites on public buses was lifted. Ninety percent of African Americans in Montgomery partook in the boycotts, which reduced bus revenue by 80% until a federal court ordered Montgomery's buses desegregated in November 1956, and the boycott ended. On March 25, 1931 several people were on a freight train traveling between Chattanooga and Memphis, Tennessee. Several white boys jumped off the train and reported to the sheriff they’d been attacked by a group of black boys. The sheriff deputized a posse, stopped and searched the train at Paint Rock, Alabama, arrested the black boys, and found two white girls who accused the boys of rape. The case was first heard in Scottsboro, Alabama in three rushed trials, where the defendants received poor legal representation. All but the twelve-year-old Roy Wright were convicted of rape and all but him were sentenced to death, the common sentence in accusations of rape by white women against black men in Alabama at the time. But with help from the NAACP and the American Communist Party, the case was appealed. The Alabama Supreme Court affirmed seven of the eight convictions, and granted thirteen year old Eugene Williams a new trial because he was a juvenile. Chief Justice John C. Anderson dissented however, ruling that the defendants had been denied an impartial jury, fair trial, fair sentencing, and effective counsel.
b.     How is the Scottsboro trial related to the trial in the novel?Ans: A study of the Scottsboro trials will sharpen the reader's understanding of To Kill a Mockingbird. Both the historical trials and the fictional one reflect the prevailing attitudes of the time, and the novel explores the social and legal problems that arise because of those attitudes.                                         c.      In what ways are these trials similar?Ans: Tom Robinson's trial bears striking parallels to the "Scottsboro Trial," one of the most famous-or infamous-court cases in American history. Both the fictional and the historical cases take place in the 1930s, a time of turmoil and change in America, and both occur in Alabama. In both, too, the defendants were African-American men, the accusers white women. In both instances the charge was rape. In addition, other substantial similarities between the fictional and historical trials become apparent.

The Civil Rights Movement

The Civil Rights Movement

a.     When the Civil Rights movements begin?

Ans: The Civil Rights movements began on December 1, 1955

b.     What were the Civil Rights movements about?

Ans: The African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955–1968) refers to the movements in the United States aimed at outlawing racial discrimination against African Americans and restoring voting rights in Southern states. This article covers the phase of the movement between 1954 and 1968, particularly in the South. By 1966, the emergence of the Black Power Movement, which lasted roughly from 1966 to 1975, enlarged the aims of the Civil Rights Movement to include racial dignity, economic and political self-sufficiency, and freedom from oppression by white Americans.

c.      State some of the significant incidents that took place in the Civil Rights movements.

          Ans: The significant events include Brown v. Board of Education, 1954,         Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955–1956 and Desegregating Little Rock, 1957. Brown v. Board of Education, 1954: Spring 1951 was the year in which great turmoil was felt amongst Black students in reference to Virginia State’s educational system. At the time in Prince Edward County, Moton High School was segregated and students had decided to take matters into their own hands to fight against two things: the overpopulated school premises and the unsuitable conditions in their school. Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott: On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks (the "mother of the Civil Rights Movement") refused to give up her seat on a public bus to make room for a white passenger. She was secretary of the Montgomery NAACP chapter and had recently returned from a meeting at the Highlander Center in Tennessee where nonviolent civil disobedience as a strategy had been discussed. Desegregating Little Rock, 1957: Little Rock, Arkansas, was in a relatively progressive Southern state. A crisis erupted, however, when Governor of Arkansas Orval Faubus called out the National Guard on September 4 to prevent entry to the nine African-American students who had sued for the right to attend an integrated school, Little Rock Central High School.

d.     Which American President supported the Civil Rights movements?

          Ans: John F. Kennedy

e.      What was the outcome of this movement?

Ans: Banned discrimination based on "race, color, religion, or national origin" in employment practices and public accommodations; the Voting Rights Act of 1965, that restored and protected voting rights; the Immigration and Nationality Services Act of 1965, that dramatically opened entry to the U.S. to immigrants other than traditional European groups.

f.       In what way is the Civil Rights movement related to the novel?

Ans: The setting of the novel is in the period of the civil rights movement where the blacks were still segregated with the whites. Tom was convicted in the novel because they discriminate the blacks.

Jim Crow's laws

Jim Crow’s Laws

a.     What/Who is Jim Crow?

Ans: Jim Crow was the name of the racial caste system which operated primarily, but not exclusively in southern and border states, between 1877 and the mid-1960s. Jim Crow was more than a series of rigid anti-Black laws. It was a way of life. Jim Crow is not actually a person, but the subject of a song performed by Thomas Dartmouth “Daddy” Rice. Rice was a white man who performed in blackface. Like most blackface performers, Rice denigrated Blacks through his music, his stereotypical behavior, and his rude jokes.

b.     What were Jim Crow Laws:

Ans: The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965. They mandated racial segregation in all public facilities, with a supposedly "separate but equal" status for black Americans. In reality, this led to treatment and accommodations that were usually inferior to those provided for white Americans, systematizing a number of economic, educational and social disadvantages. Some examples of Jim Crow laws are the segregation of public schools, public places and public transportation, and the segregation of restrooms, restaurants and drinking fountains for whites and blacks. The U.S. military was also segregated.

c.       What was the response of the slaves and the blacks to these laws?

Ans: While many slaves were illiterate, educated blacks which include escaped slaves moved down from the North to aid them, and natural leaders also stepped forward. They elected white and black men to represent them in constitutional conventions. A Republican coalition of freedmen, southerners supportive of the Union and northerners who had migrated to the South organized to create constitutional conventions. They created new state constitutions to set new directions for southern states.

Civil War

The Civil War

a.     The southern states that took part in the Civil War are Texas, Tennesse, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virgina, Washington, Georgia, Florida, Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana

b.     Who was the US president who proclaimed war against the South?  

                Ans: Abraham Lincoln.

c.      Why was the Civil War fought?

                 Ans: Eleven Southern slave states declared their secession from the                                

United States and formed the Confederate States of America, also known as "the Confederacy." Led by Jefferson Davis, the Confederacy fought against the United States (the Union), which was supported by all twenty free states (where slavery had been abolished) and by five slave states that became known as the border states. In the presidential election of 1860, the Republican Party, led by Abraham Lincoln, had campaigned against the expansion of slavery beyond the states in which it already existed. In response to the Republican victory in that election, seven states declared their secession from the Union before Lincoln took office on March 4, 1861. Both the outgoing administration of President James Buchanan and Lincoln's incoming administration rejected the legality of secession, considering it rebellion.

d.     When was the Civil War fought?

Ans: April 12, 1861.

e.      What was the outcome of this war?

Ans: The military collapses and the Confederacy dissolves.

f.       How does the Civil Rights Movements relate to the novel?

               Ans: The author of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, Harper Lee once said,

               “Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncobs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird. This quote sets the tone of the book. To Kill a Mockingbird. It is a book about prejudice and injustice and how man’s ignorance can lead to both. While the landscape has changed somewhat since the 1930’s setting of the novel, the truths it teaches have not.

Slavery

Slavery

a.     When and how did slavery begin in the southern state?

Ans: Around 1600, Africans began to be shipped to South America as slaves. Slaves did most of the work where they lived. Most of them worked in mines or on plantations, while some became servants. Some people thought that slavery was wrong, while the majority of people thought that slavery was acceptable. Few slaves could marry, have a family, testify in court, or own property legally.  Some slaves were able to make money to free them. People were getting more slaves in the South where large plantations grew cotton and other crops.

b.     Which countries were the slaves brought from?

Ans: The slaves were brought from African countries.

c.      Who traditionally bought and owned the slaves?

Ans:  Enslaved people from some African states were exported to other states in Africa, Europe and Asia prior to the European colonization of the Americas.  The African slave trade provided a large number of slaves to Europeans.

d.     In 1682 the slave code of Virginia received additions. It was enacted that runaways who refused to be arrested might be lawfully killed. Slaves were forbidden to carry arms, offensive or defensive, or to go off the plantations of their masters without a written pass, or to lift a hand against a Christian, even in self-defense. The condition of slavery was imposed upon all servants, whether " Negroes, Moors, mulattoes, or Indians, brought into the colony by sea or land, whether converted to Christianity or not, provided they were not of Christian parentage or country, or, if Turks or Moors, in amity with his Majesty.

e.      How does the notion of slavery relate to the novel?  Does the study of slavery help you understand the novel?

Ans: There are some characters in the novel that are related to the topic ‘slavery’ such as Calpurnia and Tom Robinson. The study does helps me understand the novel better as I have understood the topic on slavery so I can understand the message in the novel better too.

LA Home Learning

  For today's home learning, we are instructed to complete our very comic strip. We have a few resources to create the comic strip such as http://www.pikistrips.com/ps/home and http://www.toondoo.com. I used the second website to complete my own comic strip. But, first I had to think of a storyline. I choose the topic 'Addicted to computer'. Next, I would have to think about the plot and how can the plot bring across the message above. Next, I would have to think about the setting and what kind of background, picture or landscape that best enhances my setting. Then, we have to think about the characters and the actions and dialogues that they were engaged in. I have created two comic strips for my entire story.




 
The links for these two comic strips are http://www.toondoo.com/cartoon/2725462 and http://www.toondoo.com/cartoon/2725288 respectively.

  These two comic strips show that a boy who is addicted to his computer did not do his homework nor study for his tests. When it was the test day, he totally forgot about it. The next day, his teacher warned him to work harder in the next test. When he got back his test, he found that he got zero!

  For the first comic strip, I choose the boy's house for the background for the first two parts. I chose this as I want to tell the readers that how addicted he was to computers. For the third part, I used the classroom as the background so that I can illustrate the teacher giving out the test papers. For the second comic strip, I choose the classroom as the background as I can illustrate how sad is the boy when he received his test paper. For the second part, I did not use any background as I want the readers to focus on the test paper itself.

 The pictures and background contributed to the plot, setting and characterization effectively as it conveys the message better to the readers and it is easier for the readers to understand plot, setting and characterization. I also used many dialogues to let the readers understand the theme addicted to computer is not too good. Besides that, the emotions from the boy and the teacher show how badly he has scored for his test.

  The setting that I have chosen for my comic strips is at home and in the classroom while it is in the present. This allows my message to be understood better as it is happening in the present, now. This shows that many people are addicted to the Internet right in the present and if they do not change their attitude immediately, they could lead to the result that is in the comic strip or even more serious results.

Types of Discrimination

  Discrimination is treating people differently through prejudice. It is the unfair treatment of one person or group, usually because of prejudice about race, ethnicity, age, religion, or gender. There are many types of discrimination and many, many more examples of discrimination.

  We can categorise the types of discrimination into three different groups. First we have discrimination based on personal preference. Under this category, we have discrimination based on sexual orientation, discrimination based on breast-feeding, discrimination based on political preference, discrimination against discrimination and discrimination based on religion. I can list out some examples.

  For example on discrimination based on sexual orientation, a person who is homosexual went for an interview but he was rejected by the employer because he was not fit for this job. As for discrimination based on breast-feeding, the employer avoid recruiting someone who has to breastfeed as she cannot do some of the tasks. As for discrimination based on political preference, the employer just rejects someone that does not have the same political perference as the employer. As for discrimination against someone who discriminates others, people will think lowly of you just because you discriminate someone else and for discrimination based on religion, someone dislikes Hinduism because they are of a different religion.

  Secondly, we have discrimination based on physical properties. Under this category, there are discrimination based on sex/gender, discrimination based on age, discrimination based on pregnancy, discrimination based on appearance, discrimination based on skin-colour, discrimination based on medical status and discrimination based on disability.

  For example on the discrimination based on sex/gender, a person has recently legally changed her name to Joseph and identified as a female. However, her boss was uncomfortable. So, when she wanted a promotion, her boss refused to give it. As for discrimination based on age, a person notices his younger co-workers at the factory are receiving training on new machinery. When he asks why he has not been invited to the training sessions, his supervisor tells him he is getting a bit old to learn new tricks and should stick to what he knows. As for discrimination based on pregnancy, a person is an area manager of an engineering company and responsible for negotiating large corporate contracts. After she becomes pregnant with her second child, her employer tries to demote her to a bookkeeping position of far less pay and status. Sharon’s employer tells her he does not believe it is suitable for a pregnant woman to represent the organisation. As for discrimination based on appearance, an employer does not want to employ a worker who is fat because he had the mindset that he could not do anything. As for discrimination based on skin-colour, an employer does not want to employ a worker who is dark skinned as he had some prejudice against dark skinned people. As for discrimination based on medical status, an employer does not want to employ a worker who has diabetes for example. Lastly, for discrimination based on disability, an employer does not want to employ a worker who is in a wheelchair as there will be inconvenience. 

  Lastly, we have the last category, discrimination based on background. Under this category, there are discrimination based on family background, discrimination based on parental status, discrimination based on marital status, discrimination based on race, discrimination based on nationality,  discrimination based on economic status, discrimination based on language, discrimination based on intelligence.

  For example on discrimination based on family background, an employer does not want to employ a worker that comes from a poor family. As for discrimination based on parental status, an employer does not want to employ a worker who has children because they tend to spend more time with their children rather than in work. As for discrimination based on marital status, a transport company with a mostly male workforce wants to employ an office manager. Rebecca is the best candidate but is refused the job because she is single and the manager thinks she will distract the other workers. As for discrimination based on race, a person unsuccessfully applies for a position with a construction company. When he telephones the company’s personnel manager to ask why he did not get the position, he is told: “We’ve employed people from your country before. You lot simply don’t share our work ethic.” As for discrimination based on nationality, an employer does not want to employ someone that is of another nationality as they had the mindset that they are not as capable as compared to the locals. As for discrimination based on economic status, an employer does not want to employ a worker that comes from a poor family. As for discrimination based on language, someone dislikes another person who speaks of a different language and felt that they were like insulting them. Lastly, for discrimination based on intelligence, an employer does not want to employ a worker that is dumb and stupid because he is incapable of doing work as compared to those who are much more cleverer.

  I feel to it is wrong to discriminate others and we are to treat each other equally and fairly so they will be peace and harmony.