Government is a class that teaches us the purpose of government and the responsibilities it has to its citizens. We do not just only learn through what the teacher has to say about government, but we also watch movies and videos that explain the role of government. One of the movies we watched was called Lord of The Flies which was about a group of kids lost in the island, and they made someone within their group as their leader to maintain stability. This movie shows how government takes place anywhere even if you don't want to recognize it. Moreover, it shows the importance of government whether corrupt or not corrupt in any type of situation. We also watched two documentaries which were called Passin' it On and Cointelpro that exposes how government wants to eliminate human rights group from the picture in the 1900s.
Not only do we talk about government playing a role in America, we also talk about injustices made in America. The topics we discuss are topics in the news such as the government shutdown which can relate to the mini debate we had in class which is the Do- Now we had to do in English. Another topic we addressed in class is the incident that occurred with Barneys and Macy. The incident accused the two retail stores of racial discrimination. I was a bit upset about the incident in Macy because the owner of this retail corporation was someone I met in the Brag Scholarship event who's company will be facing a lawsuit. He seem to be a really nice guy and he won an award for being altruistic. If the accusation for the two companies are true, then the American people will be facing a racial discrimination dilemma.
Applying the role of government to this situation is possible because the government must protect all people and need to inform/ make a policy for retail company to not racially profile any individual. The government duties is to protect all citizens. Every situation that America face can be related to government which is why I like the government class and I feel like I'm learning something new everyday.
Cointelpro was a program that should have never existed. It's one of the factors that make citizens look at the United States government as monsters. It makes us ask ourselves what other horrendous things our government is capable of
ReplyDeleteIt is interesting to see how your topic from you last blog post and your topic for this week's blog post intersected.
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