Summary
Schoenberger’s experience of attending the camp at the University of Wisconsin in the summer showed the problem of ignorance. In the beginning, all members, who believed in different eight religions, got along with each other well.
Nevertheless, something changed her first impression. On the first day, a girl told another girl that the clothing Mormon wore was abnormal just because she mistook Mormon for Mennonite. One of Schoenberger’s friends thought of Judaism as a “strange” religion, for in her hometown every religion except from Catholic and Protestant was not the mainstream. A girl from Minnesota, knowing few Jews only form the Bible, even asked her whether she practiced animal sacrifice. No one was completely against Judaism. However, the seemingly intelligent biology professor unconsciously remarked the word “Jewed,” which was offensive to Jews. Schoenberger’s visit to Wisconsin gave her an insight into the problems of ignorance. Everyone was expected to respect each other and respect requires knowing others. Without knowing other cultures, we could not understand others, which resulting in misunderstandings, prejudice and hate.
After coming back to school, Schoenberger decided to educate people about her religion and tradition by applying for Diversity Committee, which she had refused to help with the presentation on Passover. Those who doubted that she was Jewish did not know everything about her religion- Judaism. Therefore, she would rather be hated because of her misdeeds than be judged by ignorance.
Response
Most people are ignorant and I am no exception. The world is so big; there are many unknown knowledge waiting for us to learn. Nevertheless, even we learn until we are dead, we still cannot know everything. It is no doubt that we humans are usually foolish because we are not almighty Gods.
Although most of us are ignorant, we can avoid being rude. That is, we can respect, learn and observe before judge unknown things and unfamiliar people. The difference between rude people and polite people is that the former randomly criticize based on ignorance and the latter confess that they are ignorant and respect the unknown. When I was in junior high school, one day the teacher played the violin as performance. Honestly saying, he played very well and was very professional. Without knowing that there was a skill called trill in music, one of my classmates laughed and said that the teacher’s hands got spasm. The classmate kept making fun at the teacher and other classmates laughed bitterly like her. I was somewhat angry when seeing her rudeness. How ignorant she was! If she could not know what trill was, she could choose to keep quiet and afterward asked the teacher why his hands shook when playing the violin instead of mocking.
We can hope that there are still people whose speech is deliberate. Through education, we learn more knowledge and know how to respect others. We may not be intelligent people but we can choose to become cultivated people.
After reading your summary and response, I would like to provide some of my suggestions for you.
回覆刪除For your summary, I would remind you that you forget to provide the reference of the article in it. Second, please write the central idea in your first paragraph and it would be easier for your readers to guess what is going to tell in the later of your essay. Also, do not write the sentence in your position. Do keep in your mind that writing a summary is just to write down what the author says in you word. Please avoid writing sentences that start with ”we” in a summary. Besides, you should write a summary in present tense because it is your restatement of an article you read from other people.
For your response, it is a good expression to share your experiences. I agree with your opinion that the world is so big with lots of knowledge that we haven’t known. When we see and heard something that we are not familiar, we should keep silence and later finding books or the information to learn its reason or background instead of laughing loudly like a foolish that might irritate or embarrass others.
That’s true! Ignorance can be a terrible in many situations. Many people make a laughingstock of the other before experts. The worst is they did not know the fact, they think whose are clever. In general, peoples’ ignorance comes of themselves. Most of all forgot the rules while we met the misunderstand situation; keep quite should be a better way instead for saying anything word that bring us into embarrassment.
回覆刪除In the past days, ignorance causes based on the society, education background. It is not everybody have a chance for education. All we had known the unfair position between men and women. The next is not all families can afford their child for education. These maybe the two main points which caused people ignorance in the past. Nowadays, everybody have the chance to educate at the school, but why ignorance still existed? I think it must be the problems about the education. Students learned knowledge in the school, and they did not understand it. People used to ridicule the misunderstanding situation, but no one remind them the better response at the moment.
Character also influences Ignorance. For the most part people laugh at the ignorance, and it maybe a way for us to think about we should tell the truth to them.
After reading your feedback, I find that there are some grammar issues in it. For example, In the second paragraph and seven lines, this sentence “Schoenberger’s visit to Wisconsin gave her an insight into the problems of ignorance.”, we can find you use the wrong verb. You had better use past verb because you use past verbs in your whole summary. You should pay attention to the verbs in accordance next time. If you can revise it, it will be a good summary. Except these mistakes, your response is good and I also agree with your perspectives. Ignoring people is really one of my hate things and I can not stand these impolite things. Thus, I would also pay attention to the same things happened because this is the first step to respect other people. If you want other people to respect you, you should respect others, too. Then, your response has a good point that you share your experience with us. It can let us clearly know which kind of events is really impolite.
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