Summary:
They were ordinary, but they changed the history. Rosa Parks who refused to offer her seat to a white person had made a name to herself and changed the America society. To abandon the uncertainties and doubts, we, common people, do have a chance to rewrite the history.
She never abandoned her movement of opposing racial segregation. Also, she attended training session and met old generation of civil rights activists. However, her success is not an accident. The way the media report made Rosa Parks become a heroine. A misunderstand standard was set that the unachievable goal which the rest of us cannot do it. When people who made a big change are presented as sages, so much more noble than the rest of us.
Her success is not an accident. The corporation between her ex-activists achieved their goal. The description of heroes says that social activists come out with nothing and make a dramatic event all of a sudden. However, “Ordinary people produce extraordinary result” we could know from this sentence that Rosa Parks is just the normal person. She did not come from nothing. People misread her story and give it a wrong stereotype of heroes.
In the last part of the article, the author claims that social change is the product deliberate, incremental action if we are willing to join together to try to shape a better world. This is the way do we have a chance to have a better society.
Response:
Why Rosa Parks can rewrite the history? “Never give up” let her did it. Most of the heroic people are success within this characteristic. They fight against the time. Even though they had failed several times and did not know when will achieve their goal, they never give up and keep on it. That’s the reason why they can success.
Take Chen Shu-chu for example, she is a vegetable vendor. However, she is willing to donate most part of her income in order to help the poor. She said, “the money is use to help the poor.” Therefore she donates her money to help them. Where are those people who have more ability to help? They only know how to tell the poor how wonderful the dream is but do not want to help them to fulfill it. What a shame!
Chen Shu-chu is a ordinary person but what she did is great. If the Time did not choose her, I will not know there is someone who is willing to devote everything to the society. Hence, I think the media do have the advantage to give us those information.
We are all ordinary people, but if we would like to do something to our society. We can rely on our ability to make a more perfect world. We all can be somebody if we are willing to do something.
It is a great point of your response. Although the author keep telling the wrong way the media do, we cannot deny the influence of media on the society. We live on the new generation and could get information anytime and any places. The media actually play an important role on the society. There must be a social standard to judge them.
回覆刪除Just like your example of the vegetable vendor, Chen Shu-chu. I knew her from TV programs. Without Times, Taiwanese do not have the chance to know there is someone who contributes to the world without nothing pay off. What she did is great. She saves her money for helping the poor. In order to donate much money, she spends less than one hundred dollars a day. Just as you say, the people who have the ability to help the poor only appear for reducing the tax. Unlike Chen Shu-chu pays without attracting public attention, those celebrities always do public welfare in public for earning the good reputation.
The media provide not only advantages but also disadvantages. However, what they do is benefit to our world. For us ordinary, we also need to do the things our heart follows to make the world better.