2010年12月11日 星期六

Summary&response-Ordinary People Produce Extraordinary Results

Summary:

Ordinary People Produce Extraordinary Results, which was written by Paul Rogat Loeb. He was interviewed on CNN a few years ago with Rosa Parks, a mother of the civil rights movement. She was the woman who wouldn’t go to the back of the bus. She wouldn’t get up and give her seat in the white section to a white person. Before this event, she had spent 12 years helping lead the local NAACP chapter. Parks wasn’t the only person who shape model of social commitment. Paul Rogat Loeb claimed that Parks’ story reinforces a notion that anyone who takes a committed public stand. But once the media let us enshrine heroes on pedestals, we may hard to measure up in our eyes. And we may not knowing the detail or having uncertainties and doubts. A young African American activist said. “when people who work for social changes are presented as saints, so much more noble than the rest of us. We get a false sense that from the moment they were born they were called to act, never had doubts, were bathed in a circle of light.” These activists showed us that it changed public sentiment, and the entrenched institutional power which can’t easily be accepted. Parks’ story is an example of social change, and it conveys an empowering moral that is lost in her public myth. Many times Parks’ peers and her predecessors’ struggles failed, but it still bring them a better world in the end. “For only we act, despite all our uncertainties and doubts, do we have the chance to shape history,” Paul Rogat Loeb said.

Response:

In Ordinary People Produce Extraordinary Results, Paul Rogat Loeb told us a mother of the civil rights movement called Rosa Parks. She is a person who just an ordinary person, but she is very courage. She wouldn’t get up and give her seat in the white section to a white person. It’s very unfair in that time, different races didn’t have equal rights. For other example, Martin Luther King also a civil rights movement leader. To promote his philosophy of nonviolent protest against segregation and other kinds of social injustice, he organized a series of marches. “I have a dream” is his famous speech, he strives for racial equality. Race issue always receives the attention in the world. Many people offer their life in civil rights movement even if it would undergo many difficult. Although most of them failed in the end, all of them were our heroes. We should thanks for those forerunners. They promote racial equality, so we have an equal society. We wouldn’t worry it is not equal between people and people. Parks’ story gives us an example although sometimes our struggles will fail. If we can stick it out, we will gain more in the end.

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