After reading Rodriguez's book
Hearts and Hands: Building Community In Violent Times, I now have a better
understanding of why there is violence in our communities, it's deeper than
there being evil people in the world, which is the assumption as to why it
happens. I think that the solutions that society has put in place to
"fix" violence In our communities aren't very successful: putting
people in places that are filled with corruption won't help them overcome their
violent ways, nor will having zero-tolerance policies that make it so our
children feel on the defense in a place where they should feel safe, and lastly
our society should have faith that these people will be better, they don't
trust them, which i think makes them also not have trust in themselves.
"the solutions that society has put in place to "fix" violence In our communities aren't very successful: putting people in places that are filled with corruption won't help them overcome their violent ways, nor will having zero-tolerance policies that make it so our children feel on the defense in a place where they should feel safe. Our society should have faith that these people will be better BECAUSE? WHEN THEY (WHO IS THEY? PARENTS? THE LAW? WHO) they don't trust them, which i think makes them also not have trust in themselves.
ReplyDeleteThis is a good start, Griselda. I don't think your thesis starts until the "I think that the solutions..." The first part is a good "they say" perspective to discuss in the intro or essay, but I don't know that it is a provable idea given the texts... Your other ideas are strong. Think about how you can use more subordination to help you express the relationship between your ideas.