Analysis Of Samira Ahmed's Love, Hate, And Other Filters

A date that has gone down infamously in America’s history is the tragic event that occurred on September 11, 2001. This date was a turning point in the world, and many changes could be seen, such as the addition of the TSA in airports and increased security. However, one of the lesser known effects was the sense of fear that was unconsciously instilled within our communities. Today, this fear is represented through our heightened awareness towards terrorism, and the increased distance we tend to place between ourselves and our fellow community members. While 9/11 was a day most noted for its horrific display of terror and the loss of many lives, it was also the day that we, as a nation, lost our sense of security and replaced it with a sense

Mahatama Gandhi once said, “Anger and Intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.” Intolerance is treating anybody unfairly because of their beliefs, they are different, or their identity. Currently, our society is filled with intolerance everywhere you turn; this could be on televisions or movies, in a novel, or even in a school. In general, intolerance can mean almost everything to different people. You’re probably wondering how this could be happening in the 21th century where technology, intelligence, quality of living are supposed to be stronger and safer than ever before. How can one person be sure that one nice school day a person will not be judged just because of their identity, but the content of their character? There are probably tons of things that bother us, but the

After mentioning why racist speech is wrong, Lawrence comments “I also have a deeply felt apprehension about the resurgence of racial violence and the corresponding rise in the incidence of verbal and symbolic assault and harassment to which blacks and other traditionally subjected and excluded groups are subjected”(72). Putting emphasis on how racist actions hurt others is important for the reader to comprehend. Furthermore, the idea of free speech “reinforces our society’s commitment to tolerance as a value”(71). Gives choices to each individual to decide who and what they stand for, no more pandering and watching what others do. As a result, free speech brings community together as a whole. Lawrence communicates that as active members in a community, the fight for what is right and for free speech can be

“There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.” says war veteran John Billings. Revenge is the desire to repay an injury by inflicting harm and hatred is the deep, negative thought that may lead to it. Hurting or harming other humans in today’s society is not allowed. Revenge has the reputation of being barbaric, short-sighted and a pointless instinct. It is an aspect of our human makeup that we must resist. It is an example of man’s complete and utter capacity for abstract thought. Society should be against hatred and revenge because it causes violence and chaos and is inevitably a destructive motive for actions.

The abuse of human life that has happened over the course of history is something that no one should have ever experienced, although similar violence still goes on today. It is a question to ask as in the book Night, “Can this be true? This is the twentieth century, not the Middle Ages. Who would allow such crimes to be committed?” Although people have grown over time to accept people of different color, religion and believes there is still hate crimes in the world today. My paragraphs are going to take about the differences and similarities of the two books Night and Prisoner B-3087.

Our life experiences make our present, our values, our way of behaving and thinking. Although no one is perfect, we are prone to develop prejudice against those who are totally different from us.

It is truly evident that the fundamental focal point of the whole motion picture is bigotry. Bigotry is characterized as the conviction that all individuals from each race forces attributes or capacities particular to that race, particularly to recognize it as substandard compared to another race, which prompts preference and oppression somebody of an alternate race.

Violence isn't the way to achieve ones goals. Almost everyone has someone of something that stands in the way of their ultimate goal. Many people come to a point where they feel that the only way to achieve that goal is at the expensive of another. This isn't necessarily the case. Rather then inflicting violence on one another we must use the intelligence we were blessed with. You must find something that you have that the person in your way doesn't and exploit his or her weaknesses. Violence isn't the answer in any situation it only inflicts pain mentality, physically, and financially.

Problems. Dilemmas. Quandaries. Life is known for it. However, people fail to realize a critical technicality. There are two kinds of problems. Easy problems, which are naturally a part of life and hard problems, which are the ones that we create. Consequently, hard problems are the ones that have led to prolonged suffering. The biggest dilemma we as people have created for ourselves is inconsistencies in our beliefs. Thus, for the sake of human kind, cognitive dissonance is the problem I wish to resolve.

Shortly after reading the Qur’an, Kathy Zeitoun found her inner peace. This resulted in the strong Christian and Baton Rouge native, to convert to Islam. The conversion of religion caused great tension and arguments between Kathy’s family and total strangers who faced Islamophobia, rooted mainly from the 9/11 terror attacks. Kathy’s mother had been brutal towards her when it came to Islam, especially with her hijab, “She’d come in, drop her bags, and the suggestion would come: ‘Now you can take that thing off.’ She’d (Kathy) been a Muslim for fifteen years and they still said this to her … This was actually the command her mother had given her last time Kathy had visited: ‘Take that thing off your head,’ she’d said. ‘Go out and have a good time’ (Eggers, 57). The evidence from the text indicates how Kathy had to struggle with expressing her religion (in the hijab), to someone of great importance in her life, her quarrelsome mother. Eggers uses Kathy’s experience with her mother as pathos so the reader can feel sympathy for Kathy’s struggle to stand for what religion she practiced. Not only did Kathy struggle with her religious identity in her immediate family, Kathy had to deal with strangers in

To Americans and many others around the world, the U.S. is the face of what should be a “free society,” not including every society’s minor flaws. Maybe it’s because I’m barely entering the brink of my social awareness as a U.S. citizen or maybe is it more due to recent threats to our freedom as Americans, but now more than in the past decade or so, the media has brought the image of huge protests, riots, and demonstrations into the spotlight. And unfortunately, more often than not, many of these events result in violence, aggression, and opposition.

Race is man-made, because there is only one race in this world: the human race. American was built on the immigrants that came into this country in search of the “American Dream”, the dream of cultural freedom, the dream of freedom of speech and the freedom of being able to be who you are. American is known as the melting pot where everyone can live at piece with each other, yet racism lives on in America; racism toward Muslims. This racism has been happening for a very long time but has increased since the terrorists attack on the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001, better known as 9/11. This is a very historic attack and not only changed the fact that the Twin Towers is no longer standing but it has changed America as a whole. Islamophobia has begun as well as the violence and verbal attack on Muslims. In the poem First Writing Since the speaker, Suheir Hammad, elaborates on the feeling that she withholds internally since the

The United States Constitution, the backbone of a great nation, reflects everything that America’s very first settlers were willing to risk their lives to accomplish. The primary reason colonists fled their former homes to settle in a wild, untamed land was so that they could possess religious freedoms that were otherwise denied to them. Later, when the founding fathers established a cornerstone for their government, they were careful to insure that Americans were granted the very freedoms for which they came. “We were founded upon a belief in human dignity- that no matter who you are or where you come from, or what you look like or what religion you practice, you are equal in the eyes of the law” (Obama). A prime example of this is the Constitution’s

We can learn by examining hate, is that it can become so intense it becomes a form of illness. Hate is something that will always be in the back of our heads, even when we are not thinking about it. Hate is something strong that we are not able to shake off, it’s something that is taught throughout our lives. I believe mediation groups work to help people move beyond hate, mediation is a form that keeps you calm and relax. It’s a time when you really think of what you are doing in your life, and what you are going through. A young man in the army force in the Beyond Hate film, was in a war for the United States against another country. One day, a young man in the same force as him was shot and killed by a young Palestinian boy, who was also

Happiness, sadness and nervousness, all of these are emotions that every single person will feel the experience during his or her life, everyone experienced love and hate in their heart. Hate is an acquired feeling and not a genetic. People are never born with hate, but they learned it by the environment that surrounds them, by the outside world. But why do people hate? What is are the reasons that drives them to hate, why would someone want to have that kind of gloomy bad intention about someone, because that would turn people to be more violence, after all, violence can led to death in some causes.