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Self-Reflection Précis #5
The self-reflection analysis assignment is a 1-page single-space writing assignment that focus merely on your subjectivity or your thoughts about anything we've read, watched, and / or discussed in class. All I ask is that you write critically and intellectually.
I choose for this assignment the TED TALK video provided down below I am also going to provide an example how My Teacher want this assignment down below please look that example as well before you start this assignment. Please follow the directions and do this assignment accordingly and properly. Please do not use any outside resources for this assignment.
TED TALK VIDEO:
A prosecutor's vision for a better justice system | Adam Foss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1fvr9rGgSg&feature=emb_logo
Example provided by Instructor how he wants this assignment down below:
HONS 1010
8 December 2014
Précis #6
The novel Colonize This! Was a very interesting piece because the personal experiences of each writer which provided the necessary context of each individual’s view of feminism. Personally, I enjoyed reading every experience discussed in this book. However, there were some stories that interested me the most.
The most memorable moment that became meaningful to me was when Rehman started to talk about her experiences of the catastrophic event of 9/11. Rehman addressed that this event lead to many misunderstandings about every Muslim (and Indian). Being an “Asian” Indian myself, I have seen people of my culture being verbal attacked for wearing a turban. They associate a turban as a sign of terrorism. I think the main problem with this scenario isn’t just the discrimination but about the ignorance we choose to live in. The ignorance of not learning the difference between Muslim and Sikh and the ignorance of generalizing a group of people to blame everything on. Some of the ignorant people of this nation choose to generalize that every Muslim is a terrorist, anyone who wears a turban-like or hijab-like head gear is a terrorist, and anyone who lives in the Middle-East is a terrorist. I do believe this event was caused by terrorist group from the Middle-East. However, because of those few radical individuals it is wrong to blame the rest of them. Like the old saying goes, “one bad apple spoils the whole bunch.” It irritates me to think of all those innocent Muslims, Indians, and others who have been harassed and beaten at the expense of those few extremists who created a bad reputation for the rest of them.
Furthermore, the story Cristina Tzintzun also stood out to me because I found it interesting how her father kidnapped his wife and married her so he could, in a sense, colonize her. Tzintzun said, “It was not love that drew my father to my mother … it was the color of her skin, her impoverished background, her lack of education, her nationality, her low self-esteem, her submissiveness” (17). Because of these traits, her father felt as if he was superior to her. He could make her do anything he wanted and he “forced her to have sex with him, he beat her, he cheated on her, and told her that without him she was nothing” (19). This is utterly disgusting. It agitates me to think this actually happened to someone. To put myself in Tzintzun’s mother’s position, I know I wouldn’t be as strong as her to carry on that type of relationship. I’m just glad Tzintzun’s mother gave Cristina the strength to define feminism and look at the colonizer and the colonized in a new perspective.
Lastly, Hernandez and Rehman helped me understand woman of color are urging for their voices to be heard. As being a woman of color myself, I do understand the complications that many other woman of color deal with. The most important aspect of my culture is family and many of the stories discussed the topics of not feeling accepted in their culture. Personally, I love my culture and wouldn’t want to change it for any other culture yet I am very open minded to other cultures. I find each and every culture to be beautiful in their own way. In my life, my culture plays a huge role by helping me be the best that I could be. I strongly believe one’s culture helps build their identity like it did for each of the “womyn” writing their experiences in this novel (19).
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Answer
The Role of Prosecutor
The TED’s talk, A prosecutor's vision for a better justice system by Foss Adam that can be retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1fvr9rGgSg&feature=emb_logo discusses the roles of prosecutors in criminal justice and their ability to transform the society. According to Adams, prosecutors have the ability to change lives of most people, especially petty offenders. I enjoyed listening and watching the video since the speaker talks out of experience and highlights the significance of well-equipped prosecutors in criminal justice system. In its summary, Adam emphasizes that with well-resourced prosecutors, the society can be reformed.
The first point that stood out for me is the priority of criminal justice system in the United States of America. The system invests so much money in keeping one person in jail for the next 50 years but does little in ensuring that criminal activities are prevented. According to the speaker, American justice system is one of the most funded system not to prevent criminal activities but to keep petty offenders in jail for a long period of time. Adams suggests that instead of incarcerating individuals for minor felonies, such villains should be financially, emotionally, and intellectually empowered so that they can be of importance to the society. According to him, most individuals in prisons have committed trivial crimes that do not warrant convictions but need programs to prevent them from committing such wrongdoings in future as they venture on how they can be useful to the society.
Another important point that has stood out for me is how prosecutors handle cases after profiling people based on their income status. While they are ready to listen carefully to wealthy and popular individuals in the society, they rarely listen to individuals of low income, who apparently are the majority offenders in prisons due to petty offenses. According to Adams, the prosecutors have the power to change lives instead of ruining. For example, charging a young girl in court because of prostitution without creating programs that can help them to survive does not help the society because after serving the jail terms or fine they embark to prostitution again. It is in this context that I support the speaker by echoing that that instead of taking several months prosecuting petty offenses, criminal justice system can do better by looking for ways of preventing such offenses through empowering the offenders.
Lastly, another point that the speaker has highlighted but remains a concern to me is how people of color still remain the majority convicts in jails. According to him, in corridors of courts, the majority of people who says “not guilty” are brown and black in color. According to him, most of those individuals have not committed crimes but it is the perception of several individuals including prosecutors who believe that black people are criminals.
In conclusion, having watched and listened to Adam’s speech, I agree with him that reforms are not only about the police, people should also protest about the roles of prosecutors in ensuring cases that are in court deserve punishing. Apparently, some of them only need education and financial aids in order to positively transform the society.
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