If the whole is equal to the sum of its parts than our "whole" cannot be reached until our parts are gathered and acknowledged. This blog will act as a collection, a gallery that records our “parts and particles” (our particulars) in an effort to connect the dots; to endlessly connect the dots.
Thursday, August 5, 2010
True Notebooks in Rolling Meadows?
A recent report was put in the daily herald that Rolling Meadows (the town I live in) was given 35,400 dollars just to help stop gang related acts. How this is an issue is because I went to school with half the kids like are involved in this violence. This is a carzy thought to think of because in the book "True Notebooks" thats how most of these kids started off at. Some of the kids that i went to school with are kids that i have known for years. I knew them when they werent even thinking about doing anything like that. Most of the kids that I went to school with that were in gangs were the nicest and smartest kids i have ever met and its sad that they choose to live the life of crime instead of making somthing of their lives.
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How does it make you feel to know that these "kids" are grown up now and making choices that could make them mirror the characters in True Notebooks? What do you see as a reason for this change in those kids?
ReplyDeleteDo you think that people like this are represented poorly in our culture? Do you think people would guess that these kids were nice and smart or would they lump them into some category?