Argumentative Essay On Student Diversity
On November 11, Jennifer announced there was an extra credit opportunity if we attended to “protest” about what was Missouri. I just planned to go for like half an hour, but I did not only stay for half an hour. I stayed for the whole thing. After the whole “protest” it was not only for extra credit, but an opportunity to raise our voice and be heard even if it is just with a few students. It would never occured to me that UIC students does care and diversity of the school does care also even though it is a diverse school how does that look like? Does diversity has it’s benefits? When I first arrived to outside of the Student Center East. I was bit confused because I did not see a large crowd like I expected to see. Then I noticed students just standing around so I approach them. Students were passing out flyers with demands on it. Another student was holding a sign saying “#studentblackout.” There were two students who were in charge of the “protest.” They both
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As we were protesting inside UIC campus there was a student/guy who was talking on the door. He started saying on the phone “there are black students here protesting about black stuffs.” The girl who was leading the chanting heard and start screaming “stop white supremacist” or something similar to that because the person who said that was a white person. He was just talking on the phone and start to say something back, but we did not listen since we start to walk away. Then we regroup again in the quad made a circle again and start to chant but also talk about the point of the protest and how we as students can make a difference. At the end it was surprising because we gather more people along the way and there was more people than in the beginning. Then one of the organizers said if we were interesting for any future events like this one to give him our email. I give him my
As we were protesting inside UIC campus there was a student/guy who was talking on the door. He started saying on the phone “there are black students here protesting about black stuffs.” The girl who was leading the chanting heard and start screaming “stop white supremacist” or something similar to that because the person who said that was a white person. He was just talking on the phone and start to say something back, but we did not listen since we start to walk away. Then we regroup again in the quad made a circle again and start to chant but also talk about the point of the protest and how we as students can make a difference. At the end it was surprising because we gather more people along the way and there was more people than in the beginning. Then one of the organizers said if we were interesting for any future events like this one to give him our email. I give him my