Hana Jang
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            November 25, 2014

                         Most books now a days play with the idea of power, both large and small and the idea of overcoming the power or fighting it off. In the book Insurgent, the second book in the Divergent series by Veronica Roth uses this as one of the main conflicts in the book. It not only includes one big fight between the powers of each fraction. It also includes smaller conflicts over power between person to person. 

                        The story portrays the idea of having an extremely powerful group/fraction trying to take over everything and control everyone in every fraction. This group is known as the Erudite in the book. They implant divices into the physically strongest fraction to create stimulation, using them to take over. But the fight doesn't end there. 

Not going down without a fight the dauntless, fractionless, and divergents refuse to be controlled and riot breaks out. Unable to fight the dauntless and fractionless without an army and not being able to contoll the divergent's with stimulations the Eurdite are left with a huge weakness. A weakness so large that the dauntless, fractionless, and divergent may finally be able to fight back, but only if they team up.

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            In the article "Role Reversal" By Patricia Smith found in the October 2014 Upfront "World Affairs 2015" By the New York Times, the article talks about how much times have really changed for people of color. Not only now are do we have a varity of different judges of different races, but we also have developed in equaltity a whole lot over time. This article shows just how much change we had to go through just so everyone, no matter what race or gender, had equal rights. 

            In the piece, the author includes various ways of showing how much times have really changed for people of color. She shows things such as this when she includes quotes like how " A black woman judging a white man would have been unthinkable under apartheid". She says this because of the recent murder trial of Oscar Pistorius a famous white man who was judged in court by Judge Masipa, one of the two black woman to be appointed to the judiciary.  This was a huge step from in the 20th century, when "blacks were exluded from the judiciary and all facts of government. In a nation that was than 70 percent black, a white minority ruled, denying blacks with basic rights". Not only were things like these inforced, but "nonwhites had to use separate facilities" This was known as being under apartheid" showing that not only was it blacks that were treated unfairly, but anyone who wasn't white. These quotes really give the reader a visual of what times were like before, and how much they have drastically changed over time for the better.