Predjudice is an unfavorable opinion or feeling of someone formed before you really get to know a person. Picking seats in a classroom should not be something we have a hard time to do. Even though we all did not come from the same back grounds we all worked hard to get to where we are today, we are all at Penn State for a college education, and we are all here to learn it does not matter if you are Muslim, Jewish, Black, Hispanic, White, or any other race or religion. We all need to learn to not care what other people think and learn to except everyone for who they are and not preformed opinions of someone just because of what they look like.

We need to be more understanding and more open to people and not discriminate them because of race, religion, disability, hair color, or any other multitude of things and learn to live together. In class Sam told us about the way people sit when there with people that there more comfortable with, and that they sit at that magical, "perfect" distance and you get that connection. People need to learn to become aware of our subconscience prejudice and learn to get rid of it and take advantage of what everyone brings to the table and not just go on what you determine by a quick glance of what they look like.

People need to broaden there horizons and learn how to accept that we are all humans, no that we are all monkeys and that we do not need to act differently around people of a different race. doing this i believe just show the ignorance of people, and them not understanding how things work and they need to understand that people are all striving for the same thing and it does not matter what color or religion or anything. We as people need to learn to not care about what seat we sit in or who we sit by. People need to except other people as who they are and not what they think they are and not to judge people by how they look. Like the old adage goes "Don't judge a book by its cover."

This a very intrigueing question. How concsience am I of my seat in class. I am not, I really do not care where I sit. I really just try and find an empty seat around people who I know or just anywhere. My seat choice is not a very tough one, I usually just try and find one where I can see everything and be close enough to observe Sam while he lectures. The seat thing is really not an issue. I believe that people put to much much pressure on what people do around people of a different race some people do things subconsciencely like Sam said.

People who do not use the resources they are given are using the ignorant card as a crutch. I believe people use it as a way to feel better about them for not doing anything. People do not use the resources that they are given to make themselves informed with the issues. People definitely need to become more informed and educated people and start using the resources given to them. We live in the era of technology and people are readily able to consume information using the internet, newspapers, or the news. People need to make an effort to get rid of the excuse and start using all of their potential and get informed. Sam is teaching us how to embrace ourselves and learn to open our minds and not use the excuse of the "Ignorance Card".

People using the ignorant card are not always ignorant. People who do not use the resources they are given are using the ignorant card as a crutch. Great question, people go through life not knowing many things in life. Ignorance is the lack of knowledge, information, or education; the state of being ignorant. Most people do not try to find out information sticking to the mantra of "Ignorance is bliss." People who try and make themselves not ignorant are people like us who pursue a higher education to get ourselves ahead in life. When people become educated they try and fix and fight things but not all do. “The greatest ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about.” However, the problem is that so many people are unaware of the fact that these things are going on in nations around the world. There are many issues in the world that we all do know about, yet most of us live our lives without doing anything toward working to change it. People using the ignorant card are not always ignorant.

Great question, people go through life not knowing many things in life. Ignorance is the lack of knowledge, information, or education; the state of being ignorant. Most people do not try to find out information sticking to the mantra of "Ignorance is bliss." People who try and make themselves not ignorant are people like us who pursue a higher education to get ourselves ahead in life. When people become educated they try and fix and fight things but not all do. “The greatest ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about.” However, the problem is that so many people are unaware of the fact that these things are going on in nations around the world. There are many issues in the world that we all do know about, yet most of us live our lives without doing anything toward working to change it.

The Civil War was fought because of political disagreements and turmoil. I proudly own a confederate flag. The south fought to preserve their livelihood, after the civil war was over the south was so poor, the south was the picture of poverty. The government put in military rulers as governors in the south until a new government could be put into place. The South’s infrastructure was destroyed by the war and the south was left in ruins. The confederate flag is a symbol of all the strong men who fought for their political rights from an unjust government who was unwilling to listen to them and to try and save their economy. The civil war was not fought because of slavery it was fought because the north and south were unwilling to compromise, and political disagreement.

There were plenty of free white men to do the sort of labor slaves performed. In fact, the main demand for abolition of slavery came not from those who found it morally wrong but from white working-class men who did not want slaves as rivals for their jobs. But the only reason slavery was so much more in the south was because the South’s income was based mainly on agriculture. People in the south were not all slave owners and people in the south who had slaves were most likely to own only one slave not 300 or 50 or some other outrageous number, and not all people who owned slaves were torturous to them, people considered them to be part of the family.

The history of African American slavery in the United States can be divided into two periods: the first coincided with the colonial years, about 1650 to 1790; the second lasted from American independence through the Civil War, 1790 to 1865. Prior to independence, slavery existed in all the American colonies and therefore was not an issue of sectional debate. With the arrival of independence, however, the new Northern states--those of New England along with New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey--came to see slavery as contradictory to the ideals of the Revolution and instituted programs of gradual emancipation. By 1820 there were only about 3,000 slaves in the North, almost all of them working on large farms in New Jersey. Slavery could be abolished more easily in the North because there were far fewer slaves in those states, and they were not a vital part of Northern economies.