Bridging Communities 2010

Hi everyone!  Here are your two blogging assignments for session 2.  :)

1.  Session 2 Reflection Post

For the post about the session, please try your best to write about your experience like a story, narrated using words and pictures.  You are welcome to use pictures that I took (http://cloudsheep.smugmug.com/Bridging-Communities/) or to use pictures that are on the facebook group.  If you have any to share, please email them to Dian!

Here are some guide questions to help you out.  For this one, it’s more important that you write your blog posts like a story than that you answer all of the questions.  These are more to help you think about what to write about.  If you are going to answer the questions, please try to answer them on a deeper level, instead of just answering them on the surface level.

• What did you learn from this session overall?
• What did you learn from the Religion exercise?
• What did you learn from the Star Power exercise?  How is charity different from justice?  What are some real-life examples of the situations in Star Power?
• What did you learn from the Great Leap workshops with Nobuko and Carla?

2.  Amric Singh Rathour Reading Blog Post

For the blog post about the reading about Amric Singh Rathour, here is your guide question:

From the founding of the United States, religious freedom has been of concern.  The first item mentioned in the Bill of Rights refers to religion.  The first Amendment states: “Congress shall make no laws respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…” Why do you think Amric Singh Rathour as a Sikh American was willing to fight the dress code policy of the NYPD?  What important lessons can his experience teach all of us?

You can of course also write about your general reaction to the reading in addition to answering the question.

Thanks everyone!  :)