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Humans of New York in Uganda


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Alexis Gross Alexis Gross (Mar 14 2019 1:57PM) : empathy [Edited] more

This is empathy because the father is going through getting shot so he gave himself up

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Keelee Carter Keelee Carter (Mar 14 2019 1:59PM) : ~ more

how did his parents die of aids?

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Lukas Brown Lukas Brown (Mar 14 2019 2:05PM) : question more

where is that at in the passage…

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Judith Gaona Judith Gaona (Mar 14 2019 2:11PM) : it didn't say
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Destiny Sewell Destiny Sewell (Mar 14 2019 2:01PM) : question more

why did they lock the door is is because they didn’t wanna get caught themselves?

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Deasia Sewell Deasia Sewell (Mar 14 2019 2:06PM) : agree more

Yes , they probably didn’t want to get caught by the rebels

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Htoo Min Htoo Min (Mar 14 2019 2:03PM) : T-S more

i saw this movie where rebels came and take men and boy always and make them as a soldiers.

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Adadrian Willingham Adadrian Willingham (Mar 14 2019 2:11PM) : T-S more

This was going on in the movie I watched called the boy in the stripe pajamas.

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Judith Gaona Judith Gaona (Mar 14 2019 2:11PM) : same
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Htoo Min Htoo Min (Mar 14 2019 2:11PM) : T-S more

i know how it feel losing someone.

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Adadrian Willingham Adadrian Willingham (Mar 14 2019 2:11PM) : T-S more

I understand how he feels about losing someone important in your family

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Taylor McLeroy Taylor McLeroy (Mar 14 2019 1:47PM) : T-S more

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"I was seven years old when it happened. It was about 9 pm at night. We heard the neighbors screaming so we knew that the rebels were in the village. There were many people visiting in my house at the time, so all the men gathered in the main room. We had no guns, only knives. Soon the dog started barking, then we heard footsteps, and then we heard a knock on the door. They started calling for my father to come out. We didn’t answer, so they started shooting into the house. Everyone pushed against the door to try to keep it closed, but they knocked it down. My father saw that he couldn’t run, so he gave himself up. They took him away. Then they gathered all the men and boys, and marched us out of the back of the house. My brother tried to jump and climb up on the roof, but they saw him and shot him. I knew I had to try something different, so I waited until we were rounding a corner, and I jumped into a bush, and I kept crawling until I reached the other side, then I got up and ran. I ran all the way to the neighbor’s house, but they turned me away and locked the door. So I hid all night in the graveyard. The next day I returned to my house. They’d taken everything. They dumped my sick mother onto the floor and took her mattress. I found my father’s body in the barn. They’d cut off his arms and his legs.

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Will McDaniel Will McDaniel (Mar 14 2019 2:02PM) : t-w more

People when they get caught by police they run and try to hide and they usally return to there home when everything is clear

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Lukas Brown Lukas Brown (Mar 14 2019 2:03PM) : question more

why did the neighbors turn him away and no let him come in and help him?

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Taylor McLeroy Taylor McLeroy (Mar 14 2019 1:50PM) : T-T Connections more

Abu was 13 years old when rebels came to his village. This narrator was also young.

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Cheyenne Moon Cheyenne Moon (Mar 14 2019 1:53PM) : Raise Questions more

How did they know that it was the rebels and not something else?

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Will McDaniel Will McDaniel (Mar 14 2019 1:56PM) : reply more

they started calling his dads name

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Colin Meadows Colin Meadows (Mar 14 2019 1:57PM) : Agree
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Colin Meadows Colin Meadows (Mar 14 2019 1:57PM) : Agree
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Taylor McLeroy Taylor McLeroy (Mar 14 2019 1:59PM) : Questions more

I think that they are used to the rebels coming in the village because they hide instead of helping. They aren’t surprised.

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Deasia Sewell Deasia Sewell (Mar 14 2019 1:54PM) : Empathy more

This is Empathy because they heard the neighbors screaming so this shows that they talk about some type of feelings

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Alexis Gross Alexis Gross (Mar 14 2019 2:01PM) : empathy more

I agree because this is showing the actions of him screaming which is empathy

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Brooklyn Hughes Brooklyn Hughes (Mar 14 2019 1:57PM) : T-W more

Why did they come after his farther and no one else?

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Deasia Sewell Deasia Sewell (Mar 14 2019 2:13PM) : question more

someone else like who ?

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Destiny Sewell Destiny Sewell (Mar 14 2019 2:13PM) : ~ more

That’s what im trying to figure out is it because the dad had something to do with them?

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Martavian Cooper Martavian Cooper (Mar 14 2019 1:52PM) : Do they have that right to break it down? Is he guilty of anything?
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Manuel Robledo Manuel Robledo (Mar 14 2019 2:03PM) : T-T more

Abu’s parents were taken away

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Will McDaniel Will McDaniel (Mar 14 2019 1:51PM) : t-t more

Abu was 13 when they come and got him and in this text they took his dad and the boys

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Lukas Brown Lukas Brown (Mar 14 2019 1:56PM) : question for will more

how do you know that was how old abu was when he was taken

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Will McDaniel Will McDaniel (Mar 14 2019 1:57PM) : reply more

Because they said in the other text how old he was

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Lukas Brown Lukas Brown (Mar 14 2019 2:00PM) : statement more

no in the other text he said that he was 13 when he first killed someone so gotcha.

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Adadrian Willingham Adadrian Willingham (Mar 14 2019 2:03PM) : T-S more

Why did he jump in the bushes?

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Martavian Cooper Martavian Cooper (Mar 14 2019 2:02PM) : if they were not looking for you then, Why were you running?
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Deasia Sewell Deasia Sewell (Mar 14 2019 2:03PM) : Apathy more

This shows Apathy because you can tell they don’t care about what they are doing.

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Brooklyn Hughes Brooklyn Hughes (Mar 14 2019 2:04PM) : T-w more

Why would his farther’s body be in the barn?

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Emily Portillo-Onofre Emily Portillo-Onofre (Mar 14 2019 2:04PM) : question more

Did his father do something bad that they killed him ?

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Htoo Min Htoo Min (Mar 14 2019 2:13PM) : questions more

because the rebels put him there

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Brady Ingram Brady Ingram (Mar 14 2019 2:03PM) : T-W more
There are bad people in this world.
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Judith Gaona Judith Gaona (Mar 14 2019 2:03PM) : why they cutting off there arms and legs?

A few years ago, I got a call on my cell phone from a twelve year old child from my village. He was calling me from a bus stop. He’d taken a bus into the city alone, and he was calling me to ask if I could help him find a way to go to school. Both of his parents had died of AIDS, and he had no money for tuition. I told him to stay where he was, and left work immediately to pick him up. At first I was very mad at him. He should not have travelled alone. But then I looked at him and I saw myself. I’d also been desperate to go to school after my father was killed, but we had no money. So even though I was suffering myself, I told him I would try to help him. My salary was not enough, so I tried many things to get the money. After work, I went to the landfill to hunt for recyclables. But after I paid to have them cleaned, there was no money left. Now I’m trying to make bricks. I have a small operation in the village to make bricks, and I sell them in the city. It doesn’t make much money, but it’s enough to pay tuition for the boy and three of his siblings."

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Ms. Taylor McLeroy Ms. Taylor McLeroy (Mar 15 2019 11:17AM) : Question more

Why does the narrator bring up acts of apathy and empathy? What might his message or purpose to the audience be?

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Martavian Cooper Martavian Cooper (Mar 14 2019 2:08PM) : So did he not have a family member he could go to?
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Zachary Owens Zachary Owens (Mar 14 2019 2:02PM) : how did they get aids
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Lukas Brown Lukas Brown (Mar 14 2019 2:10PM) : statement more

how do you think they got aids?

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Will McDaniel Will McDaniel (Mar 14 2019 2:08PM) : t-t more

The women we have been reading about yesterday had a new house boy and his parents were poor.And in this text his parents died of Aids.so both of them had litle or no family.

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Brady Ingram Brady Ingram (Mar 14 2019 2:10PM) : How did they get aids??
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Ms. Taylor McLeroy Ms. Taylor McLeroy (Mar 15 2019 11:13AM) : Question more

What does the narrator mean by this?

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Deasia Sewell Deasia Sewell (Mar 14 2019 2:09PM) : Empathy more

This shows Empathy because he feels desperate so this means he is talking about his feelings

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Alexis Gross Alexis Gross (Mar 14 2019 2:13PM) : sympathy [Edited] more

This is sympathy because he feel sorry that the boy didn’t have any money. So he tried to help him

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Manuel Robledo Manuel Robledo (Mar 14 2019 2:16PM) : question more

who tried to help him?

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Brooklyn Hughes Brooklyn Hughes (Mar 14 2019 2:10PM) : t-w more

How much did tuition cost back then?

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Lukas Brown Lukas Brown (Mar 14 2019 1:50PM) : question [Edited] more

why did they need his father to come out.

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Martavian Cooper Martavian Cooper (Mar 14 2019 1:57PM) : agree was he guilty of something?
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Lukas Brown Lukas Brown (Mar 14 2019 1:58PM) : question more

No one Knows because they just took him with no say.

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Zachary Owens Zachary Owens (Mar 14 2019 2:07PM) : why?
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Alexis Gross Alexis Gross (Mar 14 2019 2:06PM) : apathy more

This is apathy because they don’t care about the sick mother

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