Temple Grandin: A Change In The World

“Stanley Williams – Murderer, Thief, Philanthropist.” This was how a bibliography website described the occupation of Stanley Williams. It was very bizarre to see those three strikingly different words in the same sentence because they don’t normally belong together. Stanley Williams was not at all what anyone would classify as normal though. He grew up with very bizarre living conditions. Stanley Williams was born on December 23rd 1953 in New Orleans, Louisiana. His father left the family early on and forced Stanley’s mother, who was seventeen at the time to raise him. In 1959, he hopped on a greyhound train with his mother and moved to sunny Los Angeles. He started wandering the streets at six shortly after moving because he found his

He defended British soldiers that killed five Americans in the Boston Massacre. The soldiers were considered innocent.

Once he was sent to jail he got put in solitary confinement and remained there for 6 and a half years. He then started on his great path to Redemption. He wrote several children's books advocating non-violence and positive alternatives to gangs. In 1997 he wrote and posted an apology on his website for forming the Crips. Tookie Williams was reportedly nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize every year from 2001 to 2005. Nominations came from a member of the Swiss Parliament and four times by Notre Dame University Philosophy and Religion Professor. He was also nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature by a Brown University Professor of English Literature.

The crimes that he had committed were horse stealing, train robbers and bank robbers. When he was in the Wild Bunch, They were infamous of going on the longest crime spree in west American history. At one point he was the most wanted man in America. That can't be fun having people looking for you everywhere you go. He was never caught so he dodged a bullet.

In the historical documentary of the film “Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples’ temple”. It featured the footage of the group named peoples’ temple. They were lead by a preacher named Jim Jones. He led a group of 900 members and had a mass suicide of the peoples’ temple. When watching the film they will be interviews with former temple members . Being the Jonestown survivors and people who knew Jones. The preacher Jim Jones had a vision of changing their world. He would tell them about the promise land, and the members all of them wanted to go. For them they truly thought there was a potential, something big, powerful and great within what Jim Jones was preaching to the people.

Recently in one of my English classes we begin to study the importance of eating meat and treating animals. We started off with articles of different meanings but then we began to watch a movie named Temple Grandin which really caught my attention. Temple Grandin was very different than her fellow classmates and got made fun of constantly. She had, as the doctors said, Autism. Although she had a different type of Autism she still did what she wanted to do. Later in the movie she began to do some research and discovers something that she never saw before and what caught my attention. Cattle, as she saw, were “mooing” because of what seems that something is scaring them away from the farmers before being slaughtered. As she would say, “Nature is cruel but we don’t have to be”. She then created a system that made the cattle comfortable before being slaughtered. Grandin then began showing others and others about her system and became a star. Grandin believed that if these animals gave us food the best thing we can do is treat them with care. Which also came to my senses and made me believe in the same thing Temple Grandin believes in. Animals are killed for us everyday and we treat them very badly, which is very sad. If they are being killed for us then let's treat them with respect and use Temple Grandin system all over the world.

There was nothing to do. I saw her and that was that. I met her and then she was gone. She walked out of my life like a gust of wind that passes by, unnoticed. I loved her, at least I thought I loved her. I couldn’t stop thinking about her curly dark hair, the way she talked, and the way she moved when she walked swinging her arms so freely. Who will tell her how my heart feels? She told me things that I didn’t want to hear. She said that she didn’t belong to no one. A drug dealer had been her boyfriend since she was eighteen. He had given her everything, everything I couldn’t give her. “Then, he was shot, murdered, dead. The cons had taken over the plaza where he distributed drugs.” she said. “The remains of his body were found inside a black construction plastic-bag. When powerful drug cartels take over, everyone else dies. Not just a normal death, a cruel death. They make sure no one else dares to mess with their territory. That’s how it is. That’s fricking Mexico.” She blew a cloud of smoke and looked at me with those black-miserable eyes.

“If we can’t live in peace, we’ll die in peace. Die with respect, die with a degree of dignity,” -Jim Jones [6]. These were the very last words 909 people heard on November 18th, 1978 as they slowly came to their last day of life. Jim Jones, the leader of Peoples Temple, left his followers with many unfilled promises after many years of nothing but complete loyalty and dedication to this man that they idealized and respected every word he preached to them. The Peoples Temple offered the idea of a perfect utopia, where no one was judged, everyone was as one, but that was not the case at all. In fact it was quite the opposite and filled with manipulation, false hope, and murder — not suicide.

The Olympics were a big event for himself, but also for people around the world. The 1936 Olympics were a statement by black athletes that they were important too. Jesse Owens was African American and this meant that many people did not like him and did not want him to win. Many of the people that did not want him to win were Americans. Americans were supposed to be the ones rooting for Jesse, but many did not want him to win. One of the people that were against Jesse was Adolf Hitler. The 1936 Olympics were in Hitler’s country, Germany. Hitler was a dictator and believed only one type of person was good. These people were what he called “Aryan”. All of these circumstances made the Olympics more intense and more meaningful than other Olympics

Jesse Owens was a great American track racer, whose astonishing career set the stage for athletes everywhere, and made a stand for African- Americans. Often times people become famous because of money or heritage, but not Jesse, who was the tenth child of a sharecropper (Gentry). He was recognized solely for his hard work and incredible speed. Owens started breaking world records as an amature racer. Eventually he ended up where all amazing athletes do, the olympics (“JESSE OWENS”).

He was born on September 12, 1913 in Oakville Alabama. It is important that he won because he was a black american in 1936 that not only had the capability to beat those in his home country that thought of him as inferior because of his skin color. No, he went on to beat the so called “perfect” race in Germany and won 4 gold medals. Not 1, 2, or even 3, but 4 in the Berlin olympics. This shows to not only the people in the stands, but to everybody watching that not only did Hitler glorious race lose, but they lost to a black american. Jesse won a gold medal in the 100m sprint, 200m sprint, 4x100m sprint and the long jump. He managed to break or equal 9 olympic records, and went on to set 3 world records. Jesse was able to break through the biased thoughts and showed the Nazis that they are not the best and he was more capable than them. Although Hitler did not enjoy viewing his Aryan race being defeated by a black american, he deemed the olympics a

Temple Grandid brought of many situations to start. She brought up her experiences dealing with autism, her learning style, and her work. She is currently a professor of Animal science at Colorado State University. She also has a successful career equipment design and animal welfare. She is quite a busy person. It was very interesting to hear how she was unable to speak until 3 and a half years old. The fact that she has been through so much and wants to do more is amazing. She said she has a love for animals and for space. When she spoke, I remember hearing saying some of her accomplishments was appearing on 20/20, Sixty Minutes, USA Today. All of these things she has been on speaking on how life is with Autism. She also stated that HBO made

The Case of Temple Grandin paints a picture of a young woman’s determination and hard work while struggling with autism during a time when the disorder was unknown. This case discusses Grandin’s challenges, early diagnosis, growth and development in school, and support from her mother. Temple Grandin could not speak like the other children at the age of two, so because doctors could not find any physical issues she had been subsequently labeled as brain-damaged. To communicate with others, she would throw tantrums and scream. She could speak by three and a half years old with the help of speech therapy. A few years later at the age of five, Grandin was diagnosed with autism so her mother worked with her 30

Born in 1949, Temple Grandin was first diagnosed with brain damage at the age of three and then, at the age of five, labeled Autistic. Today Temple Grandin, self-labeled as a recovered autistic, is a well-respected doctor in animal science, a professor at Colorado State University, a bestselling author, an autism activist, and a leading consultant to the livestock industry on animal behavior. While it is easily argued that Temple Grandin’s life does not represent the norm for most children with autism, her autobiography, Emergence: Labeled Autistic (1986) offers a powerful picture of the influences and experiences that steered Temple through her journey ‘emerging’ from

Before watching the movie, I have never heard of it before. I never knew it existed. Temple Grandin is another inspiring movie that I have been glad to have watched. It deals with the autism of a woman and tells the inspiration true story of her.