All white people are rich, all black people are poor, all men are strong, all women are weak.
we are all lazy, we are all stubborn, age is just a number, at least that’s what they say.
when people don’t understand the types of people, we describe them as what they are not.
people judge us by what we say, wear, do, or where we’re from.
just because they’re smiling doesn’t mean they’re happy.
just because they wear glasses doesn’t mean they’re smart.
they are ugly so they must be poor, they are pretty so she must be foolish.
i’m a woman so i’m gentle, i’m a man so i have to be tough. we learn stereotypes from the world all around us.
don’t you feel pain from being judged, by being yourself?
we all scream, we all cry, our bones are all white and we all bleed red.
so now we can’t be ourselves because we would get judged, or we can’t be ourselves because people would hate us.
these stereotypes are changing our minds into thinking differently about ourselves, in a bad way.
this isn’t just an opinion of people’s mind, it is what society sees from us. everyone has gone through the pain and shame of stereotypes.

we don’t express ourselves enough to speak out the truth. we must look up way past these stereotypes, to who we really are.
think of us as books, are all different on the outside, but have similar features on the inside.

these people don’t know what we are really capable of. in society, equality is fading away and becoming a joke.
we should all have the minds of children. children’s minds haven’t recognized stereotypes, but we the people teach them that.
this is how stereotypes keep on getting passed on and passed on and passed on.
getting stereotyped can lead to problems, such as anxiety or depression. why should we be categorized into groups? why do we have labels, when on the inside, we are all exactly the same?
not all whites are rich, not all blacks are poor. not all skinny people are anorexic, not all fat people are obese.
the truth is, we are all different in our own ways.

can someone me come up with a metaphor that goes along with this slam poem?

EACHER: Hi, and welcome to the lesson. It's all about human beings. Now, if you look at the picture, we don't all look alike. And if you listen to me, we don't all sound alike. And we know that we don't all think alike. But on the inside, our bodies and what they're made of, everything that's stuffed inside, the fundamentals,  

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that's pretty much all the same. And that means that, as humans, it ensures that we all pretty much function the same way. Now, as we look a little more closely at the idea of our similarities, it's going to help us answer our lesson question, how is the human body organized to maintain homeostasis?

Section 2  

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TEACHER: Lesson goals. Well, what are we trying to achieve? Well, in order to explore how the human body is organized in order to maintain homeostasis, we need to identify and order the levels of organization in the body. And that'll become clear as we go.  

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We're also going to analyze how organ systems function together to maintain homeostasis. In order to do that, we're going to need some words. And of course, the first one is homeostasis. Now, don't panic. It'll become absolutely clear by the time we get there. The next is organ, organ system, and tissue. It's a good time now  

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to put these in your eNotes, look them up in your glossary, even if you think you know what they mean, and remember to be on the lookout because it's when we use words in context that helps us to truly understand what we mean. Now, just before we look at how the body is organized, let's review a little bit of what we know about cells. [LOUD METALLIC CLANGING]  

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TEACHER: No. Not, not cells with doors. No. No. No. These kinds of cells. Remember that all living things are made of one or more cells  

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and that cells are the very basic unit of structure and function for all living things. Now, a piece of bacteria, a little bit of bacteria might be a one-celled structure. A one-celled living thing. Something that has lots of cells would be me. If you remember, I said that the body is organized  

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in building blocks, so that cell is our very most basic level. Cells are made of parts that work together, and that's how cells are kept alive. Those parts inside work together. So let's have a look at just some of those parts and remind ourselves what they are. Here, we have the outer covering, which is the cell membrane.  

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And all this blue stuff on the inside, that holds everything all together. That's the cytoplasm, the jelly stuff that keeps everything inside. Here, we have the big ball of the nucleus. And around it, we have the endoplasmic reticulum. In this case, the rough. We also have some mitochondria here and here.  

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We have some lysosomes here, here, here, and there. We have some vacuoles, the big lima beans and we have a Golgi body right there. We also have lots of these. And if you remember, those are ribosomes. Now, there are other parts. These are the main ones. If you're unsure, go ahead and look it up,  

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but I think you can answer the question that comes next with what I've given you.

Explanation:

the answers are:

1. dolores driscoll - b. first person minor

dolores is a minor character who happens to be driving the bus at the time of the accident. she narrates picking up each of the children and her last memory is the children being thrown around the bus.

2. billy ansel - a. first person major

billy loses his twins in the accident. he tells his own story, how he witnessed the accident and how he tried to the rescuers. he is a major character, as he is at the center of the story.

3. mitchell stephens - c. first person observer

mitchell enters the story after the accident. he is a lawyer who learns about the accident based on other characters observations. though he tells the story from a first person perspective, he is just an observer.

as for matcthing the message or lesson posted with the person who said them:

1."obviously, you can't control everything, but you are obliged to take care of the few things you can. i'm an optimist basically who acts like a pessimist. on principle. just in case." - dolores driscoll

2. "i could no longer believe even in life. . for me now the only reality was death." - billy ansel