Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Stephanie Kumez blog post 3

The thesis of "Why People Don't Help in a Crisis" is that people will not help another person unless they are the only one with them or multiple people are helping. And that when it seem that many people are doing or going some where it is a better place to go then a place with less people. “It’s a rare traveler who, in picking a roadside restaurant, chooses to stop at one where no other cars appear in the parking lot” (419). People are like sheep they follow were the majority of other people are, for someone to do something that most people wouldn't do either knows a good secret about the place or they just want to be different, their like the black sheep in a flock of white. There is a story about a 35 year old women who lived in China. http://www.chinasmack.com/stories/mother-run-over-cement-truck-fuzhou/
She had been hit by a cement truck and was dragged 5 to 6 meters. She was hit on Guangda Road which is a 2-3 minute moped ride away from her house. Mrs. F was standing a cross the road when she heard the accident, she died 120 (our 911) and went and helped her call her husband as she was trapped under the cement truck. She died and hour later, when the family was told she would only live for 20 mins.
There was a time when I was with my family in Hawaii and we were climbing the lava when a girl and her boyfriend were coming back. It was almost dark out, and when we saw her she had just fell and was covered in blood and no one not even her boyfriend was helping her up. She my dad helped her up and took a small towel we had and some water and helped clean her up. And since it was going to be dark soon and they had a way to go he gave her one of our small flashlight to use to see her way back, and told her not to give it to her boyfriend.

3 comments:

  1. I can't believe her own boyfriend didn't help her! It was so nice of your family to give her the flashlight and clean up her injury. Its so nice when people go out of their way to help others, I know my dad is one of those people who will step out of their way to help someone out and it's just a nice action.

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  2. I am shocked, too, that the boyfriend didn't help. Outstanding job on your post, Stephanie, and you are watching your grammar and mechanics, too. Thanks.

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  3. Great story and all but there were a lot of spelling errors which made it hard to read but, other than that great post.

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