Blake School - Reflections / Call O Pan Yearbook (Hopkins, MN)

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But As A Person Grows Older, hc builds walls, often needless, to protect his security. Walls of embarrassment, anxiety, fear, or anger. Walls which destroy communication. Communication is even harder today. Our technological comforts have separated the people, destroyed our human comforts of togetherness, a sense of community and place. The mass media and the daily news have brought many people to a state beyond shock, beyond a sense of values. The exploding population and our regimented and comforming society have often made the single man a nonentity, unable to produce an individual identity. So we squeeze into giant groups, categories, and shout at each other. What society before ours has ever divided the whole world into two groups, the under-thirties and over-thirties, and called them separate and distinct? What can we do? Nobody knows, but at least we can talk about it. We can all talk about it, and perhaps a solution will arise. Talk about it. Communicate. In every home, on every street, in every school, in every way possible, the people must come together. 5

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Their Speech Is Simple, Unaffected, And Open Communication is one person talking and making another person understand. Communication also has a machine wich makes one person understand what another person is saying faraway, wich is called a telephone. Sometimes communication is not using a telephone or talking, this method is called a letter. A letter is a pice of paper with writing on it. I think that it means talking to each other. Talking on a telephone. To get in touch with someone. I think that communication is making friends and playing with them. And I think it is the White people making friends with the Black. And it is having a pet and loving it. I say communication is a way for freindship and peace. A way for mankind to take bigger steps into space and in stead of trying to win a war we could and would stop wars. 4

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