Alwina Bennett:
CLASS OF 1967
Mt. View High SchoolClass of 1967
Thorndike, ME
Alwina's Story
Alwina is from Boston, Massachusetts. Alwina's schools include Mt. View High School. Alwina later attended Al-Quds University, Brandeis University, Boston University. Alwina works(ed) at Retired, Self-Employed, Brandeis University.
Music Alwina likes includes Right Turn LIVE, Dixie Chicks, Puppet Trunk. Books Alwina likes include American Gods, The Heir Apparent Presidency, American Gods. Movies Alwina likes include Chicago, Walk The Line, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. TV shows Alwina likes include Anderson Cooper 360, MASTERPIECE | PBS, Independent Lens | PBS.
One of Alwina's favorite quotes is:"I’ve often thought there ought to be a manual to hand little kids, telling them what kind of planet they’re on, why they don’t fall off it, how much time they’ve probably got here, how to avoid poison ivy, and so on. I tried to write one once. It was called Welcome to Planet Earth. But I got stuck on explaining...Expand for more
why we don’t fall off the planet. Gravity is just a word. It doesn’t explain anything. If I could get past gravity, I’d tell them how we reproduce, how long we’ve been here, apparently, and a little bit about evolution. And one thing I would really like to tell them about is cultural relativity. I didn’t learn until I was in college about all the other cultures, and I should have learned that in the first grade. A first grader should understand that his or her culture isn’t a rational invention; that there are thousands of other cultures and they all work pretty well; that all cultures function on faith rather than truth; that there are lots of alternatives to our own society. Cultural relativity is defensible and attractive. It’s also a source of hope. If means we don’t have to continue this way if we don’t like it.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.".
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