Rosemary Lawlor's Discrimination Against Catholicism In Northern Ireland

The beginning of this article talks about the life or Rosemary Lawlor and her family as they are struggling to survive the discrimination against Catholicism in Northern Ireland. The Lawlor’s lived a very uneasy life, because they did not know when they would have to move again to avoid the conflicts that were arising between the Protestants and Catholics. Eventually, the conflicts rose so greatly that the Lawlor’s had to plan a secret getaway from the newly purchased house to an all Catholic neighborhood so that they would not be killed for their beliefs. The article ties the Lawlor’s story and the British’s mistake during this controversial time in Northern Ireland to Stella’s classroom. In this classroom, the teacher is reading a story with
Stella’s students are usually well behaved and are eager to learn, so why would they be acting this way during story time? The answer is quite simple, she was not engaging all of her students into the story, and so they were getting bored, which caused the disobedient and distracting behavior. In another video, a teacher was handing out an assignment, after minutes of painful choral reading, one little boy had a question. The teacher takes his hand and pushes it down and continues to give directions. This action is likely to cause the child to become defiant because he feels as though his thoughts and questions are not important enough to be answered, so he will begin to act rashly when he does not understand something in the future. The author connects all three of these scenarios back to a theory entitled the ‘principle of legitimacy,’ which states that “people who are asked to obey authority have to feel like they have a voice-that if they speak up, they will be heard;” the law has to be predictable; and authority has to be fair (Gadwell,