Diversity Activity Reflection

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Diversity Activity Reflection
Savonna Huff
Forsyth Technical Community College

In choosing to watch a film for the diversity activity, I chose to watch “The Laramie Project”. reporters chose to create a movie on the murder case of the homosexual college student Mathew Shepard, whom attended the university of Wyoming. The reporter who traveled to Laramie Wyoming were homosexual as well, a few of them where not sure about going because they were afraid that since Mathew Shepard was murdered for being himself that that could potentially be harmed. The homosexuals who were already present their shared the same fears with the reporters, who were at times silent about their sexuality. The population in Wyoming was very small so they attitudes

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