Suli Breaks, a famous spoken word artist and Junot Diaz, a MIT creative writing professor and author, both are arguing for change in the system. In a system where individual differences, such as rough childhoods and harsh upbringing, aren’t fully taken into account and the success rate is determined by the grading of an infinite number of unnecessary teachings. The thought seems so unheard of but the proof has been in front of us all this time; we are all taken into the system the same, regardless of individuality, regardless of what matters. We are de-individualized, almost dehumanized through the course of our school years and these things affect how we are in the future. Breaks and Diaz, in both of their respective performances, bring their own experiences with these problems to show how real of an issue it is. They want to bring light to the false bravado people have because of their upbringings and how the system doesn’t take these things into account, causing a flawed assessment leading people to their own destruction. Diaz brings up points on how everyone, including himself, who have gone through a rough upbringing have all experienced a trauma of some sort, and how the trauma affects them in the way they think, act, and feel, while Breaks speaks about the school systems and how everyone shouldn’t be judge or graded the same way as everyone else. How can you treat everyone the same when they aren’t the same? How is it possible to be different, have it harder than others, remain on an uneven playing field with all odds stacked against you while the pressure builds, and be expected to jump the hurdles with no problem? How can we rely on a system that forces us to lose our identities and labels us as if we all had the same past?