Ibsen made the primary 'ladies' extremist' character all through the whole presence of theater. Nora is a fragile and tormented creature who attempts to be seen as an individual essentially like each other individual. She promises her qualification to life while understanding her interminable state of deficiency. Nora states, 'I think I am an individual before whatever else. I was...
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The end of World War Two and the establishment of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights intended to end global injustices and put forth a positive influence on human liberty and dignity; however, the South African policies of apartheid outlined in motion undignified and increasingly oppressive, racially segregated laws – polarising South Africa from the rest of the globe....
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Since the beginning of slavery in America, the African-American community has faced oppression and racism by white supremacists. Throughout the history of the nation, African-American men and women have used guns to help defend themselves and protect their communities against White Terror. The tradition of armed self-defense in the African-American community originally began in the Colonial Era and continued into...
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The abolitionist movement was not an abject failure to a limited extent due to the lack of organization and unity within the movement meant aims, methods, and goals were never fully decided. Despite this, the limited organization did mean that the movement was ‘heard’. As historian Hugh Tulloch states: ‘…All these were practical activities outside the private pursuit of Garrisonian...
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Extinction Rebellion is an activist group that pushes for change across the globe through nonviolent civil disobedience. Martin Luther King and Thomas Hobbes both believed that rules should be followed, but believed in two different sets of rules. On the one hand, Martin Luther King argued that if you break an unjust law, you must do so willingly and accept...
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Abstract Social inequalities—from racism to sexism—are not aberrations, but rather are deeply embedded in society and reinforced by state power and market systems. Therefore, the current social order stands as a fundamental obstacle to social justice. A logical conclusion of this observation is that social change movements may be better off thinking and acting beyond the state and capital as...
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What are the conditions, if any, that would justify the use of violence to oppose an unjust legal system? Introduction Political resistance continues to manifest in different forms and to varying degrees throughout the modern age. Despite its critics, civil disobedience has generally come to be considered a permissible mode of resistance. The philosophical debate that I seek to engage...
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Civil Disobedience Rhetorical Analysis American transcendentalist and philosopher, Henry David Thoreau, wrote the essay “Civil Disobedience” in response to slavery and Americans' involvement in the Mexican-American War. Thoreau practiced what he preached, spending the night in jail for non-payment of taxes in protest of the Mexican-American War. Throughout his essay, he shares his idea, which is “That government is best...
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Many people still argue whether the Umbrella Movement is a civil disobedience protest or a riot. The nature of them is different, the former is to fight for the rights and interests of society but the latter is to fight for self-interest and violence is involved. Therefore, seeking the nature of the umbrella movement is conducive to unraveling the argument....
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'But I will bury him; and if I must die, I say that this crime is holy' Once described as a play depicting the complexities of 'state versus personal', Antigone's sheer determination to transgress against the politics of the king, to follow her personal beliefs, presents her as a highly strong-willed protagonist. The idea of a female figure with such...
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Entrepreneur, singer, actress, and mother, Beyonce Giselle Knowles-Carter has used her fame and name to express many vital issues in today’s society, feminism being one of them. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, Beyonce started a musical group with a few of her friends, ‘Destiny’s Child'. By being in this group it started her career and helped shape who she...
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In one of her finest works, Charlotte Perkins Gilman is well-known for her writing of “Women and Economics” in 1898. In this work, she described how rigid social norms and unequal gender roles between men and women negatively affected women’s rights. In addition to these social norms, it prevented women from developing or having opportunities equal to those of men,...
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In Sophocles' play Antigone and Marjane Satrapi's Novel Persepolis, the two main characters in both pieces are quite similar. Based on both of the main characters, Antigone from Antigone and Marji from Persepolis set out the role of a modern feminist. Both Antigone and Marjane have a big reason for why they are fighting for themselves and others around them....
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“My conscience won’t let me go shoot my brother, or some darker people, or some poor hungry people in the mud for big powerful America. And shoot them for what? ... they didn’t put any dogs on me, they didn’t rob me of my nationality, rape and kill my mother and father. … Shoot them for what? How can I...
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You were born an enslaved person in the Caribbean. The stories of the elders in the ‘slave quarters’ inspire you to gain your freedom. Journal your efforts to be free as well as the consequences of those efforts: November 20th, 1853 Dear Diary, My name is Shinnel Haggard and I am currently thirteen (13) years of age. I was born...
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In today’s Western society, there are several misconceptions about Islam and its followers. Many people believe Islam is a violent religion with violent followers who advocate for the oppression of women. Looking from the outside in, it looks as though women are forced to wear hijabs and are being controlled by this religion; it’s telling them how to act, what...
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Harriet Tubman was an abolitionist who was born around 1820 and died in 1913 she grew up in Maryland, as a slave on a plantation farm which was the main reason she desired to see an end to the institution of slavery. In 1849 her master died so she left her family behind and escaped to Philadelphia in the North,...
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The Civil Rights Movement started in the 1950s and took off in the 60s. Although events such as the Virginia High School Walkout where Barbara Johns demanded equal treatment as white students, the Brown v. Board of Education decision where the Supreme Court declared that the segregation of public schools was unconstitutional, and the famous Montgomery Bus Boycott where Rosa...
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Mrs. Preston: Maud Preston is a fictional character in the Greenwich Village, 1913 game written by Mary Jane Treacy. The character is based on two real people from the suffrage movement, Carrie Chapman Catt and Harriot Stanton Blatch (Treacy 9). Mrs. Preston shares the qualities and points of view of these real people. Maud Preston's viewpoints were obviously nurtured by...
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Feminism was and is still today, one of the most dominant and impactful cultural movements that has taken place. The main objective of feminism is to have equal rights with men, maybe it be politically, economically, personally, or socially. Feminism has gone through many phases (the first wave of feminism, the second wave of feminism, and the third wave of...
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Black feminist literature stresses on the double-victimization of black women. The women from the oppressed society encounter absolute dominance and cruelty within the territory of the whites, who suppress them in the name of race; also they undergo the same kind of treatment by their own men in various unsolicited ways. The prolonging silences of women congregate at once to...
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Feminism is an empowering movement that inspires many women of many generations and is still an ongoing cycle that continues to motivate many girls in our generation today. It is a guide for many young women as well as women who have gone through many changes from their youth to adolescence. Empowerment of feminism is what makes this movement a...
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As our decade draws to a close, a reflection on the significant virtues throughout its duration could be used as an obituary of sorts. If it were to be written about the previous decade, it would be riddled with perseverance through strides in innovation, and the strong wills of the American people to overcome adversity brought about by foreign agents...
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The term feminism often referred to as women’s rights has ambiguous definitions that are still being contested until now. Some writers used to refer to feminism as a historically feminist movement in the United States and in Europe that was solicitous about women’s rights specifically in their right to vote, while other writers might refer to feminism as the belief...
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Postcolonial feminism is a relatively new type of feminism that emerged in response to earlier waves of feminism and postcolonial theory. It seeks to address the adverse cultural, economic, and political effects of colonialism on non-Western women in developing and especially colonized countries, which are typically at odds with mainstream feminism. Therefore, a vital issue in feminist activities is the...
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In today’s society, most are aware of the activist cultures that roam the earth searching for a chance to create change. From Black Lives Matter to LGBTQ+, these groups are making themselves and their cause known and heard. Feminists are yet another community that has made themselves a force to be reckoned with. With the help of the media, this...
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Teaching Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein raises many questions, but when I state that one of my teaching perspectives is feminism, more questions are asked. Feminism as a perspective is not only relevant to our times but provides another way to look at the past – be it at the time when Frankenstein was written, or even earlier. Students often say that...
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Feminism is, by definition, the advocacy of women’s rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes. At its most basic form, it’s the equality of all things between men and women equal job and education opportunities, equal pay, and equal rights. And in a perfect world society would have achieved this stage of equilibrium between sexes ages ago....
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The work of women writers in the 19th century is termed to have been very limited in both physical and artistic sense. Many facts can be attributed to that including politics of the time and the places of women in the society at the time. Women of that time saw the need to emancipate themselves from such restrictions using a...
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The underlying feminism in the famous classic ‘Little Women’ by Louisa Alcott is a topic widely discussed since the novel’s publication in 1868, just after the first wave of the feminist movement. The real discussion revolves mainly around the main protagonist ‘Jo’ Josephine March and her character traits that are very clear to critics and readers alike; however, it seems...
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