Oppression

While many feel education is the root of oppression, it is not the only institution in which oppression occurs. Paulo Freire extends the sentiment by presenting society as a constant struggle between two opposing forces. Freire believes teachers essentially oppress their students by maintaining the current society rather than encourage students to think for themselves. The result of free-thinking students is a recreation of a new society. Freire presents his main argument about education in his…

Henrik Ibsen’s ‘A Doll’s House’ thematic emphasis on the dependency of money and extravagant wealth is explored through the relationships between characters and how they respectively view money. Wealth, and the glamorisation of excessive lifestyles are expressed within Nora and Torvald’s relationship through Nora’s unbridled enthusiasm regarding the prospect of Torvald receiving a higher salary. However additionally expressed through their relationship is yet another outlet in which Torvald…

“Harlem” and “Still I Rise” are used to portray the different reactions of the speaker towards being oppressed, and the different kinds of oppression they face. Although both poems use similes to portray the speaker’s reaction to oppression, the speaker in the first poem faces the oppression of a dream coming true, the speaker in the second poem faces the oppression of herself. In the beginning of the poem “Harlem”, the first simile “Does…

Let’s start where we should always start, the Bible. Mark 16:16 “He said to them, ‘Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.’” We are specifically told by Jesus to go to all corners of the Earth. And at the Council of Jerusalem or the Apostolic Council it was decided that Gentiles do not need to follow the Law of Moses or become circumcised to become a Christian. This opened a whole new group of people. The decision was made because God does not discriminate against anyone, so…

education. However, what I desire out of society is in a whole other ballpark. Systemic and systematic oppression still runs deep in the roots of our society, and my desire is for those oppressions to vanish. I know that sounds very farfetched and highly unlikely anytime soon, but I can dream. This implausible desire for society to provide equitability to everyone comes from the oppressions that I…

In “Speakin Arms” and Dancing Bodies in Ntozake Shange, Sarah Mahurin discusses the role of the body in the choreopoem in harnessing power in order to achieve self-ownership, a sentiment that challenges the oppression described above. According to Mahurin, by providing the space for the seven black women to express their pain and interact with one another without the imposition of men or whites, “Shange’s all-female, all-black production defiantly presents itself…

being an advocate for feministic philosophers and feminist theories. While it seems like they would come from opposite ends of any spectrum and lived overlapping lives in time, their biggest collective commonality was that they both were face with oppressions in their time. Simone du Beauvoir being faced with being a woman and wanting to achieve more than what was thought allowed for her at that time, or King, wanting white people to accept black as their equal, wanting equal rights for all…

Debra was advocating on behave of all women that who are in poverty. It is evident that women in our society are oppressed against, especially regarding economics. Debra did a wonderful job providing us with numerous statistics about the economic oppression that many women face. For instance, many women in Minnesota work two to three part-time jobs to make ends meat (Fitzpatrick, 2016). This was something that I was not aware of, and I was truly disappointed about this staggering fact. I also…

Paper Introduction Within the American class system exist a system of oppression, in which power and privilege is concentrated among a dominant group with specific characteristics. In the Adams readings he explains some of the dominant group characteristics to include being an older, able body, heterosexual, white male. Throughout my academic experience in higher education, I have bare witness to the many systems of oppression that have limit minority groups that include being discriminated in…

Liberation Army Earl Lovelace’s, “The Dragon Can’t Dance” is the story of the people living in the town of Cavalry Hill, a slum in the Port of Spain. Oppression and poverty runs rampant throughout the city and plays a heavy role in the everyday life of most of its residents specifically, a man named Fisheye. Fisheye, the former leader of an anti-oppression group, portrays the oppressed citizen in that he both characterizes someone who is being oppressed and also resists, but ultimately cannot…