A Rhetorical Analysis Of 'Protesting 101'

The inauguration of the 45th presidency is coming up pretty soon as this paper is being written and many people in the United States are mad about who the president elect is and there are also people who are happy about it. There have been recent news reports about how people in America are going to march and protest during the president elect's inauguration on how they want to stop the inauguration and not have the president elect officially become president. However, does people protesting during the inauguration will stop the president elect from becoming president? In the ardent and fervent article, “Protesting 101”, the author claims that some protests are not very effective due to the people not procuring action that will actually cause …show more content…
During the 1950s, segregation had a huge impact on American history, in which (pardon for my term), blacks were not treated the same as whites. Namely, blacks were allowed to be with white people on the same bus, however, blacks were distributed to the back of the bus and had to give up their seat if a white person requested to do so. There were many protests going on about how poorly blacks were treated at that time yet even though their voices will be heard, not that much change would occur.. Unless the blacks start doing actions that will get the government's attention, the government will continue to ignore them. The actions didn’t begin commencing until a woman by name of Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white person, in which she had her reasons, and was arrested for the “crime”. After many blacks heard of this event, they saw this unfair and with the help of a plucky man by the name of Dr. Martin Luther King came up with the idea of not only just protesting, but actually boycotting the buses. That way the buses will have to comply to the demands of the blacks or else the bus companies will be out of business. Having the blacks merely protest about inequality, will not have change brought forth, but only their voices to be heard or ignored. It is not until the blacks started boycotting the buses is when the change actually …show more content…
Many chinese protests began by putting dazibao on a wall which later became known as Democracy Wall. Within these posters, there will be declarations of how corrupt the government actually is and how the cultural revolution was inane. With the posters becoming distributed for the public to see how corrupt the government actually is, students began to hold protests not really for opposition of the government, but to change from being a socialist state to a more democratic type of government. The Chinese government saw the students protests as little kids whining like a baby and didn’t really pay much attention to them. Yet, the protests were becoming bigger and bigger and more people were coming to support the students. That is when the students decided to move their protests to a place in which they knew many people would have to pay attention and that place was Tiananmen square. The students continued their protests at Tiananmen Square, but they also had a plan that would have the Chinese government take notice in them. Nikita Khrushchev was coming for a visit to China and was willing to try to have relations with the Chinese government. The students saw this as an opportunity to have the Chinese government pay attention to them and they began by making Khrushchev's visit