Powerless Women

As a child, my mother always raised me to speak up. She told me when you see something that you believe is wrong you should say something. As a young child, disciple would happen if you spoke up about something, even if you weren 't at fault. In high school, our opinions were silenced amongst adults and peers didn’t care much to respect others thoughts. You were always told to keep quiet and do as people tell you. This is when people gave up and stop speaking up. My mother always encouraged me to “put my foot down” and stand up for myself and my beliefs. People don’t realize that their voices are in important in society and everywhere they go. Throughout the semester, we learned about using our voices. Our voices in class, during group work, …show more content…
Voices of powerless women in other countries is what created a change and better opportunities for them and others in their country. Many women improved their lives by using their voice and actions. Speaking up about what is wrong, saved a whole town of women from continuously being raped and beaten. Speaking up about poor educations, allowed a better education for others presently going to school and in the future. Many women stories in the novel showed how created change in their communities and in their lives. These women used what many thought was useless in their countries, their voices. Voices can be used in minor situations, like during group activities. During First-Year Experience we were put into groups and we had to create a “safe space.” Using communication and our individual voices, each group created a safe space. Some merging their safe spaces others working together on one giant safe place. In another …show more content…
Often times you hear about changes happening in a big corporation or company, it is mainly center around a group of people of banding, or striking, against the leaders of the company for changes that would benefit the workers. For example, BP, a petroleum company, workers went on strike for ninety-three days back in March of this year. These one thousand one hundred workers walked off of the job on February 8, 2015 and the strike lasted for ninety-three days. This ninety-three day strike was the longest in the history of the refinery, which was established in 1889, by a man by the name of John D. Rockefeller, to make kerosene for lamps before cars were being driven. The longest strike before this one had lasted eighty-two days, and that was back in 1980. In May, they made an agreement that included safer working conditions and it also preserved the bargaining rights that the union has had for almost eighty years. In this vote, an estimated ninety-two percent and one hundred percent of the plant guards ratified a brand new four year agreement for the plant on Lake Michigan’s southern shore, the largest refinery in the Midwest. What would have happened if they didn’t stand up and say something? Things probably would have never changed. This has not only have happened to BP, but many other companies, corporations, and unions. This also happened earlier this year in New Jersey. Governor Chris