Catholic Worker Movement

I chose to interview my boyfriend’s Aunt Jamie about participating in the Blue Lives Matter movement. She explained that she is still an active member of the movement and that their goal is to recognize all of the positive things that the police do for the community and to strengthen support from the community. Aunt Jamie heard about the Blue Lives Matter movement through Facebook when people she knew began posting about the New York City incident when two NYPD officers were murdered right…

Albert Einstein once quoted, “Be a voice not an echo.” This quote implies that one should not believe in something just because everyone else believes in it. The Civil Rights movement was a movement that took place mainly during the 1950s and 1960s and was meant to give equal rights to African American people and terminate discrimination. Some excellent examples of people who stood up for what they believe include Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist…

Few sounds invoke the enthusiasm of the Civil Rights Movement as influentially as the civil rights movement melodies that gave a musical backdrop to the campaign for racial equity and fairness around the late 1950s and early 1960s. The Civil Rights Movement was comprised of many deeply inspirational, charismatic speakers and leaders, including the late Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. and Reverend Ralph Abernathy. Song leaders such as Fannie Lou Hamer, Betty Mae Fikes, the SNCC Freedom Singers,…

Dick Hebdige's article "Reggae, Rastas, and Rudies" discusses the formation of West Indian culture within Britian's community. His article focuses on the underground movement of reggae music and how it was used by young blacks to attain a sense of cultural independence. Hebdige briefly highlights the range of subcultures such as "hard mods", skinheads, and spiritual Rastafarians that originated in London in the late 1950's and well into the mid 1960's. He argues that the style of these different…

After reading, The Obligation to Endure by Rachel Carson, it definitely consists of a lot of facts and evidence to state her argument. Carson’s thesis is informing the audience the dangers of pesticides and explaining how it does more harm than good. “In this now universal contamination of the environment, chemicals are the sinister and little-recognized partners of radiation in changing the very nature of the world-the very nature of us” (Carson 358). She wants us to be more informed and wants…

In the early 60s, many young people in the United States respected authority, dressed conservatively, and followed traditional gender norms. Most women married fairly young, few attended college, and most stopped working as soon as children arrived. There was little social interaction among races. Premarital sexual relations were not discussed publicly. There wasn’t a lot of rebellion against authority. Most citizens thought of the United States positively and that we were the “Good Guys”. They…

My favorite image in the museum of bad arts is the one on the left, which is Bob Marley. He was a well-known Rastafarian movement activist and also a world-renowned Reggae Music legend. In light of his strict vegetarian lifestyle, the artist decided to embed the tail of a small mammal on his dreadlocks to project irony to the music legend vegan lifestyle. This seemed somewhat bizarre to me because looking closely at the image; it had me thinking to myself whether that was a piece of fur that was…

The social and political unrest of the Civil Rights movement characterized and defined the decade of the 1960s. From Martin Luther King’s March on Washington in 1963, to the televised police assaults on blacks in Birmingham, Alabama, with police dogs and water hoses, to the bombing of a black Birmingham church that killed four young girls, to the murders of civil rights workers in Mississippi, the decade became a testament to the social, political and economic realities of violent and…

The civil rights movement was associated with a series of fears that would precede its various successes and failures. The movement persisted despite these distresses leading to a number of varying effects. The African- American struggle for equal rights began when the civil war ended. Slavery was outlawed in the deep south Jim Crow laws segregated whites and African- Americans. In the early 1900’s w.e.b Dubois and others created the National Association for the advancement of colored people or…

A time when there has been strength in the time of adversity. A time when there was adversity in our state was when the young man Dylan Roof went into the African American church in Charleston and killed nine people. The people at this church did not know that when they came to church that night there was going to be a shooting at the church. Even though Dylan killed nine people and many families were hurt people still came together as a city and remembered the nine people that were killed. The…