Environmental movement

when mainstream. If these individual don’t excell to our expectation we cut them down and destroy them because it isn’t part of our personal brand. We forget the humanity of women, the complexity of someone who is expected to represent the women's movement. The dehumanization of women of other women because of the way which they express themselves, branding feminism as a category a stereotype about what “we should be” and not who we are. In her famous Ted talk “We Should All Be Feminists”…

Not only does art and music become hindered when cultural appropriation is shunned, but so does personal expression. For instance, it is a human right in the United States to express oneself freely, whether that expression be of religion, language, or even as simple as hairstyles. In March of 2016, a video taken at San Francisco State University went viral when an African American student confronted a white student with dreadlocks, accusing him of cultural appropriation. The black girl, Bonita…

Industrialization. For instance, Jim Crow laws enabled racial segregation of the African Americans in public places and the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 restricted the freedom of the Chinese, one of the immigrant groups. This led to the various social reform movements – which was a respond to the effects of the Industrialization by different social hierarchies. The farmer respond – Populism, working class respond – the rise of the labor and the middle class respond –…

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…

corporations, while also supporting humanitarian reform and morality in politics. Whigs were opposed to harsh labor conditions, just as the Progressives had many reform movements to make industrial conditions less severe. Within the Whig party, there were contrasting views, such as some being anti-Catholic, some being against labor movements, and some being more pragmatic than others. Similarly, the Progressives had ideas of both socialism and laissez-faire in their party. Lastly, like the…

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…

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…