Temperance movement

body is a machine. Advertising says: The body is a business. The Body says: I am a fiesta.” This quote ties into the depiction of the female body in Alice Walker’s novel Meridian. Walker paints the human body as a vital element in the Civil Rights Movement during the 1960s in her novel Meridian. The novel’s protagonist, Meridian, struggles with internal and external struggles throughout the entire novel, thus leaving her body feeling battered and bruised. While Walker’s novel was met with much…

progressed with the symbol of equality leading the movement. Many leaders have arisen for the civil rights such as, Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, and Hattie Briscoe. Instead of the size of each individual impact, the common theme is that these individuals were responsible for the overall progression of these early movements into present day. Foundation for the future of equality was laid out from these…

The hippie movement was the common title Americans used to define the out casted individuals and their actions that began to take place in the early 1960s and continued on through the 1970s. The movement started as vocal opposition to the United States taking part in the Vietnam War. Soon after, this generation ultimately transformed into a liberal counterculture. A counterculture is a subculture that has values and behavioral norms that are substantially different from those of the mainstream…

the attempts of Carrie Chapman Catt and her role in women’s suffrage and the peace movement. The analysis of the life of Chapman Catt was very interesting in showing the strong and the low points of her crusade for women’s suffrage and her attempts at the peace movement. It is clear by the article that the author neither was for or did she completely agree with Catt’s efforts and attempts with the peace movement. The author starts the article by saying that Carrie Chapman Catt is and was on of…

Growing up one often dreams of moving away and seeing what else the world has to offer. This dream was especially true for an African American growing up in Mississippi and other southern sates during the Civil Rights Movement. Born just before the Civil Rights Movement was being launched into full swing, Ralph Eubanks was one of these African Americans. Although Ralph Eubanks’s Civil Rights experience differed from many other African Americans’, he was still ultimately driven away from his home…

Her family couldn’t understand why Moody didn’t just give up her support for the Civil Rights movement. Moody never let anything stand in her way when it came to fighting for respect and equality for the African Americans. With Anne as the main supporter of the Civil Rights movement and with its supporters wanting to the same this mind set kept the movement successful. Besides her mother, the women that she met throughout her life provided the education of topics her mother…

Reform is an important part of history, it has changed the world in several different ways. It is the essence of change in civilizations since the dawn of time. It also is a factor in religious beliefs and places of worship. History is shaped by reforms, some might come smaller than others. But they all alter history and still do today. Without reform the progress in civilization would be stable for the most part. That’s why it’s important to consider reform in historical events. In this essay I…

Rastafari and Vodou are two major world religions that are both intertwined with a long history of oppression, persecution, and connection to the African people. While not as well known as the other more “traditional” religions like Christianity or Islam, Rastafari and Vodou are both religions with followers numbering in the millions. They have had extraordinary impact on the cultural and political scenes in their respective countries of origin. While not everyone agrees with the beliefs of…

Alice Walker’s Meridian is a historical novel covering much of the Civil Rights Movement of the mid-to-late twentieth century, and although much of the novel is focused on societal conditions regarding race relations, Walker also explores sexual relations in place at the time. Sexual politics play a key role in setting the foundation of Walker’s argument, and is staged through her use of characterization, especially with regards to Meridian and Truman. These characterizations also shape an…

Recently, this type of large-scale protest movement has begun to resurface. In 2011, the Occupy Wall Street movement drew global attention by occupying Zuccotti Park in New York’s Financial District for nearly two months. The Occupy Wall Street movement’s key issues were social and economic inequality. The group’s slogan is “We are the 99%,” and according to their website “The movement…aims to fight back against the richest 1% of people that are writing the rules of an unfair global economy that…