The Oppressed

peace to be free from something. Sojourner also used peace as a teaching method. “If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone…” (Gilbert and Gubar 253). She and her fellow African Americans were being oppressed by white men and women. Sojourner Truth also uses the pronoun “we” to signify that all women of different races need to stand together to gain the rights that women did not get in at that time. Gandhi and Truth both used their own methods to…

Thomas Paine makes it seem as if the poor and rich are considered equals by comparing them to opposite class stereotypes, “Poor are not oppressed, the rich are not privileged.” As of now, we know that the poor are indeed oppressed and the rich are privileged which can be seen in the ever-growing inequality wealth gap. Approximately one in six families in America are living in food insecurity, which is condition where families lack…

Question 1- While traditional theology focused on invigorating faith, liberation theology is intended to promote social justice for marginalized populations and improve the community. In traditional theology, those mainly involved were scholars with academic qualifications who sought abstract and philosophical ideas regarding their faith. By contrast, liberation theology is inclusive of everyone, and all are able to contribute within their own capacity. Rather than allowing select individuals…

Freedom has been compromised on multiple occasions throughout time. If we do nothing, history could repeat. In the folktale, The People Could Fly, Virginia Hamilton tells of African slaves who flew to convey the importance of freedom to everyone. The author demonstrates liberty’s precedence. Throughout the text, wings represent freedom, as flight allows one to travel anywhere. The second and third paragraph read, “Then, many of the people were captured for Slavery. The ones that could fly shed…

been a lot of finger pointing on why our education system is insufficient within the United States. Paulo Freire and John Henry Newman both theorized different styles of education. Freire, a Brazilian educator in the 1960’s came from a politically oppressed country posits, “education-as-praxis” or “problem posing education” which allows a cooperative and communicative relationship between the teacher and student (65). John Henry Newman, a converted Catholic back in 1800s conceived, “useless or…

Discussion: Racism and Privilege Racism is the set of institutional, cultural, and interpersonal patterns and practices that creates advantages for people legally defined and socially constructed as “white,” and the corollary disadvantages for people defined as belonging to racial groups that were not considered whites by the dominant power structure in the United States. The relationship between racism and privilege involves two groups of individuals such as privileged groups reap advantage,…

about a true story that happened during that time. The symbol of the mockingbird in the book means innocence such as that of Boo Radley, Tom Robinson, Jem, and Scout. In addition, it represents teaching his children ethical values and helping the oppressed such as when Atticus refuted the claims about Tom. Scout and Jem live with their father, Atticus who was a professional lawyer. They have a friend named Dill, who came to Maycomb in the summer. Out of curiosity, every day they go out and try…

Michael King Jr. is also known as Martin Luther King Jr. is the ( Maraniza 1 ) author of “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, who is also one of many Civil Rights movement leaders. Furthermore, King and many other protesters were held in jail for initiating a protest in order to “bring attention to the brutal, racist treatment suffered by blacks in one of the most-segregated cities in America-Birmingham, Alabama” ( Maraniza 1). Consequently King was imprisoned for his 13th time, not allowed to…

By focusing on the how cotton travels around the world, Pietra Rivoli was able to remove the historical impasse between businesses looking overseas for cheap labor and domestic companies afraid of losing everything to cheap imports due to free trade. In “The Travels of a T-shirt in the Global Economy,” Rivoli explains international trade by detailing the life cycle of a T-shirt, all the way to its end. Rivoli begins her journey in the farms of Texas, then moves to the factories in China, returns…

of graft, and stealth, and lies”(Hughes). Hughes is using this line to reference the political machine, an organized party that controlled American politics and industry during the industrialisation era. Political machines took advantage of the oppressed industry workers, and oftentimes those in power could get away with heinous crime, such as the “rape” Hughes…