Moreover it illustrates discrimination of black people during that period of time. The main protagonist of this story is Kenny, who is 10 years old, and the story line follows his adventures. Although while reading Watsons go to Birmingham-1963 plenty of symbols can come across and it is certainly important to identify those symbols and their true meaning, then we can truly grasp message that the author send to reader through those symbols yet this massages contain powerful influence for civil right movements. In the beginning, the first symbol that come across to me while reading this book was “Gloves”. Gloves- symbolizes “…by removing ones glows one anckloweledges their superiority and paid them homage by disarming oneself before them”(“Gloves”).
With the “black power” slogan appealing to blacks across the country and symbols for black power were showing themselves more each day (the raised fist above the head) the strength of the movement was growing. Even though whites were afraid of Carmichael, he felt as if people did not understand his views, so he helped write a book explaining them titled Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America. As its chairman, Carmichael continued to help support and organize the group, helping it to grow nationwide, but as the Civil Rights Movement
Rousseau 1 Rousseau 2 One powerful voice has the ability to transform the challenges in society. On 28 August 1963 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his speech “I Have a Dream”. This speech is to be deemed the most powerful and influential speech in history. On this day Dr. King stood before thousands of American citizens at the Lincoln Memorial park and spoke about freedom for African Americans. During this era, the civil rights movement was occurring and activists such as Martin Luther King Jr. himself influenced Americans to change justice, equality, and freedom for all African Americans by empowering the people through his words.
He had hoped that he could gather a momentum that would extend the support of black churches because black churches played a central role in the Civil Rights Movement. Meanwhile, SNCC brought together like-minded students. Ella Baker, also a director of SCLC, started this organization along with student activists after the highly publicized and successful Greensboro sit-in in 1961. The SNCC gathered many whites and blacks and traveled North to South to protest in support of the civil rights cause. The SNCC ideas of a very successful strategy and tactic were to organize sit-ins, boycotts, and other protests across the country to end segregation in public places such as restaurants, public transportation, and schools (Janken).
Martin Luther King Jr.”). This brought in a lot of media attention and it won a lot of sympathy from the public. This event was marked as the most important political issue in the early 1960’s. Dr. King also organized non-violent marches for voting, desegregation, labor rights, and other basic civil rights. Most of these rights were written into the United States Law. When Malcolm X was selected to become the leader of a mosque in Harlem in 1954, he rapidly expanded its membership (Hailey 100-105).
We are seeing all this monetary loss, which could in the use of helping the poor to make our society into a better place for the future, so we can abolish the poverty and crime that people go through on a daily basis. He also states how the police are tracking down drugs, which is a good thing, but he does not want the police to grab a hold of him because he’s the only doing what is necessary so that he can survive in this deprived community. Rather, Shakur advocates a “war on poverty” which he implies would also take away the need for many blacks to deal drugs. He also states that since he is black, he has to make a living by doing what ever is necessary to survive. In this case it might even include selling drugs, even if he does not want to.
Critical Analysis on “The Missing Piece to the Gang-Violence Debate.” Dan Gardner’s publish, “The Missing Piece to the Gang-Violence Debate”, is strongly controversial in his position against increasing enforcement of drug laws, and boosting penalties for violators. He believes that you should actually limit enforcement and hardship of sentencing when it comes to drugs. Was his argument persuasive enough in the essay to actually influence his wishes into society? Personally, I don’t think so. Gardner’s ideas are too drastic and I believe he didn’t have enough support in his argument that his plans would actually decrease the murders in gang violence.
14). The initial reaction to this would be to say that gangs are awful and have no place in society and we should do away with them. This is probably true to an extent but what about the idea behind gangs. It gives youth a sense of purpose in a world that makes them feel like they don’t belong. Of course there could be more structure which would cause gangs to be less damaging to our culture but the original idea behind it is a good one.
One method they use is an affirmative action policy. Implementing such policy in a state will help reduce the problem in a wide view; however, within the society, people will always suffer racism in small matters. This means people will be declined social issues at the community level, despite the implementation of the policy at the national level. Likewise, many people support the use of ethics in controlling racism and yet they do not consider the practice at the community level. Racism starts at the ground level, limiting people from benefiting from the social benefits.
“ There is even an underlying element of self-hatred here, as individuals try to deal with their problems by doing violence to themselves.” A hole through the skin or a tattoo cannot erase the grief behind it, increase creativity, or redefine self-identity. Moreover, extreme body modification is considered obnoxious within the society. People tend to become uncomfortable around someone who has unappealing piercing all over their face or body. They are considered extremely censored and because of this “The US Navy has banned ‘tattoos/body art that are excessive, obscene, sexually explicit or symbolize discrimination.” Body piercing expresses the crisis of social identity but extreme body modification can also be harmful to oneself. People push themselves to do more and more of body modification because they believe that it is a symbol of self- respect for other people to notice.