In her compelling memoir "I Am Malala," Malala Yousafzai recounts her journey as an advocate for girls' education, her survival of a brutal attack by the Taliban, and her continued fight for equality and justice. Through her use of rhetorical devices, Malala effectively conveys her...
Malala Yousafzai, a young Pakistani activist for female education, delivered a powerful speech at the United Nations in 2013. Her speech, commonly known as the “Malala Rhetorical Analysis,” is a prime example of effective rhetoric. In this essay, I will analyze the rhetorical strategies Malala...
In a world where education is often taken for granted, the story of Malala Yousafzai serves as a powerful reminder of the transformative power of knowledge and courage. “I Am Malala” by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb is a gripping memoir that chronicles Malala’s journey...
Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani activist for women’s education and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate. Her speech to the United Nations Youth Assembly on July 12, 2013, is a powerful call to action for education and activism. Yousafzai’s life and activism are integral to understanding...
Introduction: The Potential for Change The belief that one person can make a difference is a powerful notion that has fueled movements, revolutions, and social change throughout history. While the challenges facing our world can seem insurmountable, countless examples remind us that individual actions, no...
Police brutality has been one of the most sought-after topics in recent years. But there has seem to be this thing to linger around the term “police brutality”. When we see police brutality on the news we tend to see African Americans name attached to...
Rodney King, a black construction worker, was violently beaten by LAPD after evading officers during a traffic stop on March 3rd, 1991. The incident was filmed by a man named Geoege Holliday from his balcony, who later sent the footage to the local news station...
Uprising: Hip Hop and the L. A. Riots is a documentary that was produced in 2012 and it shows how hip hop foretold, some say it fanned the flames of the most terrible civil unrest recorded in America in the 20th century. The documentary is...
The song April 29, 1992 (Miami) by the band Sublime describes social and racial inequalities. The song begins with a police officer reporting damage to a vehicle over his radio. Following this the song begins describing the scene during the Los Angeles riots during the...
Rodney King was an African-American male born in Sacramento, California on April 2nd, 1965. In Los Angeles (on March 3rd, 1991), Rodney King was pulled over by LAPD, forcibly removed from the vehicle he was in, and savagely beaten by four LAPD officers; Laurence Powell,...
The Rodney King case was so influential in American society because it was supposed to be straightforward. It was the first time there was video evidence of police brutality and it was incredibly difficult to watch. It should have been enough to convict any of...
Born in St Ann’s Bay, Jamaica in 1887, Marcus Garvey grew to be the founder of the Universal Negro Improvement and Conservation Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL) after travelling many times and seeing first-hand how “Negroes lived, politically and otherwise”. Garvey led one of,...
Black Nationalism is defined as a type of ‘group of militant blacks who advocate separatism from the whites and the formation of self-governing black communities.’ In the tradition of radicalism, Black Nationalist leader Marcus Garvey advocates for political and social reform for descendants of the...
Rupert Lewis was born February 24th, 1947 in Jamaica. He is a renowned author and Professor Emeritus of Political Thought at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Jamaica. He is a proud public educator on the work of Marcus Garvey and the Garvey...
Garveyism was a movement way ahead of its time. Jamaican born, Marcus Garvey was responsible for the American Black Nationalist and Pan Africanism Movement in the 1920s. Garvey’s mother Sarah Jane Richardson was a great influencer in Garvey’s young life, she wanted more for him...
Introduction Every generation is granted its share of leaders; those empowered to empower others and motivated to establish a better world for generations to come. Marcus Garvey was one of those people. He was an activist, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator of unity amongst black people....
The biography of Marcus Garvey by Rupert Lewis, gives account of his humble origins and the influences and developments which transported him from the state of a young unworldly schoolboy in colonial Jamaica to an international icon in the movement for black empowerment. Rupert Lewis...
Marcus Mosiah Garvey Junior was an exceptional writer, advocate for black rights and political activist during his time on earth. Most of his noteworthy actions were captured by that of Rupert Lewis, a retired professor and former teacher of political thought at the University of...
Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. born on the 17th of August in 1887 was born to a tolerably prosperous Afro-Jamaican family in Saint Ann’s Bay, Colony of Jamaica and apprenticed into the print exchange as a young person. Garvey was a Jamaican political dissident, distributor, speaker,...