Essays on Social Movements

Over the decades, Toronto has been celebrated for its multicultural roots and cultural landscapes. With a variety of distinctive enclaves at every corner, they connect people to their cultures and invite a wide variety of diversity. With the growth of new development and the priority...

A U.S. Supreme Court case in 1896, Plessy v. Ferguson is considered a landmark decision that upheld the legitimacy of racial segregation laws in public facilities in the U.S. emphasizing support on a legal constitutional doctrine known as “seperate but equal.” This decision not only...

Nowadays, we are living in a world full of racism that leave us without hope in the future, but, if we look at the past, we can see all the changes that have been made and all the injustice that people like Rosa Parks or...

Montgomery, Alabama was the old capital of the Confederacy within the Deep South during the pre-Civil Wartime, and for numerous decades following the Union’s victory of the war, resulting in the abolishment of slavery, Montgomery was still considered to be the heart of the old...

MeToo movement is a social movement that wants to fight to bring an end to sexual violence and sexual assault that is being done against people, the success of this movement is to take a stand that objectifies individuals The movement is designed to help...

Sexual harassment and abuse has been an oppressive means of belittling women. Men who are in a position of power are able to coerce themselves to feel entitled to any woman’s attention and body. However, as of late, the Me Too movement has proven a...

The Me Too Movement has become mainstream in media and in culture, it appears that after every court case of accusations such as the Christine Ford hearing, various women feel obligated to come out from the shadows and retaliate as a way of fighting back....

All over the world, workplace sexual harassment is a big problem for women and society. This is also true in my home country of India. In this I will discuss about the history of workplace sexual abuse in India and about the Me Too movement...

Perhaps one of the most acclaimed and controversial radical group of all time, the Black Panther Party were “Young, brash and eloquent”, making them so feared in the late 1960’s. Though many people praised the movement, many Americans criticized them for their aggressiveness and violent...

Salvation as liberation is a key theme in Liberation and Black Theology. I will point out later that the reading of Scripture can lead to the theme of freedom for poor and marginalized, which is the bringing of salvation into the present and the future....

The astonishing period of the Black Arts Movement built up the idea of a persuasive and masterful obscurity that made questionable however noteworthy associations, for example, the Black Panther Party. The Black Arts Movement required ‘an unequivocal association among craftsmanship and legislative issues’ (Smith). This...

Simeon Wright, Emmet Till’s cousin, once wrote “It never occurred to me that Bobo would be killed for whistling at a white woman”. This quote could not be any truer for how Emmett Till faced his murder in Money, Mississippi after playing a prank on...

Emmett was a huge cultural influence on the Civil Rights Movement and for the history of African American freedom too. Emmitt Louis Till was a 14 year old African American boy born on July 25, 1941. He was born in Chicago, IL at Cook County...

Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African American boy in 8th grade at the McCosh school, was visiting his cousins in Money, Mississippi during August 1955. He was originally from Chicago, and he lived with his mother. On August 24, he went into a grocery store to...

The Easter Rising was a foundational event in Ireland’s history. It inspired the change in social and political system that had a direct correlation to the moderation of the nation. Occurring over the dates 24 April 1916 to 29 April 1916, the Easter Rising took...

China has experienced vast economic reforms which have extended since 1978 and have been accompanied by an indisputable income inequality. The economic growth bolstered by widespread industrialization has significantly reduced China’s poverty level. However, income inequality has taken a fast-paced upward trend beyond levels experienced...

Slavery was the primary provoking factor that made a Civil War break out in the U.S. This was because there was a clear distinction between Northern Abolitionists and people in the South who heavily relied on slavery, because they were required for their agricultural based...

Wood is one of the longest standing building materials in existence… homes built over 10,000 years ago used timber as a primary source for construction materials it is also used as a dominant form of fuel for heat, additionally 25% of the world’s lumber harvest...

Abstract Our planet is inhabited by our 7 billion people and is in the midst of massive transition due to climatic change, biological evolution. Climatic change brings its adverse consequences such as threat to biodiversity and risk to human health, rising sea level, increasing water...