...The Most Effective Way of Meeting Oppression Martin Luther King’s “The Ways of Meeting Oppression” is an expository essay in which King explains the most effective way of meeting oppression. According to King, there are three ways in which the oppressed meet oppression. He explains that acquiescence is the least effective way of meeting oppression because it is not the moral way out. He further explain that violence as a way of meeting oppression because it is not the moral way out. He then explains that violence as a way of meeting oppression is not the most effect because it achieves temporary results. In the essay, King points out that nonviolence resistance is the most effective way of meeting oppression because it establishes respect, brotherhood, and nobility for the Negro. First, King agrees that nonviolent resistance is the most effective way of meeting oppression, for it establishes respect for the Negro. He explains that the Negro’s demonstration of self-respect is choosing to face his struggle with courage. He further explains that the effect of meeting oppression this way will enlist men of good will into his struggle for equality. King clearly states that “the Negro cannot win the respect of the white people of the south or the people of the world if he is willing to sell the future of his children for his personal and immediate comfort and safety” (382). He affirms that through nonviolent resistance the Negro will achieve dignity because he is not acquiescing...
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...the right and wrong ways of dealing with this. “The Lesson,” by Toni Cade Bambara, does not necessarily have to do with the racial oppression King describes, as Bambara tells a short story expressing how a group of children living in poverty view the richer lifestyle, but some of King‟s categories of dealing with oppression can be seen in how Bambara‟s characters react to what they are observing. At the start of Bambara‟s “The Lesson,” Sylvia expresses her dislike and almost hatred for Miss Moore. This is made obvious by many of the statements she makes when introducing the characters and story: “I‟m really hating this nappy-head bitch and her goddamn college degree,” and “though I never talk to her . . . I wouldn‟t give the bitch that satisfaction.” Hatred is often the first step in acting violently, one of King‟s ways of meeting oppression. While Sylvia, or anyone else at any time during the story, does not actually act violently, their thoughts and feelings show signs of possible violence in the future. Not only do Sylvia and the children show a tendency of hatred towards Miss Moore, but to each other as well—especially aimed at Mercedes. The reader can gather that Mercedes‟s family has a little more money than the rest of them and Mercedes has no problem rubbing that fact in. When standing outside the store, Mercedes brags that her father would buy her the expensive toy boat if she wanted it, and Rosie responds by showing her some hostility: “Your father, my ass.” While the...
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...Assignment #2 : Social Justice Young Min JO 57712101 Part I: Analysis of India’s Child Labour Using Maxwell and Young’s Framework INTRODUCTION Child labour has been around since the industrial revolution. There are many different definitions of child labour depending on the organization. The International Labour Organization (ILO) describes child labour as “work that deprives children of their childhood, their potential and their dignity, and that is harmful to physical and mental development”. On the other hand, UNICEF describes it as “involved in child labour activities if between 5 to 11 years of age, he or she did at least one hour of economic activity or at least 28 hours of domestic work in a week”. Simply put, it is the employment of children under the minor legal age. The national census in 2011 still found that there were approximately 4.35 million child labourers in India (aged 5-14). By using Maxwell and Young’s framework, I will analyse the child labour force in India. INDIA’S SOCIAL INJUSTICE (MAXWELL) Reading the BBC article on India’s children labour, it is clear that social injustice plays a role. The exploitation, trade, and mistreat of these children all point towards social injustice. According to Maxwell, social injustice is moral unfairness in the division of society’s rewards or burdens. Despite the fact that using children as their labour force is morally wrong, the wage distribution ($2/day) inequity strongly supports the fact that there...
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...Women have been facing different forms of oppression within various societies, which has created a social change within them over time. This oppression through power brought about resistance within these women and the idea of thinking for themselves and challenging the misuse of power. ‘The Romance of Resistance’ and ‘Uses of the Erotic: the Erotic as Power’ both showcase a different type of power and resistance both portrayed by women. The readings by Abu Lughod and Audre Lorde respectively share a common ground as both are explaining the patriarchy and oppression which women face as they both differ on the main topics being addressed. Lughod speaks mainly on the resistance of women in a patriarchal society and the ways they went about it while Lorde focuses on the power women have within themselves but is being suppressed because of a patriarchal society....
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...In the face of the dictator, Doctor Spivey managed to stand firm against the Nurse’s oppression. This evident several times in the book when Doctor Spivey speaks out and presents ideas that conflicts with the ideologies of the Nurse. “McMurphy and I (Doctor Spivey) wondered what would be the attitude of some of the men toward a carnival here on the ward?” (97). Doctor Spivey clearly knows the Nurse’s agenda and is constantly oppressed by the Nurse. However, he chooses this moment to speak out and break his silence in the meeting, suggesting an idea that goes against the ideologies of the Nurse. Doctor Spivey demonstrates to the readers that anyone, even the most frightened and oppressed person, can break his silence and resist the oppression of the oppressor. Despite fears of retaliation by...
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...major conflict in this movie came out after she met him. In this movie, there are a lot of cultural things that have learned in this class. For example, dominant culture, a minority group, oppression, culture difference, and collectivism. Here are the reasons why I thought of many those concepts. First of all, this movie showed the family living in America with Greek culture, showing dominant culture and a minority group. At the start of this movie, it illustrated how this girl had grown up in America. Since this Greek family immigrated to America, the dominant culture is American culture. So, Tula was illustrated adjusting in American culture was hard, avoiding other American girls. However, her family was different. Even if they are in American, they didn’t remove their own culture, especially their house. In the movie, they lived in normal Chicago town. Whereas other houses are similar with American traditional style house, her family houses are similar with the temple of the Parthenon. Indeed, they always have their meal with Greek food. In this point, even if they are in the middle of American culture, which is a dominant culture in this movie, they have maintained their own culture in their own ways. Second, this movie demonstrated the culture difference and cultural oppression. In the movie, Tula’s parents kept asking her to find a Greek husband. However, she met a perfect American guy who is Ian. However, the two things that Ian has made...
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...There was a point in Germany when the hostility towards Jews had to have rubbed the conscience of its citizens, but at that point the confidence of the nation was so intoxicating that denying what was morally wrong seemed easy. So Germans pretended not to be aware that their Jewish neighbors were being sent off almost certainly to die, knowing that this denial could not last forever. Another author, Carol Travis, refers to this phenomenon in an essay titled, In Groups We Shrink, in the book, Between Worlds. Psychologists call this social loafing, or diffusion of responsibility, where people seem to lose even common sense when in large numbers. A sustained honeymoon, so to speak, as an entire group of people pretend not to notice the sounds...
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...Since the implementation of the transatlantic slave trade, African Americans have faced consistent social, economic, and cultural oppression in the United States of America. Originally taken from their home continent of Africa, shoved into cramped boats with little food or water, and enslaved for several generations under wealthy white men, African Americans have endured cycles of poverty, poor education, and blatant discrimination and segregation since the abolition of slavery. However, despite this seemingly unendurable oppression, the African-American community is consistently empowered with movements such as the Black Lives Matter and the African-American Civil Rights Movement. The persecution towards African Americans, unintentionally, engenders a newfound sense of independence, formed to combat the oppression the community faces, within the African-American community....
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...1 Assignment: Observation of a Small Group 2 Community Board Background: I attended the Committee For The Concerns Of The Aging meeting for Community Board 12 (Manhattan). The Aging meeting is held every 2nd Tuesday of the month. The meeting was held at Dyckman Senior Center. Community Board #12 Manhattan is one of the 59 community boards in New York City (12 in Manhattan). Each of the Community Board members represents a unique geographic area of the city of New York and CB12 represents the neighborhoods of Washington Heights and Inwood in the Borough of Manhattan. It is delimited by the Harlem River on the east and on the north, the Hudson River on the west, and W 155th Street on the south (Community Board 12, 2011). The Community board is made up of 50 non-salaried volunteered members, who are considered officials of the City of New York. These members are appointed by the borough president, in which half of the members must be appointed from nominees of the districts council members. Each of the Board Members must either live, work, or have special interest in the CB 12 district (Community Board 12, 2011). As an independent City Agency, Community Board #12 Manhattan is committed to improving the delivery of the City services in the district and advocating for the welfare...
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...rule is that the decisions of the majority shareholders in a company bind the minority. 1 In a world that recognizes ‘simple majority rules’, minority shareholders of companies are by default vulnerable to oppression, disregard and unfair treatment by majority shareholders who are in control of the company. Majority shareholders also have certain obligations to minority shareholders in their capacity of controlling the corporation. In certain cases this minority shareholder right can be exercised directly against a shareholder, without having to go against a corporation or through the derivatives action process.2 In such case a proper balance of the rights of majority and minority shareholders is essential for the smooth functioning of the company. The oppression of minority or mismanagement of a company by majority therefore calls for some remedial action. 3 Today’s minority shareholders come to the corporation with varied attitudes and agendas. Although their shareholder status results from a variety of circumstances, it is important in each case to make their relationship with the corporation and the other shareholders as productive as possible. This 1 2 Ashok, S. (2009-2010).Company law (p.246-248).India:V.K Enterprise. The right of the majority to have their way has, however, been occasionally abused and the whip of majority has The...
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...Richard Kearney Paulo Freire's "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" Author(s): Mark Patrick Hederman Reviewed work(s): Source: The Crane Bag, Vol. 6, No. 2, Latin-American Issue (1982), pp. 58-63 Published by: Richard Kearney Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/30023905 . Accessed: 11/03/2012 14:51 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. Richard Kearney is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to The Crane Bag. http://www.jstor.org Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed Mark Patrick Hederman Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed is a study of education in the Third World, particularly Latin-America. However, its findings can be of interest in any educational situation. As Richard Shaull says in his preface to Freire's book:' There is no such thing as a neutral educational process. Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate the integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity to it,...
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...Male privilege…In black and white Dorrell Anthony Alexander Western Washington University What is “Privilege”? When we speak of privilege, what exactly are we speaking of? Many find it easy to get the basic fundamentals of a “right” and a “privilege” confused, so for foundational purposes, I would like to lay out how they differ. First, let’s talk about two of the different kinds of rights; “natural” and “legal”. According to Merriam-Webster (2013) Natural rights are “rights which are "natural" in the sense of "not artificial, not man-made”; “as in rights deriving from logic, from human nature, or from the edicts of a god”. They are ”universal”, (they apply to all people, and do not derive from the laws of any specific society),”They exist necessarily, inhere in every individual, and can't be taken away” ( Merriam-Webster, 2013). For example, it has been argued that humans have a natural right to life. They're sometimes called inalienable rights. Legal rights, in contrast, are “rights based on a society's customs, laws, statutes or actions by legislatures” (Merriam-Webster, 2013). An example of a legal right is the right to vote of citizens. “Citizenship, itself, is often considered as the basis for having legal rights, and has been defined as the "right to have rights"(Broidy and Agnew, 1997), Legal rights are sometimes called civil rights or statutory rights which Broidy and Agnew (1997) believe are “culturally and politically relative”, since they depend on a specific...
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...socialisation Item A Sociologists disagree about the role of religion in society. Functionalists, for example, see religion mainly as a positive force. However, Marxists see religion as a tool of capitalism. They argue that it acts to justify inequality, helping to keep the poor satisfied by giving them hope of better times to come and preventing social unrest and revolution. Feminists see religion as a force for subordination and patriarchal oppression. This view is supported by evidence such as the differential treatment of women in religious congregations. Other sociologists argue that such evidence is out of date and that women are no longer the victims of religious oppression. Introduction Briefly explain the feminist view of religion– negative – patriarchy – conservative force. Briefly compare to the Marxist view as it is similar. Feminists show us the negative elements of religion but fail to see the good elements as argued by FUNC, NR and NM. Paragraph 1: FEMINISM vs FUNCTIONALISM Point: religion is patriarchal.-Oppression, making them invisible, controlling what they ca nand cant wear, form of social control.Prevents them from being sexualised, liberates women. Explain: concepts, key thinkers and examples Armstrong – Social construction, decline of...
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...A thousand splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini Music: Leonard Cohen – Hallelujah fade out in the background. Song ends play river flows in you by Yiruma in the background Host: Welcome back listeners, to literacy 98.3. That was hallelujah by Leonard Cohen. It’s time for our weekly review, as you all know this week we are exploring the theme oppression. This week’s book is A thousand splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, author of the bestseller the Kite runner. I have with me, Ms. Kathryn Stockett, Reclaimed author of one for the most insightful books, The Help. Welcome Kathryn, we happy to have you with us. Kathryn Stockett: Thank you for having me Host: Kathryn could you tell those who are listening, what oppression means to you, and if you don’t mind give us a summary of the book A thousand Splendid Suns Kathryn Stockett: Oppression to me means dominating somebody (or a group of people), through cruelty, or harshness. One is oppressive if he/she is the source of worry stress or trouble to others. A thousand splendid suns is at one an incredible chronicle of thirty years of Afghan history and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, faith and the salvation to be found in love....
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...history, many groups of people were put through oppression. Rather, it was the Jews, or African Americans, or the colonist different types of groups had to deal with the consequences and results of being put through oppression. So many times we have learned that we shouldn't put a whole group of people through this, but I guess history repeats itself. So let's start off with the first oppression in America’s time. The colonist being oppressed led to the revolution, it made them angry enough to pick up arms and fight for their freedom. It was so significant in American history, it was the first time we really recognized the importance of freedom. It all leads to the Americans winning and becoming a country. The founding...
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