Creative Writing: Dolores Huerta

Equality isn't needed, equality is boring and makes lots of people not happy. Be yourself you control your own life don't let others control your feelings and your actions be who you are not who others want you to be. Harrison and Phillippa demonstrate that being unique brings happiness as they take off their headbands and learn how wonderful life can be when they can express who they

Born as Ray Mendoza on July 2, 1951, was born of Puerto Rican and Venezuelan descent. She was given the name Sylvia Rivera by a local community of drag queens and spent her career fighting for solidarity between transgender people, queer people of color, homeless people, and sex workers. Sylvia Rivera was one of the “street queens” living in New York, and is known as one of the most famous street youth who fought back during the police raid at Stonewall. Modern day, Rivera has come to personify the aspirations and flaws of the modern gay liberation movement.

The United States has made great innovations in the past century to ensure that all people have the same chances to better themselves. While steps have been taken to bring about equality from Roe v. Wade to legalizing same sex-marriage in every state still more can be done—especially in the field of racial inequality.

Often times our society confuses equality for equal. Although the words may look same and share similar letters, the two have completely different definitions. As an African American citizen living in America I feel like we focus much on being equal opposed to having equality. Thus when having equality you are giving equal opportunity and more door become available, despite when being equal you are just like everyone else. However, unlike the novel “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. I would rather have equality than to be one hundred percent equal to someone else. When making everyone equal you take away ones individuality, creativity, and strengths; eliminating competition and status feuds. Yet in order for them to make everyone equal they must instill fear and diagnoses everyone with false handicaps.

“When I encounter people who try to make me feel lesser than an equal, I don't argue. My equality is not up for debate, it is an implicit truth.” (Rachel Wolchin).

There has been many incidents of discrimination and cruelty in my community. Ultimately because of equality a lot of citizens don't believe in equal rights. I have had experience with this through my local news channels of broadcasting the Baltimore riots or learning in school on the history of Jews being kept captive in camps and treated poorly by nazi's. Equality is something we need to work on. It is ensuring that everyone is able to have equal opportunities and frowned upon just because their race, gender, disability or beliefs.

Equality is the key to a successful and enjoyable life. If you treat everyone as equals, without prejudice, and you’re not racist, you will like yourself better as a person, and people will respect you. In “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”, Henrietta’s whole family was treated unfairly because the cells were taken without permission. Her family felt discriminated against, and they disliked the science community as a whole. Then Rebecca came and treated them equally and with respect, and they respected her very much. This shows that even though someone feels negative against a person or a part of society because something has happened to them, if they see that some people treat them equally and respect them, they won’t always feel like that. Another example of equality would be in the book “The Fault in Our Stars”. Hazel has cancer, and she gets so many more things than a normal person would get. This is a different kind of example

“No, you can't make me come with you. I don’t want to face it,” Genevieve screamed.

Florida was a type of hell I'll never come back to. I'm glad I left. Even though it was bought in 1819, some fifty years ago, I was in need of new gullible breed to hustle. Florida had been sucked dry by Jeff “Hands” McCoy. Admittedly, I miss my partner in crime and my adventures would have been a lot more…. well, adventurous. Fred, I’ve missed your expert ability to handle the people with ease, which I'll never be able to do. I honestly expected for this trip to only last a year or two. I had never thought that it would be, what, ten years. Looking back, I don't think I would've changed one bit of the journey. Maybe in the next couple years or so I'll be able to come and visit you over a Transcontinental Railroad. I hear that Congress may

Throughout history equality has impacted many people’s lives. There are numerous equality problems that the United States has faced through the years. Even today, in the 21st century, we still experience inequality.

“The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren 't only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else.” Equality. One word with one million different definitions. When you hear the word equality, what thoughts come to mind? Do you think of the Civil Rights Movement and Women’s Suffrage, or do you think of the kind of nightmarish dystopia written about in Harrison Bergeron? As a child, my thoughts regarding equality were simplistic and idealistic. Equal everything sounded amazing! I mean, we all deserve the exact same chance at life, and none of

I chose Kevin Costner who was making a speech to a church filled with broken hearted people. It was a memorial for Whitney Houston and many attended. There was no topic other than Whitney has gone home today. He was broken hearted he said. He also stated what becomes of our broken hearts? We need to dry our tears, suspend our sorrow and our anger, just long enough to remember our sweet Whitney. These were the thesis statements and he followed them through the whole speech. I gave him an “A” on that and I also liked how he had a passion for her and her talents. He did have some material that got the attention of the audience. That they had a lot in common, even though she was black and a girl. That they were both Baptist and both help spread

Many people believe we have come a long way since the times of racism, sexism, and unequal rights. In the recent past there has been much more equal treatment of race, gender, religion, and alike topics. However, there is still a long way to go involving minorities and women being treated equally.

The first speaker that I saw was George Valgoes at the Ideas to Doors conference that I attended on September 25, 2017. He gave a presentation on the background of his company called Oak Street Bootmakers. George Vlagoes had a presentation style that was very inspiring and informing. He made the crowd interested in what he was saying by presenting himself as relatable and being honest with how much experience he really had. He explained how he did not have a background in business and had mentioned that he was an English teacher before he quit his job to start his company. By explaining that he was not knowledgeable in business made me feel more interested to see how he knew how to grow a company. He presented himself as approachable by giving advice to the audience.

even though it didn't occur overnight, i came to the understanding that instituationalization and public-reinforcement of race is very real in the United States. and that I didn't have to conform to one race because that is what society expects of me.