Miss America Pageant Protest Report

On September 8, 2000, the head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) made a formal apology for the their participation in ‘Ethnic Cleansing’ of the Indigenous Nations of the Western Territories of the Unites States.2 From forced relocation to obscure lands and forced assimilation into the white man’s view of the world, the BIA previously set out to ‘destroy all things Indian’.3 Through the colonization of Turtle Island (North America), the American Federal policy set out to eliminate in part or as a whole, the Indigenous populations.4 The attitudes of the colonists were intentionally detrimental and the process is naturally exterminatory.5 The process of colonization was often exemplified by violent confrontations, deliberate massacres, and in some cases, total annihilations of a people.6 The culture of conquest was developed and practiced by Europeans well before they landed on Turtle Island as the practice was developed, and perfected well before the fifteenth century.7 Taking land and imposing values and ways of life on the social landscape created a conflictual relationship with the Indigenous peoples and forced a new way of life that ultimately destroyed those that previously existed there.8 Modern Europe

Life is a never ending sequence of problems. Every person has to learn to overcome them throughout his or her life to better themselves. In the story, I Want to be Miss America, by Julia Alvarez, she tells the story of how she and her sisters adapted to American style and culture. Her family came from the Dominican Republic. At a young age, they watched the Miss America Beauty Pageant, which show portrayed the ideal woman. So, the sisters changed their looks to appear like the women on the show. It was not until the 1960’s that their previous Dominican style, became the new trend in America. In the story, A Choice of Weapons, by Gordon Parks, talks about when he was a journalist/photographer going to Washington D.C. for a job at a local newspaper.

Growing up, my mother always encouraged me to be involved in any activity I should interest in, whether that be soccer, softball, theater, or chess club. While my mom did not always have the extra money or time, she never told me I could not pursue a new activity. Through my mother’s actions, I have learned to never settle and to continue to fight and work for better, for myself and others. My mother’s selfless attitude and positive attitude inspire me to have the same attitude with the my future family and the people around me.

Today, the feminist movement has grown and is still growing as women around the globe have joined hands in the fight against inequality. Even though a lot has changed, all feminists, despite

Many settlers lived in scarcely populated areas forming small settlements during the Oregon territory disputes with Britain. Many native people lived in areas that were thriving over the spanish success in a cotton boom; however this made American expansion into this land extremely difficult because they would have to fight against the aligned native and spanish powers to gain control of this land.

The King has just granted a charter to the Virginia Company of London. As an employee I have been assigned the task of reaching North America. We are close to the Americas as this journey has been a long and tough one I am glad to say that I can finally see land but I must say the smell of ocean salt does get boring after a while. Once arrived on land we shall set up a colony as well has find gold and silver deposits. We have also been sent to find a river route to the Pacific Ocean so that the Virginia Company can trade with Asia. There is still more to come from this journey but for now I am happy to be so close.

11.John Smith- Captain John Smith controlled Jamestown in 1608 with the rule "He who shall not work, shall not eat". In 1607 he was kidnapped and subjected to a mock execution by the Indians.

Chapter 6: Empire and Resistance records how the Revolutionary War unfolded as the result of the French Indian War or as the Europeans called it, The Seven Years War. When the British were victorious, they gained territory west of the Applicants Mountains and east of the Mississippi River. Colonists were eager to settle on these lands but King George III, the newly crowned king of Britain, issued the Proclamation of 1763 which prohibited the desires of the American Colonists as the result of Pontiac’s Rebellion. Afterward, the British had imposed hefty taxes on the colonies with the first being the Sugar Act which was created by Greenville’s program and passed by the British Parliament. It taxed not only sugar but coffee, animal hides, and

The chapter highlights reasons for efforts put in by Captain John Smith and Sir Edwin Sandys. It discusses their struggle for the colony and the reasons why after ten years, Jamestown was still not independent. Serving Time demonstrates the expansion and growth of tobacco in the first American boom country as well as how the cultivators used the peons to work in their tobacco fields despite the fact that colony was falling apart in the background. Sir Edwin Sandys has tried to rebuild the Jamestown in three ways. He attracted the new investors by granting them the head rights for introducing and brining in new tenants. He grabbed the attention of new settlers by introducing lotteries. He tried to make the colony a more peaceful and pleasant

The NYRF protest critiqued both the representation side of the behavioral expectation of “traditional women” as well as the structural side of the obstacles that women faced within social institutions such as labor and educational opportunities. With the representative side “traditional women” promoted by the Miss American Pageant, it reinforced women’s submissive and sexist inferiority and racial beauty criteria within the structural side to be approval by men. However, there was intersectionality in the structural obstacles and representation side extending the social discrimination based on

The NHD theme this year was Exchange, Encounter, and Exploration and the Miss America protest was an encounter between the Women’s Liberation Organization and the Miss America Pageant. The encounter between them was the physical protest and it was the Liberation Movement trying to get across their message that beauty is what is inside not your makeup on the outside. It was also an exploration of women’s rights in 1968. In the 1960’s it was a big decade for Civil Rights, from this protest to Martin Luther King’s civil rights movement. It was a decade where people were starting to use their freedom of speech and

It is time, at last, to speak the truth about what defines a feminist, as well as express why this movement has such a concrete impression on my heart and mind. It should be a normality, that a young woman can be able to go to a club and enjoy herself dancing, or so I thought. I had just begun my freshman year of college and decided to attend a local Caribbean club in the city of Doral. The initial goal of attending this club, was very similar to the majority of the other young women and men that had been there that night; to simply enjoy myself.

As more women became educated, however, they began to assume a more prominent role on the national stage. By about the turn of the twentieth century, their importance could no longer be denied. The women's struggle for equal rights is characterized by peaks and troughs. Periods of activity were followed by stretches of relative quiet when the details of living obscured their need or ability to progress towards achieving equality. Equally important in their success was the presence or absence of women who were ready to challenge traditional religious beliefs, social institutions, and the conservative convictions of their own families. The women we recognize as leaders in the movement were willing to risk their reputations, sometimes even their lives, to support their convictions.

The fight for equal rights, especially for women, has never been stronger than it is in 2017. Just a few weeks ago women across the country staged a march on Washington D.C. called “The Women’s March on Washington”. This march wasn’t limited to just Washington, as 5 million participants marched in places such as New York, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and Seattle to express their disapproval with recently elected President Trump. This movement was the largest single-day demonstration is U.S. history but it would have never been possible without the fearlessness and determination of the women that marched nearly a hundred years before them. Without the original Women’s Rights Movement, Alice Paul and Carrie Chapman Catt, women would not have

On September 16th, I watched the Southern Circuit Film Series: She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry in the Williams gym at 7:30, followed by a Q&A session with the director, Mary Dore who is an activist with an extensive background in producing documentaries. The documentary narrated the feminist and women’s rights movement during 1966 to 1971 through videotaped discussions, meetings, and interviews. The courageous women of the movement spoke up about womens’ issues and the problems they faced in America such as the right to vote, contraception, black women, lesbians, the lack of scientific studies on women’s physiology and the lack of womens’ writing and history taught in schools. All these things deeply impacted me because they are questions