Republic Of Outsiders Analysis

Activism is is the action or policy of campaigning to bring about political or social change. That enough is hard to do, but imagine doing that as a teenager. Teen activism is fighting for what you believe in, making a difference, and making yourself heard. Teen activism is seeing a problem in your community and fighting to fix that problem. Teen activism takes courage, guts, determination, integrity, and so much more. Teen activists are special in the world, they do amazing things by choice. Some think “that's not our problem they can deal with it” or “ someone else is dealing with it “. Malala, Alex Libby, and Craig K could not ignore what was happening to our world or themselves.

“Citizen Outsiders: Children of North American Immigration in France” is based upon Jean Beaman’s trip to Paris France, in which she experiences life in France speaking to immigrants from Africa. Immigrants from two different sides of Africa, North and Western Africa left their homes in Africa for better living in Paris France and surrounding areas. What is the meaning of the term citizen? Citizen is a person who can enjoy all his or her legal rights and privileges arranged by state to the people including its population, and is obligated to follow all laws and to accomplish his or her duties as called upon. Citizens are also called national.

It is a reasonable fact that the culture of art or the visual art culture changes in direct proportion with the social and political changes in societies and around the world. For example the South African arts, in music, performance, poetry and visual arts of today cannot be equated to that of the 1950s and 60s when apartheid laws were just being newly introduced and imparted into societies and simply as a result the peoples struggle or resistance was very relevant. The struggle or resistance to bring about social change, was not only through uprisings, violent protests or demonstrations, but the arts on the other hand was involved and has been in history, always as a usable element to voice up and act up for the voiceless, unheard and ignored when it is very necessary, due to dissatisfactions of a society or a nation with its leadership or an injustice perform by a state or a government that can no longer be tolerated by its people or any people. The arts have been always able to question the unquestioned and even able to simplify problems and bring solutions especially during the modern age of industrial revolution, for example today in the case of an architectural, vehicle or any structural design, the first step would be to draw, paint, digitize and sample build a plan, before building an actual structure, and art is involved in all these procedures.

Nevertheless, I believed that I was limited in how I could be proactive. This belief stemmed from my inability to visualize myself expressing resistance through art. I knew art induced emotions within audiences that facts could not, and I knew combining art and information to create an argument that was both logical and emotional was an effective way to motivate audiences in support of social justice. However, before this class, I had never created protest art and believed only professional artists could make significant contributions to protest art. Due to this, I was unable to incorporate art in my own resistance against oppressive

When the word outsider comes to mind, you may think of a person who is not part of a certain group or activity. Well, in the novel “The outsiders,” writer S.E. Hinton tells a story that takes place in Tulsa, Oklahoma about two teenage groups; the greasers and the Socs. Sometimes, it can be hard to identify what social group you’d think you’d fall under. In the novel, the greasers and the Socs are stereotyped by their peers and they feel like outsiders. But as the story unfolds, they realize that they need to set aside their differences and not assume each other’s personalities based on the social groups that they’re in.

How Society Affects People “If we don’t have each other, we don’t have anything. We’re all we have left. We ought to be able to stick together against everything,” (Hinton). Characters are affected by society positively and negatively throughout the book, the video, and the poem. The society in the book, The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, affected characters positively, like the poem, “The World Is Not a Pleasant Place to be,” by Nikki Giovanni did, as well as the video “On the Road with Steve Hartman.”

Ponyboy tells us that,“when you’re a gang you stick up for members. If you don’t stick up stick together, make like brothers, it isn’t a gang anymore,”(Hinton 26). This is what the greasers do for each other: they stick up for one another and build a supportive community. In the story, The Outsiders, by SE Hinton, the book is about Ponyboy and his gang taking care of each other because there gang is that they fight against the Socs. The characters and actions of this story create a supportive community Kindness and Loyalty.

With America’s history of people fighting for their rights, we have become accustomed to the idea that activism needs to be extreme; to cause riots, have aggression, and for people to be put in jail to make a point. We have created an image that there needs to be a fierce willingness to fight, in order for activism to be effective. As Malcolm Gladwell describes in “Why the Revolution Should not be Tweeted”, he reminds us of what ‘real’ activism is and how other generations have risked their lives to make a difference, in both their lives and the future of America. He does not think that activists can be considered true activists if they are non-violent when protesting for their rights. However, Gladwell should consider that protesting

In the lecture titled “Dismantling Injustice”, the speaker talked about the relationship between risk and empathy, in that artists take incredible risks by putting themselves out there, yet they need to understand someone else’s experiences and empathize with those who hold different opinions than them. In order to explain the risks they take, the speaker gave many examples of artists working to fight against injustice. One example was the Guerrilla Girls: a sarcastic group that aimed to bring awareness to social injustices such as sexism and racism. In order to do this, this group of women wore gorilla masks around New York City, posting stickers on art galleries that didn’t feature a high amount of female artists, and creating billboards with facts on how

“As they fathom injustice, organize to protest, craft a tactics, and engage in action, these bodies read what is happening and articulate their imaginative rebuttal. In so doing they demonstrate to themselves and all those watching that something can be done. Could this be why they are called political ‘movements’?”

The Guerilla Girls are a women’s activist art group. They are masked women who came together to make change in the world of art and women’s involvement in society. GG emerged in 1985 and still are active today in New York after 30 years of the emergence of the group. The Guerilla Girls used posters with real statistics to show awareness of sexism in the art world and the discrimination of women in politics as well as in the mass media. The Guerrilla Girls spread awareness of sexism in art, discrimination in politics and the mass media through their workshops, performances, and posters.

Activism and advocacy are two integral practices of my identity, and a successful activist is a leader who strives for progress through service. I began my social commitment through REMAR, a youth activist movement attached to my high school, volunteering in low-income schools, providing tutoring sessions and recreational activities for kids in the area. Today, I still offer my time to causes to which I am committed, such as increasing the visibility of international and hispanic students through active membership in different organizations like the International Student Cultural Association.

There are three groups discussed in this paper. They are most certainly not the only groups, they are just the most popular and the frequently reported. These groups of activists are; Black Lives Matter (BLM), Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, Transgender, and Queer, (LBGTQ) and Women’s Rights. The three of these groups were recreated not even a decade ago.

Art is a catalyst of change. It can confront both social and political issues as well as providing people with a creative outlet in which they can express their innermost thoughts and feelings - but what effect can art have on our society as a whole? Artists today have the unique ability to connect with people in a creative, innovative way that they can understand and interpret themselves. With this ability, artists are able to express their own views as well as influencing the views of others. Art is an immense part of our world – so much so that we barely even consider its impact upon us – but just how significant is the work of artists in our modern day society?

“When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.”- Malala yousafzai(goodreads.com) A lot of times, people who change the world are born in normal everyday families and are not seen as any different until they decide what to do with their life, unexpectedly fight for a cause. For this reason, Activism is something our world that happens because somebody feels like they want to get the kinks out. If everyone thought that somebody needs to take charge to stop something atrocious nobody would be there to actually do that. Some people on this planet take it upon themselves to stop not just their problems, but our planet’s, to make it a better place. These sometimes are ordinary people who decide on an extraordinary life. Many humans