Salt Of The Earth By Michael Wilson

In Larry Lankton’s text, “Beyond the Boundaries” we gradually enter an unknown world that is frightening yet filled with immense beauty for miles. Due to the copper mining industry, a gradual increase of working class men and their families start to migrate to the unknown world with unsteady emotion, yet hope for a prosperous new life. In “Beyond the Boundaries”, Lankton takes us on a journey on how the “world below” transformed the upper peninsula into a functional and accepted new part of the world.

More than 600 of these marches took place all over the world, the largest being at the nation’s capitol in Washington D.C.. Those who participated did so for a multitude of reasons. Marching for not just equal rights for women, but for equal rights for the LGTBQIA+ community, for Black Lives Matter, for raising awareness about climate change, and much, much more. The hashtag Why I March has garnered up millions of Instagram posts, Tweets, Facebook updates, and articles, all from men and women standing up for their beliefs. The coordinators of the Women’s March on Washington put together a document outlining their guidelines and principles, and illustrate modern day feminism very well. They go over the basic principles that human rights are women’s rights, and women’s rights are human rights. It also demonstrates intersectionalism, calling for an end to police brutality, reformations for the criminal justice system, an end to human trafficking, rights for immigrants and refugees, among many others. Just as the first women’s convention in American history drew up a doctrine, the guiding vision and definition of principles of the Women’s March is eerily similar to the Declaration of Sentiments and Grievances written 169 years

Women have been active since the beginning of the early 1800’s and struggle until today’s day, to fight for equality. There were two women movement waves. The first wave was focused on the equality of the women by working on voting rights. The second wave from 1963 to 1982 concentrated on social issues. As in “Collective Action for Social Change”, Aaron Schutz and Marie Sandy stated in their book “women were tired of being second class citizens”. The civil rights movement spillover inspired women to create social movements by acting and building organizations focused on the issues that affected the women. The social issues were child care, domestic violence, contraception, and women’s health. One of the major topics that the feminists focused on was domestic violence that still exists in today’s day worldwide.

In light of the recent presidential election, many people fear for their freedom as restrictions on immigration, religion, and abortion rights have been proposed. As a result of this, on January 20th, countless citizens banded together across America in “Women’s Marches”, the largest of about 400,000 people at Washington, D.C. (10 Actions). At these protests, advocating for people of all genders, races, ethnicities, and sexual orientations, zero arrests were made. These peaceful gatherings gained the attention and unification of many people across the country and motivated citizens to continue to organize events. At the Women’s March on San Francisco, it was said by a speaker that we are “on the right side of history”. As people continue to vocalize their disagreements with the government, change will always be made, though it may be

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini is a beautiful tale of two women in Afghanistan during the Taliban uprising. They grow up on complete opposite sides of Afghan culture. The main character, Mariam, grows up in a more traditional way caused by her forced marriage to Rasheed. Laila on the other hand, grows up with a supportive father who encourages gender equality and education. There are many cultural differences such as, women’s rights, public executions, and the Taliban. The two main characters, Mariam and Laila, develop greatly throughout the novel. They push each other to be better and to stand up for equality. This plays into the themes of the novel. Women’s strength and loyalty are the two most important themes. They

For more than a century, women from all over have deliberately confronted and engaged in numerous protests to destroy all restrictions, control and violations in regards to many prejudices made against their gender. Yet, it was not until the mid 1800’s that powerful women such as Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Lucretia Mott passionately fought and publically spoke for the rights that women deserved as American citizens. Essentially, the movement for women’s full entitlement reached out to an enormous audience with the Seneca Falls convention in New York and inspired the creation of a written stand on political requests by Stanton and other activists, named and remembered as The Declaration of Sentiments. At

Rome discusses the previously unmentioned role of women in the environmental movement by women’s historians. He notes that because this demographic did not challenge their place within society, their role in the movement was not as prominent. Andrew Hunt’s work uses a recent idea that movements had become more grassroots than previously thought, putting to rest the idea that “the movement” was over by the 1970’s. Considering that “The great majority of antiwar students…did not formally affiliate with any organization,” may have contributed to the feeling that the period of major protest was

Another way, the Woman’s Suffrage Movement opened the voting door for women in this timeframe was that it served as a training ground for women who were inexperienced about politics. The effect of the Woman’s Suffrage movement was that women can now enter into a political sphere and have the right to vote in elections and participate in political campaigns. Women with no historical background struggled with understanding campaigns and political events this led to the Women’s Liberation in the late 1960s and 1970s. Women then began to question their status. (History net) described this as, “Women like the iconic female slave of the ubiquitous illustration may have propelled white female reformers into an emerging feminist revolt. But history reveals the limits of such an imagined sisterhood.’’

In the year of 1970, more than 20,000 women took to the streets in different nations to strike all for one idea, equality. The women's strike for equality was a strike - rally that took place most famously in New York City, however also in other places all around the country. Woman were not being seen equal to men, and were still seen as just housewives who took care of domestic duties. However, this was not true. Women knew they were capable of so much more if they were simply given an opportunity to do so. Therefore they marched. The Women's Strike for Equality of 1970 was a powerful moment in history for all women and feminists; it put important voices forward, set universal goals, and achieved great outcomes.

(pgs.160-166). The prospect of getting arrested during a protest is higher for men than women, but women activists state that when men were the dominant leaders in community organizations they had the tendency to sell out and take money, or jobs (p.162). In the Solar do Unhao community, where the legacy of ineffective male leadership existed, a group of new male leadership is surfacing, though Perry contends that they are beneficiaries of the advances made by the women’s movement (p. 164). Fighting through the sexual discriminations from both the government and male political activist, invigorate the women to have a collective solidarity, that strengthens against being co-opted with the demand that they be dealt with them collectively, and not

Sarah Gavron’s 2015 film, Suffragette, women are visually depicted as powerless, and alongside the plot line, they together highlight the gender inequality present in a patriarchal society.   In the film, the storyline and characters verbalization of their thoughts illuminates gender inequalities within a patriarchal society. In 1912, not only did women not have the vote, the law also severely under-represented them in many other ways, such as that it did not recognize a women’s right over her child. The film depicts the life and tribulations of a women’s rights group and in particular follows main character Maud Watts, a woman who at first glance seems an unlikely rebel, but is gradually radicalized as she becomes more involved in the suffragette

Facing and overcoming adversities are regular occurrences in our day to day lives. Although they may be difficult to overcome, one must learn how to confront these circumstances as it is inevitable and part of the life we all endure. Prior to reading the novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hoessni, I was uncertain of how to prevail my obstacles. Up to now, whenever I encountered a challenge I was always dependant on luck, hoping that it would assist me. I used this element of luck as my excuse or explanation to my problems, whether it was making it to the volleyball team or answering a simple test question, I believed that luck was the key to my success. This was evident when I made it to the volleyball team in grade nine. I

In the article, “Islands of Extinction,” William talks about her experience in her travels through different regions of the world. She has spent most of her 30-year career in the study of habitat fragmentation and the impact it has on nature. One area she specifically mentions is an island in Thailand called, The Chiew Islands. The small island couldn’t really contain large animals in the area so, they would quickly die out unlike the smaller animals. William later talk about her, PhD colleague, Tony Lynam, who has done several experiments with catching and ear tagging mammals. This experiment was a big impact to the article because two decades later another PhD student named, Luke Gibson, tried the same experiment at the same location. The

“I think every woman in our culture is a feminist. They may refuse to articulate it, but if you were to take any woman back 40 years and say ‘Is that the world you want to live in?’ they’d say no.” said a woman herself. The fight for women’s’ rights in America over the past decades has challenged existing gender stereotypes and power dynamics in the socio-economic sphere of our culture. The fight then was for equal rights. It challenged the school of thought that women can only be truly happy and fulfilled through marriage and motherhood. Women were in dire need to be recognized as citizens

Cities of Salt has often been read as at once an elegy for a disfigured space and society, and a chronicle of its transformation. How does Munif represent the encounter with and effects of global capital and its arrival? How are tradition, traditional social ties on the one hand, and the encounter with the foreign other represented? What are the limitations and potential problems of attempting to write such a work? Elaborate!