Waiting For Dan Analysis

    One similarity between the two are that both the students and the colonist were throwing rocks and calling the the soldiers unpoliet names. Both the Ohio National Guard and the British Soldiers fired at the students and colonist. Also both the National Guard and the British soldiers carried bayonets. Both protests were strong enough that proper authorities had to come in and help maintain the crowd who were protesting. The protesters both went to a bar before they started to protest. Now I’m going to start talking about some differences.

A group of people risked their life to obtain equality for African Americans in the south. The Freedom Riders were a group of around 13 people. Most of them were African Americans but there were always a few white skinned people in the group as well. There was no set leader for the Freedom Riders. The Freedom Riders rode interstate buses into the Southern United States. The south was referred to as the most segregated part of the U.S. The main goal of the Freedom Riders was to desegregate and become “separate but equal.” They had also set out to defy the Jim Crow Laws. The Freedom Riders had a little bit of help from two court cases: Irene Morgan v. Commonwealth of Virginia and Boynton v. Virginia. These court cases ruled that it was

Flashback to the 15th century: Puritans protest against religious persecution. Flashback to the 20th century: African Americans protest against racial segregation. Currently in the 21st century: people protest against police brutality in the United States. Flash forward to the future, Clarisse McClellan, a character from Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 individually protests against what she believes is corrupt in the world. Protesting is a symbol of strength and power within a group of people who are exhausted of inequality. Without protest, our civilization would lack the necessary balance between people and government, which is why it is such a crucial aspect of society.

"You have the right to live in the kind of world where your rights and freedoms are respected" conveyed in Article 28 draws attention to the way aboriginal people were forced to live in, as they were prejudiced from the main towns in Australia. Article 28 gave respected freedom and rights to the indigenous to live however they want. On the 4th of May, 1961 a similar protest to the aboriginal freedom ride took place. A group of African-American and white civil rights protestants began bus trips to several towns in South America. The Freedom Rides were established by the Congress of Racial Equality, a US civil rights groups. Their purpose was to test the 1960 decision that segregation of national bus terminals was prohibited. They attempted to use 'white only' lunch tables, waiting rooms and restrooms. This proved to be a dangerous mission as they endured a lot of violent. Another evidence of White-Americans hatred towards the Africans was the incident that transpired inAnniston, Alabama. One bus was firebombed and the African-American passengers were forced to flee for their lives.

As the march was going on with the veterans, bricks were being thrown at the marchers and gas was used. Some were killed during their march which was not expected to happen. No matter

On May 4, 1970 at approximately 12:24 PM members of the Ohio National Guard shot at and killed several unarmed Kent State University students. These students were protesting President Nixon’s decision to invade Cambodia. While some of the students who were shot at were actively protesting at the time of the shooting, others were simply walking by or casually observing the protest from a distance. How could an appalling incident like this occur? What possessed the members of the Ohio National Guard to shoot at unarmed students?

The student body at Kent State numbered about 20,000 and had been considered conservative, but not overly political. In fact they were thought of as rather passive politically. The shootings were a culmination of four days of demonstrations by members of the student body. The students were protesting the invasion of Cambodia by American forces.

Through protesting people can express their beliefs in a nonviolent way in order to raise awareness and possibly gain support from

. . Before he left, he justified his decision by saying the Freedom Ride would bring the race issue to the forefront of American politics.” In this particular example, the reader learns that although the government had laws to say that segregation was illegal, it was still practiced in Southern states. As a result, protesters had to express themselves to the government. Another similarity between the protesters in the texts is that they were both standing up for peace. During the Civil Rights Movement, African Americans were violently treated inferior. Their petitions and rallies struggled to stop the brutality so the environment would be more peaceful. In “Waiting for Dan,” the text states, “A group of African Americans and whites would board buses and ride through the Southern states. Inside the bus, the whites would sit in the back of the bus and the blacks would sit in the front.” In this case, the Freedom Ride represented the opposite end of segregation; where everyone was equal. While these activists were protesting to end brutality towards blacks, students at Kara’s University stood up to stop the Vietnam War. Many college scholars were angry because the U.S.

The first way in which differ is that the protesters in "Waiting for Dan" intended a peaceful protest while protesters in "A Letter Home" took the more violent route. In "Waiting for Dan", the text states "The ride seemed simple enough. A group of African Americans and whites would board buses and ride through he Southern states. Inside the bus, the whites would sit in the back of the bus and the blacks would sit in the front. When the bus stopped, the whites would frequent the blacks-only areas and the blacks would go into the white-only areas" (4). Nowhere in this description is any violence shown. It is simply people riding a bus, fighting for freedom and equality. This differs greatly from "A Letter Home", where the text states "A day or two after that, some young people burned the ROTC building on campus and set some bonfires downtown. I heard that police cars were hit with bottles and store windows were broken" (2). This is madness, unlike a simple protest that is peaceful and causes no harm. Burning buildings and smashing windows of cars and stores is anything but peaceful. The text in this passage also states "...people caused these outbreaks of violence" (3) and "An officer began shouting on a bullhorn for everyone to disperse. Instead, students began shouting and throwing rocks" (5). Again, it is restated that people were causing violence, and by saying that students threw rocks at armed soldiers shows how much guts (or stupidity) these students had. The second difference between these protests were their causes. In "Waiting for Dan", the cause is shown when the text states "Before he left, he justified his decision by saying the Freedom Ride would bring the race issue to the forefront of American politics" (7). So, the issue the protesters in this passage were fighting for was equality for people of all races, specifically equality between African Americans and the white folk. The cause of the protests in

It is hard to wrap my head around the fact that riding the bus can get one hurt and killed and how non-volient acts can lead to so much hate and violence. The Freedom Rides help bring attention to national level. The level of violence is extreme in response to a non-violent movement. The white supremacy was trying its best to make the colored population inferior. The segregation is a symbol of fear and hate. The press and television is a big part in the success of the movement. They help shape the public opinion toward segregation. The media brought the problem to our attention through dramatic and often disturbing photos and reports.

After reading the stories “Waiting For Dan” and “A Letter Home” I realized that there is some similarities and differences between the protesters in each story. One way they are similar is because in both stories they both have a problem that they don’t agree with nor like so they revolt against this problem and start to protest. Another thing they have in similar is that in each story the people wanted to get something out of these problems. For example in the story “A Letter Home” Kara the girl who wrote the letter to her Mother and Dad wanted to know what was going on before she left. I know this because in the first paragraph Kara stated, “ but we are staying together so we can try to understand what happen before we leave campus and go

“Freedom Riders” were a group of people, both black and white, who were civil rights activists from the North who “meant to demonstrate that segregated travel on interstate buses, even though banned by an I.C.C. Ruling, were still being enforced throughout much of the South” (The South 16). The Riders attempted to prove this by having a dozen or so white and black Freedom Riders board buses in the North and travel through Southern cities. This was all “a coldly calculated attempt to speed up integration by goading the South, forcing the Southern extremists to explode their tempers” ('Freedom Riders' 20). The author of the Newsweek article stated this as the Southern opinion of the reason for the Freedom Riders. The

We are all people. We all have some things in common, and we also have our separate ways. In A Letter Home and Waiting for Dan, there are many similarities and many differences between the two protesters. But the similarities and differences that stand out the most are as follows.

“Something bad is about to happen,” I stated as I looked over to my cousin’s best friend. Apparently, I had spoken too soon. Pow! Pow! Shots were fired. Crowds of people were frantically running in every direction. What had just happened was not expected and had definitely never taken place before. Troy University’s Homecoming Weekend in the past years had never encountered violence on this level. There was maybe a fight here and there, but never gunshots. I had never been so scared in my life. Troy University Homecoming 2016 had officially been ruined after this night.