Essays on Social Issues

Cesar Chavez, a prominent civil rights activist, drew upon the nonviolent tactics of the civil rights movement to strengthen his fight regarding justice for farmworkers. On the tenth anniversary of Martin Luther King’s death, Chavez published an article in a religious magazine, urging for nonviolent…

From Antigone to Mills to Rousseau each writer has a different opinion when it comes to civil disobedience. The idea of politics and civil disobedience is very broad in everyone’s eyes. The government is in charge after being elected, however, that doesn’t give them the…

The acts of disobedience made a great impact on our future because it is what made society strong. People made a statement using disobedience and it was heard and applied. Just like Rosa Parks stood up for what she believed in and made huge impacts…

We usually understand freedom as the possibility to do as we wish. In this sense, to the extent that an individual is not constrained in his/her desire to accomplish a goal or satisfy a desire, we can say that the individual is free. However, upon…

“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves”. Henry Thereau wrote this statement in his essay “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience” that corresponds to his book “Walden”. The disobedience he refers to in this quote is civil disobedience that he…

All through world history, individuals have taken an interest in demonstrations of common insubordination. Be that as it may, over the most recent two centuries the conviction and routine with regards to it have been going all out and have even expedited major authentic occasions,…

The Progressive Era from 1900-1920 was not effective in bringing about true progressive reforms at the national level because it had been a slow process by the presidents co-opting the ideas of true progressives, limited trust-busting, which led to corporations expanding abroad, and continuous racial…

Nelson Mandela’s life is full of hardship and suffering, but those who persist and never give up are the ones who accomplish their task. One such person was Nelson Mandela who was born on July 18, 1918, in Mvezo, South Africa. Mandela was the first…

In the modern economy virtually no company or business exists that’s not using globalization by itself, or at least that is not benefitting from globalization. It can be said that without globalization most of the consumer products wouldn’t be affordable for this broad part of…

For many, the idea of studying black political thought as its own subject is redundant and unnecessary, as it should be encompassed somewhere in the grand scheme of all history in the United States. There is no need, some argue, to learn the nuances of…