Essays on Social Movement

The reform movements are a sort of social movement to bring the political and social system closer together, this essay will focus on 4 of them, they were created to bring about change to education, prison, women’s rights and anti-slavery. If you look at it…

One of the actors of the film “Everyday Rebellion” – Srđa Popović, is an activist of the Serbian movement “Otpor” (Resistance). This was a movement supporting the destruction of the regime of Slobodan Milošević. In 2003, after a short political career in Serbia he established…

There are many points of view toward abortion; the main two distinctive ones being “pro-choice” and “pro-life”. A pro-choicer would feel that the decision to abort a pregnancy is the mothers and the mothers alone, and that the state has no right to interfere. A…

If your 15 year-old daughter found out she were pregnant, as a parent, would you support an abortion? What if your father had to be keep alive with tubes and machines? Do you want a ?designer baby?? If a criminal took the life of a…

Abortion has been a hot topic, since federal law protected a woman’s right to choose an abortion in the court case Roe v. Wade decision in 1973 (“How Did Abortion Become Legal?”). Roe v. Wade was a woman named Norma McCorvey, who was not married…

On June 1989 in Beijing, China, what started as a protest at whose treatment grew in momentum, emboldened, the protestors wrote a list of demands where they poured onto Tiananmen Square. About a hundred-thousand students and workers had defied their dictator, all camped out near…

During the late 1970s, in the time of the war against Mexico and the U.S., in this time there we many abolitionists, that were speaking out on matters of the government concerning the people that no one else wanted to speak about. In the editorial…

Civil disobedience is responsible for many of the rights that we take for granted today. This is because the liberal movements of the past were all civilly disobedient to the status quo, and that is how they made progress. Without civil disobedience such social progress…

Henry Thoreau- Civil Disobedience Thoreau thinks that the most ethical and moral government is one that does not exist. Thoreau believes “that government is best which governs not at all”. Thoreau believes it is up to the people to become moral and ethical without the…

Pro-lifers should never use the word “abortion.” It’s too soft a word. To begin with, it’s the wrong terminology. The definition of abortion is the expulsion of an embryo or fetus before it is viable outside of the womb. In the wholesale killing of unborn…