Essays on Social Movements

The rise of the Arab spring has been attributed to a number of factors, most of which are related to the nature of governance, economic status, and lack of sufficient opportunities for employment. This dissertation seeks to investigate external factors which were responsible for instigating the revolts and sustaining them....

The Concept of Civil Disobedience The concept of civil disobedience refers to an individual's active refusal to adhere to the rules or regulations set up by an existing authority. There is a lot of controversies over the moral justification of civil disobedience given that it reflects an individual's defiance to conform...

Social Movements and Social Change Social movements are strategies and organizational structures that are made to empower oppressed groups of people so that they can resist advantaged and more powerful elites. These are large groups which can be formal or informal according to organizations or individuals whose focus is specific social...

Whether protests should be regulated or not Whether protests should be regulated or not has remained to be a controversial subject. A section of the population believes that protests gets into the freeways and obstructs public spaces. Therefore, it makes the movement of other people who are not protesting difficult. Others...

The first type of movement witnessed in America is the revolutionary movement which works on the basis of demanding swift, radical, overhaul changes in the society(Durkin, 2015). In this bracket, we can identify the black lives movement. The shootings were considered unjustified and targeted which called for collective behavior where...

According to Eric Fromm, a rebel is an individual who does not compromise with the prevailing circumstances for the obviously perceived desirable outcome during a contentious escalation; while a revolutionary is one who does not keep quiet in the face of corrupt leadership but chooses to raise a voice of...

Protests in American sports over issues of civil rights are deeply-rooted into the culture of the society. From the four gold medals of Jesse Owens, Jackie Robinson entry into baseball to the recent NFL National Anthem protests, the protests have taken different shapes over the history of sporting activities in...

The essay I am going to complete deals with Arab Spring as an example of a revolution. The essay will use globalization as a tool to explain the extent to which increased interconnectedness among the people in the Middle East exposed them to issues they never had access to in...

This paper examines the role of social media in the Iranian protests which took place after the disputed presidential elections on the 29th of June, 2009. The prime-minister, Mousavi, claimed he had won the elections called on his supporters to start celebrations for his victory. The official results released by...

The Arab Spring The series of protests across the Middle East and North Africa that commenced in 2010 in what we now know as the Arab Spring as described in the article by AlSayyad and Guvenc (2015). It began in Tunisia when a 26-year-old fruit vendor, Mohamed Bouazizi, set himself on...

On Saturday, January 21 thousands of demonstrators flooded the streets of Washington, DC, in opposition to the newly inaugurated president, Donald Trump. In the meantime, sister demonstrations were conducted by millions of Americans in each of the country s fifty states. In addition to these demonstrations, millions of additional people...

In Henry Thoreau's Civil Disobedience, rhetorical strategies are used to convey the idea that the government is flawed and corrupt. Henry Thoreau builds up questions on top of one another in his writing to create a climax for his subject of unfair laws and bad government. For instance, Henry writes,...