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    One of the purposes of nonviolence is to invoke sympathy and understanding from the oppressor. However‚ this implies that an oppressed group is obligated to feel compassion for their oppressor. By emotionally invalidating the oppressed‚ they are further silenced for their frustration and resentment from being denied rights‚ while continuously facing unjust laws. Malcolm X highlighted this double standard in a 1964 speech pointing

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    Chapter 2 is a part of Pedagogy of the Oppressed Paolo Freire’s book published in 1970 in New York. In this chapter‚ Freire compares two concepts of education. They are banking and problem-posing concepts. The banking approach considers students as the passive‚ lacking initiative “containers”‚ while teachers “fill” these “receptacles”. Students have to memorize mechanically information given them by teacher excluding the processes of inquiry. In contrast‚ the problem-posing concept encourages the

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    teachings of Jesus of Nazareth‚ the years following his death which involved religious persecution‚ and the time period following Roman emperor Constantine’s conversion to Christianity. Socially‚ the development of Christianity gave hope to those oppressed by the Roman government‚ but lead to long-term persecution up until Constantine’s conversion. Religiously‚ Jesus’s life began a period of great change and reform as classic Judaism was questioned. Politically‚ early Christians and followers of Jesus

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    Politics have come a long way from Niccolo Machiavelli in the late 1400’s to current political philosophers of the twentieth century. Many of those great theorists had one single thing in common: they have strived to break old concepts of political thought‚ being it racial and gender inequality‚ or ideas on how to be a leader with less opposition. In modern politics‚ after a long period of centralized governments‚ the brief trend of gaining freedom and equality has been deteriorating and the creation

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    intelligent than the human race). This contradicts the laws that were enforced in District 9 and the Apartheid regime. Image A is also taken at an eye level shot from the times of District 6 evictions in Cape Town. Both images reveal that the lives of the oppressed were drastically changed and regardless of their residential living areas and preferences‚ the removal was a unavoidable fate that would end up excluding them of their human rights. Image A is specific to the Apartheid era which is what District

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    AISHA GITTENS-HIPPOLYTE Taking Two Of The Theoretical Approaches To Social Research Discussed In The Module‚ Demonstrate The Connections Between Their Ontological‚ Epistemological And Methodological Assumptions. Which Method Or Methods Would Proponents Of Each Theory Favour As A Result Of Their Assumptions. In order to understand the production of sociological knowledge one must first examine the thought processes that lay behind each piece of research. Before a particular subject matter

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    to each other so much that you can not have freedom without having true equality and vice versa. When looking at the twentieth century many people all over the world were not born with freedom or born with equal rights. In most cases‚ people were oppressed by various forms of state sponsored racism‚ discrimination‚ and terror by other social groups. These same people have also been victims of the social hierarchy‚ which affects all other aspects

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    Out of the Shadows If you were trapped in a room‚ approaching insanity with nothing to do but stare at an old wall paper what would you do? In the book the Yellow Wallpaper written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman‚ a woman is oppressed and discriminated by her gender‚ being forced to inhabit an old nursery in a creepy mansion. Social oppression among women within this time was extremely common and is displayed on the narrator of this story. The Yellow Wallpaper is a story of mystery and horror‚ was the

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    symbolizes a woman who is oppressed and without a voice and needs liberation. This is one perception and is often misguided and based on misconceptions that hide and distort the truth behind the hijab. The preconceived notion that all Muslim women who wear the hijab are oppressed is highly problematic. First‚ it ignores the large number of Muslim women who wear the hijab on their own terms and second it uses a piece of a garment as an indicator to figure out which women are oppressed and which are not.

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    this world‚ none of your beliefs mattered and everything that you had to say was being oppressed. Then one day this oppression was gone‚ and you were given freedom to do and say whatever you wanted. You find out at the end of the day that the feeling of being free was only temporary. How would you feel? In the short story‚ “Story of an Hour‚” written by Kate Chopin‚ Mrs. Mallard is this person living in this oppressed world that is known as marriage. The theme of "The Story of an Hour" is the joy of

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