Essays on Protest

For decades, students have used violence, destruction, and distraction to protest on school property. Students have been protesting for many decades for example, the court case of Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District in 1968. In this case, Mary Beth and John Tinker...

The night invasion of the territory of a Chinese enterprise in Shymkent is not the first case of manifestation of sinophobia in Kazakhstan. It fits easily into a series of events, in which the desire to play on the theme of nationalism can be traced....

In 1977, a 22 year old Indian farmer and activist from Azamgarh district of Uttar Pradesh, when came to a bank for a loan against his ancestral property, found that he has officially been dead. This was because his uncle had bribed an official in...

In history, a handful of people have committed civil disobedience. Civil disobedience is the refusal to follow a certain law or orders of a government. A famous example would be the Boston Tea Party. The Boston Tea Party occurred in protest of the Tea Act...

This essay’s discussion is about the Xenophobic Protests in the Cities of South Africa. Xenophobia is defined as irrational fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or anything strange or foreign according to Merriam Webster’s Dictionery. One might redefine Xenophobic attacks in South Africa as...

Political parties are nowadays suffering from weakness and disaffection, thus social movements are becoming the alternative to political parties. Social movements adapt the interests of the societies far more than political parties.What is a protest? A protest is a complaint about a specific situation that...

The May 1998 riots were biggest disaster racial riots against ethnic Chinese that occurred in Indonesia on May 13 – May 15, 1998. It happens mostly in the capital city of Jakarta but occurred in other several regions. This riot was anticipated by the Asian...

Over the course of the years, there have been many acts of civil disobedience, like Mohandas Gandhi in 1893, Rosa Parks in 1955, and so many more. Civil disobedience is the peaceful rejection of a law or rule, often used as a form of protest....

In my hometown of Chatham, Ontario, I worked at the Real Canadian Superstore between October of 2014 and October of 2016. About halfway through my employment there, I encountered my first ‘political’ experience. In June of 2015, there was threat of an employee strike across...

All things considered, the term of Middle Easterner Spring isn’t as new as the upheaval since it was utilized almost 7 years prior in Western media. In any case, the procedure started in 2010 went on for a long time in various pieces of the...