Essays on Protest

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 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...

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...

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....

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...

Since the early dawn of time, India has been a witness to various unrests among different communities that reside in the country. One of the first riots that created a nationwide havoc was initiated due to the Indo-Pak partition of 1947. The partition left Muslims...