Assignment #11

First of all Oppression means cruel or unjust treatment that is prolonged . The difference between Violent and Nonviolent Resistance is that Violent Resistance is a threat of physical pain or death so that their oppressors change their behavior and on the other hand NonViolent Resistance is just using a peaceful way to change their oppressors behavior . Agency is the ability to determine the outcome of one’s own life. Oppressed people should use both Violent and NonViolent Resistance to gain Agency because sometimes Oppressed people use peaceful ways to change their oppressors behavior and it works but there is times that Oppressed people have to use Violent Resistance because their Oppressors do not change their behavior . 

 

In addition this document supports my essay question because it talks about Violent and NonViolent Resistance . This document is about how a Taliban shot Malala on the left side of her forehead, and when she recovered she gave a speech saying that she was the same Malala . Her ambitions , her hopes and her dreams are still the same . This is a speech that Malala Yousafzai gave to the United Nation General Assembly on July 12, 2013. This information is reliable because a lot of people heard it from Malala . “The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions. But nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born. “ This shows that oppressed people should use Violent and NonViolent Resistance to gain Agency because after Malala was shot her weakness and her fear died so she became stronger .

Eventually this document name “The Soweto Uprising “ supports my claim because it talks about the police stopping a peaceful march and using violence . This document is about how students protest because they did not wanted to learn their oppressors language which is Afrikaans, the students started boycotting school and organized a protest . The police decided to stop the peaceful march by throwing teargas into the crowd , releasing dogs and the student responded by throwing back the teargas at them . This document is an article from a website called http://www.findingdulcinea.com tittled “Soweto Uprising Begins With Violence During Student Protest.” it was written by Denis Cummings on June 16 , 2011 . The information from this document is may be trustworthy or not because we don’t know nothing about the author and maybe that author change the information. “Police attempted to stop the peaceful march by firing tear gas into the crowd; some students responded by tossing back the teargas canisters or throwing stones at the police.” This demonstrates Oppressed people should use Violent and NonViolent Resistance to gain Agency because the students tried to do a peaceful march but end it up into a Violent Resistance . 

 

As a final point this document supports my claim because it talks about a violent protest . This document is about how people were angry because a transit police shot a black man in the back . This document is an excerpt from an article called  In California, Protests After Man Dies at Hands of Transit Police” that was published on The New York Times newspaper website , this article was written by Jesse McKinley on January 8th 2009. This source could or not be trusted because we don’t know if the author knows what actually happened . “On Wednesday night, police officers in riot gear responded with tear gas and nightsticks, and arrested protesters on charges of vandalism, unlawful assembly, rioting and assault on a police officer.” This suggests that Oppressed people should use Violent Resistance to gain Agency because they want to change oppressors behavior .