Harvey Milk And Jackie Robinson's Contribution To Social Change

The social change that was seen in this movie is that there is a shift of more blacks in the stands with the white people. There was definitely a transition from Jackie Robinson team mates, to the community and fans not accepting him at all to more people accepting him. Fans and team mates used to boo and say awful racial slurs to him in the beginning and it shifted to people cheering him on in the crowd because he was able to steal bases and win them through the game and his character. There were many scenes that the movie zoomed in on which was how Pee Wee put his arm around Jackie Robinson which represented unity.

Harvey Milk Harvey Bernard Milk was an American politician, born in Woodmere, New York on May 22, 1930 to William and Minerva Karns. He was the first known American gay person to be elected to public office in California. Milk attended Bay Shore High School in Bay Shore, New York, and graduate in 1947. After graduation from the high school, he proceeded to New York State College for teachers in Albany, where he majors in mathematics.

A theme of Moises Kaufman of the Laramie Project is that don 't show hate to people that are different. Conrad Miller, Zackie Salmon , The Baptist Minister and Jonas Slonaker show reasons on why they think gay is wrong,how people are afraid to walk down the street without feeling accepted and getting bad vibes. Conrad Miller explains why he thinks being gay is wrong and explaining to his children. For example he says, “and if my kids ask me, i 'd set them down and i 'd say,” well this is what gay people do...and id say, this is why i believe its wrong”. He doesn 't want his children to think it 's okay for them to be gay and do what gay people do.

The most important, was racial injustice, this movement started “Under the charismatic leadership of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and, alienated by televised depictions of Southern white violence against protesters, which included beatings, killings and bombings, whites and blacks alike became involved in efforts to end discrimination

Harvey Milk, was the first openly gay official to join the Board of Supervisors. On Gay Freedom Day in California, Harvey Milk gave an empowering speech to the different minorities to encourage them to step up and show them who they really are. Harvey Milk wrote this speech during a time it weighed heavy on his heart. Harvey Milk uses rhetorical strategies such as logos, tone, and syntax to support his claim of addressing minorities afraid to step out; that they need to come and show who they really are.

Jesse Owens, an African American Athlete has accomplished various achievements in track and field. However, these accomplishments didn’t just make an impact in sports talks. Jesse Owens also contributed to the equality of African Americans with his determination and perseverance. Although it seems as if anyone could 've impacted the equality movement, Jesse Owens became the catalyst for change. This couldn 't have been achieved without Owens’ notoriety and athletic ability to defeat other competitors from other nations.

Back in the days being homosexual was something serious, something that people did not see every day happening compared to this century. It was even more serious when it came to the subject of religion. Now, people are more opened and accepting on who you are and why you are the way you are. Famous artists even promote to be proud of who you are and accept the way you are. However, this did not stop him, as his first feature film contains a gay Mexican Immigrant character.

The Cesar Chavez movie is about a Mexican born man bringing the mexican and filipino field workers together to build up the farm workers union. The main type of protest that he and his followers participated in were nonviolent boycotts. This all mainly took place in Delano, California. Working conditions were very poor for both groups and they had very poor and unfair wages. The two groups also experienced racism and brutality from their employers.

Homosexuals were actively searched and rooted out in the community. Jim was in his 30’s and his life had taken drastic turns to the right and left in his career. Sitting in his single breasted Hart, Schaffer and Marx suit with highly shined brown cap toes he did his best to look good on the job. Even he had to admit, the suit made him look good. If you could get them to look at your suit instead of your face, you would do alright in life and it did, the suit did fit him like a glove.

He was scornful of his own existence, but always maintained the same perspective, “I’ve always wished I was gay, it would have been a lot easier. You know, it’s just Bing! Bing! Bing!–gay guys, no problem. They go to restrooms and truck stops and perform sex, it’s like so easy for them and stuff.

However, I do look at him as a form of healer in a more emotional aspect than physical, he discusses at great length, and with soft clarity, the importance of maintaining the faith of Muslims through life and death regardless of preference. In the film, he says that his role is to "help them find their own inner voice"(23:03). Later on, he discusses how with Allah you can speak the truth, however, gay and lesbians "swallow" their own voice and Allah is divine with the truth no matter the circumstances. So, he is a member of the community actively trying to incorporate and allow a space in which all people can feel accepted by their religion and not worry about what will happen to their prayers in the afterlife.

Harvey Milk was a homosexual political leader and gay activist during the 1970s in San Francisco. Harvey Milk has been idolised for his courageous life and fundamental input in acquiring political respect for gay individuals. Milk was a prominent figure in The Gay Liberation Movement during the approximate period of 1970s and1980s. Milk’s area of influence was based in San Francisco, California in the United States of America. He was appointed to the City’s Board of Permit Appeals, making him the first openly gay City Commissioner in the United States.

Ger Zielinski's’ in his article Rebel with a Cause: An Interview with Rosa von Praunheim (2012) reveals that prauheim created many films that portrayed gay activism to being about political change— specially equals for homosexuals. What I find interesting is that New York during the 1960’s became highly gentrified where most of the “tranny bars and sex bars disappears” where the middle-class replaced them with “ tourists, coffee and fashion shops” In effort to displace gay people from New York. As a result of thus, many activist groups began to create campaigns to mobilize politically (p. 40). Rosa von Praunheim’s It is Not the Homosexual Who is Perverse, but the Situation in Which He Lives (1970) film tells a story of a homosexual male (Daniel)

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In The Tale of Two Cities, violence plays a major role to differ each class of society from another. There are many who stand in silence and witness oppression with closed eyes. Yet, when witnessing with closed eyes, you have still witnessed violence with open ears and an open mind. People who were pure, strong, and brave enough to fight oppression have become worshipped idols. These people were the voice of many others ― people who were afraid to speak.