Bonjour,
Je passe mes oraux d'anglais demain et j'aimerais savoir si quelqu'un pouvait corriger et me donner son avis sur ma synthèse s'il vous plait. Merci d'avance.
PLACES AND FORMS OF POWER
I’m going to talk about the notion of “places and forms of power”. In politics and social science, power is the ability to influence people's behaviour. In order to live together members of a community accept rules, regulations, laws. This helps to create social cohesion but can also lead to conflicts and tensions. Even when authority seems absolute, there are always counter-powers which question it.
That’s why in the context of our English class, we have focused on some people who have contest the power and I have raised the following question: What are the reasons which urge us to dispute the power?
To answer this question, I will first talk about the suffragette before to talk about Blacks Civil Right movement.
The first document is the trailer of “Suffragette” a movie of Sarah Gavron. This drama tracks the story of the women of the early feminist movement. Those resisters were forced to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a government more and more violent. So, they turned violent and radical too, because they realized that was the way to change things. They were willing to lose everything in their fight for equality: their jobs, their homes, their children, all their lives. This movie tells the story of an ordinary woman who join the suffragette movement.
It must be said that before the end of the 19th century, women were “dominated” by men, and it was normal for everyone. But since this period, women want equality. Then, in 1903, Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters created the WSPU, the Women's Social and Political Union, also named Suffragette, to defend rights of women. At the beginning, this movement was pacific, but it became violent from 1910 because of the British government who refused to support women suffrage. They organized riots at demonstration with window's smashing. But they were arrested for public disorder and they were put in jail to several days or months.
These women fought for a new right: the right to vote. However, some communities struggled to enforce rights and duties that were not respected by all. For example, despite the abolition of slavery by Abraham Lincoln, discrimination against the Blacks between 1865 and 1965 was shameful and shocking. It was the time of the Jim Crow Laws. These laws forbidden to Black to be by Whites side at the school, bus, restaurant, etc. A black man and a white woman were not authorized to married and have children. So many people fighted for freedom and equalities between Black and Whites like Rosa Parks, who said “no” to this Jim Crow laws or Martin Luther King, with his famous speech “I have a dream” who incited to keep hope. Thank to determined and tough people such as Martin Luther King, the blacks achieved the abolition of the Jim Craw Laws and got Civic Rights even if the racism is also present. They change the course of History and the condition of Blacks today, by contesting the power in place.
To conclude, I would like to say that power is something good. It allows us through laws set up to live in community while respecting others today. However, this has not always been the case and there are films to remind us of these fights.
Je passe mes oraux d'anglais demain et j'aimerais savoir si quelqu'un pouvait corriger et me donner son avis sur ma synthèse s'il vous plait. Merci d'avance.
PLACES AND FORMS OF POWER
I’m going to talk about the notion of “places and forms of power”. In politics and social science, power is the ability to influence people's behaviour. In order to live together members of a community accept rules, regulations, laws. This helps to create social cohesion but can also lead to conflicts and tensions. Even when authority seems absolute, there are always counter-powers which question it.
That’s why in the context of our English class, we have focused on some people who have contest the power and I have raised the following question: What are the reasons which urge us to dispute the power?
To answer this question, I will first talk about the suffragette before to talk about Blacks Civil Right movement.
The first document is the trailer of “Suffragette” a movie of Sarah Gavron. This drama tracks the story of the women of the early feminist movement. Those resisters were forced to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a government more and more violent. So, they turned violent and radical too, because they realized that was the way to change things. They were willing to lose everything in their fight for equality: their jobs, their homes, their children, all their lives. This movie tells the story of an ordinary woman who join the suffragette movement.
It must be said that before the end of the 19th century, women were “dominated” by men, and it was normal for everyone. But since this period, women want equality. Then, in 1903, Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters created the WSPU, the Women's Social and Political Union, also named Suffragette, to defend rights of women. At the beginning, this movement was pacific, but it became violent from 1910 because of the British government who refused to support women suffrage. They organized riots at demonstration with window's smashing. But they were arrested for public disorder and they were put in jail to several days or months.
These women fought for a new right: the right to vote. However, some communities struggled to enforce rights and duties that were not respected by all. For example, despite the abolition of slavery by Abraham Lincoln, discrimination against the Blacks between 1865 and 1965 was shameful and shocking. It was the time of the Jim Crow Laws. These laws forbidden to Black to be by Whites side at the school, bus, restaurant, etc. A black man and a white woman were not authorized to married and have children. So many people fighted for freedom and equalities between Black and Whites like Rosa Parks, who said “no” to this Jim Crow laws or Martin Luther King, with his famous speech “I have a dream” who incited to keep hope. Thank to determined and tough people such as Martin Luther King, the blacks achieved the abolition of the Jim Craw Laws and got Civic Rights even if the racism is also present. They change the course of History and the condition of Blacks today, by contesting the power in place.
To conclude, I would like to say that power is something good. It allows us through laws set up to live in community while respecting others today. However, this has not always been the case and there are films to remind us of these fights.
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