Journal #23

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Journal #23:

Q= "Truth is powerful, and it prevails.”   ---Sojourner Truth

A= When viewing the claim Sojourner Truth's claim, what she is claiming is that when making any decision or running for anything, speak the truth because it will always excel. However, I don't agree with this quote because their have been many instances where the truth was spoken and it didn't necessarily prevail at the moment. When agreeing with this quote many may believe that Truth is maybe talking about the presidential elections, but with the years escalating many of the political leaders rather use the tactic of deception than actual truth. Instead of talking of the truth's of how the world is facing many problems and they know how to fix it, they rather make the other look as negative as possible so they can look better than them.
     An example of how the quote Truth states isn't correct is the situation between Galilei and Copernicus. When Copernicus states that the solar system was heliocentric (meaning the Sun was the middle) everyone didn't believe him and for religious reasons he went to jail, even when he told the truth. Galilei, however, achieved many praise for his geocentric idea, where the Earth is the center of everything. Although Copernicus told the truth, he didn't prevail and was jailed to death with his claim. Since his claim is now a belief and norm in our societal knowledge, although he prevailed it was too late for him.

Journal #21

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Journal #21:

Q= “If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.”

                                                        ---Dolly Parton

A= One of the normal implementations of human beings are the dreaded "bad days". In contrast, everyone looks forward for those days that truly make you happy. Whether something as small as seeing your crush, or something big like waking up with the person that was made for you. The shift of days can come completely by surprise, and the quote by Dolly Parton supports this. In order to have a good day, you will sadly have to go through those bad days. The quote doesn't have to completely be about days, but could also show the process of an accomplishment.
     Accomplishments are those things that have made us truly struggle in order to achieve our goals. When finally accomplishing our goal, we often value the journey rather than the outcome. In Dolly Parton, the goal can be seen as the rainbow and those hard fought days to get to that rainbow would be the rain. Everyone will have to go through this because it's a part of life. If struggle wasn't a thing, neither would happiness because their wouldn't be a pathway to get to that emotion.

Journal #20

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Journal #20:

Q= “I learned that courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”

                                                                                                                ---Nelson Mandela

A= In Nelson Mandela's quote about fear, he explains the ideal "correct" definition of courage, someone who triumphs fear. I agree with the statement because of the reality it represents. Usually, for me at least, when thinking about someone courageous, we think of the person to have no fear, but that's impossible. Everyone has fears no matter what, and thus giving the context that someone who is courageous simply triumphs it's fears. There have been many courageous acts from people that have been portrayed as heroic and putting his fears away, but in reality the person just prioritizes others than himself/herself. The specific event that I'll be discussing about and how Mandela's quote portrays it correctly, will be the many helpers of the Underground Railroads during the years of Slavery.

    In this event, the Underground Slave Tunnels were made by slave and some white people who believed slavery was wrong. Those people would have been killed on the spot. With this threat present, the workers still continued because they prioritized the many lives of slaves who ran away from their "owners". The workers could not have lost this fear, thus making this fear always present. However, they push aside their fears of death and do what's right and helped save many lives.

 

Journal #19

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Journal #19:

Q=“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.”

                                                            ---Assata Shakur

 

A= One of the most common forms of "fighting for what you believe in" is the method of striking. This involves gathering as much supporters of something you too believe in, and spreading awareness to everyone around. The quote by Assata Shakur describes the ideology behind the method really well.  Alike her comments, all of the groups who have accomplished what their goal was had to go against the belief for what they're were protesting for. There have been many popular protests, and of the most famous that comes up to mind, for me, is Caesar Chavez's type of "protest". He boycotted by announcing to all the participants to not buy fruit from the markets, which caused farms to fail because of the lack of sails. He did this because workers weren't getting the pay they wanted. The boycott resulted in them receiving more pay, which was a success for them. There are also other ways the implications of this quote is true.  There are the ways black people have fought for their freedom, the way slaves fought for the escape of being a slave, and the representations of women for being equal like men.