FEMINISM

Doris Lessing
She is an unrivaled novelist in the literary genres around the globe, portrays the fundamental problems of women as well as social system of her times. Lessing searches for new models to communicate the experiences of a blocked woman writer, who spends her early life in Africa, becomes an active and a disappointed communist, who is a politically committed writer, a mother, a wife, or a mistress sometimes a woman. With her very keen and subtle attitude, Lessing wants to present women’s psychological conflicts between marriage and love; motherhood and profession, unfairness of the double standard; alienation of a single career woman; hollowness of marriage in the traditional order and society. Lessing portrays her women in various social problems and with various perspectives of male against female. She tries to awaken women community to protest against the patriarchy through her feminist writings. For this purpose, this research paper would like to examine the psychological conflicts and traumatic experiences of powerful heroines, including- Anna Wulf of The Golden Notebook, Mary Turner of The Grass Is Singing, and Clefts of The Cleft.


Maya Angelou

The courage and humility that Dr. Angelou possesses is what enables her to inspire women to be proud of who they are and to be proud of their womanliness, most importantly that they can inspire others that we, as women, can move towards change.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

We teach girls that they can have ambition, but not too much ... to be successful, but not too successful, or they'll threaten men. She asks that we begin to dream about and plan for a different, fairer world of happier men and women who are truer to themselves.

Madonna

She said: “Thank you for acknowledging my ability to continue my career for 34 years in the face of blatant misogyny, sexism, constant bullying and relentless abuse.
Madonna spoke up about her views on feminism and the many instances of sexism that she's encountered as a woman working in the music industry.She said that women supporting each other will be the key a continued fight against sexism.

The Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Multiplication of Western Walls

James Petras Biography


Key concepts

• The Walls of Freedom and the Walls of Prison 

While NATO regimes celebrate the ‘Fall of the Berlin Wall’ as the highest expression of freedom, these same political leaders support, finance and promote the construction of oppressive walls throughout world:  Unified Germany and its NATO partners have supported Israel’s Separation Wall dividing and caging millions of Palestinians for the better part of two decades.

• Democratic Re-Unification or Annexation by Force

The West German regime seized control and dictated economic and social policies that destroyed their eastern neighbors’ economy by fiat.

There are many ‘death strips’ denying Latin Americans, Palestinians, Middle Easterners their freedom from want, blocking their escape from US-NATO wars and Israeli genocide.

Imperial wars are characterized by the construction and maintenance of complex ‘Western Walls’, far deadlier and brutal than the Berlin Wall and less likely to fall.  

• The Malignant Consequences of the Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Annexation of East Germany

The annexation of East Germany vastly increased the economic power of Germany, providing German capital with several million skilled workers and trained engineers at no cost.  Germany’s enhanced power dictated the course of the European Union’s economic policy.

Walls of different kinds

HOW 65 COUNTRIES HAVE ERECTED FENCES ON THEIR BORDERS- FOUR TIMES AS MANY AS WHEN THE BERLIN WALL WAS TOPPLED- S GOVERNMENTS TRY TO HOLD BACK THE TIDE OF MIGRANTS

Along the reading about Walls It shocked me the fact that when the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 there were only 16 bordier fences around the world. However, In the 21st century, the purpose of borders has changed leading to a surge in construction of bordier barriers that mark different economic, political and cultural divisions between rich and poor...

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Walls

How young Africans found a voice on Twitter

A young girl called Siyanda Mohutsiwa explains that she has created a hashtag #IfAfricaWasaBar to promote social empathy among ordinary Africans and unity across the continent using social media such as twitter to overcome borders and circumstance.This idea have become successful because  africans for all the continent began to participate with comments about issues from Africa. Access to the internet have given Africans place for making connections over their Africanness.

Siyanda Mohutsiwa explains how you acquire a different identity according to the place you belong in Africa and there are some resctrictions of borders it means that African do not know much of other countries in Africa. She states that Africans share problems but not the successes so she wants to foster Pan- Africaninsm which means to think collaboratively and support among africans.Besides, access to online networks has given young Africans something they have long had violently take: a voice so africans can take advantage of this tool to be heard.

Personally, I believe that Siyanda Mohutsiwa hashtag is an amazing idea that make a country more united about issues that concern the ordinary people of different place but that belong to the same place.