America+and+Oppression

He acts like an animal, has an animal's habits! Eats like one, moves like one, talks like one! There's even something sub-human — something not quite to the stage of humanity yet! Yes, something — ape-like about him, like one of those pictures I've seen in — anthropological studies. Thousands and thousands of years have passed him right by, and there he is — Stanley Kowalksi — survivor of the stone age, bearing the raw meat home from the kill in the jungle. And you — you here — waiting for him! Maybe he'll strike you or maybe grunt and kiss you! That is, if kisses have been discovered yet! Scene 4, Blanche is talking to Stella.
 * A Streetcar Named Desire**

As much as we like to think that we're equally living in a society, we aren't. Tons of people, everyday, throughout the world face oppression. In a Streetcar Named Desire and The Great Gatsby, women are mistreated. But it isn't just women, it is also children that are being effected by terrible people throughout the world.



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All oppression creates a state of war.  [|Simone de Beauvoir]

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In order for us to live healthy life's, we must rid the oppression left in the world as all it creates is violence and frustration.

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Oppression throughout time.

If America wants to be the ideal nation, then we have to be the first group of people to stop oppressing others. Once we stop, then we'll teach the rest of the world too, but it all starts with us, Americans, being up to the task.

America and Change

America and Greed ...

America and Dreaming

Teddy's Final Reflection