Public Demonstration Essay Examples

In the public demonstration, the whole purpose was to raise awareness of the different social issues in today’s society and communicate to a larger audience in a different manner than the typical protesting method. This involved creativity in an artistic form, with poetry, music, stories, and visual arts. In this public demonstration, personally I been involved in the performance of reading a poem/story that I wrote about the evolutionary aspects of the social identities and how my perspectives of the world changed as I grew up and started to travel to different states and their cultures. I wanted the audience to think of the trends and how more of the social identities became relevant to our society in their timespan. The demonstration itself

Similar with the concept of class, this concept actually made me see beyond the demonstration and outside of SCC into today’s society. Reading my poem/story out loud to the audience was a time of reflection to me, by recalling my memoires of my own community and the society that slowly progressed into a labeling society, where people would start to become more focuses on the social identities and those identities would form a person as a whole. Also, listening to other students, I could see and hear the injustices about the world that students were expressing and how today’s society affects the communities, SCC, and the students themselves. Privilege is often intertwined with the concept of power and social identities. In the Allen reading, privilege is defined by many example where dominance is reflected. Hearing stories on family backgrounds and personal opinions, along with the visual artworks, shows the audiences how the inequalities in gender, class, race, and sexuality are conspicuous in society today because many students shared their thoughts on the election, racial movements, and gender wage gaps. Also, recalling the “privilege walk” activity in class made me visually see how everyone had different privilege and power in society. This activity became a constant reminder to be aware of the privilege I have or may not have and to apply those privileges to be aware of my benefits that follows the privileged social