A Force More Powerful Rhetorical Analysis

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In our society, there are many situations of political oppression or injustice. There are violent and nonviolent movements that are happening across the world. People recognize that some situations our government lays out for us are unacceptable and are unjust in our culture. We the people come together and overcome obstacles such as apathy, ideological hegemony, fear, and fatalism, and chose to either ignore the problem, or go against the oppression in a violent or nonviolent way. Kurt Schock shows us hypothetical responses in a diagram to situations of injustice, political exclusion, economic exploitation, and oppression. In the movie A Force More Powerful, there were many inspirational leaders that made a change in their country with nonviolent resistance. This strategy has been proven affective year after year since 1930 led by Mohandas Gandhi to the defeat communist control in Poland.
Kurt Schock displays his diagram starting with a situation of political oppression and injustice. This leads to no recognition and recognition. If recognized, do people accept it or not accept it. None acceptance leads to either …show more content…

Poland’s trade unions have been controlled by communism and have done little to protect workers from oppression or to negotiate for higher pay. Lech Walesa led the shipyard workers on a movement to proclaim their own independent unions and free from communist control. The strikers prepared to stay at their shipyards for as long as they could and sent word out to other shipyards and factories around Gdansk. Within two days the strike has spread to more than 20 businesses, which send representatives to the Lenin Shipyard, where they form a committee and make demands. These shipyards needed these workers to make money and by them not work made it easy to keep a nonviolent movement. Officials agree to most of the demands. On August 31 the strike has ended and workers begin building

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