Siddhanth's Writing Blog

Being an International Freshman, I was scared that my way of writing would be different from everyone else and that I wouldn't do well in this class. However, in hindsight, I was scared for no reason. I had a great time in this class while learning a lot as well. Coming into this class I didn't know the importance of social justice, but after this course, I have a whole new outlook on this topic. Even though I am business major the knowledge I gained in social justice is important because now I know that there is a lot of injustice in this world and that all of us should do our small bits to reduce this, furthermore through civil disobedience and  King  I learnt importance of standing up for myself regardless of popular opinion. From a writing perspective specifically, I improved in the area of pre-writing. Before this class I had no clue what JStor or Proquest was, also my way of incorporating the research into my papers was a lot less academic. Moreover, ...

         Understanding Antiwar Activism as a Gendering Activity: A Look at the U.S.’s Anti-Vietnam War Movement  http://vc.bridgew.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1073&context=jiws This sources elaborates on the role women played in the Anti-war movement. One of the misconceptions of the anti-war movement that I will argue against in my paper is that the movement was male dominated. However, this academic paper also argues against that hence I will be able to use examples from this paper to support my claim. Moreover this paper includes counterclaims made by feminist scholars and works towards disproving that claim. Specifically the article centers upon two questions, in what ways is war protest a gendering experience? and How does antiwar activism shape ideas about gender, instead of the other way around? The analysis of these two questions relies on a combination of primary sources : documents written by antiwar activists o...

The third visions and voices event was called “When we imprisoned our own” and it was about the incarceration of Japanese Americans during world war 2. The panellist spoke about how several Japanese American (including a few USC students) were incarcerated just because they were of Japanese descent. They spoke about the social justice negatives of this issue as one particular group was unfairly treated and related it to the possibility of a similar situation taking place again and measure to be taken if such a. thing is repeated. I went to this particular event because It is important to speak about this and spread awareness about the negatives in History so that we can learn from our mistakes and not repeat the same mistakes again. Moreover, it is also important to study this because it creates sympathy for the victims and that is really important because it showcases that acknowledgements have been made of the wrongdoing and such a thing will not be repeated again.