Op-Ed Topic

The topic of one of my op-ed pieces is in response to an editorial written in the Chicago Tribune recently that talked about and praised Rahm Emanuel on a new initiative he plans on implementing for students. Though a nice idea, I plan on breaking down the real issue he needs to discuss in regards to Chicago schools.

Comments

  1. UnknownApril 17, 2017 at 9:05 AM

    This sound great Alesha, very relevant to our community. Looking forward to it!

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Media, Real Women, and Gender Opression

There are so many different types of "real women" that it is definitely impossible for any type of media outlet to display the life and obstacles that real women go through. The problem is that the different television shows and other forms of media give the impression that they are displaying the lives of real women and the obstacles they go through therefore further playing into the stereotypical views of women and causing these view to always remain permanent in people's real life thoughts and representation of women issues and their personalities. I believe there are a lot of shows in today's media that I believe briefly touch on reflecting the lack of gender inequality and the ones that I can think of usually contain a woman in a powerful position but the point is maybe discussed for a quick moment. Even with these shows though, there is still those "back of your mind stereotypes that displayed. Take for instance one of my favorite show Scandal. The main c...
Read more

Radical Teacher Article

While I was researching my feature topic on social media I came across an interesting article. In it social media activist movements are discussed but it also touches on social media in the classroom and using it as a tool. I remember someone in class mentioned they were going to touch on this topic and if its is a good or bad thing so just thought I'd share. http://eds.a.ebscohost.com/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=1&sid=6a75f0eb-a319-4dd9-a76a-77af43cabb12%40sessionmgr4006&hid=4211
Read more

Changing the World One Click at a Time

Social media plays both a positive and negative role in contemporary social movements and activism. What social media does that was not able to happen in the past is that it gives different movements a platform to voice their opinions. The views that may not be popular or covered in everyday mainstream media, television, news shows, etc. are given a place where they can be heard and made public to people all throughout the world, so in a sense no voice can be silenced. Social media allows more people to get on board and contributes to a large number of participates included in the activism with connective examples such as hashtags or re-sharing the information. The downfall of the contemporary form of social media activism as I stated in class is that while yes it builds numbers but it does not build commitment to such social movements. What I mean by this is social media activity is very non-progressive. People may just like a post or share the post with other or even join different o...
Read more