CH GCE Portfolio

What can we do as citizens to peacefully create change? This is the question that we tried to answer in the final unit of our Humanities class, Global Peace. We studied different ways to analyze and understand violence, looking at real examples and applying them to our own lives. By studying famous peacemakers, such as Sharp and Gandhi, we learned many different strategies for peaceful change and were able to better understand famous protests and movements. For our Action Project, our goal was to start or participate in our own peaceful protest. I chose to focus on the efforts being made by the organization Women's March, dedicated to fighting bigotry and discrimination in all their forms — including homophobia and antisemitism — and to lift up the voices of women who are too often left out.

Flood, Joe.  “David Hogg at the White House Correspondents  Dinner.”  Flickr, Yahoo!, 29 Apr. 2018. In my Global Peace class, we looked into Gandhi's principles. The first Gandhian principle was Sarvodaya, the uplift of all. We looked into Swadeshi, which is looking particularly on the local economy. Swaraj looked deep into self-government. This means to work for yourself, and making your own decisions before making communal ones. Lastly, we looked into Satyagraha. This means finding the truth in something that already exists, or finding the truth in resistance. These principles are important to an activist. In order to create your own "perfect" world, you must be able to follow these principles according to Gandhi. To further our knowledge of Gandhi's principles, we were asked to choose an activist that has used at least one of these principles. I choose to focus on David Hogg. Throughout my research paper, you will see examples that make Hogg an activist....