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This paper discusses the film "Iron Jawed Angels," directed by Katja von Garnier, which deals with oppression and social fighting. The paper relates the film to Martin Luther King, Jr.'s discussions on oppression. It particularly focuses on his views expressed in his essay "Three Types of Resistance to Oppression," in which he preached non violent resistance as a means of fighting oppression and achieving social goals.

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"The second way to resist oppression listed by Martin Luther King in his essay is the violent way, a way he disapproves of and a way against which he speaks. "A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred. Violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem; it merely creates new and more complicated ones. " This type of resistance is the most striking of all, and the easiest to recognize in real life, and also in this film. It is a type of resistance that both the oppressed and the oppressor sometimes use. A march of protest sometimes turns violent, and by doing so it serves no goal and brings no deliverance to the suffering. In the film, the protagonists' protest takes the form of a hunger strike, earning them the nickname "iron jawed angels", and this can be considered as the most violent way they could protest. The oppressors' violence is in the form of the forced imprisonment on unjust causes, and the way in which they forced the women to eat."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Author not available, "Martin Luther King Jr.", Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia, Sept. 26, 2006. Retrieved: Sept 27th, 2006. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr.
• From "Nobel Lectures, Peace 1951-1970" , Editor Frederick W. Haberman, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1972 , copyright The Nobel Foundation, nobelprize.org, Retrieved: Sept 27th, 2006.http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-bio.html
• Author not available, "HBO films Iron Jawed Angels-Synopsis", Copyright (c) 2006 Home Box Office, Inc. All Rights Reserved, Retrieved: Sept 27th, 2006. http://www.hbo.com/films/ironjawedangels/synopsis/
• Martin Luther King Jr , "Three Types of Resistance to Oppression "- fragment, from Joyce Henna's webpage, Jan. 5th 1998 , Retrieved : Sept 27th, 2006. http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/~joycehen/readings.htm
• Author not available , "Synopses for Iron Jawed Angels", Copyright (c)2002 Mooviees.com All rights reserved. Retrieved: Sept 27th, 2006 http://www.mooviees.com/14511/plots

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