Statement of Purpose

The purpose of this blog is to explore the meaning of Equality. Typically when people think of equality, they think of equal rights, but in this blog I attempted to explore more sides of Equality than just equal rights.  The etymology plays a big part in this blog because I wanted to show what Equality has meant through the past up to now and how people have seen it. How Equality has changed and what equality has been throughout history. I am not arguing anything in this blog, merely exploring and looking at Equality in an attempt to better understand it and allow you, the reader, to understand it better as well. 

For my home page, I choose to keep it simple. I wanted to put a little information on the front page, like the dictionary definition and a short little blurb for anyone not from school who comes to check it out, so that people who looked at my page would have some idea of what the rest of my blog would show them. I went with the blue background because it’s simple but decorative, and the blue is a calming color. I choose blue because when I think of equality throughout history there is fighting and protests from people trying to earn their equality in some way and I wanted a calming color to, in a way, offset the protests and help people feel calm. In a way, blue is also an equal color. People may tend to associate blue with males (like pink is often associated with females) but when this gender coloring began, blue was the color for girls.

As I mentioned before, the etymology plays a big part into my blog. I gave the definition I found for it and looked at that, what it started as and what it has come to mean today. 

I tried to provide images that represent equality throughout history, equality in rights, in nations, in gender, in size. These images helped demonstrate just what equality is and looked at it in a few different ways. Essentially it elaborates a little bit more on different kinds of Equality. 

 My found texts tend to focus on one certain aspect of equality (i.e. equality in gender or in race) but despite that they still show an understanding of what Equality is. My non-fiction works show things from an individual’s perspective with their own opinions and thoughts on the issue of equality. My short story, though a children story, does demonstrate what equality is in its simplest form. It has a bias towards teaching equality in terms of gender, but it does show what equality is.

For my creative work, I chose to personify Equality and essentially give life its major changes throughout history. As a baby it meant literally just being equal, the same (mostly thought of as the same size) but then as time went on equality came to mean the same rights rather than the same size. It still holds that meaning, but people think of it more as the same rights. As equality grows up, people fight for it and argue over it and try to win it. I felt that personifying equality in this way would allow the reader a better understanding of how it has changed and what the term means.