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would give him later during his political career for he realized that most of the people he would be gaining votes from were more ...

is today. In order to understand where were going, we have to know where weve been, and Raines shows part of that struggle in vivi...

2002). In the wake of the bus boycott launched by black residents in 1955 in response to the Rosa Parks incident on a Montgomery c...

taken with a bomb explosion on Christmas night in 1951 (Green, 1999). Ironically, this was also the night of their twenty-fifth w...

American people, Thoreau argues that the government "does not settle the West. It does no educate" that it is the American people...

kill. They are trained to do this in order to eliminate their own risk of death. The use of deadly force is justified because offi...

In eight pages this paper compares the approaches to civil disobedience by Mahatma Gandhi and Leo Tolstoy noting various differenc...

pleas, Socrates will not hear of any escape plans. He points out that, even though the sentence was unjust, it was perfectly legal...

for their own activities. Mankind all too often, in fact, views wilderness is something to be constrained and tamed. This is tru...

citizen was guaranteed the right to be heard in an Athenian court. Since the government structure was founded on the principle th...

(Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass An American Slave, 2001 and See Also Thoreau, 1993). This comparative essay examines ...

In six pages this paper presents a mock Nightline interview featuring author of The Wretched of the Earth Frantz Fanon and nonviol...

In seven pages this research paper examines how King's philosophy of nonviolent protest was influenced by Indian practitioner of c...

or supports the individual personality is just; anything disrespectful or degrading is unjust (274). Himself a contempora...

Firstly, one might suppose that Thoreau would support the Occupy Wall Street protests due to his assertion that individuals should...

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at illegal workers. A case is made for civil disobedience as an ethical response. Pape...

government is as likely as the army to be "abused and perverted before the people can act through it" (Thoreau, 1849). He cites th...

act of not being obedient. He contrasted the longevity of nature with the ethereal nature of that manmade contrivance we call gov...

garnered from the ideals of Thoreau as well (Scholastic). In light of these facts it is clear that King was not only influenced di...

human tendencies that fall alongside the more admirable qualities. These qualities, in fact, can be credited with the less praise...

In eight pages this paper discusses the life and activism of this influential advocate of civil disobedience and questions his com...

In five pages this paper examines the influence of the creative outsider in America in a consideration of the texts My Antonia by ...

In five pages this paper discusses how Henry David Thoreau's views on the inner self manifest themselves in the 'Minott, the Poeti...

In 5 pages these influential 19th century authors are examined within the context of their writings 'Preface to Leaves of Grass,' ...

Gandhi is discussed from a social work perspective. Various aspects of his achievements are explored. The micro, macro and mezzo l...

In five pages this essay examines the notion that Thoreau advocates breaking the law when it becomes morally important to do so wi...

In six pages this paper examines how just law and unjust law are conceptualized in 'Letter from a Birmingham Jail' by Martin Luthe...

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares how just law and unjust law are depicted in 'Civil Disobedience' by Thoreau and 'L...

In ten pages postmodernism is considered in terms of globalization and how it has affected civil disobedience practices. Eight so...

In five pages the historical definitions of responsibility and freedom and how they have changed are featured in the works 'A Mode...