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Law That is Just and Unjust in the Writings of Martin Luther King Jr. and Henry David Thoreau II

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

Globalization, Postmodernism, and Civil Disobedience

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

Property as Defined by John Locke

In two pages this paper discusses Locke's Essay on Civil Government in terms of how the English political philosopher defined prop...

Justification for Law Breaking in Henry David Thoreau's Civil Disobedience

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

Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Early Political Thinking

This paper examines Hobbes' work, Leviathan, as well as Machiavelli's, The Prince as they relate to the beginnings of political th...

Origins of Civil Society by Jean Jacques Rousseau

In six pages this paper discusses Rousseau's presentation of civil society contexts in his work. There are 2 sources cited in the...

Essays on Heritage and Culture

In a paper consisting of twelve pages 3 short essays on African heritage and culture are presented with such keywords incorporated...

Summary of Africa And Africans In The Making Of The Atlantic World 1400-1800 by John Thornton

go against historical accounts of the African arrival by asserting that they did not come to the Americas as a result of slavery; ...

South African Victimization and the Novels of Nadine Gordimer

In twelve pages this paper critically analyzes the novels of Nadine Gordimer in a consideration of characterization and the victim...

Film Version of A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr and Expert Witnesses for the Plaintiffs

In five pages this paper examines the expert witnesses by the plaintiffs and how they were used in the film version of A Civil Act...

Urban Environment and Segregation

urban setting is critical to American life. The recent clashes between blacks and whites have gone unnoticed as time erases memori...

African Colonialism

A. Abu Boahen gives an unusual view of the colonial experience in African Perspective on Colonialism. Most books take the European...

3 Questions on Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart Answered

the society, and like any good leader or member, he finds that he must make personal sacrifices in order to maintain a balance in ...

The 1988 Movie 'Zan Boko'

to consider what defines "progress" and what is sacrificed in the name of progress. Kabor? has been criticized for his "heavy hand...

2 Countries and Human Rights

political opposition, it is doing so by making public examples of dissidents rather than acting covertly....

The Long Walk to Freedom

that dream. Mandela was indeed prepared to die and had come to the realization that violence was sometimes necessary to eff...

China's Entry into Africa

many of the trade barriers lifted and restrictions relaxed, for trade and good going into and coming out of China (Thompson, 2007)...

Africa's Portuguese Counterinsurgents

the gold mines of South Africa (Dana and France 67). Although these laborers were paid, they were successful in keeping very litt...

U.S. Constitution, Civil Rights, and Slavery

that blacks, even if they were freed blacks, were not due citizenship and could never become citizens of the United States. As suc...

Theme of Colonialism in Sembene Ousmane’s God’s Bits of Wood and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus

in this instance French Dakar-Niger railroad owners (toubabs) versus impoverished workers in pre-Independence era Senegal who soug...

Desertification and the African Sahel

empire that once existed in the Sahara (Brough & Kimenyi, 2004). Although there was the occasional drought-induced famine, the ea...

Jesus/Human Relationships Above the Law

contemporary mindset, the word "law" refers to civil law, which is enforced by the police and government officials. As Jesus indic...

African Dogs

dead of night in dripping and deserted city streets. They live without mans protection, without his love, squabbling over scraps o...

King and Thoreau

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

Education and Discrimination

In six pages the impact of the civil rights movement is examined in a consideration of what is needed for a unitary minority statu...

Important Developments 1950s Through the 1990s

dealt with racial differences. Its impacts would extend from the educational arena to the workplace and eventually to interperson...

Should Aid to Africa be Reduced?

context of the provision of aid; give a man a fish and he will eat for a day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for the rest...

Civil Unrest in South Africa from 1960 to 1994

In five pages this paper discusses South Africa's civil unrest in an historical overview of the time period and assesses the Truth...

Howell Raines and the Civil Rights Movement

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...

"Letter from the Birmingham City Jail," and Martin Luther KIng's Concepts of Just, Unjust, and Morality

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