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Essays 151 - 180
This research report looks at this era but focuses on one book called A People's History of the United States. This five page pape...
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...
would give him later during his political career for he realized that most of the people he would be gaining votes from were more ...
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...
In five pages this paper examines the justifiability of civil disobedience in a consideration of several philosophers and theori...
In five pages this paper examines King's 'Letter from a Birmingham Jail' in a consideration of the effectiveness of nonviolence an...
his objective was not to inflict harm but rather to remove the catalyst for drug activity. Is that not what resides at the founda...
In five pages this paper discusses Thoreau's perspectives on civil disobedience as represented in his essay of the same name. Thr...
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...
In five pages this quote is considered within the context of injustice in a discussion of such works as Chief Joseph's I Will Figh...
In seven pages this research paper examines how King's philosophy of nonviolent protest was influenced by Indian practitioner of c...
(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...
citizen was guaranteed the right to be heard in an Athenian court. Since the government structure was founded on the principle th...
for their own activities. Mankind all too often, in fact, views wilderness is something to be constrained and tamed. This is tru...
emphasized the importance of self reliance. Both Emerson and Thoreau are remembered for their philosophies that encapsulate...
courts and token governorships were merely means to placate the population without offering "real freedom or power" (Fischer 158)....