...perplexing agent of change is peaceful resistance. In the past century, social justice warriors have embraced this method of protest as opposed to outright violence. The entire Civil Rights movement was ushered in with civil disobedience. Protesters actively defied laws and were consequently punished, and, in order to change a corrupt system, this peaceful resistance was continued. In...
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...system, is not always the most effective way to ensure justice to all. Peaceful resistance to laws positively impacts a free society because it gives a voice to the minority, provides the people with an ultimate check on government, and allows for a morality based society. In a democratic country, the majority wields the bulk of the political power. Since democracy literally means rule of the many, the largest group controls the system. According to...
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...In researching the topic of slave resistance, most historians agree on the point that enslaved blacks resisted slavery in whatever methods they could. Slave resistance was widespread throughout the West Indies during the period of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. The resistance took on various forms and these will be examined in this essay. Since enslaved blacks were forcibly brought to the West Indies, slave owners realized that it was necessary to control the enslaved. In this regard, slave laws were introduced as a way of keeping the slaves in line. The main slave laws enacted were the Siete Partidas – which were put in place by the Spanish government, the Slave Laws of the English Colonies and the Code Noir – which were put in place by the French. The common element in all of these legislations is that the enslaved blacks were given the stamp of “chattelâ€, which meant they were seen in law as property and not people. In addition to the slave laws, the slave owners also used other various measures of control. One such measure was the use of physical control, which meant that punishment for any infractions committed by the enslaved blacks were severe and brutal. Examples of such punishment included hanging and amputation. Another form of control was psychological control which was used to instill fear in the slaves. Research into psychological control shows that many enslaved blacks chose to commit suicide rather than live under the slavery conditions. ...
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...The years 1788-1850 saw the much debated Aboriginal resistance to white settlement most commonly known as the ‘Australian Frontier Warfare’. It is important not to imply the traditional definitions of warfare in the western world to that of the Aboriginal warfare. Aborigines were not resisting white settlement for economic or political reasons and their non-hierarchical society meant it impossible to unite against the British invasion. It has been documented that initial encounters between these two groups were relatively peaceful. The Aborigines viewed the British as enemies with whom accommodation was possible. It is clearly apparent now to understand the inevitability of these two vastly different cultures trying to live together as one ending in violence. With such different beliefs as to the use of land, water, animals and women and the declaration of terra nullis we can start to explore the events that led up to and continuing through the Aboriginal resistance. The more significant events that occurred were that of The Hawkesbury-Nepean River 1795-1816, The Cape Grim Massacre, Van Diemen’s Land and the Hornet Creek Massacre in 1857. The declaration of Terra Nullis being ordered in Australia caused a rippling affect although not felt straight away. ” A land that until its settlement in 1788 lacked human habitation, law, government or history.” The British saw the land as theirs for the taking as it had not been subject to houses, villages, crops, domesticated animals...
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...in this essay will be about Civil Disobedience,now Civil Disobedience is the refusal to comply with certain laws or to pay taxes and fines,as a peaceful form of political protest.This essay will include great examples about Civil Disobedience such as,”The Letter From Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King,”The Declaration...
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...Nelson Mandela a good amount of his political career reversing the effects of this system. He did so prior to his position in office by peaceful, some not peaceful, protests. These protests are an example of civil disobedience. “Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government, or of an occupying international power. Civil disobedience is a symbolic or ritualistic violation of the law, rather than a rejection of the system as a whole.” - Henry David Thoreau. One of the oldest examples of civil disobedience is the Ancient Greek play Antigone by Sophocles. Nelson Mandela used many different...
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...Acts of Civil Disobedience | Violating the law to change the law | Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government, or of an occupying international power. | | Acts of Civil Disobedience(s) By: Team C CJS/211 - ETHICS IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE Instructor: MELISSA ANDREWJESKI Schedule: 10/27/2015 - 11/30/2015 Campus: ONLINE MAIN Group ID: BSHB1IZ706 Over 160 Arrested in Ongoing Civil Disobedience against Keystone XL Tar Sands Oil Pipeline. Fifty-two environmental activists were arrested Monday in front of the White House as part of an ongoing protest calling on the Obama administration to reject a permit for the 1,700-mile Keystone XL pipeline project, which would deliver Canada tar sands oil to refineries in Texas, and rather focus on developing clean energy. An estimated 2,000 people have signed up to hold sit-ins and commit other acts of civil disobedience outside the White House every day for the next two weeks — 162 have already been arrested since Saturday. Also joining the protest are indigenous First Nations communities in Canada and landowners along the Keystone XL pipeline’s planned route. An editorial in Sunday’s New York Times joined in calling on the State Department to reject the pipeline, noting that the extraction of petroleum from the tar sands creates far more greenhouse emissions than conventional production. Meanwhile, oil-industry backers of the project emphasize what they say are...
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...the Ancient Greek φιλοσοφία (philosophia), which literally means "love of wisdom". The introduction of the terms "philosopher" and "philosophy" has been ascribed to the Greek thinker Pythagoras. The Main Branches of Philosophy are divided as to the nature of the questions asked in each area. The integrity of these divisions cannot be rigidly maintained, for one area overlaps into the others. A. Axiology: the study of value; the investigation of its nature, criteria, and metaphysical status. More often than not, the term "value theory" is used instead of "axiology" in contemporary discussions even though the term “theory of value” is used with respect to the value or price of goods and services in economics. Axiology is usually divided into two main parts. Ethics: the study of values in human behavior or the study of moral problems: e.g., (1) the rightness and wrongness of actions, (2) the kinds of things which are good or desirable, and (3) whether actions are blameworthy or praiseworthy. Æsthetics: the study of value in the arts or the inquiry into feelings, judgments, or standards of beauty and related concepts. Philosophy of art is concerned with judgments of sense, taste, and emotion. B. Epistemology: the study of knowledge. In particular, epistemology is the study of the nature, scope, and limits of human knowledge. C. Ontology or Metaphysics: the study of what is...
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...incidents of gun violence, of those incidents over fifteen thousand people lost their lives (gunviolencearchive, 2017). Additionally, over three hundred law enforcement officers were killed by gun violence. Not only are incidents of gun violence on the rise but law enforcement officer must respond to active acts of violence more frequently. People that commit these types of crimes need to be arrested but are still extremely dangerous. Special teams of highly trained officers are required to control and arrest these dangerous individuals. Tactical teams have a variety of names Special Weapons and Tactics or Emergency Response Units but all teams follow similar selection process, training...
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...Police Brutality in America “An act of violence against any innocent person eludes moral justification, disgraces the millions of americans who have united peacefully protesting police brutality, and dishonors our proud inheritance of nonviolent resistance “ Benjamin Crump. Police brutality in america has become a major problem leading to riots, division, and protest everywhere. I often ask myself who is wrong in a situation; the people protesting and speaking up about police brutality,and breaking the law while doing so, or the police who continuously murder innocent people in cold blood while the government is just standing by doing nothing. To me it's a clear cut decision, the people protesting are right morally, and justifiably. Steven Magee says “It is the common people's duty to police the police”. In Charlotte, North Carolina riots between police and citizens break out over the death of an innocent black man. Hundreds marched through the city only to be met by police with tear gas, and rubber bullets. One person was shot and seriously injured according to www.citylab.com. Peaceful protest should never end in any type of violence. Purely do to the fact that we are a country built on protesting and fighting for...
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...similarities include what type of terrorists they were, how they picked their victims, and how they both felt deprived which is what lead them to terrorism. While these similarities are not exactly the same, one could argue that they are close enough to group these two terrorist attacks in the same category of terrorism. The Domestic Terrorism and Homegrown Violent Extremism Lexicon defines domestic terrorism as “Any act of violence that is dangerous to human life or potentially destructive of critical infrastructure or key resources committed by a group or individual...
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...Palestine In 1948, the State of Israel was established on Palestinian land, despite widespread protests by Palestinians and the Arab world. Clashes between Palestinians and Israelis have since been numerous and bloody, and it is still far away from a peaceful, lasting solution to the conflict. Last updated 04/03/2013 Recent UN links Presentation of the humanitarian situation in the area of the UN humanitarian agency OCHA Map of humanitarian conditions of the UN humanitarian agency OCHA UN special agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA UN News summary page for news on the Middle East Early history Both Palestinians and Israelis are people originating in the Middle East. The central question of the Middle East conflict today is who has the most right to the area. The Jews were driven around the year 70 AD, and was then spread throughout Europe and the Middle East. For many years they were denied access to the area, while in their new country were often subjected to persecution and abuse. As a result of including the Inquisition in southern Europe, many Jews chose the 1500 - and 1600's to settle in Palestine again. It is estimated that the total population of Palestine was then at 200 000, while the Jewish population accounted for approximately 15 000 The organized Jewish immigration to Palestine began in 1882. This happened as a result of the rise of Zionism in Europe. Zionism was a political movement working for a Jewish state in the Middle East. Zionist movement got...
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...born in 1929 and died in 1968 will be examined. They used their own creative process to motivate people into seeing different issues their way. Each one of these men made contributions during difficult times. In this paper specific problems and ideas that these men sought to solve, and the plans they put into action to resolve these problems. Their ideas and solutions were met with opposition from people who did not like change. Some of their solutions were constantly being improved. A part of these solutions were logical solutions which allowed them to be accepted without much resistance. The way these two men thought had a huge impact on the way other people started to think, this helped to make the outcome of personal issues for the better. Russell dealt with analytical philosophy dealing with realism, and King was for fighting against inequality and the injustice of segregation. Being that they were two different men, they looked at things with different perspectives that others did not see. Both of them were able to produce ideas and solutions to various issues. Sometimes they had to have a lot of patience to outlast their opposition. Contribution to Society Bertrand Russell contributed to society by establishing the basis for mathematical logic, he was the founder of analytical philosophy and he also provided some controversial views in political theory, education and religious...
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...efficient source of power and is in fact today’s second largest source of energy after coal. For example, nuclear energy reduced the United States dependence on oil. Reducing the dependence on oil is beneficial because the U.S. does not have to spend millions of dollars that would normally be spent on drilling for oil. A drawback to this material is its potential to help develop powerful and threatening nuclear weapons. These weapons are capable of mass destruction and can destroy nations in a matter of minutes. An example would be when the power of a nuclear bomb was unleashed on the cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima during WWII. Countless numbers of people were killed or injured and countless numbers of buildings were destroyed in those two cities. This happens to be the threat nuclear material poses today. The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) was passed to keep the enrichment of uranium in...
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...in 1968 will be examined. They used their own creative process to motivate people into seeing different issues their way. Each of these men made contributions during difficult times. In this paper specific problems and ideas that these men sought to solve, and the plans they put into action to resolve these problems. Their ideas and solutions were met with opposition from people who did not like change. Some of their solutions were constantly improved upon. A part of these solutions were logical solutions, which allowed them to be accepted without much resistance. The way these two men thought had a huge impact on the way other people started to think, this helped to make the outcome of personal issues for the better. Russell dealt with analytical philosophy dealing with realism, and King was for fighting against inequality and the injustice of segregation. Being that they were two different men, they looked at things with different perspectives that others did not see. Both of them could produce ideas and solutions to various issues. Sometimes they had to have perseverance and patience to outlast their opposition. Contribution to Society Bertrand Russell contributed to society by establishing the basis for mathematical logic. Russell was also the...
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