His essay “Giving up the Gun” is about some of his life experiences. Mainly around guns. as well as the reason he started carrying one and the reasons why he stopped carrying guns. Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama, was born in July 6 1935 and given the name Lhamo Thondup. in 1940 he was taken to the Potala Palace where he became the spiritual leader of Tibet.
My article is titled “Dalai Lama says he would resign”, and it involves the riots currently happening in Tibet. The Dalai Lama is the head of the government-in-exile in Tibet, and he is very highly regarded in both a sense of spirituality and authority to the Tibetan people. The government has been in exile since Chinese troops seized control of the country in 1950, and the Dalai Lama had fled the region in 1959 after leading a failed rebellion. He is currently not seeking independence from China, but a greater autonomy for Tibet. Currently, the Dalai Lama is pleading for help to stop violence on both the Chinese side and the Indian sides.
Martin Luther King Jr. went to visit India to study disobedience and nonviolence. King gets arrested and goes to jail during the anti-segregation protests in Birmingham. Afterwards he writes a Letter From Birmingham City Jail, arguing that individuals have the moral duty to disobey unjust laws. King always stood up for what he believed in. Shortly after getting arrested he delivers “I have a Dream” speech.
Photograph. Government Book Talk. Web. 18 Dec. 2012. I chose this picture because it gave a very detailed and captured all of the important things in the first draft of the Emancipation Proclamation.
A transformation from fear to free societies must be embraced from within. If a civilization is not willing to change what good will it do? Prosperity in fear societies can not be obtained without the intellectual and creative freedom of its people. "A regime based on fear must maintain increasingly tight control over its population to remain in power, and such control inevitably triggers a process of decay." The only way to slow the decay is to seek help from the outside.
The United States became a new nation with new ideals. During this time there was presidential and congressional plans for reconstruction, the 14th and 15th Amendments, the KKK and Jim Crow, the Compromise of 1877, and the New South. 1865 was the beginning of Reconstruction in the United States. The Thirteenth Amendment was approved in January and was ratified in December and it abolished slavery in the United States. Congress established Freedmen's Bureau in March to provide assistance to the emancipated slaves.
They were not inventing anything new but reclaiming something ancient. This is why governments tend to fall apart, because people often want to come together freely and be themselves, rather then fit a mold that is presented for them. Hobbes foretold that it was a human condition that war fought by each against each, making it hard for anything good to come out of it, or learn
He means that if the venture needs you to be anyone else but yourself, it will lead to no good. This reveals to me that Thoreau believes strongly in the individual, being yourself, and seeking your own path. This quote is also applicable to modern life because many ventures nowadays require you to conform for some purpose. The second aphorism I remembered is “Our life is frittered away by detail...Simplicity, simplicity.” Thoreau means that our focus and attention to detail now in society and culture do nothing but to waste our lives away needlessly. He believes simplicity is the better choice.
He is therefore considered a founding father of modern socialism and Communism. He believed that the statement, “the will of the majority is always correct” was completely wrong. He argued that the goal of government should be to secure freedom, equality, and justice for all. In his philosophy the will of the majority would hinder the will of the minority, and that the will of all was much more
And here again, we see that if people listen to their conscience, and not to what society want them to believe is good, there will be some beneficial changes. In Civil disobedience, the author proved again that morality, as well as conscience plays an important role. Thoreau argued “It has been truly said, that a corporation has no conscience; but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience." By this, he too wanted to show that individual can take actions at any time without been influenced because of their own conscience of what is good or bad. By voicing out his conscience, individual will proved his uniqueness.