Isabel Morales December 7, 2014 Period 6 AP Lit. & Comp. Civil Disobedience “One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws (MLK Jr)”. Henry Thoreau, author of Civil Disobedience, had idealistic motives. Visualizing an infallible government, free of harm, fault, and malfunction Thoreau was a true transcendentalist.
He raises his voice at Aunt Harriet and tells her to go pray for trying to abet Emily; leading her to commit suicide, "…Aunt Harriet's body had been found in the river…" (74). At first, Joseph is calm when he sees Harriet at the door. Once he is informed of the situation, he bursts out with fury. He makes it clear to her that what she did is wrong and that she should go pray for forgiveness. This proves that Joseph cares more about tradition than family.
A major difference was that Gandhi campaigned against unjust laws of the British government, while Martin Luther King Jr. campaigned for rights that "colored" people were already lawfully supposed to have. For instance, according to the U.S. government, all people, regardless of skin color, had the equal right of suffrage, but many racists refused to accept this and attacked non-whites when they attempted to vote. Gandhi fought British oppression with
To alleviate hard times, he backed existing legislation that called for the nation's return to the gold standard in 1879. To eliminate political corruption, he advocated a nonpartisan reformed civil service, observing that "he serves his party best who serves his country best." To conciliate the South, Hayes said it should have local self government, but that those governments must obey the entire Constitution, including the Reconstruction amendments. Perhaps because Hayes, along with his comrade in arms William McKinley, had more combat experience than other Presidents, he wished to arbitrate disputes with other nations. He also congratulated the American people for the peaceful resolution of the recent disputed
In 1945, the British viceroy handed power back to India freely. Mohandas Gandhi fought with nonviolence before the British handed over the power back to India. Gandhi describes the positive motives for a nonviolence approach to Indian independence, “Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering…” (Doc 3) India was a huge asset to the British Empire especially during World War II. Gandhi said, “I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire.” (Doc 3) He yelled this statement during the Salt March. Jomo Kenyatta, the first president of Kenya and leader for independence, stated, “The land is ours.
From my own knowledge I know that these acts, passed by the Imperial Legislative Council in London on the 10th march 1919, gave authorization to imprison people for up to two years without trial, anybody living within the Raj suspected of terrorism. This act was passed as a result of the Amritsar Massacre, when what started out to be a peaceful protest called by Gandhi soon escalated into violence after the arrests of Kitchlew and Pal. This showed clearly that British intentions were to repress rather than reform, and after all of the efforts Indians had made to support the British in the war and there economic suffering, they felt betrayed and provoked widespread fury in India. Source 15 also agrees with this statement, it states that the reforms were a response to the nationalist demand for greater involvement, so it shows us that they did respond, however the source further states that ‘these reforms eased the tension’ implying that they were more symbolic and in actual fact the reforms did nothing to help India gain any more power and control with in the British rule. In source 13 it sates that ‘many Indians were satisfied with the concessions’, this shows us that tension was eased from the reforms as many Indians were satisfied but there was still unrest within India.
Gabi refuses to take any more losses in her life to her family. My last quote is, “The corpses were bloody, with ears, noses, and fingers missing.”(Mikealson 130). In this scene Gabi was in a tree watching a canton being demolished by soldiers and they had no mercy for the people. The effects of watching the massacre on Gabi made her think she was a coward and deserve to die with her family. In Tree Girl, Gabi acts like Anne Frank in the Holocaust, they both hid away from genocide.
Is it doing Mary justice? Did Mary really deserve the name bloody? Yes, she did When Mary came to the throne, one of her first actions was to get rid of Lady Jane Grey. Jane was beheaded on the “Tower Green” inside the “Tower of London”. According to the account of her execution given in the anonymous “Chronicle of Queen Jane” and of “Two Years of Queen Mary”, Jane gave a speech upon ascending the scaffold: “Good people, I am come hither to die, and by a law I am condemned to the same.
Anthony wrote that "when a woman destroys the life of her unborn child, it is a sign that, by education or circumstances, she has been greatly wronged,” Susan B. Anthony encouraged women to register to vote and then vote, using the Fourteenth Amendment as justification. On November 5, 1872, Susan B. Anthony and others attempted to vote and some, including Anthony, are arrested. Later, she was tried for "illegally"
When she confronted her sister, Ismene, to ask for her help in burying Polyneices, Ismene's fear was clear. Ismene would not go against the King of Thebes' laws even for her own blood, she tells Antigone that she is killing herself by even having such a thought, "Our own death