The main idea is of this article is on the reason why protesters are protesting in the first place, not which methods of protesting they choose to
Peacefully protesting for their rights, the leaders of these well-known movements decided to lead their campaigns in a friendly and non-violent manner. By following this tactic, they believed, would
Commemorating the ten-year anniversary of the assassination of civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr, Cesar Chavez addressed a religious organization through an article he published within their magazine. A peaceful protestor of civil rights, Chavez justifies his organization’s actions by contrasting nonviolent protest tactics with violent ones as well as providing the differing effects of each. Cesar Chavez attempts to gain the respect of this helpful organization, so its members will identify with his movement. Desperate to obtain the approval of this organization, Chavez defines nonviolent protesting and believes it naturally gains the respect of outsiders.
In Henry David Thoreau’s essay “The Duty of Civil Disobedience”, he achieves his purpose of sparking inquiry in the American public about their government and encouraging them to speak out on what they surmise as morally unfitting. He obtains his purpose through the use of metaphor and through the act of persistently asking questions throughout the essay to engage the brain to ponder on what their government is actually doing. In order to make the public ponder on how their government runs and actually treats them as citizens, he metaphorically references machines. He sparks inquiry by using metaphors to compare humans to machines.
"If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so. "-Socrates. Peaceful resistance to laws positively impacts a free society because the society is not free unless it's able to check the government. As long as the protest of the law remains peaceful it is a good thing. It is the public telling the government that they will not let them gain to much power and crush their human rights.
If people would not have joined those events, there would not be an article to read today. By having worthy causes and fairly easy ways to help, the protests and campaigns all conquered what they were made for and did their duty. By the repetition of these events, one understands that the importance is placed on the activism. With the development of social media, activism has skyrocketed and the knowledge of social movements is widely known. The contrasting events, such as the four young men’s boycott versus the Bhatia campaign, all help give the reader more ways to understand the activism.
Top-down processing could assist Casey in his ability to exit the maze if he was looking at the maze from a location above. Top-down processing would involve Casey looking at the maze as one whole functional unit, and then reviewing the detailed paths to find a correct solution to exit the maze. However, since Casey is unable to view the maze from anywhere other than the middle of the maze, Casey would not be able to use the top-down processing way of problem-solving. Functional fixedness could interfere with Casey’s ability to find a solution to exit the maze because he has viewed the objects in his possession as only functioning one way. The gum that Casey has in his possession could be used as a tool to mark the areas he already covered in the maze, however, Casey is unable to see a use for the gum and therefore continues to remain lost and unaware of the places he has already walked through.
Most peaceful protests get media coverage and evoke emotions and support within the public, therefore forcing the public to deal
Another example of a protest would be the Black Lives Matters movement that has been going on recently. People from the movement have been blocking freeways and even coming to protest at the Minnesota State Fair and disturbing the peace of everybody there and causing them to have much more security. I am not against what they are standing up for in the slightest bit, I am more just against the fact that they are out blocking major roads and intersections and are showing up protesting at a family function like the state fair. Not all of the friendly protests are so bad but I think that if they are putting other people at risk or in danger no matter it be physical, or mental danger or even just losing their jobs that they have, that, in my opinion, would definitely create a more negative impact on
In the Doc B. we see the definition of expression; "the process of making known one 's thoughts or beliefs." This demonstrates that their actions were just made to be acknowledged of because everyone her is open to their own opinion and therefore anyone making a protest is free to do so as long as they don 't go overboard and break a law. Additionally, in doc C we find that the people against the protest are visually racially divided, "that only 24% of white Americans support the 49ers quarterback ..." Just a few amounts of white Americans support this message. I believe that that comes from that fact that they may feel that their opinion is more valid with the skin color difference between the statistics.
People's justification to engage in civil disobedience rests on the unresponsiveness that their engagement to oppose an unjust law receives. People who yearn for a change in a policy might sometimes find themselves in a dead end because their “attempts to have the laws repealed have been ignored and legal protests and demonstrations have had no success” (Rawls 373). What Rawls says is that civil disobedience is a last option to oppose an unjust law; therefore, providing civil disobedients with a justification for their cause. Civil disobedience is the spark of light that people encountered at the dead end and they hope that this spark of light will illuminate to show that an unjust law should not exist at all. Martin Luther King, Jr, in his “Letter from
Based on my knowledge from the Declaration of Independence and Jefferson’s letter about Shays’ Rebellion, I believe that Jefferson would support of the modern day protests. One of the most famous quotes from the Declaration of Independence written by Thomas Jefferson himself, was the line,”…all men were created equal…” he believed everyone was born equal and should be treated equally. Most of the protests we see today are either about racial rights, gay rights, gender equality, woman’s rights, or about unfair laws placed upon the people by the government. All these protests vary in size or amounts of people partaking in the event, but nonetheless all have people fighting for their own rights and to be treated as equally as the next person.
Identity to many people may be perceived as the biological and physical traits that distinguish us from others, such as, the color of one’s eyes, hair, height, social security, social status, and personality. While this all may be true, identity in America can be portrayed in a more deeper understanding. We can see that one’s identity can be shaped by what one believes in and what he or she thinks is right or wrong. Protesting is a way of showing who you are and what you believe in, and to be an American is to protest. Protesting is a key factor in being an American, but what does it mean to be an American anyway?
When playing the role of an activist on in any form, activism is constantly prominent in their lives. Activism is defined to be the policy or action of using dynamic and often confrontational campaigning by means of organizing demonstrations and protests to achieve the goal in bringing about political and/or social change. Then there is slacktivism which refers to the actions that are performed via the Internet to support and stand up to a political or social cause but which can be regarded as requiring little time, effort and involvement, e.g. signing an online petition or joining a campaign group on a social media website. When considering activism, certain pros and cons come to mind.
Rallies may start off peaceful but others who may agree with those protesting don’t always do it peacefully this causes riots and looting, which is the farthest thing from peaceful. There is a fine line from marching down the streets peacefully and making your opinion know like Martin Luther King Jr did in 1965, in Alabama to help fight for the right of African-Americans to vote. Then someone saying it’s okay to loot and destroy cars and stores because they are expressing their opinion.
