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Lena Everitt Research Paper

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Lena Everitt
October 6, 2014
IB Non-Certificate Literature
Period E
Independent Oral Presentation

First slide: Civil Disobedience Lena Everitt

Second slide:

Thesis
Thoreau advocates for staying true to one's common sense and morals as well as standing up for one's beliefs, which is exemplified in the demonstrations Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr. and Mohamed Bouazizi participated in.

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Focus Area "Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislation? Why has every man a conscience, then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right" (Thoreau 2)

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Thoreau’s Ideas
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participated in civil disobedience as well:
• Protested hurtful racial signs and segregation in Birmingham, Alabama
• Led sit-ins, marches etc.

→ Didn't give up his conscience, morals or what he thought was right for legislation, but rather tried to create change

Tenth slide:

"As in so many past experiences, our hopes had been blasted, and the shadow of deep disappointment settled upon us. We had no alternative except to prepare for direct-action, whereby we would present our very bodies as a means of laying our case before the conscience of the local and the national community... We began a series of workshops on nonviolence" (King 893).

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Outside Connection
Mohamed Bouazizi

December 17, 2010 - Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia:

26-year-old Mohamed Bouazizi went to a local market where he intended to sell fruit.

Local police confronted Bouazizi over the location of his fruit cart. The official confiscated Bouazizi's cart. When Bouazizi went to the police station in effort to get his fruit cart back he was turned

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