The Salt March Book Review

The Salt March was a form of protest led by Gandhi against the British government in India after World War I around the year 1930. This protest focused on resisting the British tax on salt production. Gandhi marched 24 days to India’s west coast and taking salt from this area. This action was considered illegal because India was currently under British control. The Salt March left a message for India’s economic standing that they [India] should declare independence from Britain.
2. The Awakening of the Arab Nation:
The Awakening of the Arab Nation was a book written by a man named, Najib Azouri. The book was written in the year 1905 before both World Wars. Awakening of the Arab Nation would publicize the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that is ongoing. This book was written in response to the mass migration of thousands of Jewish immigrants to the Palestine region. This mass migration was a result to an increase of anti-sematic programs in surrounding countries including Russia, Poland, and the Ukraine. Azouri emphasized that the Palestinian and Israeli’s had two different goals, the Arabs spreading Muslim beliefs and the Israelites wanting to reconstruct the ancient …show more content…
Havel gives this example of a “Green Grocer”. The “Green Grocer” is a story of a man that owns a store and everyday puts a sign in the window to support the communist government, but Havel believes that the grocer did not do this out of loyalty to the government but as a habit, an act of conforming. Havel believes that this grocer is not just lying to others in the community but the grocer is ultimately lying to himself. Havel is using the Green grocer story to prove his theory in his essay “The Power of the Powerless”. Havel believed that if we accept the system [government] than we are allowing the system [government] to continue to conform our