Have you ever heard of a law that you didn't like? What about thinking that you might want to boycott it? Well, today I am going to tell you how civil disobedience impacts a society. I will also tell you why it positively impacts a society. In America, there has been a multitude of incidents where civil disobedience has been apparent. The first example I am going to explain to you is the Edward Snowden incident. In the article John Cassidy explains how Edward Snowden helped the national government of America, instead of intruding on it. John Cassidy brought up his own evidence where Snowden helped enhance the public domain of the government, and helped it. One example of this is how Snowden "meticulously looked at every document" (Cassidy, John). This example clearly shows that Snowden didn't spy, or reveal algorithms of the
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A prime example of this is Rosa Parks in the mid-1960's during the Civil Rights Protests. This is a direct example of a boycott of a law, that was racially driven. Rosa Parks did not want to give up her seat to a white man on the bus. The bus driver had moved where "colored' people were supposed to sit, and made Rosa parks move to the very back of the bus. In the 1960's, her dispute of refusal to move to very back of the bus was an example of civil disobedience which had a domino effect reaction with the population. This one event is often referred to along with references to Martin Luther King Jr. But in the aspect of civil disobedience, we can also declare this one a positive impact of society. Not only did it show that more than one race of people in the U.S.had rights, it also showed that America can be a racially diverse country. The domino effect mentioned earlier is demonstrated by the events that followed afterwards. These include those such as the Voting Rights Act of 1964 and the election of an African-American president, Barack
A prime example of this is Rosa Parks in the mid-1960's during the Civil Rights Protests. This is a direct example of a boycott of a law, that was racially driven. Rosa Parks did not want to give up her seat to a white man on the bus. The bus driver had moved where "colored' people were supposed to sit, and made Rosa parks move to the very back of the bus. In the 1960's, her dispute of refusal to move to very back of the bus was an example of civil disobedience which had a domino effect reaction with the population. This one event is often referred to along with references to Martin Luther King Jr. But in the aspect of civil disobedience, we can also declare this one a positive impact of society. Not only did it show that more than one race of people in the U.S.had rights, it also showed that America can be a racially diverse country. The domino effect mentioned earlier is demonstrated by the events that followed afterwards. These include those such as the Voting Rights Act of 1964 and the election of an African-American president, Barack