When the Rules Are Broken, History is Made
It's hard to condense the last 300 years into a single book. In school, students learn about the past and how certain events have shaped the present. When reading a history book all of the important parts have to do with conflict of some kind; one side disagreed with another, one side was disobedient in one way or another. The books don't highlight the parts of the past that were peaceful and uneventful; they concentrate on wars, civil movements, conflict, and people breaking the rules. Those are the moments in history that really matter, the moments that shape history. In 1891, the Irish author, Oscar Wilde, stated in The Soul of Man Under Socialism “Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through …show more content…
The Constitution and the Bill of Rights became some of the laws and rights for the American people. If we keep following history the US goes thought more wars, a civil war in fact. The North vs the South both trying to change the law and break the rules in order to progress. Rosa Parks is a prime example of disobedience in the name of social progress. She did not move her seat on the bus when at the time African Americans had to sit in the back of the bus. Her story has been taught in schools since kindergarten, how this act of disobedience and rebellion led to the civil rights movement and how she is a hero for breaking the rules. Time after time we learn about protests and controversial acts of disobedience because those are the times where the rules are challenged. The laws changed in 1920 allowing women to vote. The laws changed when prohibition happened making alcohol illegal and the changed back in 1933 to make it legal again. The rules and laws get broken every single time a new amendment is added to the constitution. Today, 17 new amendments have been added since the original 10 in
It's hard to condense the last 300 years into a single book. In school, students learn about the past and how certain events have shaped the present. When reading a history book all of the important parts have to do with conflict of some kind; one side disagreed with another, one side was disobedient in one way or another. The books don't highlight the parts of the past that were peaceful and uneventful; they concentrate on wars, civil movements, conflict, and people breaking the rules. Those are the moments in history that really matter, the moments that shape history. In 1891, the Irish author, Oscar Wilde, stated in The Soul of Man Under Socialism “Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through …show more content…
The Constitution and the Bill of Rights became some of the laws and rights for the American people. If we keep following history the US goes thought more wars, a civil war in fact. The North vs the South both trying to change the law and break the rules in order to progress. Rosa Parks is a prime example of disobedience in the name of social progress. She did not move her seat on the bus when at the time African Americans had to sit in the back of the bus. Her story has been taught in schools since kindergarten, how this act of disobedience and rebellion led to the civil rights movement and how she is a hero for breaking the rules. Time after time we learn about protests and controversial acts of disobedience because those are the times where the rules are challenged. The laws changed in 1920 allowing women to vote. The laws changed when prohibition happened making alcohol illegal and the changed back in 1933 to make it legal again. The rules and laws get broken every single time a new amendment is added to the constitution. Today, 17 new amendments have been added since the original 10 in