Draft dodger

There has been peaceful resistance in the world for hundreds, if not thousands of years. While there is a debate between whether or not peaceful resistance does more harm than good, many people, both leaders of these resistances and laymen, have weighed in on the matter. According to figures such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Muhammad Ali, peaceful resistance is necessary in order to positively impact a free society. While many reactions to peaceful resistance are negative, this negativity is…

The Vietnam War was an extensive and expensive war between the Communist regime of North Vietnam and South Vietnam, known as Viet Cong. The United States were allies with South Vietnam. Ho Chi Minh was the founder of the Indochina Communist Party and the prime minister and leader of North Vietnam. His Communist party was called the Viet Minh. Ngo Dinh Diem was the first President of South Vietnam. He was not in favor of Communism. The war started on November 1, 1955 and ended on April 30, 1975.…

He was called a “draft dodger” and today, even after his death, some people have not forgiven him. Ali did not agree with the idea of using war to solve disputes. He knew his consequences and when he was confronted, he said “take me to jail”. He claimed his religion as the…

Muhammad Ali is a hero to many people in todays society. Muhammad Ali’s original name was Cassius Clay. Ali was an amazing boxer with a record of 56-5 with 37 knockouts. He inspires a lot of people to do certain things. One of the things he is most famous for was his stand on the Vietnam War. He also was the person to make trash talk popular in sports. Muhammad Ali was a very charitable man who often gave away some of his fortune. Muhammad Ali affected the Vietnam War a lot by refusing to…

war, the others were very angry that they could not leave. Tens of thousands of soldiers got dishonorable discharges because of their anger. But from 1965 through 1973, over 500,000 people decided to leave for Canada because of the draft, they were called “Draft Dodgers”, even though in 1972, Nixon called an “All-Volunteer Army.”. There were many protests including two at Kent State and Jackson State and police killed 6 student protesters. Nixon decided, after declining a peace treaty, to bomb…

Civil Disobedience: A Dangerous Influence on Society Civil disobedience is extremely significant in progressing American democracy: it was the impetus that drove our founding fathers to resist England, it aided Susan B. Anthony and Alice Paul in struggle for women’s suffrage, and aided abolitionists and civil rights advocates for nearly 150 years. However, when civil disobedience movements lack peaceful leadership they often turn violent, decreasing respect for authority and democracy. Once a…

destiny might have been different. Tim O’Brien, another character who shares the author’s name suffers from the inaudible words we can term gaze-discourses deriving from his conscience and the will of the Other－the superego. He once tried to be a draft-dodger, as he disagreed with the Vietnam War, yet the superego is so powerful that Tim O’Brien eventually joins the war. When reading this war novel, we naturally let the author guide us with his desires, and we freely follow him to feel the…

refuse to serve, becoming draft dodgers by escaping to Canada and other safe harbors.” This shows what many people would do just to not be apart of this war. They would leave everything just to escape getting a drafting card and having to go to war. Another example is in the text “Kent State Students Protest” the talks states, “These protests usually were peaceful and included such things as burning draft cards, fleeing to Canada or some other country to escape the draft…” Once again it talks…

the mid-1980s after the father lost the family business on account of a major contract. When Albert became of age he dodged the draft by allegedly withdrawing his classes and having a doctor’s note for the claim of nervous exhaustion. After, he rejoined his family in Milan, Italy even though his parents were skeptical of Albert being a high school dropout and a draft dodger. He then gained admission into the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich mostly because of his exquisite mathematics…

FBI and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.” (O’Brien 50). If he were to be caught, he would surely have the verdict of jail time. Which could result in ruining his life even more. He deems that all of this is too much a risk to himself to escape the draft. He supposes that this embarrassment and trouble will be less of that if he chooses to cross the border. As when he was a few feet from the border, instead of escaping that very moment he chose rather to start crying, showing that even the…