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    Satyagraha, Ghandi embraces civil disobedience and non-cooperation movements towards corrupt states without the use of violence. This is different from passive resistance and Theoreau’s concept of civil disobedience as their means end goes to a…

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    of History Channel is the biography of Martin Luther King Jr, who he was as a man and why he was such a famous social activist. According to Voices of History Channel Martin Luther King Jr. was a social activist who had a major role in the American civil rights movement. King longed for equality and human rights for all African Americans and achieved this through peaceful protest. He did not believe in violence but in peace and knew that if he protested with violence he would be acting like…

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    Author and Professor Elie Wiesel stated in his Nobel Peace Prize speech, “I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented”(118). Suffering can be both mental and physical is many different ways. Physically, suffering can be described as feeling pain. God is supposedly making us suffer for future events but this book does not…

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    To sum up, in his letter in response to the 8 white clergymen who were critiquing the mass protests he and the civil rights community was involved in while in Birmingham, Martin Luther King discussed how what was taking place in the United States, particularly in Birmingham, is unjust which is why people were protesting against. Also, that the church is not as great as it once was since its followers have not accepted African-Americans as equal, instead segregation was still taking place. Within…

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    Candido Rondon, known colloquially as Marechal Rondon, was a devout Brazilian expansionist of both faith and civic pride. He successfully did what many before him had tried and failed to do, which was to unite Brazil. A driving force behind his seemingly superhuman motivation and desire to accomplish his goals of both unifying Western Brazil and Coastal Brazil and helping to further the rights of indigenous peoples was rooted in his ideological beliefs, namely the pseudo-religion of Positivism.…

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    witnesses more violence. White teenagers on the street celebrate the bombing of the church, as more African-Americans are killed and harassed on the suspicion on being civil rights activists. Several white teenagers, while throwing rocks, begin shouting “2, 4, 6, 8! We don’t want to integrate” (13). Consequently, the white teenagers resist civil rights effort, and the push for better treatment of African-Americans, simply by declaring their aversion towards integration. The teenagers’ chant was…

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    The letter written by Martin Luther King, Jr. titled Letter from Birmingham Jail, is written to put forth a message. Throughout the letter written, King is diving into the concern surrounding just and unjust issues towards the African American community in Birmingham. This argument is addressed when Martin Luther King, Jr. states "One may well ask, 'How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others?' The answer is found in the fact that there are two types of laws: there are just laws,…

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    Speech #1: Martin Luther King - I Have A Dream Speech - August 28, 1963 The strengths of the speech: In Martin Luther King’s speech, he has a well-organized speech and a powerful voice. He was confident, powerful and forceful in his speech. In the beginning, he used a history story to get the audience attention, which raises the audience interests. The topic of the speech is very clear, and there are many examples to support his argument. He also used a lot of repetition, such as "I have a…

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    Importance Of Ganga

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    Narendra Modi started many campaigns for bringing change in the society all over. Swach bharat is also one of his motto. Ganga is the holy river, it the most important river in India. But unfortunately it is one of the most polluted river. It is Narendra Modi’s dream to make Ganga clean and not only clean but also beautiful. So making his dream possible he has started a Project Called Namami Ganga to make it unpolluted and beautiful. So this paper will go through the Importance of Ganga, History…

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    its policies. In this process, I voted “yay” to yay pass the bill. The reasons behind my decisions are plentiful. In the simulation, there were many different outlooks on the situation. Karen Albright states that, “We have been through a terrible civil war, two world wars, depressions, and riots without having to compromise the fundamental principles of…

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