Hank Williams, Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr marched and gave speeches to promote confidence and power to his followers. Malcolm X spoke about the nation of islam as his saviour and how blacks should stand together to fight for freedom. Muhammad Ali listened to Malcolm and Elijah Muhammad 's speeches which helped him become an islamic boxer. He fought every powerful boxer he could to show power is earned not given. He fought the military on the draft and stood up for what he believed in. Martin Luther King Jr,…

There were many times in history when breaking the law has been justified. Great men like Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King broke the law and changed the world to a better one. However, there are numerous philosophers that have argued that because it involves breaking the law, civil disobedience needs special justification. In this paper I will argue how an act of civil disobedience would be valid when a person goes against their country’s laws to do the right thing. First I will discuss…

illegally. Henry Thoreau thought that people should live under what they believed in and not by the government rules. Like these dreamers believe that this is also a home of opportunity where they can continue with a college education. According to William Perez, The DREAMers are children of illegal immigrants. These are the children that were…

In the 1950’s and 1960’s many American citizens were fighting for civil rights for African Americans. Among them was Martin Luther King Junior, who was thrown into jail for nonviolently protesting for his God given rights. Passionate and informative, Martin Luther King Junior’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” letter defends the actions of the protestors and inspires the clergymen and the rest of America to change their views on civil rights. Martin Luther King effectively validates his actions and…

Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech is one that goes down in the history books because of the impact that it made on the culture in that day. During 1963 racism was rampant, even though you could no longer own slaves the fact was that blacks were being treated still as less than human. King came from a perspective that he just wanted equality between races, it did not matter what color you were, religion, where you were from because in God’s eyes we were all created equal. At the time in history…

In many recent occurrences, American citizens have demonstrated their ignorance towards the definition of civil disobedience by rioting and looting. In order to protest issues in an effective manner, the definition of civil disobedience must be known. Many high ranking historical and modern day figures tend to agree that civil disobedience must have a just cause, it must be an action that disrupts the status quo in some way, and finally, the civil disobedience must be proportional to the impact…

Managers, directors, and team captains all have a certain quality in common. They are all leaders. As a leader, a person must exhibit several characteristics: honesty, integrity, responsibility, positivity, diligence, open-mindedness, and an ability to inspire others. However, among all these characteristics, only three excel are the most critical: honesty displays a leader’s true personality when difficulties arise, inspirational leaders can raise morale in trying times, open-minded leaders are…

The Civil Rights Movement was a time of utter chaos in American history. It was a period of protests and demonstrations against the racist policies that were governing the lives of African Americans. Alice Walker does a wonderful job of providing an up-close view of just how difficult this period was in her novel Meridian. This book shows the amount of unnecessary violence, segregation, and denial of rights towards African Americans that existed during that time. Meridian truly helps us to…

Plato defines knowledge as finding beauty itself (P., & Reeve, C. D. 2004). The right to receive a proper basic education is free in the United States. It is the right of the child to attend school everyday, however after the age sixteen they are not forced to go anymore. There’s always the agreement about how proper is the public education provided to our children. Children in the United States go to school from about the ages of five till about the age of eighteen, in which they learn basic…

History often repeats itself, especially in such a nation of the United States of America. The first 10 amendments knowledge that all citizens have rights and freedoms here in the U.S. However, that wasn 't the case. Minorities were included in these rights, they didn 't have equal rights like a white person would have this type of inequality is what fueled the civil rights movement. The civil rights movement have three main components. These components consist of how it began, who was involved…