Henry Salt

Macaih described the motorcycle accident he encounters on the west side of Detroit and show us a video of him and a partner rail jumping from Oregon to Salt Lake City, Utah. The song of the day was Al Jolson singing Brother Can You Spare a Dime, a definitive rendition depicting the sentiment during the Great Depression. In 1927 there was a world depression and, the Soviet Union with Josef Stalin created the Gulag a labor camp in which many people died. World War I veterans created the Bonus Army…

Events in the 1900’s reflect traits that of Henry David Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience. Two people who created events that stick out as civil disobedience are Martin Luther King Jr and Mahatma Ghandi. In both instances these two men stood up for what they believed in in a civil way in order to induce change. Thoreau would have seen Martin Luther King and Mahatma Ghandi's actions as significant acts of civil disobedience because they peacefully fought for what they believed in. On August 28th, 1963…

Henry David Thoreau, Mohandas Gandhi and Nelson Mandela all fought for peoples rights against their government. They all stood up for what they thought was right and unfair against the people. Mohandas Gandhi protested against the British government and when the British started taxing salt on the people of India, he didn’t think it was right. He peacefully protested by marching to the ocean and claiming that the salt belonged to the people. Gandhi stated “ you may choose any device to break the…

countries, despite the government and its leaders, violence is used to gain control and power. When studying historical events, we can examine how individuals, governments and political groups have taken different approaches to injustice. Introduced by Henry Thoreau in 1849, civil disobedience is defined currently as “the refusal to obey governmental demands or commands as a collective nonviolent protest in hopes for a change in politics, economics, or social structure in any given…

In Civil Disobedience, Henry Thoreau questioned whether a citizen should “resign his conscience to the legislator” and stated that “the only obligation which [one has] a right to assume is to do at any time what [one thinks] right”.[1] Moreover, he advocated for a “right of revolution”, which should always be exercised when we disagree with the law.[2] These two ideas are at the core of what is known as civil disobedience, or the belief that we should peacefully disagree with the regime if its…

narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence”-Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau expressed the philosophy of Transcendentalism, or reliance on one’s own thoughts and theories rather than conforming to the widely excepted opinion. To have self-reliance, one must be confident with his or her personal evaluations and be connected with nature in order to hold an untainted understanding of the world around him or her. Henry David Thoreau was a leading Transcendentalist famous for…

Henry David Thoreau, Mohandas K. Gandhi and Nelson Mandela these three people believed to be oppressed. These people are very important and made great history. They all changed and did the impossible for their people. Something that no other human being had the ego to do. They changed the way of thinking to their government. Thoreau, Gandhi and who Mandela were the ones who awake. In other words, they knew their rights and did something about it. They spoke against the oppression they…

Henry David Thoreau was considered as the first hippie. He avoid government taxes and laws. He was an extremely independent citizen, which means he avoid consumerism and business products. When he got thrown in jail, one of his friends bail him out and Henry knew he had to protest for his true freedom and against government corruption. It was a civil disobedience, he says that government doesn’t do valuable things. People do valuable things. Mohandas K. Gandhi was known as the purest soul. In…

Henry Ford is an example of how economic and social policies of successive Republic Governments contributed to a world of inequality. Henry Ford Henry Ford the genius behind the successful assembly line mass production of products; in his case; the motor car. Born in Dearborn Michigan in 1893 into a farming family. Henry was educated at the local school. At the age of sixteen he became a machinist apprentice. Henry was raised as an Episcopalian. He had very strong views, he believed in…

Exploitation Leading to a Worse Tomorrow A new president is elected every four years to run our nation, represent the country, and uphold the Constitution of the United States. The President of the United States acts as the most powerful man in the world and therefore, we must place our trust into his hands. When the society discovers that their elected president becomes untrustworthy and secretive , a bond is broken. The Watergate Scandal of Richard Nixon and the most notorious political…