Non-cooperation movement

to work for the good, but also to oppose the evil, “In my humble opinion, non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good” (Gandhi and Civil Disobedience). With Gandhi’s non-violent protests in both South Africa and India, he was able to accomplish much for the betterment of all in the face of oppression with limited…

Should We Stop Child Labour? (Opinion Paper) How would you feel if you ever had to see your 7 year old brother or sister going to work instead of school? In today’s society teenagers or kids usually whine about how much work they did around the house when in reality they only did a bit. They usually don’t think about the kids that are forced in to labouring for many different purposes and cant whine about it because they won’t get there pay or they would get beaten. Have you ever thought why…

Without reform we wouldn’t have change and improvements that are so dire to the evolution of life. The temperance movement was one reform that helped evolve our country and still has an effect on present day way of life. The American temperance movement was a social movement against the consumption of alcoholic beverages. It encouraged the moderation of alcohol. The temperance movement started after the American Revolution in…

Martin Luther King was a great leader in the civil rights movement. He fought for freedom by using nonviolence. His inspiring was Mahatma Gandhi, who said progress only happens throughout constant effort. He says unjust law is out of harmony with the moral law, however a just law is manmade law that square with moral law Kant agrees to this ideas too. According to King breaking an unjust law is not considered wrong. We have freedom of birthright which means that we are born as free. From it we…

“Environmental pollution is an incurable disease, it can only be prevented” once said by Barry Commoner, a former biologist and a founder of the modern environmental movement stated this quote back in the day 1900’s yet environmental problems still continues to be a huge problem, not only individually but it’s a social condition today. As humans we should see that we breath and survive because of the clean environment that we once had, but the question is that are we really living in a clean…

1. How did US citizens express their opposition to the US invasion of Vietnam? US citizens expressed their outrage and opposition of the invasion of Vietnam fervently and loudly. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the earliest protesters were civil rights activists, who, having witnessed the oppression of blacks within the US, responded to Lyndon Johnson’s announcement of the invasion of Vietnam with wary suspicion. Other early protesters were students, hundreds of thousands of whom rallied in protest—and…

answering the question: What role should virtual social movements play within China 's “Great Firewall”? The issue deals with the fact that there is abundant censorship, not just on the Chinese web, but throughout China in general. Social media has the distinct feature of being a tool that can reach millions of people faster and without nearly as much censorship as other forms of collective action. My argument is that virtual social movements in China, have the ability to effectively exact…

Friends of Nature is a non-profit and non-governmental organization which was established in the 1990s in Beijing, China (Friends of Nature, 2010). The aim of the social organization is to raise people’s awareness of environmental protection and encourage more people to take part in…

I plan to write about animal production because the issue of food and it’s ability to be sustainably produced is a current issue that I am interested in. This issue relates to sustainability because if food, live stock, is continually produced at the same rate resources like land, water, and air will be scarce and the damage that animal production will cause will be irreversible. I have applied the Twelve Tests of an Arguable Issue and have been able to answer yes to each question. I would…

the "Noble Experiment" the United States announced that the sale and manufacturing of beverages that contained intoxicating liquor were illegal from 1920 to 1933. This action was known to many as the temperance movement, which had tons of supporters across the nation. The temperance movement of the 1920s failed because the demand for alcohol was not eliminated among many Americans, and the law was hard to enforce due to numerous illegal acts produced by it. The elimination of alcohol provides…