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    There are many peace forms over the world. However lion 's share of peace procedures fizzle when they appear. Researchers, specialists and experts endeavor to give answer to why numerous peace procedures come apart. There proliferate incalculable hypotheses that propose why peace procedures and assentions fall flat. Amidst educational disarray relating to why peace procedures fall flat, peaceful resistance in struggle circumstances has possibilities to make peace procedures and assentions work.…

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    Why The Moon Is Down

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    John Steinbeck was a member of two intelligence organizations that were the precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The director asked Steinbeck to write a work of propaganda against the Nazi aggression in Europe. As a result, Steinbeck wrote The Moon is Down. This book argued the need for people to stand up against the Nazi invaders and to not surrender and appease them. Many people throughout Europe were able to read this book including people who receive smuggled copies of this…

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    Violent conflict often brings about a mountain moral burden when making decisions and taking action. A fairly popular response to this question is to act through the principle of love in nonviolent action. However, are there other ways to put love into action? When love and nonviolence is typically discussed the image of non-retaliation, self-restraint, and non-action typically comes into mind. We have seen this through history in the form of public disobedience and nonviolent protest. Leaders…

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    Violence is a behavior involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something. Most onlookers and activists, during the Civil Rights Movement, would agree that violence was not a route that they wanted to take. Non-violence and self-defense both center on this concept of violence. To accurately identify if self-defense and non-violence are opposite tactics defining the two concepts independently in the contexts of the Civil Rights Movement is crucial. Understanding the…

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    Yuugi's Pacifism

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    Over time, he became closer to the spirit, enough to confide much to him, and aided him in return with his journey to recover his name and his memories. As a result of him exercising his nature of compassion, selflessness, and pacifism in the name of friendship, Yuugi made an abundance of friends along the way and made sure to cheer on his companions during their own duels too. Yuugi always saw the good in people, since his opponents certainly couldn't be that awful! Even if he…

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    Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” traces the story of Arthur Radley’s subtle change from the beginning of the book to the end. He goes from being viewed as a horrible monster who comes out at night, to finally being understood as a recluse who encases himself to escape the ever present racism and hostility in MayComb. As the story commences Arthur is akin to a caterpillar undergoing metamorphosis, even though he does not really change much, yet he is viewed and perceived as something-or…

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    death, models of personalities, and expression of negative emotions. Death and aging are arguably two of the most feared aspects of life for Americans. Granted, it has not always been this way. In the history of America as a country, it is far from pacifism. If anything, America was built on the dead bodies of others. From Native Americans, to Blacks, to the armed forces. Death is seen nearly every single day, and over time has developed into a major fear. It is interesting and terrifying to see…

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    Albert Einstein’s Change of Heart: From Pacifism to the Atomic Bomb Beyond doubt, Albert Einstein is one of the most famous scientists of the 20th century. His name is the first one that comes to mind when one looks for genius. This is not without reason since we owe him most of what we know about space and time. Even though he usually appears with his smiling face, fluffy white hair and pipe in his photographs, when one looks deep into his eyes, it is striking to sense some sort of sorrow…

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    that “he put his gun down when he realized that God had given him an unfair advantage over most living things” (Lee 112). Atticus did not only influence his children, but he also persuaded the other people of Maycomb just through his actions that pacifism defeats conflict. Atticus educated to the townspeople and the readers of “To Kill a Mockingbird” that being empathetic will help in changing the society for the betterment of the…

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    crucial in terms of understanding the perspective in which he viewed war. Throughout the 1930’s, pacifism had flourished in Britain as almost two and a half million British soldiers had been killed or wounded in the first world war. This act of war, although it happened some 20 years prior, had still been fresh in the minds of the British people. Neville Chamberlain would carry the torch of pacifism ever since he was elected Prime Minister of Britain in 1937. Chamberlain’s pacifist attitude…

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