Rebellion

The Capacity for Rebellion Throughout history, humans had rights. These rights protected people and gave them freedoms, allowing for life to be lived freely and prosperously. However, throughout history, these rights have been snatched away for many reasons, and when this happens, rebellion acts as an essential way to move forward, since it occurs when a group of people perceives that their rights aren’t preserved. Weak and internally divided governments can act as catalysts for rebellions – on October 1917, the Bolshevik party, supporters of Socialism in Russia, overthrew a provisional government which had nearly driven the Russian Empire to financial bankruptcy. In the months before the true upheaval of the provisional government, around…

The Peasant Rebellion began with a local meeting composed of the village commune. The assemblage was a coming together of protestors that trespassed the boundaries of villages and lordships, which expressed rudimentary regional identity. This association of people took on an organizational form as a “band.” The bands were made up of peasants protesting against the government, which created the problem of feeding and supplying themselves. The major battles of the Peasants’ War resulted in…

You might be familiar with the word “Rebellion” since some kid’s movies have scenes in which rebels plot a rebellion against an evil kingdom. But do you know other versions of rebellions? A rebellion is usually not the same in every case nor in every story. In the passages, “Cairo: My City, My Revolution”, “Reading Lolita in Tehran”, and “Persepolis 2”, rebellion is presented in many forms and ways by the authors. To begin with, in the passage “Cairo: My City, My Revolution” the setting of the…

same, the effects would be slightly more drastic. Starting off with starvation being the root to all the problems it would lead to rebellion and then the world would go down in shambles. The government starts with hinting at rebellion due to lower districts having to find any way to fend for themselves, all because of low resources. Families, and the gathering of districts is a major way to start a rebellion. There are many factors to take into play as to why these families and districts from…

During the colonization of America tension was often present between the lower class and the upper class. This occurs in both South America and in the Sothern colony of Virginia, some examples would be the Pueblo Rebellion, and Bacon’s Rebellion. Taking place in South America the Pueblo Rebellion reflects the tensions between the lower class Indians and the higher class Spanish colonist. Taking place in the colony of Virginia, Bacon’s Rebellion reflects the tension between the lower class…

economical, and social changes through various rebellions in the 18th century. One of the four rebellions during this time was the March of the Paxton Boys. Many Pennsylvanian men had become outraged with the government because it was paying for the protection of Native Americans. During this “march”, 20 Conestoga Indians by 57 drunkard Pennsylvanians. Politically to hear out the rebellious men, Benjamin Franklin had marched with these men to Germantown to speak out their main grievances.…

During Shays’ Rebellion, Thomas Jefferson wrote to James Madison in a private letter, “I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.” Though he wrote while Daniel Shays led an armed insurrection of 4,000 veterans in Massachusetts, I believe Jefferson, when he wrote of “a little rebellion”, referred not to large-scale violent events such as Shays’ Rebellion and the American Revolution, but instead to periodic…

Teenage Rebellion is a wide-spread theme that is used in multiple works of literature, movies, and song lyrics. One work of literature, that is most likely the most famous for using this theme, is Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare. There are various example of teenage rebellion throughout the work and from many other sources as well. Another work of literature, that was later made into a movie, is Titanic, which shows this theme as well. This theme is used in many areas a multitude…

King Richard II’s Underserved Loyalty by the Commoners Wat Tyler’s Rebellion was written after 1381 by an anonymous author to persuade the readers that King Richard II did not deserve the loyalty and devotion put forth by the commons. The author provides the reader with a chronicle of the peasant’s revolt in which he presents the commons’ reasons for revolting and how the King reacts to each interaction with the commons. The peasants are portrayed as justified in their actions, while the King…

a couple of people who were from the neighboring city, they seemed friendly so Sydney asked them if they would help her rebel against the government. They thought about it for a few minutes and agreed, so Sydney gave them the information of when the rebellion was. She had it all planned out the rebellion would take action May 6th 3099, exactly 9 days away. On May 1st, as Sydney was walking to the Donut shop she ran into a kid, the kid looked like he was a baron so she leaned down to help…