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    There are many reasons that can urge someone to commit an act of rebellion. When one feels that his or her civil-rights, human rights, and beliefs are under attack that person is most likely to become rebellious. The term coined with this kind of rebellion or resistance per se is “Rebel”. What is a “Rebel”? A rebel is someone who resists a body of government or the government itself, a system, a group, a church etc., to overthrow whatever he or she thinks is wrong doing. This person feels the…

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    choose good or evil, but more importantly than that, each had the choice to define what was good and what was evil. But humans, they had a tendency to polarize the world into what is right, what is wrong, what can, and what cannot be done. Here is man’s problem: Timshel, the idea that humans are not predestined and right and wrong are not stagnant, was replaced by strict mundane social and political constructs which inhibit free will and self-determination. In East of Eden, through a positive…

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    deciding if it was best for the patient. Roe vs. Wade forced state to make abortion legal. Claiming that it was a women’s right to their body, and that they should be able to make the decision. In response to this Catholic’s and other religious groups spoke out against the idea. Another big role that religion played was in the gay rights movement. Christian Right opposed gay rights on the grounds that homosexuality flouted the will of God as expressed in the traditional family (Hartman, 95).…

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    Nonviolent Activism

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    acts such as terrorism, wars and physical abuse in history has debilitated the citizens economic, political, and mental circumstances of society as whole. African Americans during the Civil Rights Movement have proven that forms of nonviolent activism is effective to fight injustices and to achieve basic human rights. In March Book One, and March Book Two, both highlight the effectiveness of nonviolent activism by singing in jails, protesting to not pay jail bail, and to send young children for…

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    because “Anthony saw in the amendment a legal case for the right of women to vote. The 14th Amendment also said that ¨No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge [lessen] the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States.¨ Well, said Anthony, weren't women citizens of the United States? And if citizens could not be denied the right to vote, it seemed plain enough that women could not be denied that right.¨ The second text evidence of why the theme is being different…

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    sides of being the Help. Skeeter ends up publishing the maid’s stories, positive and negative, and titles her book “Help”, using different alias’ for the woman. With the power of the Help’s words, the book influences the community to be aware of civil rights issues. Overall, “The Help” by Kathryn Stockett explores themes of race, society, the home, love, and justice through its use of 1960s segregation in its prime. By learning of these behaviors through the first person point of view of three…

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    respect others and their insight on religious differences, keeping them on equal footing so all views were equally valid. This further promoted the separation of church and state, provoking the concepts of “free expression” and “natural individual rights” (Forst). A French man called Montesquieu promoted “the toleration of different religions for the purpose of preserving political unity and peace,” which was adopted and became a means of preserving individual liberty in government and religion.…

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    Rev. Dr. William J. Barber’s book; Forward Together, A Moral Message for the Nation, with Barbara Zelter, both authors talk about the historical context of the civil rights movement and the need for a moral movement their state of North Carolina and ultimately in the whole of the Unites States. Rev Barber sees this movement toward right wing extremists in the Republican Party; and sees them as coming to hurt minorities and poor through their policy implementation. The book progresses with…

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    animals rights. In Animal Farm, the pigs “Ordered the hens’ rations to be stopped, and decreed that any animal giving so much as a grain of corn to a hen should be punished by death,”(Orwell 46). These pigs are being genuinely unfair to the hens by cutting off their food supply and are punishing the other animals that are trying to help them by killing them without reason. In August 28, 1963, King and “Over 250,000 black and white citizens assembled in Washington, D.C., for a mass civil rights…

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    Enemy Of The States

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    declaration, the earliest form of the United States government promised to secure a set of unalienable rights for all men – the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Today, the United States still strives to secure and protect these values for all American citizens. Via policing and military action, the government confronts and disbands any perceived threats to these unalienable rights – threats such as crime and terrorism. Advancements in both human and computer technology have…

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