Civil Disobedience On April 29‚ 1992‚ the City of Los Angeles was surrounded in a riot in response to the "not guilty" verdicts in the trial of four white Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers accused of unlawfully beating Rodney King. Six days later‚ when the fires were finally extinguished and the smoke had cleared‚ "estimates of the material damage done vary between about $800 million and $1 billion‚ 54 people had been killed‚ more than 2000 injured‚ in excess of 800 structures were
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According to Wilde’s idea‚ disobedience leads with better consequences. We know disobedience having bad consequences‚ but some consequences are led to good. Though being disobedient or rebellious can actually bring out a negative outcome‚ it can also bring a good aftermath for further progress. Rosa Parks being a dark complexion woman at the time era where racism wasn’t illegal and lynching was occurring. She was a big role model for the dark complexion people who lived at her time. What she did
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Disobedience has led to a substantial amount of the miracles in our history. People such as MLK Jr. and Rosa Parks started movements that were unimaginable to some. Disobedience is how this country has gotten where we are‚ if the colonies hadn’t rebelled. we would still be a part of another country listening to other people’s rules. Phenomenons occur when we defy the odds. In the book Fahrenheit 451 it is prohibited by the government to own any form of literature. A man named Guy Montag starts a
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Where should the line be drawn between justifiable and unjustifiable government interference with American citizens civil liberties? Since the Patriot Act was enacted after September 11‚ 2001. There has been an ongoing argument about the validity of the Patriot Act and whether or not it is a violation of civil rights. The question is how far is too far? How much intrusion will Americans allow into their lives for the sake of national security? The Patriot Act was signed into law on October
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lifetime but he also has several positive contributions that have been overlooked. Declaring himself "the ruler of all those who live in felt huts‚" Genghis Khan united countless of people under a progressive and benevolent rule. He ended numerous civil rivalries and intertribal warfare‚ bringing violence and countless of deaths to a halt. As his empire grew‚ Genghis Khan improved internal and external trades; allowing his people to grow and prosper. Through these profitable trade routes Khan made
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Is there any jus¬ti¬fi¬ca¬tion for keep¬ing ani¬mals‚ liv¬ing beings‚ in strict cap¬tiv¬ity? A question that cre¬ates debate right at the moment of pos¬ing it. Many peo¬ple have strong feel¬ings against keep¬ing ani¬mals in cap¬tiv¬ity‚ and would like to ban the con¬cept of “Zoos”. Oth¬ers don’t give it any atten¬tion as long as they are enter¬tained when vis-it¬ing the Zoo. The mis¬sion of well-respected Zoos‚ those accred¬ited as mem¬bers of the global zoo¬log¬i¬cal asso¬ci¬a¬tion (WAZA) and/or
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Some people would agree with the statement that situation ethics is a practical and effective method in calculating what the most morally justifiable answer is. Situation ethics is practical in its moral decision making because one of the key and fundamentals of this ethical system‚ the four presumptions‚ is pragmatism; the proposed course of action must work‚ and must work towards the end‚ or Love. For example if a mother of four was taken as a prisoner of war‚ thereby separated from her young family
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Is physical force a justifiable method of punishing children? strictly punish children for small faults — means to lose any of their trust and respect. Jean de La Bruyère was a French philosopher and moralist. serious risk for parents is that instead of becoming for the child force protecting‚ helping it to develop‚ realize the purposes in this life‚ parents can become a type of problems or sufferings which the person in this life faces. Physical discipline perpetuates aggressiveness
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Is Disobedience a Psychological and Moral Problem? In his essay “Disobedience as a Psychological and Moral Problem‚” Erich Fromm asks a question that he considers very important‚ “Why is man so prone to obey and why is it so difficult for him to disobey?” (405) He claims that disobedience is the right thing to do but obedience without questioning is bad. He claims that the history of human beings started because of acts of disobedience. He further claims that human beings continue to progress
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Oscar Wilde observations on disobedience were changing every year he continued his observations. Disobedience progressed to a less meaningful thing throughout the course of history up to this day. History plays a major role in disobedience development‚ because it tells you whether or not we have chosen to use disobedience to the roots we started using it with or not‚ and the answer to that is no because we have diminished the true value of disobedience and rebellious. Martin luther king is a person
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