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    I will be talking about the racism that people had to face in these stories “Letter from Birmingham Jail”‚ “I Have a Dream” by Martin Luther King Jr. and “The Ballot or the Bullet” by Malcolm X. In the stories racism plays a big part. In one of the stories they talk about black people having the right to vote. Another one was about how would like to just white people. One of them had to do with telling black people how black people felt in the times. Racism has a part in all these books. In this

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    Katelyn Mehner Period 3A 9-27-15 Civil Disobedience Truly DisobedienceCivil disobedience is a form of protest in which protesters deliberately violate a law” (suber). It is a way for society to reform itself to reflect its current values while maintaining its fundamental ideals. Some may argue civil disobedience is a “slippery slope” leading to anarchy or it cannot be justified in a democracy. Civil disobedience‚ while not optimum‚ is a way to accomplish change with the intent of reform

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    not fall inside the scope of the current laws. Peaceful displays of civil disobedience are courses of actions that can have

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    advocate for civil disobedience and those who support violent protests. The latter‚ is nothing more than a flawed contradiction.

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    Civil disobedience is defined as “refusal to obey governmental demands or commands especially as a nonviolent and usually collective means of forcing concessions from the government”(Merriam-Webster). This can also be stated as peacefully breaking laws that are seen as unjust. America’s government is built on the people being able to criticize the government publicly without being punished. Actions that are taken that would qualify as civil disobedience are intended to generate a reaction‚ ideally

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    the world: civil disobedience. It was the concept that people could disobey laws and accept their consequences to protest in peace. It may sound counter-intuitive‚ but it drew attention to some of the greatest plights in human history: civil rights for African Americans‚ Indian oppression by the British Empire‚ South African apartheid‚ among many other events. Each of them succeeded in changing the world by fighting with their words‚ their wills‚ and their intellect. Civil disobedience allows people

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    I negate that civil disobedience‚ or “the refusal to obey certain laws‚ demands‚ or commands of a government‚ or of an occupying international power”‚ according to the dictionary‚ should be permissible. The rule of law provides the necessary structure for maintaining justice. Civil Disobedience is not permissible for three reasons: It sabotages democratic process‚ is self-defeating‚ and although a part of history‚ that does not make it morally just. Civil Disobedience is not permissible because it

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    the British occupation in the 1919 Revolution.[3] Civil disobedience is one of the many ways people have rebelled against what they deem to be unfair laws. It has been used in many nonviolent resistance movements in India (Gandhi’s campaigns for independence from the British Empire)‚ in Czechoslovakia’s Velvet Revolution and in East Germany to oust their communist governments‚[4] In South Africa in the fight against apartheid‚ in the American Civil Rights Movement‚ in the Singing Revolution to bring

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    Civil disobedience is the act of breaking the law as a form of peaceful protest. Some think that it might be ineffective because it takes long or too many people can get hurt‚ but if you include violence you can make the problem worse and could lose a lot more lives and get more people hurt. I think civil disobedience is an effective way to make change in society. Some ways that civil disobedience is effective is that can fight a bigger power‚ you can bring attention to the issue without violence

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    In 1963 from Birmingham jail‚ Dr. Martin Luther King‚ Jr. was arrested for being a partaker in nonviolent demonstrations against segregation. While imprisoned‚ Dr. King wrote a letter in response to a public statement issued by eight Alabama clergymen addressing these diplomatic acts. Dr. King’s letter conveys his argument by approaching the clergymen’s statement rhetorically. Although his letter targeted all the rhetorical transactions effectively‚ pathos is one of the components that helped convince

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