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    anon AP English Logical Fallacies Example 1: Your family is crazy. Therefore you are crazy. This is an example of the logical fallacy‚ hasty generalizations. There is a interpretation of misleading information present within this statement. The arguer draws to a conclusion of insufficient evidence that suggests a person being crazy because his or her family is crazy. This is a false settlement of opinion and judgment. A person can’t inherit a duplicate personality because each person is

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    Once upon a time‚ Civil Disobedience was a form in which an individual could protest peacefully or civilly make known their displeasure in the laws and actions of an organization or government. There was no violence‚ no destruction of property‚ and at the end of the day everyone knew they were still united by the fact that they were all Americans. They still loved and believed in the home of the brave and the land of the free. In today’s age‚ acts of Civil Disobedience have led to riots in the streets

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    for black equality‚ Diane Nash‚ who organized protests for black equality‚ and Qutb who inspired the future leaders of Al-Qaeda. Throughout the last century there have been repeated examples of reformists using bravery and courage to enact change. Bravery is an important trait for social reform as seen in Martin Luther King‚ Diane Nash‚ and Sayyid Qutb.

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    usually collective means of forcing concessions from the government. One way of practicing civil disobedience is by peaceful resistance‚ like protests. Peaceful resistance to laws have positively impacted society‚ and I am going to explain using three examples. The fact of the matter is our nation was built from an act of peaceful resistance. There are many examples of when the American colonists resisted the oppressive rule of the British‚ specifically King George III. With the Boston Tea Party‚ many

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    another and maintain peace. Although most of the people living among societies‚ DO in fact live in a positive form‚ its not that rare to find that some things do go wrong. For example‚ when a people who live within that society have problems within one another‚ they tend to turn their backs on each other. That’s an example of when the people within a society can make the positivity turn into a negativity. From the experiences that I have witnessed‚ it is easy to tell when a society is going well

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    Collision of War and Music: Vietnam and the protest music of the mid 1960’s and early 1970’s By: Ashley Gallegos-Sanchez AP United States History 6th Hour “War! / Hunh! Yeah / What is it good for / absolutely nothing… War has caused unrest within the younger generation Induction‚ then destruction—who wants to die.” Edwin Starr-“War” (1970) Music has undeniably become an advocate in spreading a gospel of free opinion. Without the Vietnam War‚ the music that presented itself in the

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    just because they don’t like how a situation is going. A peaceful protest is not rioting and looting just because the situation is not going in your favor. Peaceful resistance can mean a lot of different things to all types of people. Peaceful resistance is a situation where even though you may not like how something is going‚ you are still respectful to others around you and you are respectful towards the situation. A peaceful protest can more than likely get people

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    it is something that is good rather than something that is bad. It is important to understand what the terms deviant and political deviant before going into detail on who is perceived as one or how they become one in the first place. Deviance and protest are seen as something that is negative but this does not always need to be the case. Deviance refers to the fact or state of departing from usual or accepted standards‚ especially in social or sexual behavior. The classical perspectives on deviance

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    Throughout time‚ in almost any established civilization‚ specific examples can be found where civil disobedience had been practiced. Civil disobedience has been successfully used throughout nearly all modern societies for its effectiveness‚ which can be attributed to how it disrupts society‚ even when there are consequences to doing so. The most prominent examples of successful civil disobedience can be seen in the form of Martin Luther King‚ Jr.‚ Henry David Thoreau‚ and Mahatma Gandhi. Civil disobedience

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    most famous was the Salt March‚ when in protest of the British tax on salt Gandhi led thousands of people to the ocean where they could harvest their own salt from the water. This is considered to be an important turning point in India’s struggle for independence from foreign powers. One more example of civil disobedience is the Suffragettes movement in the early 1900s/late 1800s. This movement objected the fact that women were not allowed to vote. To protest this‚ women would go through all the necessary

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