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    Peaceful Protest Examples

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    into the situation. With examples such as; Mike Brown‚ Eric Garner‚ Philando Castile‚ Alton Sterling‚ among too many others‚ “peace” most often results in a final fight for life. Ironically‚ if we peacefully protest‚ or peacefully resist the law we end up facing harsh consequences. Peaceful protest was once considered a means of freewill. During the 1960’s where racism existed in between the cracks of American government‚ there were four fierce‚ demanding men. David Richmond‚ Franklin McCain‚ Ezell Blair

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    Colin Kaernick's Protest

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    user and would post videos of brutality‚ shootings‚ and incidents frequently. Kaepernick found that his silent protest was not reaching the audience he wanted it to‚ so he demanded attention from the entire nation by peacefully protesting in a symbolic way. During his protest‚ many citizens were upset‚ but it eventually received praise from other players and watchers. Kaepernick’s protest has been a hot-button issue in politics. President Barack Obama cheered the player on and supported his movement

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    Anti Federalist Protest

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    The Anti-Federalist protest was not within the effects‚ that were voted to the ten amendments to the constitution. The federalist have focused on the arguments on some inadequacies of the national government that is formed by the constitution. The federalist has papers that communicates the central ideas that the federalist have. The U.S constitution did not use the word feudalism to provide extensive details about federal system. The constitution grants that the national government and several

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    Tiananmen Square Protest

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    Protest for Democracy: Tiananmen Square In May 4th‚ 1989 a series of protest were actioned against the Chinese Government. The protesters were disrupted by the Government. Although the government had forcefully subdued the protestors‚ they wouldn’t always be so demeaning. The government would later be altered in good and bad ways. The Chinese government was forced into making sure the people were adequately taken care of. The main fault behind all of the protests‚ was the death of Hu Yaobang.

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    Vietnam War

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    Vietnam was a small Asian country‚ 9000 miles away from the United States. Yet America felt that its national interest was threatened strongly enough to fight a war there. The explanation for this lies in the fear caused by the spread of communism at that time. The role of communism was extremely important in this conflict. You see‚ the US had to enter the war to stop the spread of communism in Asia since North Vietnam was communist. If North Vietnam was to succeed in converting Vietnam into a communist

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    Vietnam was a struggle which‚ in all honesty‚ the United States should never have been involved in. North Vietnam was battling for ownership of South Vietnam‚ so that they would be a unified communist nation. To prevent the domino effect and the further spread of communism‚ the U.S. held on to the Truman Doctrine and stood behind the South Vietnamese leader‚ Diem. Kennedy and Diem were both killed in 1963 and 1964. Johnson took control of the situation by increasing the amount of money and manpower

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    Song

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    Can a woman be true to one man? Is a pure and virtuous woman anywhere on the ends of the earth? John Donne‚ a poet of the Renaissance and a contemporary of Shakespeare’s ponders this dilemma in the poem "Song" or "Go and Catcha Falling Star". Structurally Donne is unique in the structure of the poem. The poem has a rhythm and a rhyme scheme a‚b‚a‚b‚c‚c‚d‚d‚d. With lines 7-8 Donne has two word lines which add impact to those words "And find/What wind"‚ "And swear/no where"‚ and "Yet she/Will be"

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    All Literature Is Protest

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    Period 4 Ms.D “All literature is protest. You can’t name a single literary work that isn’t protest” was a quote said by Richard Wright. My interpretation of this quote is that through all of literature‚ there is protest. There is protest from the protagonists and even the antagonists. I agree with this quote because in every piece of literature there is a conflict that one faces‚ and characters show their dislike towards something in different forms of protest. This quote is proven to be true in

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    Vietnam (war)

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    Vietnam was the first war that issued full freedom to the press‚ allowing media to cover the war as they saw it. Without censorship‚ appalling images enabled the public to see war‚ as they never had before. Many people believe that it was the media that sparked the lack of support for the war. The Tet Offensive‚ for example‚ would become one of the most controversial and climactic events in which the media played a role. Up to that point‚ the media had portrayed the U.S. as winning the war. When

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    Military Funeral Protest

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    Military Funeral Protest Fight in High Court WASHINGTON – Supreme Court justices on Wednesday pondered the vexing question of whether the father of a dead Marine should win his lawsuit against a fundamentalist church group that picketed his son’s funeral. Westboro Church protest at military funerals because church members say God is angry at America for its general acceptance of homosexuality‚ and protesting at military funerals and many believe it an effective way to draw attention

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