Essays on Nonviolence

Martin Luther King is the most active and famous human rights activists, or it can be said that he projected him as a leader of civil rights movements. He worked hard to end the racism from the world and thus he gave his life to stop racial discrimination in the United States. He lived from 1928 till 1968, and he served most of his life serving humanity. He started human rights work and then he ended up contributing for Civil Rights Movement. He delivered various speeches to encourage people to adopt methods of nonviolence. To pursue civil rights goals ...

INTRODUCTION

When something terrible happens the first thing that most people do is call 911 and they send first responders, which include police, EMTs, paramedics and firefighters, to face the brunt of a car accident, a fire, or all too often in the modern era, mass shootings and possible explosions. That said these first responders very often face serious psychological impacts from the kind of scenarios that they find themselves, from a gunshot wounds to the dismembered bodies of accident victims they see it all, raw and unavoidable. The risk factors for first responders is severe and has lasting effects ...

This paper describes the social movements that Blacks participated in during the period from 1900 to date. It tackles the ways in which the movements can be described as one long civil rights movement, and also how were they distinct movements. The paper further assesses their goals and the manner in which they have effected change in the United States. The paper also points out prominent civil rights activists that played an important role in spearheading the civil rights movements. Most of the black social movements from 1900 to date have basically been fighting against racism. The 20th Century ...

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Ahimsa: From the Perspectives of Buddhism and Jainism

Introduction The concept of ahimsa is a concept of nonviolence with roots arising from the belief system of Hinduism. Nevertheless, Gandhi (169) and Kaur (2) suggested that all religious traditions worldwide agree that ahimsa can be a profound basis of human survival. However, historically, it has experienced certain variations as understood and practiced in latter belief systems such as Buddhism and Jainism. In the next section, the general but essential concept of Ahimsa will be presented in its entirety as contributed and reinforced in Buddhism and Jainism. It will be followed by two ...

Civil Rights History in the United States

The Civil Rights movement came to the fore almost after almost 100 years after the abolishment of slavery, but the predominant white populace, especially in the Southern States, found ways to get around the legal laws and statutes. Jim Crow Laws limited the way the American African American and populaces were allowed – to, or not – to vote, further there were other written and unwritten societal rules which were intended to intimidate during the 1950s and 1960s peoples of African American origin where meant to alienate and deter the mingling between whites and blacks at any level of societal interactions. ...

The lessons about peace movements of the past came from Gandhi and Martin Luther King (Cortright 2). The birth of the Civil Rights Movement in America was headed its leader of the Martin Luther King, a well-known activist and humanitarian. King used his written works that became part of his peaceful protest against any lawless violence that was evident the society. His famous work includes the “Letter from Birmingham Jail” which was used to ignite the black Americans to fight against the corrupt practices of religious leaders. King was a Baptist minister and he used his gift of influence ...

The civil rights movement was a succession of political protests in the United States that sought to bring racial equality before the law. In many instances, the protesters used nonviolent acts in enhancing the emancipation of women and the rights of minorities. Despite the fact that many women played a significant role in leading the local civil rights groups and volunteering as lawyers on school segregation suits, their efforts were overshadowed by men who got more attention and credit for the popular historical process in the US. Many women suffered from sexual discrimination and gender-based discrimination within the movement ...

ABSTRACT

Frederick Douglass was a great man and truly brilliant public speaker, who spent his life working to abolish slavery and guarantee equal citizenship rights for blacks. He did not make a moral argument for nonviolence although he strongly denounced the United States for betraying its own principles of liberty and democracy for all. In his rhetorical situation, he was addressing white audiences that he hoped would be sympathetic to their cause, and had strong criticism for white Christians who had often been indifferent to the situation of blacks and failed to live up to the highest principles of their faith. ...

Question 1

It is true that many religious traditions frequently make “truth- claims” about after life beliefs, nature of universe reality, and moral structure of human condition. Therefore, this essay focuses on three traditions, which have conflicting differences in truths that they claim. These religious traditions include Hinduism, Christianity, and Buddhism. The essay discusses how people in these traditions understand these truths, the differences among these three traditions in this respect, and the similarities that exist alongside these differences. Starting with Christianity religious tradition, it is worth to not that it is among the largest world religions. Christians believe ...

Abstract

A rich history exists about various developments that have happened to India in the last 400 years. The history encompasses the influence of rainfall in influencing socio-economic lifestyle of the Indians, political system, the colonization, and decolonization of India, the partition of India and the factors that contributed to the partition, as well as the influence of World War 2 in resisting the colonial rule. The political model of Mahatma Gandhi is instrumental in defining the history of India during the colonial era as well as decolonization and partitioning of India into India and Pakistan. While history tend to ...

A review of the Deacons for Defense: armed resistance and the civil rights movement. By Lance Hill (2004) The Deacons for Defense is a historical text authored by Lance Hill. Hill used this book to define the historical moments explicitly at the time when people of African origin were struggling to fight for their civil rights. He rightly calls the events that transpired during the time of the Deacons for Defense “the myth of nonviolence”. The book is based on an array of credible and impressive sources, which increases the chances of creating an accurate account of the historical ...

Philosophy Journal

“Burnt Norton” by T.S. Eliot This poem is told through a narrator speaking directly to an audience. He warns of living in the present and not to suffer the past or worry about the future, “If all time is eternally” present. To worry about what one has already done in the past, “Down the passage which we did not takeTowards the door we never opened will not help to live well in the present.” (Eliot) To spend one’s time think and planning for the future is also a waste, “Here is a place of disaffection Time before and time after”. ( ...

Introduction

My leadership style is working with group of people to achieve specific goal. I believe the goal must be clear defined to everyone can reach that goal. It must inspire workers to work well enough short term and long term to accomplish these goals. Furthermore, I have clear and direct communication for each step to complete the goal (Milstead, 2004). In order to encourage workers to work hard, I believe the great way is reward the workers. However, the workers will be subject to negative consequence if he or she fails to produce require or expected out put, disobeys ...

Southern Baptists and Southern Presbyterians maintained separate denominations as per the book by David Chappell. The religious forebears of the Baptists and Presbyterians broke up and formed the northern and southern spheres. David Chappell argues in his book that slavery was the reason for breaking the churches. This book, “a stone of hope” claims that further propaganda about religious discrimination lead to the civil rights movement. Religion played a major role in describing the blacks and quotes state that the poor in the Bible really fought the rich just as the poor in the civil movement. Those who were involved in ...

The literature regarding M.K. Gandhi deals with his views of politics, ethics, economic ideas and religious views. However, there is little exploration into the coherence of these domains of thoughts of the stalwart figure. Critics treat his views on the different matters in isolation with each other. Nevertheless, he communicates the very important message of the dutiful existence of human beings through his views of life and the civilization. V.S. Naipaul opines that there is no way to abide by the philosophy of Gandhism, owing to the lack of unity in his ideas. The khadi and charka are ...

In one of his sermons held on Riverside church, Martin Luther King came up with seven reasons as to why America should not go into a war with Vietnam. Of the seven reasons he had given, I find the following three reasons quite persuasive. The issue of Nonviolence also formed a great part of martin Luther king’s speeches. He believed in it passionately and preached it wherever he went. But to his dismay he found that his words of not using guns, Molotov cocktails and violence to end disputes and solve problems sounded hollow when the country he lived ...

Every person has his own way, his own lucky star, and his destination in this life. But nevertheless, a human stays a human no matter what he or she faces and what problems copes. All outstanding persons stayed just simple men no matter how greatly they influenced the people’s lives and the whole world. I think Socrates, Buddha, and Muhammad were just simple people with their own problems and happiness; all of them were just normal people with arms and legs. But from the other point of view each of them was unique and wonderful person. Gandhi was one of ...

Let me take this chance to define two important terms here. The terms are violence and peace. Violence refers to the aforethought application of physical might either actual or life threatening towards a group of people, an individual or a community. Such an action has a big probability of causing harm that may be psychological, loss of life, injury and impaired development. Peace on the other hand refers to the state of dwelling in a state or environment that is surrounded by tranquility and harmonized personal relations. Peace can also be derived from a state of security that can be achieved either customarily or ...

Introduction

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi the social reformer, leader of Indian nationalism and also a religious leader is among the most pronounced global leader; in propagation of nonviolent confrontations to fight for social and political strive. His philosophy and approach on social and political strives not only led to the ultimate attainment of Indian independence, but also affected various people and events around the globe. At around the same time when Gandhi was leading the fight independence in India, African Americans, on the other hand, were fighting for equal rights in the United States. However, the influence of his leadership styles and ...

The history of Mahatma Gandhi is dated back in October 2 1869, when he was born in Porbandar India. He rose to become among the most respected political and spiritual leader in India. History has it that he played an essential role in the fight for independence of India from the British colonial rule. He led the Indian people in the nonviolent resistance against the rule of colonialism. The name Mahatma was developed by the Indians to mean great soul. This shows that Mahatma Gandhi had a great love for the people. Therefore, mahatma Gandhi can be described a political figure a ...

There are many professionals in both the fields of sociology and the field of education. There are almost as many opinions on the topics that are studied as there are professions. Some of the topics that are frequently studied are the ways in which people learn, the ways in which they interact, and the ways in which the make choices in the early years and how these choices influence them throughout their lives. Fortunately, much of the research that has been done in these areas has come to a consensuses and the professionals and learning to collaborate better with each ...

Do you think Martin Luther King Went too far in his "Letter from Birmingham Jail” do you think he did not go far enough? No, I do not believe that Martin Luther King went ‘too far’ at all in his “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, since the injustice and oppression blacks faced were very real, and the white clergy he was writing to had never done anything for civil right and just wished he would go away. Martin Luther King could have been a lot more violent and angry than he was in this letter, given that in Birmingham, Alabama ...

Thomas Jefferson and Martin Luther King were important leaders in their time, even though by background they had very little in common and would not have been on the same side had they been contemporaries. Jefferson was a large slave owner in Virginia who became governor of that state after writing the Declaration of Independence and then president of the United States in 1801-09. Even though he wrote the famous words ‘all men are created equal’, he meant only white men, not blacks, women or Native Americans. As a politician and chief of state, he most certainly did not believe that ...

Introduction

The green parties are formally organized political parties that are based on the principals of the green politics. Such parties are associated with the principles of social justice, grassroots democracy, nonviolence and the environmentalism. They strongly believe that the issues stated above are interrelated as a founder for the world peace. They typically embrace the principles of social democratic economic policies and forming coalitions with the leftists. The green parties emerged in the middle of the 90th century. This paper shall critically and coherently discuss what led to the emergence of the green parties in Germany. The paper shall also ...

Henry David Thoreau was the first nonviolent activist who actually formulated a coherent theory of what this philosophy would mean in action, and in the 20th Century both Mahatma and Gandhi and Martin Luther King followed similar principles. None of them claimed believed that nonviolent, direct action was identical to pacifism, passive resistance or inaction. It did not imply weakness or cowardice, but the exact opposite for only the bravest people would be willing to oppose the power of the state or the majority of popular opinion. Truth, justice and morality required that the minority or the individual take a stand ...

Introduction

Martin Luther King was a Ph.D. in theology who had led the civil rights movement in the South since 1955. He referred to the founding documents and principles of the United States that promised liberty and equality for all, and noted that the country had failed to fulfill these in practice, especially because blacks had suffered centuries of slavery and segregation. His main concern was to secure basic citizenship and voting rights for blacks, and his speaking style was far more like that of a preacher and prophet. A century after slavery was abolished, blacks still faced segregation, discrimination and lack ...

Rhetorical Analysis of the Fourth of July Speech of Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass was a great man and truly brilliant public speaker, who spent his life working to abolish slavery and guarantee equal citizenship rights for blacks. He did not make a moral argument for nonviolence although he strongly denounced the United States for betraying its own principles of liberty and democracy for all. In his rhetorical situation, he was addressing white audiences that he hoped would be sympathetic to their cause, and had strong criticism for white Christians who had often been indifferent to the situation of blacks and failed to ...

Question 1

Does the Harlem Renaissance have one unified style? No, the Harlem Renaissance is characterized by the multiple experimenting of different forms and styles. This cultural movement encompasses a wide variety of styles including music, poetry and plays. The variation and experimentation of styles and elements of this cultural revolution evident in the poems of Hughes, McKay and Countee contributed to a new identity or consciousness – ‘New Negro’ identity. The poetry of Cullen and McKay has roots in conservative traditional poetry influenced by European literature while Hughes’s style is more modern. Experimentation and diversification provides the basis ...

World War II was one of the most destructive and dramatic events in human history, affecting nearly every country on the planet, regardless of whether or not they were actually engaged in conflict. Of no exception is the country of India, whose participation and hosting of American and Allied forces during World War II brought a problematic series of questions and political factors to the country. One of the biggest fights was the one to win hearts and minds in India; to that end, the United States took great pains to make themselves look like the "defender of democracy" to ...

Overview of contraceptive use in America

Close to 60 million women in America are estimated to be at the appropriate age of childbearing. Majority of this group are sexually active but always in fear of becoming pregnant. In order to fulfill their desires, there must be use of contraceptives. Women are the majority consumers of contraceptives with close to 99% of women at reproductive age. It is estimated that 62% out of the 60 million women population between the ages of 15 and 44 (reproductive age) use contraceptives as a birth control method. It is also estimated that a third of the women population are not using ...

A Hindu View of Nonviolence

1. Summarize the central themes, theses, issues, or arguments of the reading assignment. In the chapter Ahimsa and the Unity of All Things: A Hindu View of Nonviolence, the authors Shastri & Shastri (2000) discussed the concept of ahimsa in the Hindu context where ahimsa is taken to mean nonviolence, although its true meaning is really more widely encompassing as it is an ethical, religious, and philosophical concept that connotes a number of relevant things. For simplicity, ahimsa can be described as the opposite of any act that may be akin to violence. They noted, however, that Hindi teachings ...

Introduction

It goes without saying that life without peace and tranquility is of no relevance. But, the real life scenario does not go exactly the way one thinks. Though non-violence is a peaceful and strong tool or option to win the hearts of people, it does not always serve the intended purpose of life. There are numerous instances when it fails to serve as the weapon of ensuring peace in the world. Undoubtedly, it makes good sense to assume that the peaceful co-existence of people or countries depends on the mutual accommodation, understanding, respect, and honor of one another’s lives and ...

Pros and cons of Affirmative Action

Affirmative action refers to the general agenda which was started in the 1960s. It was brought forward in order to stop the discrimination experienced by women, the ethnic minorities and groups without representatives. The primary purpose of affirmative action was to improve the educational and employment opportunities for this minority groups as their rights. Affirmative action in itself has its advantages as well as its own disadvantages and therefore arguments can be brought up from the topic. This is because it is a complicated and difficult subject to handle since it brings up emotions and gives rise to conflicts ...

Differences between efficient and group-level explanations for war

The efficient explanation for war is centered and derived from the constitution as well as from the legal structures within an entity. This means that wars are constitutionally appropriate if the lives of the citizens are threatened by an outside entity. This means that the decision to engage in war is independent on social or other cultural background (Danziger 35). The group-level decision is centered on the idea of dominance. Countries decide to engage in war for reasons that are defined buy cultural and social differences. Countries are therefore in a rush to enter into war with other countries, not ...