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    fascinating things about Mohandas Gandhi is that the childhood version of the individual we all know as the poster model for restraint was the polar opposite. Born in the small coastal port of Porbandar in India, Gandhi was not much different than his peers. He came from a well-respected and largely religious family and was the youngest of six children. When he was still very young, Mohandas and his family moved to Rajkot for his father to become the Dewan. Once in Rajkot, Gandhi was placed in a primary school

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    In past the rights of people have been denied due to which leaders of that time have struggled and took great responsibility to gain the rights. The leader of modern Indian nationalism, Mohandas Gandhi led the movement of India independence spirituality and brought India’s freedom. To Gandhi, moral values always succeeded material ones, and the improvement of human souls was a necessary precursor to the improvement of India. He was a believer of nonviolence and civil disobedience, proving that these

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    Jimmy Chen Mrs. Meador Honor’s English II 1 Dec. 2014 Rough Draft for Argumentative Essay Thoughts of disobedience and rebellion have existed for almost as long as the first law or rule that could be broken. These thoughts come naturally to us, being humans we are curious and we wonder, what would happen if we were to do something different, something off the beaten path. This curiosity has fueled, our evolution, our development to the beings that we are now. It has spawned the thoughts of morality

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    According to the novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in the article, “The Danger of a Single Story”, she proclaims that when there is just one single story of someone or something, it can be detrimental to said subject. It can be detrimental to a group of people, because that one single story can make great people seem horrible. Having one single story about a beautiful place can make it sound terrifying. The world is multidimensional and having just one explanation of something, can make something

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    Gandhiji Reflection

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    degree, the problems he had while facing their culture as well as his strict belief in vegetarianism, religious knowledge he got through The Gita and The Bible are the interesting and important things that were talked about early in the book. Gandhi traveled to South Africa to take care of a case and when he was there he was embarrassed by a racial discrimination incident while on a train while sitting in first class. Gandhiji was very much affected negatively by racial discrimination and the

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    hits me and I fall to the ground. The men leave, content with the murders they have just committed. Martin Luther King was successful in leading “nonviolent” and peaceful protests. One of the reasons he decided to perform such protests was because Mahatma Ghandi did the same thing and wound up successful. Even though innocent people died during the civil rights protests, King and his followers soon became successful in their goal of coloreds living hand in hand with whites. King led nonviolent

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    Brute Force In Gandhi

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    a kind of force where if someone doesn’t do what you want or like than you hurt them. When using brute force in an unjustified manner the person using brute force is the one who suffers the most. The kind of force that Gandhi would be using would be to either give into what Gandhi and his people demanded or they will no longer follow Britain’s orders. This force is also known as non-cooperation. Satyagraha also meant not following the laws that were found to be unfair. The key to using satyagraha

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    very effective. One of these leaders was Gandhi. Gandhi was a leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule by using nonviolent civil disobedience. Another example was Julius Caesar who was a leader in the Roman Republic and transformed the republic into an empire. However, Caesar lacked attributes that Gandhi has that could have made him a more effective leader. Although seen as a person who restrained Britain from growing, Mohandas Gandhi was an effective leader because of his humility

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    independence. Some countries used violence while others promoted non-violent protests. India rebelled nonviolently through the help of Gandhi and gained independence. Therefore, non-violent civil disobedience is the most effective strategy for achieving major political change. One example on non-violent civil disobedience to create political change in the film Gandhi was the Armistead Massacre. The massacre occurred because the British passed a law that stated Indians could not assemble. Indians protested

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    violent ones. Mohandas K. Gandhi was an African philosopher who was also an attorney. During his time, Gandhi challenged the apartheid system. The apartheid system basically was a form of institutionalized racism that put the whites (the Dutch and the British) above the brown (Indian workers) and the black (the descendants of the African natives). In addition, it made brown and black people to be considered “second class-citizens”, even though some of held prestigious jobs. Gandhi was angered by the apartheid

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