Essay on Grassroots Boycott: The Fight for Human Rights

Disobedience is a valuable human traits because through disobedience it have bring great change in the society which have impact all people around the world. For example people who disobedience the law to bring change in their society are such as Martin Luther king, Malala yousafzai, and Mahatma gandhi. These three people had a great impact on people's lives and change the society forever by disobedience.

During the late 1800’s and early 1900’s America began to industrialize the majority of the country bringing forth industrial giants like Andrew Carnegie and his steel company along with John D. Rockefeller and his Standard Oil Company. Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of the United States, referred to these industrial giants as “robber barons.” A “robber baron” could be defined as an American capitalist who would do whatever in order to prosper. Carnegie and Rockefeller were considered “robber barons” due to the fact that they held oil and steel industry monopolies. Those monopolies gave them the ability to overpower other companies, robbing them of an opportunity to make their own fortunes, which limited the growth of a capitalist

"Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority."

The post-Civil War era was an era filled with political corruption, economic industrialization, and social urbanization largely due to an great surplus budget. With this being the case, the industrial capitalists, such as Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and others, were leaders in this societal boom. However, it would be appropriate to say that most industrial capitalist could be accurately characterized as “robber barons” for they often unethical, self-interested, and corrupt.

In the early 19th century segregation was strongly enforced especially in the deep southern areas of the US like in Alabama Mississippi. Segregation is the separation of the white people, and the colored people. Not only the blacks were separated they were treated very harshly, abused, and humiliated. The amount of respect that a full grown black adult had less respect as for a young white child. Throughout the 1960s was the peak of climax for the segregation whereas protest , sit ins were being acted. Sit ins and pickets were the way that colored people made their point that they wanted freedoms.

Published in the year 1776, common sense is an open challenge to the British government and the royal monarchy of that time. Paine spoke the language of a common person and worked for the independence of Great Britain. Paine states his opinion by arguing at the American Independence beginning with the theoretical and general reflections about religion and government and move on to the specifications about the situation in the colonies. By doing so, he aims to persuade the people to become more patriotic and join the fight against the British to become an independent nation. At the same time, Thoreau was one of the exciting practitioners of writing and was an intuitive genius. He worked hard to revise as well as refined his material.

In his esteemed novel, “Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming,” Paul Hawken inspires with a call to environmental attention. As a both writer and entrepreneur dedicated to our world’s ecosystems, Hawken seems to understand the impact we have created on our planet. Despite this, he also appreciates the human capacity to create an equal impact on the other end, and make positive progress. He defines this as the “Movement,” being an assembly of environmentally-minded groups and NGO’s coming together to save the dying ecosystems of the planet. Although Hawken’s optimism should be admired, his outlook seems slightly quixotic.

Land, water, sky. These are the seemingly immutable components of the Earth that we all feel are our birthright. Now place yourself in the position of the native American people, land removed from their ancestral use and many times themselves being removed from the land of their birth and relocated to small land holdings on the poorest, “worthless” land available. Water dammed, rerouted, and apportioned to non-native landholders. Skies filled with pollution from strip mining of those same ancestral lands, or irradiated with atomic waste in the name of “National Security”. These rights of land, water, and sky ratified by treaties which have been repeatedly violated by State and Federal government when the marginal land “given” was

The government sets the laws in place for us to keep the peace. This peace is what keeps the world from being in complete chaos, but is it right to blindly follow all of these laws that they put in place without cross examining the law to ensure that it is what is in the best interest of the state? It is appropriate, and the responsibility of the people, to go against the government under certain circumstances. When the government takes rights away from people, no longer has the people’s best interests in mind, or places laws or enacts changes that cause harm to or cause the people to go against their moral and/or religious beliefs are just some of the events that call for civil disobedience.

Capitalism is, tautologically, private ownership over the means of production. On face, the notion of a capitalistic society epitomizes the essence of freedom; ownership entails control, power, and potential for bargaining. I contend, however, that a holistic analysis of the capitalist institution exposes the foreground as an ugly facade. In short, I will show that capitalism not only brings out the worst in people, but also, sustains a pathological cycle of violence. I will first provide a framework discussion of my analysis, summarize the hypocrisies and development of capitalism, and then demonstrate the horrific result of value-driven trade.

In "Everything is a Human Being" and "Wrath of Grapes Boycott Speech," Alice Walker and Cesar Chavez, respectively, comment on the need for environmental awareness and the detrimental effects consumers have had on the environment. In "Everything is a Human Being," Walker contends that she wants to restore balance between herself and the environment, but comes to realize that balance cannot be restored unless others are also determined to change their behaviors. Walker writes, "Being an individual doesn't matter 名e are judge by our worst collective behavior, since it is so vast; not by our singular best" (661-662). Thus, Walker establishes that it is necessary to become aware of the environment and take steps to prevent further destructive practices, which she references through her interactions with the woods. Walker believes, "We must absolutely reject the way of the Wasichu that we are so disastrously traveling," which has been destroying the environment since the 19th century. In this context, Walker uses the term Wasichu to describe the white settlers who decimated the bison population and destroyed a way of life for Native Americans that depended on the animal. In what can be considered the essay's most poignant statements, Walker writes, "The United States, the country, has no doubt damned its soul because of how it has treated others, and if it is true that we reap what we sow, as a country we have only to recognize the poison inside as us the poison we forced others

The political concepts of justice and how a society should be governed have dominated literature through out human history. The concept of peacefully resisting laws set by a governing force can be first be depicted in the world of the Ancient Greeks in the works of Sophocles and actions of Socrates. This popular idea has developed over the centuries and is commonly known today as civil disobedience. Due to the works of Henry David Thoreau and Martin Luther King Jr. civil disobedience is a well-known political action to Americans; first in the application against slavery and second in the application against segregation. Thoreau’s essay “Civil Disobedience” and King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” are the leading arguments in defining

As citizens of the United States, we are members of the leading capitalist economy in the world. Our production and distribution is mostly done privately and we operate in a “profit” or “market” system. The capitalist system has been a target for criticism throughout the last three hundred years and is being discussed now more than ever due to the recent recession and financial crisis (Shaw and Barry n.d., 1). Its effects,

Ban animal cruelty! Give aid to the poor! Save the rainforests! Obey the law! As a human race we must strive to fulfill these commands, for they are our moral duties and obligations. Our obligation to morality sometimes leads to a dilemma. What happens when a law contradicts the morally right thing to do? Would it be moral to act illegally by breaking the law? No matter how drastic the measure, we are still required to act morally--even if one must break the law to do so. But why is it so important to be moral that one could justify something as serious as breaking the law?

The Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins is a well-known book in the past and even more well-known book in the present. To have experienced and lived through the hardship of being an economic hit man is astonishing. This novel contains knowledge and informative information, that even one who is not that knowledgeable about this field of study can understand and become further informed of how corrupt the major organizations in this global economy are like. Additionally, it can further inform those who already are in this field of study and suggest possible solution, that could lessen the impact and the control on an economic and political science standpoint. This SWOT analyse paper will provide informative points to show how the strengths of this novel outweighs the weaknesses, as well as how the author discuss the opportunities that can improve development outcome that outweighs the possible threats that can arise from such opportunities.