Direct Action Day

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openly defied her leader in a direct way to accomplish a singular goal, while King’s defiance had a more complex goal in which his civil disobedience was only facet of. King’s goal was unity and equality amongst people while Antigone fought to bring honor to her brother. Also, the way in which they perform the disobedience varies, the steps each one takes reflects their feelings and the goals they were seeking. Between the two, I sympathize more with King, as I feel his actions and goal was overall more

memorable experiences. While using different analogies to himself and to acceptably argue the Clergyman allegations that the peaceful protests Dr. King is organizing against segregation are "unwise and untimely." voicing "… when you are humiliated day in and day out by nagging signs reading ‘white' and ‘colored'… when you are forever fighting a degenerating sense of ‘nobodiness'—then

letter from Birmingham Jail, and Antigone 's violation of Kreon 's edict are justified by what they stood to lose if they did not take their respective actions. Dr. King choose to address more than just his dissenters in "Letter From Birmingham Jail"; he decided to speak to all people from all times, in an open letter. The physical action of writing the

When I went on stage during our weekly assembly and announced the start of affinity groups at our school, I was oblivious to the reaction of the hundreds of students in the audience. I was focused on speaking clearly and getting through my short speech, excited by what I was announcing. I didn’t know that the few sentences I read off a piece of paper would change my perception of my school, my friends, and myself. Almost as soon as I got out of the assembly, before I even got to my next class, I

Gandhi was born in suppressed India in 1869, which was four years after the end of the American Civil War. Gandhi studied law in London, England. Gandhi liked that the English respected the law. Gandhi disapproved of India’s caste system. What made Gandhi's Nonviolent Movement Work? Gandhi used at least three different tactics to make nonviolence work: disciplined civil disobedience, accepting jail time, and embracing the enemy. One nonviolent tactic that Gandhi used to make nonviolence work was

by Sophocles you can see Antigone fight against the injustice act of burying her brother. In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self purification; and direct action” (King Jr., 1). Both of these two uses four major principles, to fight against the importance of unjust laws. Justice does not appear and occur easy for anyone that is trying to fight for it. Martin has been fighting for a long time to make justice

terrorists, When a Tree Falls offers the audience a first-person perspective on the terrorist, Daniel McGowan. The detailed background information on his recruitment, radicalization, and involvement in the ELF provides a plausible justification for his actions, encouraging the audience to have compassion for him during his house arrest and prison sentence. In fact, McGowan’s “human” attributes are preserved and even accentuated throughout the film, such as through interviews with his sister, father, and

A primary technique used to overcome racial segregation during the 1960’s Civil Rights Movement in the United States was direct action. One of the most influential leaders of the Civil Rights Movement was Martin Luther King Junior who is known for his use of nonviolent direct action, which often entailed the violation of laws as an act of civil disobedience. On April 16, 1963, King composed his “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” where he accepted the consequences for his disobedience against the Birmingham

Environmental movements in Britain have a long history with the ‘Commons, Open Spaces and Footpath Preservation Society’ being founded in 1865, followed by the foundation of The Royal Society for Birds in 1889 and The National Trust in 1895 (Rootes 2003). These societies show the traditional side to British environmental movements, with Rootes writing that ‘environmentalism in Britain was thoroughly moderate, respectable and reformist’ (Rootes 2003: 2). There are an estimated 200 national environmental