Imagine: Your school principal informs the student body that starting the next day, your lunch time will be cut from the usual 40 minutes to 30. You are upset about his decision. What do you do, respectfully confront your principal, or blow up the school? Sure, blowing up the school will bring attention to your protest, but is that the right thing to do? Violent protests are one example of capturing attention, but at the end of the day, non-violent means of protest are the best way of gaining freedom from repression, and violence as a form of protest will never be justified.
For example, one well-known leader who made many positive changes in United States history was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. King fought non-violently against his country, and achieved many goals for the African-American community. Dr. King protested using his “Six Steps of Non-violent Social Change”, which is defined as “the process of conflict-resolution and change”, based on his own teachings. Dr. King provided an outstanding example of how using non-violent forms of protest can ease repression. Dr. King played a prominent role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which put an end to segregation on Montgomery public buses. Dr. King was also the president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which fought for civil rights of blacks. These rights became part of the Civil Rights Act, which helped African Americans gain the right to vote. The greatest achievements of Dr. King were undoubtedly as a leader of the American Civil Rights Movement. Dr. King would have continued to gain even more rights for blacks, but a man who was against his teachings assassinated him, ironically enough, in a violent protest.
Also, on September 11th, 2001, a man named Osama bin Laden planned an attack on the Twin Towers in New York and many other monuments in the United States of America. After planning for years, the attackers simultaneously hijacked four...
...English1101 Dr.Eric Martinson Zibo Liu Oct 23 2012 Religion Causes Violence
September 11th, 2001 was one of the most disconsolate days in the history of the United States. Around 9:00 A.M., American Airlines Flight 11 slammed into the north tower of the World Trade Center, and United Airlines Flight 175 crashed into another tower after twenty minutes. About one hour later, another airplane, American Airlines Flight 77, hit the Pentagon, and United Airlines Flight 93 crashed into a field in Pennsylvania (Schmemann). Due to these attacks, all passengers died in the air crashes, and hundreds of people were killed because they didn’t escape from the Twin Towers before collapsing. This series of malicious attacks not only killed 2,947 people, but also left thousands of people suffering in sorrow ("Sept. 11: A Day for Remembering"). It is well known that 9/11 was plotted by a group of religious fanatics called Al-Qaeda. It is an international terrorist group, and its main goal is to fight a jihad (a war waged by Muslims against infidels) against the Western world and Jews. Being based on a frenzy of Islamic fundamentals, Al-Qaeda organized many violent attacks, such as assassinations, suicide bombings, and hijackings to show their respect to Allah (Bajoria and Bruno). Someone can say Al-Qaeda is merely a group of lunatic people who were under the slogan of religion, and they are not religious believers. However, honestly, by either reviewing the history...
...Gandhi’s Philosophy of Non-Violence
First there was hostility, blood, vandalism, looting, pillaging, and then there was Gandhi. Mahatma Gandhi was one of the most influential people in history and fittingly has a place in the pantheon of the visionaries who changed the world. His philosophies of ahimsa and satyagraha, meaning nonviolence and non violent resistance respectively as a form of civil resistance and disobedience is one of the most prominent and most renowned for its massive implementations throught history. This essay’s aim is to describe the basic principles of ahimsa (non-violence) as it was introduced by Gandhi and bring to light one very important aspect of his teachings, the fact that violence is not only its obvious and apparent physical form, but can also be economic, ethical, political, psychological and educational and the only way for these to be eradicated is through peaceful manifestations.
Gandhi’s philosophy of non-violence (ahimsa) and non-violent action (satyagraha) is constituted by a number of fundamental principles. Thomas Berton, having dedicated his life being drawn into a dialogue between Eastern and Western religions and viewpoints, has made a lot of research on the matter. In his book entitled “Gandhi on NonViolence: A Selection from the Writings of...
...Philosophy 213 - Ethics
Final Writing Assignment
“Non-Violence” and its Powerful Statement on Rights and Morality
The statue looks like the final chapter in a Warner Brothers cartoon; Bugs Bunny has finally gotten the best of Elmer Fudd. Instead of destroying the gun with a finger down the barrel, resulting in a face full of soot for the violent hunter, it looks like the famous rabbit decided to gift wrap the weapon. The bullet would likely end up shooting towards the air, hitting a branch, and knocking out the violent man who aimed to murder with it. While the statue is no cartoon, it did have a barrel intentionally made to look ridiculous. The size far exceeds what would be required on a normal handgun; the artist, Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd, claims that this bit of humor and ridiculousness was purposeful. Humor often has more of an impact than something based on only cold hard facts; the latter can sometimes make humanity feel uncomfortable. The statue has a lot to say about both morality and rights; it is best to first explain both its presence and origins.
The statue of the gun exceeds the size of any normal fire-arm; it is positioned on a large marble plinth within reach of tourists and travelers. The original version of the statue was casted in Luxembourg in 1980; the one in the gardens at the United Nations was one of the first three replicas to be cast (cite). The knotted-gun, and hopefully its message, has now been...
...Nowadays, school violence becomes a serious problem in many countries. Especially in Vietnam, there r more and more SV with more serious consequence. Everybody usually thinks that school is a peaceful place, but now the risk of dangerous is lucking? Our children. So, what should we do to protect our children? First, we have to find out the causes of SV. After that, we can expose some solutions. In short, what I want to talk abs today is cause and solution of SV.
Let’s start with some reason why SV happens. Today I’ll share 4 reasons with u.
The most important reason is that family. The students who have lack of interest from family tend to use violence to solve problem. Their parents go to all day; they provide them only materials go to all day. In contrast, they pamper / indulge their children so much. They don’t pay attention to their children’s change. Sometimes the students need someone to share their emotion ab life, friend, love… but no one can share with them. They have felt in depression. They can’t do anything to solve their problem, and they will use violence.
The second one is not less important. This is school. What I want to talk here is the teacher. Being a teacher, a good eg for students, they must have professional conscience. Nowadays, most of them follow the magic of money, they don’t care ab their student. Sometimes they use violent action to deal w/ student. Dedication, sincere love of the teacher will...
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Comparative essay Draft #2
Violent role in history
In the “Violence Vanquished” with Steven Pinker, Pinker considers that the modern era is the most peaceful time in the history of the human species. All kinds of violence have declined due to the progress of human civilization, government ability to enforcement, development of commerce and the expansion of cosmopolitanism. The author has pulled together data from numerous statistical sources to back up his claim that violence has tended to decline through human history. He then tries to explain this, and overall it's an impressive synthesis. Pinker cites the five examples. The first example talks about 5000 years ago, when humans lived in tribes. Often there will be a war between tribes and tribes, but after the war is unified, the numerous tribes that make up a kingdom, reducing a lot of such violent behaviors. The second example talks about the decline of violence was a civilizing process that is best documented in Europe. Historical records show that in the late Middle Ages and the beginning of the 20th century, European countries saw a 10 to 50 times more likely to lower rates to kill. The third example talks about Humanitarian Revolution, with the occurrence Enlightenment. Judicial widely the abolition of torture. The fourth example talks about The World War. At the end of world war ii, we...
College English I
29 April 2013
Television violence is a big major concern in our world today because it affects our children in so many ways. Television rating codes like PG13, R, and M should all be banned from kids. There are some television content on some action movies and certain cartoons that have a lot of shooting, punching, beating, pounding, and hitting which brings a lot of negatively. Televisionviolence makes kids say violent things in general or not knowing if a word is good or not. An outcome of this is that children can get an aggressive behavior and can be incapable of distinguishing real life and fantasy with the overwhelming violence on television. I think television violence in general should only be shown at night time for adults while the children are asleep.
The violence on television causes harmful effects that are grouped into three primary categories which are: children’s learning of aggressive attitudes and behaviors; desensitization, or an increased callousness towards victims of violence; and increased or exaggerated fear of being victimized by violence. Turn on a television set and pick a channel at random; the odds are better than 50-50 that the program you encounter will contain violent material. To be more precise, 60% of approximately 10,000 programs sampled for the...
...Religion and Violence
When most people think of religion they only think of the good aspects that go along with it, and never the violence that goes along with it. All religions have some form of violence in one form or another. There are three basic varieties of religious violence: acts of violence, which are inherently religious; those intended as punishment for people believed to be evil; and violent clashes between religious communities. Christians killed a large quantity of witches during the sixteenth century throughout North America and Europe, this continues in some parts of the world to this day. In some cultures killing a person was one of the most important religious ritual acts. “Religion is capable of bringing out the noblest trait of our shared humanity. It can also, unfortunately, motivate or justify the most depraved.” (Lewis M. Hopfe, Mark R. Woodward, 2009, p.10).
Sacrifice, which is one of the most common practices in all of the religions of the world, is another form of religious violence. All throughout history sacrifices have been made to the gods and the spirit world, usually the sacrifices was food, drinks, or animals, but occasionally there would be a human sacrifice. Human sacrifices rarely occurred in Native American religions in the United States and Canada, but they were a very important part of religion to the Aztec and other native people of South and...
...Impact of violence on Jamaican society
The devastating impact of widespread violence on social order has been widely documented. As is the case worldwide, all types of violence pose serious public health risks and exact both direct and indirect costs on society (3, 7, 8). The impact in terms of death, injuries, short- and long-term disabilities, and mental anguish is vast (7). In addition, violence impedes social advancement and deters economic growth and development. Violence inhibits the recruitment and retention of a highly skilled workforce and forces society to expend a disproportionate amount of its national budget on violence-related health care, security, and crime fighting (3). Jamaica is no exception, spending an extraordinarily high percentage of its gross domestic product on violence-related issues and struggling with reduced human capital, productivity, and quality of life (2, 7, 8). Moreover, the high cost of doing business makes the society unable to compete in the global economy (2, 3). According to Brown (9) ". . . investments from both local and foreign sources, which could create new employment, are being shelved; the educational system is being affected; social interactions are being disrupted; and, the citizens are gripped in fear, unable to live normal lives which prevail in other civil societies." In monetary terms, violence costs the...