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    My Peaceful Place

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    1 ............... Ms. Brown English 073 18 September 2012 My Peaceful Place Near Point Fermin Park there is a place. It’s a place where I go to get out of my house to cool down‚ in a bad mood‚ or there to think about the positive things. When I come to this place I feel free and at ease with myself. I feel like no one can disturb me‚ nothing can faze me‚ and nothing can make me upset when I am here. When I am here I feel the nice‚ warm sun on my face and the breeze blowing through

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    Nothing in present day American politics can be considered "peaceful". "Peaceful" implies that one is restricting the passage of war and violence into the situation. With examples such as; Mike Brown‚ Eric Garner‚ Philando Castile‚ Alton Sterling‚ among too many others‚ “peace” most often results in a final fight for life. Ironically‚ if we peacefully protest‚ or peacefully resist the law we end up facing harsh consequences. Peaceful protest was once considered a means of freewill. During the 1960’s

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    On January 21‚ 2017 the Women’s March‚ one of the largest protests in U.S. history‚ was a worldwide peaceful protest for the rights and equality of human beings. More than 2.5 million people gathered in different places around the world. These people gathered because they want to protect the rights they have as human beings. They didn’t just gather for our rights; they gathered because they want to see the change in our society. If we continue to gather peacefully at these massive numbers‚ eventually

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    such as The Boston Massacre in a cruel and gruesome battle‚ or Rosa Parks rather peaceful incident of the bus boycott back in 1955. Both forms of resistance but the specifics in how each of these took place is crucial to the argument debating whether peaceful resistance can be progressive for our government and the answer to whether I lie in agreement with this question would be yes‚ i strongly believe that peaceful protest or resistant is the answer to a healthy and functional United States.

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    oneself” (Campbell 151). Campbell also indicates that there are two types of hero deeds. One type is a physical deed‚ “in which the hero performs a courageous act in battle or saves a life” (Campbell 151). The second is a spiritual deed‚ “in which the hero learns to experience the supernatural range of human spiritual life and then comes back with a message” (Campbell 152). In his story “The way of the peaceful Warrior”‚ Dan Millman tells us about his experience with a white bearded man known as Socrates

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    Peaceful resistance to laws doesn’t have to have either a positive or negative impact on a free society. To me a free society is about society expressing themselves without being judged by what they might think. For example‚ In the Constitution (under the Bill of Rights)‚ the First Amendment says " Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof‚ or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press‚ or the right of the people peaceably to

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    Peaceful resistance is exhibited in many world leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. ‚Mahatma Gandhi‚ and Nelson Mandela and many others. Peaceful resistance positively impacts a free society because it allows violent resistors to see another way to protest‚ it saves lives‚ and finally it keeps an unjust government in check. Peaceful resistance allows for violent protestors to mend their ways and protest peacefully. Protesting violently accomplishes nothing and only leads to death.Peacefully protesting

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    Peaceful resistance to laws certainly has a positive impact on a free society. There are many examples of when peaceful resistance has positively impacted a free society from the past and even some events that have happened recently. One of the most famous instances is obviously Martin Luther King Jr. and his fight for Civil Rights. He lead by example and lead by his beliefs. In the "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" he questions many southerners on how they could be Christian but turn a blind eye to

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    Woman

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    Woman is the magnificent creation of god‚ a multi faceted personality with the power of benevolence‚ adjustability‚ integrity and tolerance. She is companion of man‚ gifted with equal mental faculty‚ a protector and provider‚ the embodiment of love and affection. The role given to women in a society is a measuring rod and true index of its civilization and cultural attainment. Woman by nature is a peace maker. She is blessed with the’ tact and skill to convince and drive the argument in her favor

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    political framework appears to be unwilling to react‚ what is a concerned resident to do? In a land where the voters can pick between a party that has confidence in incremental advance and one that is commanded by deniers who decline to acknowledge the logical actualities‚ how might anybody have any kind of effect?. Peaceful resistance is regularly a compelling method for changing laws and securing freedoms. It additionally encapsulates a critical idea that there are times when law and equity don’t concur

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