The African American civil rights movement changed everything. ... Between 1955 and 1968 acts of nonviolent protest and civil disobedience produced crisis situations between government authorities and activists. ... The masons saw value in social capital, meaning features of social organization that facilitated coordination and cooperation for mutual benefit. ... Upon returning from the revolution and opening the first black lodge in Boston, MA, Hall was faced with discrimination and the idea of separate but equal, meaning not equal. ... Together they worked on civil rights politics. ...

• Word Count: 3545
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Both are synonymous with black and equal rights and the civil rights movement of the 1950's and early 60's. ... Although they are both probably the most recognized and acclaimed civil rights activist, and came from a life of discrimination and oppression they both come from different backgrounds. ... With their polar opposite upbringings and different experiences with racial discrimination shaping their perspective of civil rights, it is expected for them to have different philosophies and views on the concept of using race as a way to categorize people. ... Influenced By Mahatma Gan...

• Word Count: 1170
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This contributes to his belief that if all people had an unlimited amount of power, it would become "a perpetual war of every man against his neighbor," meaning that people are motivated solely by passions, and will do almost anything to fulfill their desires. ... Hobbes thought there to be nothing worse than "what proceeds from the subjects' disobedience, and breech of the covenants from which the commonwealth has its being," so this authoritative and fearful rule worked best for him. ... It makes it so that "natural freedom, which is limited by the force of th...

• Word Count: 907
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Nature's beauty comes through "the plastic power of the human eye" which lets us appreciate natural things "in and for themselves" yet it also finds "correspondences" which translate the landscape into human meaning ("Particular natural facts are symbols of particular spiritual facts"). ... Transcendentalists dealt with other crucial problems like social injustice (Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience"), slavery. ...

• Word Count: 1093
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

We also saw the emergence of the Civil Rights Movement, the Anti-War Movement and the Women's Rights Movement as we learned first-hand and up close and personal about civil disobedience and political assassinations. ... They viewed the student demonstrations against the Vietnam War as a communist plot, as were the Civil Rights Movement and the Women's Rights Movement. ...

• Word Count: 4632
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Apple also believes in a critical literacy of the economy, meaning Americans should, if they don't know already, educate themselves on our economic system so that they are more aware of what is going on in the world around them... The examples Apple gives are that social studies texts still refer to the period known as "The Dark Ages- rather than, what he believes to be: historically more accurate and much less racist phrase "the ages of African and Asian Ascendancy- or books that treat Rosa Parks as merely a nave African-American woman who was simply too tired to go to the back of the ...

• Word Count: 2601
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Undergraduate