The True Patriot Patriotism is a complex and complicated concept. Sure we all feel that inexplicable love for our land. The same love motivates us to fight until our last breath to whoever attacks her, but who dictates which is the best way to defend ones country? How should a person show his devotion and unconditional support to his motherland? What would happen if ones way is not the same as that of others? The most important thing for me is being true to ourselves; fighting for whatever it is we believe is correct. No matter how different our opinions can be regarding the defense of our country, no one should have the right to impose their way using violence. As we saw in the documentary “Two Days in October,” police should not have treated students who were passively protesting like criminals. In October 1967, students at University of Wisconsin decided to disrupt their academic activities and protested …show more content…
First, violence is never the answer. No one has the right to abuse another person just because this one does not agree with what others think. We need to comprehend that violence promotes violence; it and endless cycle in which nobody wins, but many can lose. In the documentary, Keith Hackett, a Madison police officer, recounts “…I have never seen the hate that I saw in these kid faces toward us.” He seems shocked when talking about the direction taken by the events; as if it was not logical to expect this kind of response from students after being attacked. Second, the students were exercising their right to freedom of speech. It is under the Constitution of the United States, First Amendment, that people have the right to express their ideas freely. Finally, students were protesting peacefully. As James Rowen recalls “…they were there in the spirit of the Civil Rights movement, non violent protest…” He adds “…no one thought about getting
Working sort of opposite to patriotism is emulation. Emulation works by giving the audience a role model that they idolize, someone containing vast quantities of ethos in their eyes. This is the most positive of the three emotions intended to get the audience up. Inciting anger
Political turmoil on campus began in 1968 when a Black Panther member, George Murray, was dismissed from school, and student militants called a strike. Using terrorist tactics, these groups intimidated and physically threatened students and professors if they crossed the picket line. Some of their demands included the formulation of an autonomous black studies department, promotion to full professor of a faculty member who had one year's experience, the firing of a white administrator, and the admission of all black students who applied for the next academic year.
In all of the books, magazine articles, and web pages dedicated to this subject, it is impossible to find an unbiased one. I have to admit that I did go into my research in favor of the students, but the more I read of the situation on campus in the days prior to the shooting, the more I found myself asking “How I would I have handled a situation like that if I had been a member of the Guard?” I can only conclude that there is no right answer to that. There are so many questions, and so many misconceptions about this incident, and like any controversial issue, there are always two sides to the story. Now that I have thoroughly studied both sides to the story, I still have no idea who I think was in the wrong. There are simply too many unanswerable wholes in the stories from both sides that now I can’t say I’m for or against either one.
One of the most violent protests of the Vietnam War took place in May of 1970 at Kent State University in Ohio. Protests were common across America during the war but this was by far the most violent. On May 4, l970 members of the Ohio National Guard fired into a crowd of Kent State University protesters, killing four and wounding nine of the Kent State students. The event triggered a nationwide student strike that caused many colleges and universities to shut down . This deeply divided the country politically and made ordinary citizens take notice of the protests that were taking place across the nation’s college campuses.
During the 1960?s, many student riots occurred on college campuses. The majority of the rioters were middle class students seeking a voice in the administration of their school. These riots were violent and sometimes fatal.
Even though whites and blacks protested together, not all of them got punished in the same ways. Even though it wasn’t folderol committed by either race, racists saw it as this and would do anything to keep segregation intact. Sometimes, the whites would be shunned, by society, and not hurt physically. While the blacks, on the other hand, were brutally kille...
When patriotism becomes the daily reciting of the Pledge, waving the flag and never looking beyond your own small piece of the world, we do harm to our own country and the cause of true liberty and true peace in the world.
I’ll admit it, I’m American. I’m an American and I admit, I enjoy it very thoroughly. I enjoy having the right to a free education, choice in who rules over me (who rules, who cares? pun intended), and the right to walk around the streets at three a.m. because I can. But I do not consider myself patriotic, in any way, sense or fashion. The astounding number of Americans nowadays who consider themselves patriotic can overwhelm the small few who were there for America before 9/11. But just what can we do about the bandwagon patriotism and its abuse on middle-eastern oriented Americans; it’s manipulation of American’s gullibility for cheap trinkets, and the backing of leaders in a war we don’t belong in. I believe it’s time to instill more peaceful tactics in our country today. It’s time to stop calling ourselves Americans and start calling ourselves humans. So far America has lost more soldiers in Iraq since the war ended than we actually lost in the war itself and people of Middle Eastern decent have suffered more embarrassing attacks than most “average” Americans. Perhaps its time to reconsider the Patriot Act, because truth be told it’s not exactly what our true patriotic forefathers had in mind when they wrote that all men were created equal(despite the fact these men had slaves).
School cant paid if they dont have students so with the students walking out they should listen. Right when the bell rang, and teachers were about to take attendance, one student from every school who was part of the organization stood up and said “walkout!”. They did this for about a week and every time it occurred, it got worse. People were getting abused by police officers and this was all caught on camera and showed on the news. The next day people were getting tracked down and being arrested for the protest. This is when the organization of students knew they had to make a bigger stand even though it was gonna take a huge risk. Instead of only students walking out, they got Parents, workers, cousins, friends, to all walkout and show they’re mexican pride and that they are american citizens, that they are people and should be treated like
One of the first documented incidents of the sit-ins for the civil rights movement was on February 1, 1960 in Nashville, Tennessee. Four college African-Americans sat at a lunch counter and refused to leave. During this time, blacks were not allowed to sit at certain lunch counters that were reserved for white people. These black students sat at a white lunch counter and refused to leave. This sit-in was a direct challenge to southern tradition. Trained in non-violence, the students refused to fight back and later were arrested by Nashville police. The students were drawn to activist Jim Lossen and his workshops of non-violence. The non-violent workshops were training on how to practice non-violent protests. John Lewis, Angela Butler, and Diane Nash led students to the first lunch counter sit-in. Diane Nash said, "We were scared to death because we didn't know what was going to happen." For two weeks there were no incidences with violence. This all changed on February 27, 1960, when white people started to beat the students. Nashville police did nothing to protect the black students. The students remained true to their training in non-violence and refused to fight back. When the police vans arrived, more than eighty demonstrators were arrested and summarily charged for disorderly conduct. The demonstrators knew they would be arrested. So, they planned that as soon as the first wave of demonstrators was arrested, a second wave of demonstrators would take their place. If and when the second wave of demonstrators were arrested and removed, a third would take their place. The students planned for multiple waves of demonstrators.
Patriotism is defined as: “devoted love, support, and defense of one's country; national loyalty.” Supporting your country in times of war is not the best way to define patriotism because patriotism should be shown at all times. This statement seems to give the idea that no matter the reason, if any reason you should support your government during times of war. Seeing that the government tends to get involved in wars that could have had good impact I agree with this statement. Yes, you should indeed support your government even if they are in the wrong that is a because in the end they are doing things to better our nation for future generations.
Kara writes about the extremes the students are going to. She states, “A day or two after that, some young people burned the ROTC building on campus and set bonfires downtown. I heard that police cars were hit with bottles and store windows were broken”(2). This quote shows that the activists were taking violent actions. Furthermore, they were damaging things so that the government would hear the message of hate they were trying to make. Instead of taking the violent option, the Freedom Riders from “Waiting for Dan” took a route of peacefulness. The wife states, “The ride seemed simple enough”(4). This simple, yet small quote shows that the Freedom Riders did not mean any harm. They ride had an easy plan of acting out. In addition, their only goal was to get their point across without causing any harm to others. The activists wanted freedom and equality, not violence. In brief, there is a simple difference between acts of violence and acts of
Patriotism is shown by personnel of both the Army and Air Force. It is displayed through the hard work and dedication put in every day on and off duty, through the combat deployments and temporary duty assignments separating the troops from family, friends, and loved ones, to every hardship troops endure in order to “fight and win the Nation’s wars.” and “to fly, fight, and win…in air, space, and cyberspace.”
The Free Speech Movement (FSM) at the University of California at Berkeley started during the fall of 1964. (Freeman, Jo) But there were many events leading up to this point. The Free Speech Movement began to obtain momentum in the fall of 1963 and the spring of 1964 the Bay Area was rocked with the civil rights demonstrations against employers who practiced racial discrimination. (Freeman, Jo) These students believed that this was wrong and felt the need to do something about it. So many Berkeley students were recruited for these protests from Bancroft and Telegraph which where the companies that were racial discriminating against races and groups of people.(Freeman, Jo) With these protest there were many arrest made of Berkeley students there were about 500 arrests made over several months. (Freeman, Jo)