Irish author Oscar Wilde, a man who believed that rebellion was the only way forward in human history. That disobedience leads to prosperity. I would like to classify 3 types of rebellions, good intentioned ones, and a good effect, good intentions bad effects, bad intentions good effect, and bad intentions bad effect. I think that only the first one is a good one the rest are failures.
The first type of rebellion is a well-intentioned one with a good outcome. The example I will use is the Egyptian Revolution, in 2011. This was part of the Arab Spring that shook the middle east. In it, The Egyptian people rallied to the streets. They stood up for democracy and against martial law. They were able to overthrow the 30-year reigning president
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These are usually against occupation or against a superior power. Examples are many but some of which include Urabi revolt, the Warsaw uprising, and the Easter Rising. These were all against an empire of some sort, the first and last being the Uk and the middle one the Nazi’s. These are well-intended revolts but they simply deteriorate the situation further. In the Urabi revolt, Egypt came under British occupation. In the Warsaw uprising the nazi’s flattened Warsaw. In the easter rising the British arrested thousands of Irish nationalists. This is the first proof that Wilde was not correct in his assumption that all revolutions are …show more content…
The Great Arab Revolt was the perfect example. The British integrated revolt against the Ottoman Empire during WWI. the result was that by 1918 the Ottoman army was demolished and forced to capitulate. The British had promised the Arabs a unified state. However, the British and French and Greeks agreed to partition the Ottoman Empire into spheres of influence. Britain got Jordan and Iraq, France got Syria and southeastern Turkey and Greece got eastern Anatolia. However, the Turkish war of independence would restore Anatolia to Turkey. However, the final outcome for the Arabs was that they were divided into mandates under colonialism, after once being unified in a former-great power. This shows just how devastating a revolution can be. The Arabs were much better off before the revolt than after
The problem of internal revolt is inherent to all empires, as it is difficult to consistently maintain authority over a large and diverse population. Although empires have taken steps to prevent a loss of control from occurring, even the utmost vigilance has been either not enough, or has lapsed long enough for a revolt to occur. The resulting uprising might be minor, or it might be serious enough to threaten a crucial territory. How empires have dealt with a major internal revolt is instructive in several ways: it tests whether or not the empire's military is strong enough to deal with revolts, it tests the ability of the ruler or the ruling class to maintain their authority in the face of the challenge, and it provides a way to examine an empire's policies by looking at which ones may have contributed to the revolt, and which were changed or introduced in its aftermath.
The entry of the Ottoman Turks had carry the war into the middle east. The British had joined the Arabs and had gathered together to revolt against the Turkish rulers. After this unification between the two, they were able to take over and split the Ottoman area. They at first occupied the southern city of Iraqi named Basara in 1914 and then took over Baghdad in 1917. They then invaded Palestine and Syria in 1918. After The Ottoman Empire had been defeated, the thought of a rise for Arab independence was brought to attention. Though the allies had instead rejected that decision and instead replaced the Ottoman rule with British and French control. This had officially broken up The Ottoman
However, in some occasions there is an ethical duty to rebel against a government, rather than a peaceful protest. The American Revolution is a perfect example, for the reason that Great Britain wanted to take advantage of the colonies by demanding taxes on revenues. The colonist took matter into their own hands when they saw that a peaceful protest did not work. Moreover, even though the British had a huge advantage over the colonies; the colonies did not took that as an excuse. They are several criteria’s that revolution would be justified.
The frequency of popular protest and rebellion in Early Modern England offers an insight into the nature of the social relations people maintained. P. Clark refers to the repetition of rebellion and popular protest as being ‘a recurrent phenomenon’ which spread throughout Europe in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth century. This implies that people thought there was a necessary cause to act in such a way, believing that change was possible to address their grievances. Additionally, Andy Wood further emphasises the ideology of the repetitive nature of popular protest and rebellion through the existence of a ‘shared tradition of popular protest’. This implies that there was a continuation in the motivations of those who chose to rebel. Many of the
As the lives of people progress each day, the standard of society changes as well. Each social custom molds our civilization, thus shape our nation. The opportunities that are made available to us actually depend on familiar factors, such as, the era that we’re in, our social class, and our gender. When I read all of our reading materials, I began to realize that I’m gradually aware of how society in general functions. I have learned that, not everyone in our society is catered equally and that there is this glass ceiling that separates us. Using literary lenses in reading these pieces from different authors, I enjoyed reading their works more compared to none. Looking into specific lenses in reading these materials and other literary pieces
There are times throughout the history of the United States when its citizens have felt the need to revolt against the government. There were such cases during the time of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Henry David Thoreau, when there was unfair discrimination against the Afro-American community and Americans refusing to pay poll taxes to support the Mexican War. They used civil disobedience to eventually get legislation to stop the injustice brought against them and their nation. Civil disobedience is defined as refusal to obey civil laws or decrees, which usually takes the form of passive resistance. People practicing civil disobedience break a law because they consider the law unjust, and want to call attention to its injustice, hoping to bring about its withdrawal.
Another example of this is when women fought for suffrage. For women, they protested that they should be able to vote. Their nation went to the extent of throwing a protest for their rights. Another
Often countries or leaders try to put too many restrictions on their subjects or territories and then the people rebel.
Reckless Rebellion Tales characterized by the age-old rule being overthrown by once favorable revolts turned revolting, both First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung and A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini bring to life the true effects of reckless rebellions. Unsatisfied with the communist rule that had overtaken their countries, individuals rose up together to take back control and represent the desires of the people, but, after succeeding, these individuals struggled in creating a government that was anywhere near as desirable as the government had been. Through this struggle of defining their new leadership, the people that once supported them were hurt beyond a measurable level through new restrictions and the removal of hope.
... a drunken brawl in downtown Toronto that was easily squashed by amateur policemen than a rebellion. In fact it is not even called a rebellion in the Canadian Encyclopedia but rather "an uprising with limited support and was largely a historical accident."
(Encyclopedia of Britannica Inc, “Irish Rebellion”). The initial cause of the rebellion of
Though most his written attacks target Jamel’s failed military campaigns in the Sinai desert fronts and the Suez Canal - perhaps why he is so frustrated by the vision of Cemal ‘overloaded with gold medals’ despite ‘all the defeats he has led them into’ - he also resents Pasha’s decision to execute, imprison or torture prominent members of the Arab society, and hopes the ‘barbaric Ottoman state’ will finally end. Cemal Pasha’s intense repression against Arab nationalism was an important turning point in Middle Eastern history, for it radicalized Arab officers fighting for the Ottomans. Such frustration, even when on an individual level, best describes the progressive rupture between Arab and Turkish relations. For many Arab nationalists, secession from the Ottoman Empire was not the end goal initially; Pasha’s use of violence to enhance Ottoman authority expedited nationalist demands, as well as the Arab Revolt of 1916, led by Sharif Hussein. In turn, it led Arabs to seek British support for their independence (and, in the long run, the British exploiting their struggle for
The effects of Second World War reached countries around the entire globe from Europe to Africa and from the Pacific to the Middle East. Although at the close of the First World War European imperialism for the most part ended, the governments of some newly established, quasi-independent countries like Iraq were still under the influence of European nations. In the spring of 1941, due to the increasing rise of Arab nationalism, the ever present resentment towards British influence in the region and the distraction of war, Iraqi nationalists attempted to take advantage of the situation and remove the ruling monarchy supported by the British. This brief conflict would come to be known as the Anglo-Iraqi War of 1941 and would leave a lasting impact on the development of Iraq throughout the majority of the second half of the 20th century.
Throughout history, countless uprisings have occurred. Historians classify any forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system as a revolution. The success or failure of a revolution is directly related to the revolution’s causes and consequences. The French Revolution was more successful than the Nicaraguan Revolution, because the Nicaraguan Revolution left the country in social and financial ruin, foreign powers had much greater interference, and it precipitated a period of political unrest with multiple leadership changes. One cause of both revolutions was that people from all social classes were discontented.
Predicting the Unpredictable At the heart of the debate between Goldstone and Keddie is the question: Can revolutions be predicted? The former believes that we can successfully predict revolutions so long as these three conditions are met: 1) the state is in a crisis, 2) the elites are alienated from the state and are in conflict with each other, and 3) there is a large portion of the mass that can be mobilized for protest (Emirbayer and Goodwin 1996). Keddie disagrees by saying that revolutions cannot be predicted retrospectively because they are “unintentional products of the complex interactions of a large number of choices made by potentially numerous relevant actors over a lengthy period.” (Emirbayer and Goodwin 1996, 362) Between the