civil disobedience

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civil disobedience

Secret of the dance

2006
In 1935, an eight-year-old boy witnesses a forbidden Potlach, a ceremonial dance of one of the aboriginal cultures of Canada.

Walden and other writings of Henry David Thoreau

1992
Includes the complete text of Walden, selections from A week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, A Plea for Captain John Brown, and Civil Disobedience.

Civil disobedience and other essays

1993
Presents five essays by the nineteenth-century American author, discussing such issues as the conflict between personal conscience and civil law, the importance of individualism, the practice of slavery, and the preservation of nature.

Walden, or Life in the woods, and "On the duty of civil disobedience"

1999
In March 1845, Henry David Thoreau set out; to live life in a new way and Walden is a record of his experiment in simple living.

Gandhi

a march to the sea
2013
Recounts the March to the Sea, in which, Mohandas Gandi and seventy protesters marched from Ahmedabad to Dandi, in twenty-four days, to protest the laws and taxes that Great Britain put on salt.

Gospel of freedom

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the struggle that changed a nation
2013
Discusses Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter From Birmingham Jail" and how it changed the African American civil rights movement.

Understanding Thoreau's Civil disobedience

2011
Presents Henry David Thoreau's essay "Civil Disobedience" and provides information on its social and historical context, its immediate impact, and its legacy.

Walden, or, Life in the woods

and, On the duty of civil disobedience
1980
Discusses his philosophy of life and observations of nature written while spending two years in a cabin on Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts.

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