Margret Mead Essay

In some cases Mead’s argument is true people don’t always celebrate famous people that are smart some other people celebrate someone that is special for them. But nowadays people do celebrate the people that are successful in life, when the people celebrating the people that are being successful in life the y should celebrate the people that are around them and special to them. I think people do admire people that succeed in life and not the people that are close to them. But in some cases some people do care and celebrate the people that are around them.

Many people now a days admire famous people. People follow and think that a person the is famous is their hero just because they are on T.V., they sing, dance, or act. In my opinion, people shouldn’t pay as much attention to a famous person. I think they can like the famous person and think they are good at what they do but they shouldn’t praise the person because the famous person is not a god they have done something wrong because no one is perfect. This shows that people admire and celebrate people they don’t really know. In my perspective people should admire themselves or the people that are around them and that are important to them.

In many schools teachers or staff tend to celebrate kids that are smart and not celebrate the kids that try their best. In schools there are kids that are smart and succeed in life but there are also kids that try their best but does not accomplish many things. Adults admire kids that get good grades and awards, which makes the other kids feel like they will not accomplish anything. In some cases the teachers tend to bring the other students down by telling them that that they will not accomplish anything.

                                                          Civil Disobedience

            Civil Disobedience has been in time for a long time. The phrase civil disobedience was made by Henry David Thoreau. He made this word mean what it means today because he disobeyed the law that he considered unjust. Their were more people that used civil disobedience. For example, some men that used civil disobedience were Mohandas, K. Gandhi, and Martin Luther King Jr. They viewed civil disobedience as an important expression of citizenship. On July 1846, Thoreau was arrested because he refused to pay tax. Mohandas K. Gandhi was the leader of India’s fight for independence from British rule. Civil disobedience is a good thing because it helps people say what they really think about something. Say what they really think about something (from Resistance to Civil Government 234).

            Thoreau uses civil disobedience when he knows or thinks that the government is doing something wrong and it would not only affect the government put it will also affect the citizens and state. For example, Thoreau went to jail because he knew what the government was doing was wrong and he stood up for what he believed was right not like the other people. This proves that civil disobedience is a good thing because it helps people say what they think, give their opinion, if they think it is a good thing or a bad thing. The reason why Thoreau used civil disobedience was because he did not want to pay taxes. He did not want to pay taxes because it was going to go to the war of Mexico because he believed that the war was an excuse to expand America’s slave holding territory. In my opinion, I think that Thoreau did the right thing because if he had not stood up and paid extra he would have lost a lot of money and the U.S, would still have slaves. This shows that civil disobedience can help not only one person but many people. If Thoreau had not stood up for what he believed in many things would be different. For example, he would have never been known or their would have been slave (from resistance to civil Government).

            Mohandas K. Gandhi uses civil disobedience when he lead India’s fight for independence from British rule. Mr. Gandhi was a young lawyer which he worked for the ‘rights of Indians living under the racist and repressive government of South Africa. This shows that even in his young years Gandhi knew what was right and wrong he was not just going to let it happen but was going to stand up and do something about it. When Gandhi would help people he would get in to a lot of trouble that he would get sent to jail. He urged his followers to hold the principles of non-violent resistance even in the face of violence tactics’ of those in power. This means you should not fight when you are standing for what is right because if you use violence you are doing something wrong and you will never achieve something good.