Matt's research blog

RJA #13b

2009-11-30T14:22:00.000-08:00

Beck, Sanderson. World Peace Efforts Since Gandhi. 2nd ed. Vol. 2. Chicago: World Peace
Communications, 2005. Print.
(This pasted in here differently than it is on my paper)

In this book Sanderson talks about the different peace efforts that have gone on since Gandhi. The information that I gathered from this source is mostly concerning Gandhi and his efforts in South Africa.

"WikiAnswers." WikiAnswers - The Q&A wiki. Web.

This is a site used for finding bits of information. If you have a question you can type the question into the search bar, and it will give you an answer if the database holds the answer. I gathered several bits of information using this web source.

"Think exist." Nonviolence Quotes. Web. 16 Nov. 2009.

I gathered several quotes oin nonviolence from different people on this site. If you want a quote for a specific purpose you type in the quote and it will give you a list of quotes specific to your search.

"Civil disobedience Definition | Definition of Civil disobedience at Dictionary.com."Dictionary.com | Find the Meanings and Definitions of Words at Dictionary.com. Web. 30 Nov. 2009.

I obtained a definition on the term Civil Disobedience from this source. It is an online dictionary.

RJA #13a

2009-11-30T14:14:00.001-08:00

Questions for Bruce Plotkin
International Lawyer for the WHO

1. What do you think of the idea of civil disobedience, particularly regarding the use of nonviolence versus violence?

Ideologically, I agree with civil disobedience. In reality there are situations happening around the world, as we speak, where people are unjustly murdered because of ethnicity, or religious belief. Consider for example the civil war in Sri Lanka. The Tamils, a minority group numbering about 2.1 million is being persecuted by Sri Lankan majority the group Sinhalese. Thousands and thousands of Tamils are being killed in a genocide that they cannot defend against. The Sinhalese rounded up the Tamils and placed any remaining rebels in containment camps. In this case of government oppression there is need to question the use of peaceful strategy in defense of oneself.

2. Is there ever a time when it could be more beneficial to be violent than peaceful regarding a civil matter?
Yes, especially in cases of mass genocidal persecution like during the Holocaust. Once a government has crossed the line of unjust murder of its citizens it is time for action to be taken.

After Researching the case of Sri Lanka and the Tamils, I found that really the Tamil people have been led by a Terrorist organization called the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, or the Tamil Tigers who have been terrorizing Sri Lanka for almost 30 years. Reallly this is not a genocide, but a war of two different races that have been fighting over the Island of Sri Lanka. If there had not been an initial violence by the Tamil agressors, then there would not be a war and the Tamils would not be persecuted.

RJA #12c

2009-11-23T17:05:00.000-08:00

I posted in Walter and David's Blog about their introduction. I commented on the strengths of their introduction.

http://wallybug171.blogspot.com/2009/11/rja-11-introduction.html#comment-form

http://boa76.blogspot.com/2009/11/rsj11a.html#comment-form

RJA #12b

2009-11-23T16:58:00.000-08:00

In my presentation I plan to go over my thesis, and give the major parts of the arguement and the refutation argument. I will present my visual aids in my presentaion, and I will probably read a couple of quotes.

RJA #12a

2009-11-23T16:56:00.000-08:00

I have completed my outline, and most of my research. I am about 5 pages into my Paper, and I have already completed the minimum requirements for bibliography.

I still need to work on my presentation and finish my paper. I also feel like i need to condense some of te information that i have gathered.

RJA #11c

2009-11-23T16:49:00.000-08:00

I posted in Sarah and Stevie's Journal's.

http://stevienae.blogspot.com/2009/11/rja-10a-thesis-statement.html#comment-form

http://sarah-whiting.blogspot.com/2009/11/rja-10.html#comment-form

RJA #11b

2009-11-23T16:44:00.000-08:00

Picture of gandhi

Graphical view of logic statements

Picture of MLK

Picture of peace rally

Picture of violent rally

RJA #11a

2009-11-23T14:42:00.001-08:00

A wise man once said, “There was never a good war, or a bad piece.” Benjamin Franklin was of course one of the most brilliant minds of the past few hundred years (Peace Quotes). This however is a very broad statement that could be contemplated for generations and generations to no end. So instead of babbling on about peace and war, this paper will focus on peaceful civil disobedience. More specifically the strengths of a nonviolent civil disobedience when compared to a violent revolutions like those which have led our planet into new modes of thought for hundreds of years. Peaceful resolutions are better for the people of a country which is having social/political problems than violent revolutions, because they harm far less people, are dignified and truthful, as well as follow law and general moral code. This is not to say that all civil should or will end today, and that peace will always prevail over violence. In some situations there are no chances of rationalizing with a people or group of people and violence can become necessary, but when it comes down to the ideologies that most rational free thinking people hold to be relevant, violence will be more detrimental to a given people than peace.

RJA #10b

2009-11-20T11:01:00.000-08:00

Thinking resolutionarily: A Plea for Peaceful Civil Disobedience

The arguement is as follows: In regaurds to the transferrence of political power and or law, the means of civil disobedience are more effectve when applied in a peaceful maner.

This has been proven in various instances since the displays of peaceful civil disobecience by David Thoreau.

The idea of a resolutionary is a new way of looking a peaceful political strategists. These "resolutionaries" are people like Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. They employ the practice of peaceful disobedience in their actions towards unfair rule or law.

The reasons that peaceful civil disobedience is far more effective than violent civil disobedience are as follows:

Peace:the model for peace

When a group "revolts" against injustice they project a model of handling this injustice to the other people who are being unfairly ruled. If this is a violent practice, the situation grows further and further out of hand, by creating more violence by both the opressor and opressed, as presented in many instances throughout history. In a peaceful act of dsobedience the model is then to be nonviolent, and this projects a model of peace to the other people who are being opressed. This therefore can be seen as the "good role model." Peace breeds peace.

Violence leads to violence

Hypothetical statement: If violence is equal to 1 and an act of peace contains no violence, it is then equal to zero.

When a group of people revolt against their government with violence the government will retaliate. Therefore if peace is portrayed as 0 meaning zero violence, initial violence of the people is X, and the violence of retaliation by government is Y, logic can be portrayed as:(0≤X≤X+Y) assuming that the retaliation will be equal or greater than the initial violence.

Peaceful disobedience can solve problems

As shown in the cases of MLK and Gandhi as well as others.

We need more resolutionaries in our culture

The more people promoting peace, the less people promoting violence, the better off humanity will be. Really there aren't a lot of peaceful resolutionaries in our culture, and the people who should be fulfilling this vital role are politicians who have to succumb to the will of the masses many of whom reject the ideas of total peace because of fear, and more importantly private interests who hold great amounts of economic and political prowess benefit from the labors of war.

REFUTING ARGUMENT

There is Logic in Violent civil disobedience.

Some political sientists like Stathis N. Kalyvas think that violence is a good means of solving political/societal problems. Although this has been proven time and time again throughout history, it is no measure of the effectiveness of violence over peace.

RJA #10

2009-11-09T14:27:00.000-08:00

THESIS!!!

Sample Research Question:
What has proven to be more effective over the course of time: a violent revolution, or a peaceful resolution?

Precise Claim:
Peaceful resolutions are the best way of solving political problems, especially the problems regarding transference of political power(economic and social).
Complete thesis statement:

Regarding the issue concerning the transference of political power, as opposed to means of violence, a peaceful resolution holds better potential for future liberty, justice, and equality.

RJA #9

2009-11-09T11:16:00.000-08:00

Book Source #1
Ghandi's Non-violent Revolution
This seems to be a credible excerpt from about Ghandi and his life of non-violent practice. It talks about how Ghandi sparked peaceful revolutions in South Africa, India, and throughout the world.
There is a good bibliography, and therefore I can count the information as credible, and after researching Sanderson Beck, the Author of this page, I found that he has published over ten books all involving some sort of philosophy or political discussion. I think that I am going to try and contact Sanderson and try to interview him via email or phone.

Beck, Sanderson. World Peace Efforts Since Gandhi. Chicago: World Peace Communications, 2005. Print.

http://www.san.beck.org/GPJ20-Gandhi.html

Web Source #1
Commentary: The American vs. The French Revolutions A Freedomist Interpretation
By: R.J. Rummel
On: date not posted
This article immediately Stood out to me because of the inarticulate linguistics. Freedomist: This is a word I could come to use frequently. After looking it over, I found that it was probably a pretty credible source of information because most of the information was pretty common knowledge, and I knew a lot of the facts stated myself. Second, This page is a branch off of the University of Hawaii site, and therefore it is probably credible as well as accurate. R.J. Rummel is a renowned philosopher formally because of the creation of the term democide, or the unjust death of anybody due to a government.
http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/COMM.5.1.05.HTM

Periodical Source #1
Revolutions: Silent VRS Violent Revolutions (Normal)
By: Desmond Ayim-Aboagye (Ph.D)
On: Sun, 19 Apr 2009
This columnist has over 100 posts in various magazines and on-line periodicals. There is no citation for any of the comments in this article, but the Author does have a Ph.D, so I assume that she has some sort of an idea about what she is talking. Her views are that of peace vs. violent, so it is hard to disagree with what she is saying.
http://www.modernghana.com/news/211784/50/revolutions-silent-vrs-violent-revolutions-normal.html

Web/Book Source #2
Resolutionary Change:
The Art of Awakening Dormant
Faculties in Others
By: Chris F.J. Spies
This is an interesting source. It is not necessarily off of my topic, but it is not concerning the political aspect of Resolutionary change. It is solely on a social aspect, and from what I can see all of the factual information is accurate and correctly cited, therefore I assume that this is a credible piece of information.
www.berghof-handbook.net/uploads/.../dialogue5_spies_comm.pdf

Web Source #3
French Revolution
By: David Cody
This is a summary of the French Revolution. It is Short and sweet, direct and to the point. This is a perfect source for my paper, although I will Compare and contrast it with another Summary before I take any of the exact facts for my paper.
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/hist7.html

Web Source #4
The French Revolution
By: Frank E. Smitha
This is a more extended summary of the French Revolution. Although it is very precise and seemingly accurate, this site does not include any references or a bibliography. I would say that it is accurate information, but it is still not credible due to the lack of a Bibliography.
http://www.fsmitha.com/h3/h33-fr.html

RJA #8c

2009-10-24T14:41:00.000-07:00

Peaceful Resolution
www.Blinkx.com
10/24/09
about 7000 hits
relevance 3 of 5

RJA #8b

2009-10-24T14:22:00.000-07:00

Peaceful Resolution
www.icerocket.com
6121 hits
relevance 4 of 5

RJA #8a

2009-10-24T14:12:00.000-07:00

Search.com
Peaceful+resolution
10/24/09
75 hits
3 of 5 relevance

Search.com
Revolution
10/24/09
2,332 hits
1 of 5 relevance

Internet Research Assignment

2009-10-19T18:28:00.000-07:00

Technorati www.Technorati.com
Summary: Searches the internet for blog information regarding search string
Strengths: you can find information posted by tons of people all over the world on topics relevant to you
Weaknesses: Does not search the world wide web databases
Searches blogger, blogspot and various other blogging sites.
does not use boolean or search engine math
Special Features: used to be able to ping a blog and it would give you feedback on your blog, but this is not currently available

RJA #7c

2009-10-19T16:44:00.000-07:00

For my field research I plan to contact people who are politically involved, and get an interview, I want to ask them questions about peaceful resolutions, they way that they are conducted, and what action they think should be taken to improve the outcomes of peaceful resolution. I will also ask them questions regaurding their personal opinions on war, the current wars, and the current manner of handling international affairs. I also want to interview a Soldier and find out about his/her opinion on war, given that they have served the country and have seen the gore of war.

RJA #7b

2009-10-19T15:53:00.000-07:00

Searched"Peaceful Resolution"
Technorati
3 hits
Rlevance:2 of 5

Searched "Revolution"
Technorati
1146 Hits
Rlevance:1 of 5

Searched "Chaotic Revolution"
Technorati
0 hits
Rlevance 0

RJA #7a

2009-10-12T18:45:00.000-07:00

I regularly only use google to do internet research, and while I know that is kind of close-minded, I think that it is the easiest and most friendly to use. On occasion I find myself on Ask, but only when I cannot find my information on google. Other times, like in the instance of this semester's research paper, I use other search engines, like bing. I enjoy experimenting with most of them though, and will probably find myself doing that more frequently now that I am hard pressed to find information relevant to my topic.

RJA #6c

2009-10-12T13:43:00.000-07:00

Protopage

RJA #6a

2009-10-12T13:34:00.000-07:00

Peace news

http://www.peacenews.info/specials/mahl.html

10/12/09

This article talks about nonviolent action being taken by Islamic officials.

RJA #5c

2009-10-12T13:24:00.000-07:00

I posted a comment on Erik and Becka's pages, both of them had fairly well refined search strings, and I didn't really have any advice for them to help better their strings.

http://boa76.blogspot.com/2009/09/ethics-and http://becka-

ncis06.blogspot.com/2009/09/key-words-for-topic.html#comment-form-engineering-ethics-and.html#comment-form

RJA #5b

2009-10-05T13:58:00.000-07:00

Searched: Nonviolent revolution 2 of 4 relevant items

Mary Elizabeth

A quiet revolution : the first Palestinian Intifada and nonviolent resistance

New York : Nation Books, c2007

Anne Sibley Obrien

After Gandhi : one hundred years of nonviolent resistance

Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge, c2009

Searched Nonviolent revolution: Violent Revolution

Gombrich, E. H. (Ernst Hans), 1909-2001.
A Little History of the world

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2005.
xix, 284 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 23 cm.

2009-10-05T12:20:00.000-07:00

Desmond Ayim-Aboagye

Revolutions: Silent Vs. Violent Revolution (normal)

no reference, publisher, or anything else

10/5/2009

Debatepedia authors/many

Debate: Democratic Peace Theory

publisher:debatepedia

10/5/2009

Condoleezza Rice. "The Promise of Democratic Peace". Washington Post. December 11, 2005

R.J. Rummel. "The Democratic Peace: A new IDEA".

R. Rummel. Power Kills: Democracy as a Method of Nonviolence. (2002)

Spencer R. Weart. "Never at War: Why democracies will never fight one another"

Strobe Talbott. "Democracy and the National Interest". Foreign Affairs. November/December 1996

James Lee Ray. "Does Democracy Cause Peace?". Department of Political Science. 1999

RJA#4c

2009-09-27T19:05:00.000-07:00

http://michelle-eng122.blogspot.com/2009/09/rja-3c-developing-research-question.html?showComment=1254103530402#c4166013972467366111

http://bcjsasoccercoach.blogspot.com/2009/09/rja-3c-research-question.html#comment-form

RJA#4b

2009-09-27T18:35:00.000-07:00

Boolean Searching

revolution and resolution

revolution or resolution

peaceful and resolution

peaceful and revolution

violent and revolution

chaotic and revolution

Search Engine Math

+resolution +vs. +revolution

+peaceful +revolution

+revolution -chaos

+revolution +chaos

+effects +revolution

+effects +peaceful +resolution

RJA #4a

2009-09-21T18:59:00.000-07:00

Revolution

Change, Revolt

related to

Anarchy, Circle, cycle, Rebellion, Chaos, Confusion, Hostility, disregard

Resolution n.

Declaration, Dedication, Courage, Guts, Heart, Tenacity

Resolution v

Agree, Decide, Determine, Figure out, Conclude,

related to

peace, democracy

RJA#3c

2009-09-21T01:18:00.000-07:00

What were the greatest revolutions of all time? What were the outcomes of these revolutions? What are different reasons that these revolutions came about? How do the theories of Marx, and the prediction of the communist revolution relate to the revolutions that have already occurred? To what limits can people be pushed before they revolt? What were some great political resolutions that have impacted society greatly? What were the outcomes of these peaceful resolutions? What are the reasons that these resolutions are carried out?What has a better outcome a peaceful resolution or a chaotic revolution? Who gets it done, peacemakers, or chaotic mobs?

RJA#3b

2009-09-21T00:46:00.000-07:00

After lightly researching revolutions, as well as peaceful resolution I have come to realize that I should broaden my topic a bit, and focus more on the historical influences of both revolutions and resolutions on a case by case basis. Revolution vs. Resolution, different by one letter, but in essence two completely different and conflicting ideas that are strangely familiar to each other.

First of all, there are different aspects that need to be considered in both of these subjects, and weighed as a matter of importance. In a revolution, there is usually a shift of power, and a change in constitution, preceded by death. In a peaceful resolution there is usually a shift of power, a change in constitution, but no death. As far as getting laws passed that need to be passed in order for there to be equality among people, which has proven to be more successful revolution or resolution.

RJA#3a

2009-09-20T20:12:00.000-07:00

When I conducted my research I found various definitions of both the words revolution, and the word resolution. On my Delicious account I have bookmarked various websites that have information on my topic.

Subject for Research Project

2009-09-13T20:56:00.000-07:00

Resolutionary vs. Revolutionary Thinking

I have decided to tackle the idea of resolutionary thinking as opposed to the idea of the traditional revolution. I know that there are three different groups of revolutionary theorists, and all of them have similar, but different enough theories as to why and how revolutions are carried out. Not that I do not like the idea of chaos, because really I do, I just think that there are more efficient ways of solving problems. Revolution has been the leading factor in political change throughout the course of history. There have been revolutions in every corner of the world, all of which have varying reasons, or logistics behind the political movements. Most profound in the idea of peaceful movement is Mohatma Gandi, and the peaceful movements and marches that he led throughout the mid to late 1800's in India. The whole idea of a revolution is when there is a large group of people who want political change, mostly in leadership, they form a mob, and protest the current leadership or problem. The concept of thinking resolutionarily would be near the same process, but instead of a mob, there would be a special interest group which would protest the problem peacefully, and come up with rational solutions to the problem.

First off, I have no idea what the three groups of revolutionary theorists, theorize about revolutions. I know a few examples of revolutions, but I do not know specific examples that can relate to all three revolutionary theorists theories. I do not know the extent that a group of people has to be pushed before they decide to start a revolution. Also, I do not know if all revolutions even have an exact starting date.

What I want to learn is if resolution in practice has better or more profound results than revolutions. I want to know if revolution has even proved to be as unsuccessful as I predict. I also want to know if there is any way of stopping massive revolutions peacefully before they begin. When did the largest revolution of all time occur, and what sparked it, how many people died, what was the outcome? Are the outcomes of revolutions as successful as they were hoped to be? Do governments succumb to the will of a revolution only to stop it, or do they ever try to actually fulfill the needs/wants of the revolting mob? These are serious political questions that need to be evaluated, and the answers could be direct evidence of how politics should be carried out.

2009-08-31T18:46:00.000-07:00

It is pretty cool that we can share our bookmarks using delicious. you can check out my bookmarks here! I highly recommend everyone checking out the youtube link for the electromagnetic generator, it is an interesting concept, and it has potential to warp the face of the future.

RJA #1: Areas of Academic Interest

2009-08-24T19:03:00.000-07:00

Resolution vs. Revolution
The birth of the Ubermenche and it's effect on society
Rhetoric: Good vs. Evil
Reach For the places that aren't there
Nietzsche, anti-christ or creative genius?
Pro tools LE 8
acoustic vs synthasized sounds
Ambien, it should be illegal
electromagnetic energy, the uses, the possibilities.