Civil Disobedience Dbq

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Disobedience can turn out to be a pleasant objective, when at the end it helps the society. When we are fighting for something we want, but for some reason there's always dictators that oppose the decisions that you want to develop, disobeying can object and bring exceptional circumstances. Take for example, Henry David Thoreau believed in making America great again by being disobedient to the government. Another example is, Pre, he wanted to be the greatest runner, so he disobeyed his coach to allow himself gain improvements in his running. Prefontaine, was one of the world's best runner of all time, he was also disobedient to his coach not all the time, but most of the time he was. Pre, was an aggressive front runner, he always wanted to go out strong the first two miles and finish the third mile strong too, even when his coach always told him to stay with the pack he didn't listen to his coach so he won so many races like that. Pre didn't listen because he ran “to test the limits of the human heart” , …show more content…
Henry believed that individuals who are in the system and were just taking advantage should be cut out of the system. Henry didn't like how the government treated us like if we were cat and dogs and thought that they can just make us do whatever they wanted to do with us and pay us so little we can't even afford dread to eat at our dinner table. Thoreau wanted better pay for all the people and wanted a better quality in jobs that everyone should be treated equally and that nobody should get any type of special treatment just because some people might be working in the government or are just rich. Henry David Thoreau believed he could change the system by showing them that if they are going to treat me in a poor way he will act in a poor way back to them in till the people got treated as
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