What is civil disobedience? Give an example of it

What will be an ideal response?


It is the refusal to obey civil laws in an effort to induce change in governmental policy or legislation, characterized by the use of passive resistance or other nonviolent means.

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For most of the history of our species, human lived by which form of human subsistence?

A) Transhumant pastoralism B) Horticulture C) Agriculture D) Foraging E) Industrialism

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What is the most critical factor influencing the incidence of polygyny?

What will be an ideal response?

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Which of the following fossil finds from South Africa's Rising Star cave was announced in 2015?

A. the skull and skeletons of miniature people, H. floresiensis B. australopith remains with surprisingly large craniums C. the earliest known member of the hominin lineage, fossil LD 350-1 D. evidence of the earliest recorded stone tools E. hominin fossils, dubbed Homo naledi, that have a mix of primitive and modern features

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David Schneider found all of the following attributes of American kinship except it:

a. could not extend upward beyond three generations in identifying ancestors. b. ?was practiced very weakly and sometimes did not count sibling bonds. c. ?would cut off and not count biological kin for emotional reasons. d. ?would cut off and not count some biological kin because of geographical distance.

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