Thursday, November 20, 2014

Q 2 Essay Questions

Martin Luther King Jr.    Part 1:  He asked the American people to use "soul force" in
                                                     fighting their battles.  What did he mean by "soul force"
                                                     and what other individuals or groups in history have used
                                                     "soul force" and what were the consequences.

 Part II,   Is "soul force" always the right way to handle injustice or are there times to be physically protective or violent?  Defend your answers by using historical examples.


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Gandhi, -- Part 1:  When is it okay to break the law?
                  Part 2:   Should the law breaker submit to the consequences if he breaks them?  Use this book and other historical examples to explain yourself.

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Abraham Lincoln     Part 1:  Some men and women are called on to lead their countries into violence.  What was Abraham Lincoln's view of that violence and of is role in permitting the violence as a means to peace and justice?"  Use quotes from his document and book to show your point.
                                  Part 2:  Compare and contrast others in history who have lead their country into                                               violence.  (What were their motives?  Means?  Consequences?)

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Martin Luther's      Part 1:  Explain why Martin Luther was excommunicated from the Catholic                                                      Church in the 1500's.
                               Part 2:  What were some of the consequences of his actions?
                                           Include if you think your freedoms have been affected because of his life?
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Friday, November 14, 2014

Motivational Tips from Accidental Creative


How to get moving when you just don't feel like it!   Good talk.  

Motivation follows action--Act first then the motivation begins.  

What else do we know about action first then testimony follows?  Holy Ghost can't inspire and tell you that it's right if you don't do it first!  Act first.  

He says that sometimes we get the reverse, we are inspired and then we create, but it's RARE.  And as  professionals we must dive in and then motivation and inspiration comes.

Almost everytime we need to create we must act first!  Our action code as Professionals is to advance and in that we discover motivation.

Three STEPS:    Find them in this video and inspire the class.
 
1   Define your battle--figure out the outcome first. Not the project, not the task.  (Begin with THE END IN MIND.)  

What is the derivation of the word choose?   TO CUT.

2   PRUNE Relentlessly - cut off new growth, if that bloom isn't pruned, it will steal resources from the strength of the stem.  You succumb to systemic mediocrity when you can't say no.  (PRIORITIZE is what number of the seven habits?)

3   Create a ritual, a trigger - a repeatable behavior that will make this thing happen.  (HABIT)  (Twila Tharp, coreographer writes a good book on this.  Every day she gets in her dance clothes and calls a taxi and goes to the studio.  What is the trigger?  It's not the studio, it's the taxi. )   For him it is free writing - or five minute meditation before he starts.

The Accidental Creative


http://www.accidentalcreative.com/podcasts/ac/ac-podcast-what-to-do-when-you-arent-inspired/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+acwritings+%28Accidental+Creative%3A+Productivity+%26+Creativity%29

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Gandhi's Life Time Line

Gandhi  Life Timeline 
EVENT Gandhi's Age
Add date  Place
Birth  0
Moved w/ fam to Rajkot 7 1876
Married Kasturbai 13 1883
Met Shiek Mehtab 15-17
Dad died 16 1885
England for law degree 19 1888  London
Became barrister 21 1891
Goes to S Africa  23 1893 Kicked off train 
Returns to India takes fam. To S. Africa 1896
Children are all born 31 1900 midwifed the last one himself
Created ambulance corp. in Boer War 36 1899
Vow of brahmacharya 37 1906
So. Africa Asiatic Law Amendment "Black Law"  37 1906
Satyagraha "firm to a good cause" 38 1907 arrested, served, released, registration burned
Mining revolt, march, prison, rebellion prison 44 1913
Indian Relief Bill 45 1914
Fam to Britain, WWI  Ambulance duty.  45 1914
Pres. Of Indian National Congress 46 1915
Champaran Indigo rebellion, first fast 47 1916-17
Rowlatt Bill (imprisonment without trial) 50 1919 April 6,  One day fasting/prayer/strike
Jallianwalla Bagh Massacre 50 1919 Apr 13, 
Chauri Chaura Uprising  53 1922 23 police killed in non-violent protest
Lord Reading/vicero arrested Gandhi sedition 1922 six years imprisonment
Appendicitis and 21 day fast 55 1924
Salt March 61 1930 April 5-6
Quit India non-violent resistance 72 1941
Subhas Chandra Bose fights Britain 1945 joins Japan to fight with the India National Army
Kasturbai dies 74 1943
Split into Pakistan/India independence 1947
Gandhi dies 79 1948