Ethical Project - Research Paper Example

The Rose Revolution is a protest call to the resignation of the former Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze in November 23, 2003. It took place after the highly contestable parliamentary elections. The Rose Revolution ended the more than 30 year rule of Eduard Shevardnadze “as its Soviet-era Communist Party boss and its longest-serving post-independence president”. The protest can be illustrated in the following account of BBC News “student demonstrators decided to give red roses to the soldiers.

Many soldiers laid down their guns. "People were kissing the police and military, it was really spectacular," said Giorgi Kandelaki, a 21-year-old student. "And the roses of course which people had with them, which Misha carried with him into the parliament hall, that was the moment when people said that it was a rose revolution.” (BBC News, May 10, 2005). The Civil disobedience on Arizona Immigration Law was precipitated by the “ The Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act (introduced as Arizona Senate Bill 1070 and thus often referred to simply as Arizona SB 1070).

According to the law, all aliens over the age the 14 who are in the United States for more than 30 days should register with the US governments and carry their documents at all times and making it a misdemeanor for an alien not to carry such documents. The law also allows law enforcers to check such papers upon the suspicion that an individual is an illegal alien. The Arizona Immigration Law has been touted as racist. The law sparked a civil disobedience protest culminating in March 21, 2010 where “about 100 participants formed a chain of linked arms to stop traffic around the Federal Building”.

 16 prominent New Yorkers were arrested whose disgust over the law was released in a press statement as thus “Our act of civil disobedience is performed