The Role Of Resistance In The Resistance Movement

The cultural revolution is a strange period in Chinese history laced with intense struggle and anguish. The cultural revolution mobilized the all of society to compete for all opposing factions that they belonged to (Ong, 2016). Mao mobilized the young people of society during a background of political turmoil, which helped Mao to mobilize the students in order to enforce his political legitimacy and ideas (Ong, 2016). Mao’s charismatic authority created his personality cult and most defiantly leant a helping hand in mobilizing the red guard movement (Ong, 2016) (Weber, 1946) (Andreas, 2007). No matter which faction of the red guard they belonged to, they all mobilized against their common enemy; the better off, upper class. (Ong, 2016). Multiple ideologies within the youth led red guard movement explain why the movement gained momentum and became incredibly powerful (Walder, 2009).

Nonviolent resistance is the practice of achieving goals such as social change through symbolic protests, civil disobedience, economic or political noncooperation, satyagraha, or other methods, without using violence. This type of action highlights the desires of an individual or group that feels that something needs to change to improve the current condition of the resisting person or group. It is largely but wrongly taken as synonymous with civil resistance. Each of these terms nonviolent resistance and "civil resistance has its distinct merits and also quite different connotations and commitments.The modern form of non-violent resistance was popularised and proven to be effective by the Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi in his efforts to gain

Resistance in the mist of WWII and the Holocaust occurred all across Europe and the occupied territories of Nazi Germany. The three groups I’m going to discuss are Zegota, White Rose, and Le Chambon-sur-Lignon. Each one of these came from three very different areas, but they each resisted Nazi ideology. Each group has their own reason for why they decided to take a stand, whether morally, politically, or religious reasons and while there are differences between the groups many of them have overlapping reasons for their desire to resist.

Ancestors can only tell of what they've been told, and sometimes it isn't the whole story or the truth. But there are no records of the Underground Railroad and so estimates from ancestors and historians are all that can be contrived to come up with an idea of what really happened on and away from the plantations.

There were many examples of resistances from Mexicans to Americans in which means the refusal to accept or comply with someone, according to the information provided. As the American conquered and manage their way in to the Mexicans regions, and were determined to take over their lands at any cost. I will be providing examples of the resistance of Las Gorras Blancas and how they believed helped the Mexicans to fight back the Anglos. As well as Tiburcio Vasquez how he resisted against the Americans. They were consider bandits and were running from the law.

Canada has always been under a capitalist ruling regime for many years. The Canadian state, even as a colony of both England and France, went through mercantilist monopolistic practices that affected the lower working classes. During this period, the Church was powerful and was involved in the formulation of power. The state was fully supported by the Church and gained its wealth through illegal means with major benefits going to the aboriginal Canadian citizens. The rebellion or uprising was aimed at fighting capitalist regime introduced by foreigners, addressing high poverty levels and ensuring equitable distribution of resources among the Canadian citizens. This paper will explore the sharing of power between the citizens, Church, and government during the insurrectionary movement.

On the day of October 18th, 1867, The United States takes formal possession of Alaska. The territory was purchased from Russia for 7.2 million dollars, which is less than two cents per acre. The purchased was championed by William Henry Seward, who served as President Andrew Johnson’s secretary at the time. Seward had negotiated the deal with the Russian Prime minister at the time, Eduard de Stoeckl. Russia had interests in selling the Alaskan territory, and decided that it was better to sell it, rather than lose it in a war. After the purchase had been final, it was named “Seward’s Folly.” Americans, at the time, believed that Alaska was a barren icy wasteland, so it was not the most popular of deals. It wasn’t until a year later, that Alaska Territory would be ratified. In 1896, Alaska had become more favorable, when the discovery of gold in its Klondike River had taken place. Alaska

Many people will argue that peaceful resistance to laws and a need for change is unconstitutional, possibly because they believe that the constitution holds true and applies to this day and age. Truthfully, I don’t care what the constitution says and I do not think any of us should take it literally. It’s ambiguous and completely out of date. If the Constitution were applicable to any other time than when it was written, we would not need peaceful resistance. We would not have needed to “peacefully resist” things like segregation, slavery, or inequality. Because the laws of this country and many other countries have a tendency to be oppressive, unfair, and unfavorable towards minority groups, peaceful resistant is not only positively impactful,

The Bielski brothers, the leaders of one of the largest Partisan units, were able to save over twelve hundred Jewish lives. They did this by providing a semi-permanent home in the forest for all Jews (Partisans 2 Bielski Brothers, pages 6,8). Having a place to live with a sense of normality helped Jews that had escaped from Ghettos and camps to feel safe and at home inside of the forest. Women were allowed in some partisans, but not all. It was more dangerous for a woman than a man in a partisan unit. The women not only had the same fears that the men did over capture, but they also had to worry about being raped. The jobs of women were limited in the partisans. In most cases, they were not even allowed to have guns to protect themselves. Women were nurses, doctors, cooks, wives, and caregivers. Having women around often raised the morale of the men fighting in the partisans (Women in partisans pages 2-5). Women gave the men an incentive to go home to, and some even started families together. In contrast to the armed partisan units, who only accepted physically fit fighters, family units provided a home for everyone. They were made up of men who were rejected from the armed resistance, women, and children, and were often protected by a group with weapons (Partisans 3 pages 1-2). While individual partisans could not accept everyone, for fear of getting too large and chancing

Peaceful resistance positively impacts a free society, particularly in a Democracy such as the United States. Abraham Lincoln famously described our national foundation as a “government of the people, by the people, for the people”, and for such a statement to be true, it is necessary that voices of US citizens be heard.

Peaceful resistance in the United States of America, done with the right intentions, has a positive impact of a free society. I hold this belief because as humans we can be flawed in our ways of thinking and require something to draw our attention for us to realize our flawed views. Peaceful resistance is positive because it draws attention to an issue in society, it communicates a level of civility, and it attempts to initiate a positive way of addressing issues in society.

A free society that limits or restricts the voice of its people fundamentally contradicts the exact meaning of free. The birth of America itself was knitted in the womb of violent disobedience of the law, and thus exists as a historically essential piece of who we are as Americans.

Women during World War II in the Soviet Union played a major role in helping the

One of the biggest challenges that accompanied the scattered resistance movements throughout occupied Europe was the narrow scope under which they fell. For example, there wasn’t a general European resistance movement, in which there was an underlying network organizing their actions, but rather isolated, state-oriented resistance movements. Poland had their own resistance, the Polish Underground, and so did France, but the two weren’t particularly interested in the other, in so far as it affected them. The main obstacle was garnering these uprisings and aligning them with a long-term objective. The British SOO and the American OSS did attempt to connect the

This emphasis placed on supposed active resistance led to revelations of women’s efforts during the war and the roles that they had played in the resistance. I believe that it was these revelations that were responsible for the sparking of women’s suffrage in France and as a consequence, led to French women gaining the right to vote in 1944. There is ample evidence that the role women played in the Resistance had a significant impact and this consequently helped to secure their right to vote. It is a great shame that today the vast majority of the French population know little about the surprisingly large role women had to play. I believe that although subtle, their involvement in underground operations was significant. It was after this success in gaining the right to vote that a period of advances in women’s lives took place between 1945 and the late 1970s.