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    Resistance is a destructive and violent rejection. Resistance is commonly understood as a rejection to accept and comply with something that causes doing in opposition to the current events. “Resistance movement” is an organized effort by some part of people of a country to resist the legally established government or an occupying power and to disrupt civil order and stability. “I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also

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    The Nightingale Quotes

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    microscope and show the courageous battles fought, and not just by the soldiers. War is an abhorrent event that has the ability to destroy everything. That is no different in the novel The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah. The Nightingale is about two French sisters, Vianne and Isabelle Rossignol and tells their stories while living in a German-occupied France. Right from the very beginning, it seems that the two sisters have completely opposite characteristics. When Vianne was 14 and Isabelle was 4 their

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    had to give a gift ‘They opened up the lions’ cage’. This decision did chane the way the leader thought of the village so they were back to being restrained. Alice was also not free, she had to leave her village and hide from the army with some resistance fighters from around her country, they all had a limit of where they could go or else they would get

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    again, got denied. Virginia was not happy with the decision and decided to resign from the U.S. Foreign Service in 1939. Virginia went to Paris in 1939 and while there Germany invaded Poland and France declared War on Germany, so Virginia joined the French ambulance Corps known as the Services Sanitaire de l’Armee as a private. Virginia received first aid training and became an ambulance driver where she evacuated injured casualties from the front lines. Germany turned and released all its military

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    Antibiotic Resistance A modern day plague Also known as superbugs, these bugs are resistant to our modern day antibiotics. People around the world are trying to figure out alternatives to this plague. These bugs have evolved over years and years becoming stronger and passing down genes from generation to generation, To slowly become the super bugs that they are known as today. Often these resistant genes are caused by overuse of antibiotics by humans and farm animals, but this is not always true

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    been made… through rebellion.” True to his claim, various historical events where a group of people was defiant resulted in a major improvement for society. The American Revolution, the nonviolent movements led by Martin Luther King Jr., and the French Revolution are revolutionary events that would have not succeeded without disobedience. The American Revolution is engendered by the growing tension between the thirteen colonies and the British Crown. The colonists are livid about the taxes the

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    Essay On MRSA

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    that is resistant to antibiotics, making it more difficult to treat (Gould. I.M., 2007). MRSA is known as the most common staph infection among the community and hospital settings. Clinical Infectious Diseases (CID) states until the late 1960’s resistance to methicillin was uncommon and human infections declined (Keith. S. K., Anderson. D. J., Choi. Y., Link. K., Sexton. P. D. T., 2008). For a decade the infection only appeared in urban hospitals. However, MRSA started to become known again in

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         Napoleon and the Spanish Resistance      Throughout time, the military has been considered one of the key features in a civilization. It has been considered the heart and soul of many countries and empires and has been the center of many cultures. Throughout history we have seen many military leaders and military powers. We have seen military techniques and technology change as we progress. Our schools are filled with legends of great war heroes

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    Resistance during the Holocaust, both Jewish and non-Jewish, is a daunting task to cover. Information abounds in relation to this which leads to the problem of putting all of it into one paper. Due to this, I will only cover the specifically Jewish Partisan fighters. The movements are divided into two groups of Eastern and Western Fighters. Partisans fought in almost every European country including but not limited to Belgium, Poland, Russia, France, Italy, Greece, and Lithuania. “A partisan is

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    Urinary tract infection (UTI) is a microbial infection of the kidneys, ureters, bladder or urethra. Urinary tract is the most common form of infection. Resistance to the extended-spectrum cephalosporins can occur in Klebsiella species due to production of the extended-spectrum ß-lactamases (ESBLs) that make hydrolysis of the oxyiminocephalosporins and monobactams. The aim of the present work was intended to be a prospective study of the plasmid features of Klebsiella isolates, obtained from hospitalized

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