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    Nonviolent resistances often consist of numerous individuals that gather together to use their voice and protest in nonviolent manners. Nonviolent movements and peaceful resistance is the refusal to obey an idea, law, or future decision made by individuals in power (Dictionary.com). They can be extremely important in revoking or stopping a law or decision from being enacted. This is proven by peaceful movements and protests such as the one gathered by Marin Luther King Jr. and the many Americans

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    Following, Gandhi continues to have a profound impact on American culture with his principles of nonviolent resistance. Nonviolence is not seen as a passivity, but rather a call for action. Gandhi believed by disrupting the morale of the antagonist through voluntarily accepting the distress that is imposed, the inflictor would face greater adversary than the inflicted. An example of an act of civil disobedience was led by Gandhi in the infamous Salt March that took place in March 1930 in India. In

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    Cesar Chavez, published an article explaining ways nonviolent resistance has a greater effect than violent resistance. In this article Chavez aims to validate that nonviolent resistance more effective than using violent options. Throughout the article he uses different type of rhetorical choices. Two of the choices he decided to use was an ethical appeal and emotional appeal. He adopts a motivational tone in order to aid a conveying the message to his adult or young adult audience. Cesar Chavez

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    Peaceful resistance to laws positively impacts a free society. Looking back at examples from history, without Rosa Parks, the Woman’s Suffrage Movement, or Martin Luther King Jr., the society we live in would be extremely different. Civil disobedience continues to contributes a huge positive impact on the world we live in today. Nonviolent resistance is defined as, “the practice of achieving goals such as social change through symbolic protests, civil disobedience, or economic or political noncooperation

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    Chavez has many rhetorical strategies throughout his essay in order to persuade the readers that nonviolent resistance is the best way to win. Chavez uses alliteration, pathos, and parallel structure to help get his point across and get the reader to pay attention. First, Chavez uses alliteration to help grab the reader’s attention and puts emphasis on what he deems important. He declares that “we are willing to wait” and “feelings of frustration”. The use of alliteration helps the readers notice

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    The Color Revolutions were a series of nonviolent resistance movements that proved to be fairly effective in regards to overthrowing regimes in the late twentieth century (Goldstone 2014). These nonviolent resistance strategies can include peaceful protests, strikes, or sit-ins or occupations of public spaces. Two of the most important factors in the recent success of nonviolent resistance movements have been the role of mass media, such as cell phones and social media, and an international network

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    Nonviolent resistance is one of the most effective forms of protest in the history of mankind. It has been used as one of the earliest forms of protest. It has been used by the poor people of early Rome to correct grievances they had against the Roman Consul (BK Community). It has been used during the American Revolution to resist British rule (BK Community). Nonviolent resistance has been a tried and true form of protest for as long as time itself, and will be used for future purposes as well.

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    King Jr. wrote in his article “Nonviolence and Racial Justice” that “this method is passive physically but strongly active spiritually; it is nonaggressive physically, but dynamically aggressive spiritually.” By this he means that the reason why nonviolent resister is stronger than a violent resister, is because their hearts and minds are strongly involved. By doing so, they build a strong character and determination in them. Not only that but their mindset is not in winning or humiliating their rival

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    resorting to physical violence, and nonviolent resistance. He discusses how people often adjust to oppression to the point where they do not want to be saved from it. As well as how people will resort to extreme violence to achieve “momentary results”. His goal is to inform African Americans that the nonviolent approach is the answer not violence. Kings main objective is to show that violence and complaisance do not resolve issues, but that nonviolent resistance is

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    retaliation for the sake of the cause to achieve the goal – this characterizes that nonviolent resistance is a willingness to accept suffering without retaliation, to accept blows from the opponent without striking back; accept the violence, if necessary; but to never inflict violence on another” (Banks 2). “Principle five – avoid internal violence of the spirit, as well as, external physical violence – a nonviolent resister not only refuses to fight or shoot his opponent, but he also refuses to hate

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