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    Polish Resistance This paper will focus on the resistance movement for the Polish citizens during WWII. Also will argue how the resisters formed in several diverse ways to against the oppressors. Who was part of the resistance? How were they formed? How did the fighters able to get their resources? How did the Polish resistance operate? With their resources that the Polish resisters had, how can one assess their accomplishments? Alongside the occasions of the movements that succeeded. Do we define

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    disgruntled voters, those protesting Trump’s Administration have grown into a solid counter-movement to the one that he managed to sweep the United States away with. This paper aims to provide a comprehensive of the Trump Resistance Movement. This paper will show the groups and movements involved in the Trump

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    In Gledhill’s and Schell’s book, New Approaches to Resistance: In Brazil and Mexico, the topic of different forms of resistance is mentioned among different groups of people. These groups had different motivations and goals in achieving systematic social change to their local community. The various resistance groups were made up of the poor, marginalized, working class, religious minorities, and ethnic minorities. Moreover, these subaltern groups faced opposition from the powerful elite, which consisted

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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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    Peaceful resistance to laws positively impacts a free society. Peaceful resistance to allowing voices to be heard. It also allows people to fight for the rights that they believe in. In some cases it is a fight for equality and in other cases liberty. These are just two of the reasons why people participate in peaceful resistance to laws. Famous movements like the civil rights movement participated in peaceful resistance. This Movement fought against discrimination, and fought for America to fulfill

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    The article goes to discuss the recent surge in non-violent civil resistance movements since 2011. Throughout the article it becomes noticeable that the non-violent civil resistances are beneficial but that they also all seem to have a lot in common regarding the success rate. (Chenoweth and Stephan, 2) The article also attempts to shed light on the major weaknesses of armed resistances and why civil ones are far more useful both in the short and long term aspects. (Chenoweth and Stephan, 5) First

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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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    In recent years, a wave of activism has swept across the nation in volume unheard of since the 1960s. Peaceful resistance has become somewhat of a rite of passage for young people, with protesting for or against various causes being treated as vogue in a similar vein to other more traditional youth activities such as attending nightclubs and going to concerts. Strikingly, the youth culture has both normalized protest and come to encourage it, similar in peer-pressure to smoking or underage drinking

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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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    since the American Revolution Americans have resisted against laws that they view as unfair. The resistance of laws can either be done peacefully like the Civil Rights Movement or violently like the American Revolution. Peaceful resistance has a positive impact on the free society because it has the ability to get to congress and have laws changed to make them fair for everyone. The Civil Rights Movement peacefully resisted segregation laws and was able to change those laws and lead towards integration

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