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    Over the past years we have experienced many peaceful resistance against a few laws. For example‚ Cesar Chavez decided to boycott the grape industry. Martin Luther King Jr. gave the "I Believe Speech" in front of many Americans. Those were great peaceful ways to make our country better. Many people may argue peaceful resistance may cause a negative impact on our free society‚ but I can strongly disagree with that. People who say it causes a negative impact is because they are scared of the truth

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    the wire increases‚ the resistance of the wire will increase. Background: Some materials have consistent resistance at the same temperature regardless of how much voltage is applied through them‚ these materials are known as ‘Ohmic’ resistors. This is because they are said to obey Ohm’s law‚ which states that if a voltmetre is used to measure the voltage (V) of an unknown resistance (R)‚ and an ammetre is used to measure the current (i) through the same unknown resistance‚ then ‘R’ would be given

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    Peaceful resistance‚ historically referred to as “civil disobedience”‚ is a long-standing American tradition practiced throughout history in times of public turmoil and political fracas. From the opening stages of the United States‚ to the tergiversate of the civil right movement‚ civil disobedience continues to take its place in the moral actions of the American people. The right to defend one’s unalienable rights of life‚ liberty‚ and the pursuit of happiness is an ideal that was both important

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    These “undesirables” were German‚ Jewish‚ or Gypsy patients who were in most cases handicapped or deemed incurable. It is estimated that the Nazi regime was responsible for over 400‚000 sterilizations and over 70‚000 deaths from euthanasia from 1933-1945. Despite the fact that many of the “undesirables” were part of German families who supported the Nazis‚ they were viewed as threats to the Aryan race and were targeted for extinction. Historians have long wondered why theories on experimental programs

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    Peaceful resistance to laws‚ or civil disobedience‚ has a place in our society. Peaceful resistance if used correctly can be very motivating. Peaceful resistance when used correctly can cause people to look at something in a different light and it can cause people to change the way they have been doing things. Peaceful resistance can cause someone to look at something in a different light than they have been before. Peaceful resistance has to be done and yet showing peace at the same time. Whenever

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    Q.1 Culture as a tool to limit resistance. A shift from bureaucratic organizational practices toward post-bureaucratic‚ more flexible and less hierarchical systems of organization‚ where employees are empowered to cope with emerging changes and fluctuating demands by continuously reshaping their organizational roles and to contest the way decisions are implemented‚ has created a need for managers to move away from roles based on authoritative and rational forms of control to more culturally based

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    The Nazi medical experiments conducted in the concentration camps were horrid because the people were forced into doing the experiments such as being exposed to harsh weather conditions to see the effects of hypothermia. These experiments were extremely painful‚ and the experimental possess was repeated over and over on the victims to produce a solid result until the victims died from the extreme pain of the situation. The physicians in Germany conducted thousands of experiments on the prisoners

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    Introduction – Adolf Hitler justified his hatred against the Jews in his book Mein Kampf (My Struggle) particularly in a chapter named “Nation and Race”. He was responsible for the massacre of millions of Jews. He swore to rid the world from Jews as he became the dictator of Germany. Thus‚ he ended up killing millions of Jews in his concentration camps which were spread across Europe. Furthermore he talks about the superiority of the Aryan race. Article Summary – In Nation and Race Hitler refers

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    The Nazi Occupation of Holland On May 14‚ 1940 Holland surrendered to German Forces‚ and Dr. Arthur Seyss-Inquart was appointed Reichkommissar‚ the highest governing authority. He watched over a German administration that included many Austrian-born Nazis. These Nazis‚ in turn supervised the Dutch civil- service. This configuration proved fateful for the Jews of the Netherlands. During 1940‚ the German occupation officials forbid Jews from the civil-service and required Jews to register the

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    German Workers’ Party (Nazi Party)‚ failed in the attempted overthrow of the Weimar Republic in what is now known as the Beer Hall Putsch. However‚ just ten years later‚ in 1933‚ Hitler and the Nazi Party came to power in Germany. Ever since‚ modern historians have tried to understand the root or cause of this quick turnaround. What has become clear is that there is no single answer to why the Nazi Party was able to rise to power in the early 1930’s. Instead‚ the Nazi Party rose to power due

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