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    for one to be governed will always be an ongoing struggle. How can a government maintain order and the safety of its people yet at the same time preserve its citizens’ natural right to be free? The ideas from Niccolo Machiavelli‚ an Italian aristocrat‚ who published "The Prince" in 1513 for a Medici prince as a guideline on how to rule a country‚ gives a conservative approach to how one should govern. Henry David Thoreau’s "Civil Disobedience" published in 1849‚ offers a liberal approach on how one

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    beliefs without the fear of controversy. This maxim relates to the play‚ “The Night Thoreau Spent In Jail”‚ in which the main character Henry doesn’t conform societal expectations and stays true to his beliefs. While instructing a class of students‚ Henry refuses to teach according to the school’s curriculum. He is criticized by the Deacon and is scolded for dismissing the administration’s rules. Despite this‚ Henry continues to argue against the use of the school’s textbooks and denounces the idea

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    Edgar Allen Poe‚ William Sydney Porter (known as O Henry) is the most read author in the world and bears the title of « master of the short story ». He has been called many things. Some people have called him the twentieth-century Balzak. Some have called him the American Maupassant because of his so well made surprising endings. The short story is the one fundamental and self-contained genre in American prose fiction‚ and the stories of O. Henry certainly made their appearance in consequence of

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    INDIAN THOUGHT IN EMERSON THOREAU AND WHITMAN V. K. CHARI VEDANTA philosophy was one of several thought currents from abroad that reached New England in the early decades of the 19th century and contributed to the thinking of Emerson and Thoreau. Emerson’s interest in the sacred writings of the East probably began: .ring his Harvard days and continued throughout his life. He knew Laws of Manu‚ Vishnupurana‚ the Bhagvad- Gita‚ and Katha Upanishad: There are

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    Passive Resistance: Nonviolence Mahatma Gandhi‚ the originator of “Practice of Passive Resistance”‚ or “Soul-force”‚ used nonviolence to solve problems. He believed that the practice of Satyagraha can use love to forget and forgive. The pain of suffering was not the true problem when it came to fighting for justice. Similarly‚ with the idea of suffering for one’s desire of freedom‚ the people of Republic of China also used hunger strike and nonviolence for the Tiananmen Square protest to present

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    CAN CRIME BE AN AT OF RESISTANCE BY AKANSHA KOCHHAR 826-572-125 FOR PROF. DOUG THOMPSON CRIM 1000–0BW DATE: SEPTEMBER 19‚ 2014 What leads to a crime? There have been many debates about how to stop crime but people tend to forget the key question which is why the crime occurred in the first place. Was the person doing the crime a born criminal‚ or he thought while checking his to-do list‚ let’s put going to jail as one of my tasks for today. Most of the people would not do that

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    underground resistance movements developed in approximately 100 ghettos in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe (“Jewish”). The Holocaust was one of the most horrific events to ever occur in human history‚ and is most commonly known for when the mass murder of over six-million Jewish people took place. In 1939‚ thousands of Jewish families were forced to leave their homes and live in small‚ fenced-off areas known as ghettos. With miserable living conditions‚ and constant Nazi terror‚ resistance was not easy

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    them. Many Jews fought back and whether they succeeded or not- they didn’t go down without a fight. These are a few of many stories in which Jewish citizens used hope and determination to their advantage‚ to fight for their survival and through resistance‚ have an impact upon the Holocaust. In every Ghetto‚ in every deportation train‚ in every Labour Camp‚ within the Hidden Forests‚ and even in the Death Camps; the will to resist was strong‚ and took many forms. Fighting with the few weapons

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    Overcoming Resistance to Change BUS 610 Organizational Behavior Overcoming Resistance Resistance is a normal and a perfectly natural reaction to change. Each person has their own amount they can take‚ but the reasons behind why employees resist in the first place may be surprising.  According to these experts‚ the fear of moving into an unknown future state creates anxiety and stress‚ even if the current state is painful (Eroke‚ 2013). A complete understanding of the unique ways that

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    Resistance to change Definition The phrase “resistance to change” is quite often used in the organizational change research as a justification for explaining why efforts to introduce new technology‚ procedures or management practices fall short of expectations or fail altogether (Oreg‚ 2006). Zaltman & Duncan define resistance as "any conduct that serves to maintain the status quo in the face of pressure to alter the status quo” and in the view of Folger & Skarlicki resistance is defined as "employee

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