Batteries‚ Resistance and Current “Battery-Resistor”: Check “show battery” and “show cores”‚ watch what happens‚ adjust some variables 1. Why do electrons (blue dots) move? Draw a diagram of the battery‚ label the flow of electrons. The flow of current (+) is opposite; draw this and note if toward or away from + terminal of the battery. The electrons move because of the battery voltage. The current flows in the opposing direction of the electrons and the electrons flow towards the positive
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“It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen” (Aristotle‚ Nicomachean Ethics). Although civil disobedience may cause divisive rhetoric and chaos‚ nonviolent resistance positively impacts a free society by providing an impetus for progress and starting a dialogue about injustice. Our nation was founded on principles of civil disobedience. In Federalist #51‚ James Madison proclaimed‚ “If angels were to govern men‚ neither external nor internal controls on government would
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Civil Disobedience and Disobedient Women When people think of peaceful resistance‚ they often think of the Civil Rights Movement. Many civil rights activists were influenced by Martin Luther King’s nonviolent opposition to unjust laws. Helena Hicks‚ a college student‚ was one of these activists influenced by King. In January 1955‚ she participated in the very first lunch counter sit in. Later that year‚ Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white man and she began to work with King. Over
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ll eventually emancipate the colored race” (400). The participants of the nonviolent riots know that they have a bond in common. They are‚ in essence‚ united in their cause. Secondly‚ nonviolent protesting weakens the unity among whites‚ whereas violence actually increases the determination and unity between them. As Roberts said‚ “Nonviolent action has a serious chance of undermining white unity” (231). Nonviolent riots against racism have in the past invoked sympathy from many white people
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seemingly advocating disorder. In most cases peaceful resistance to certain laws can have a positive impact. Civil disobedience has been the platform in which
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James Lawson and Nonviolent Direct Action Despite efforts to garner legislative equality for African Americans after the Civil War‚ the actual implementation of change did not occur for some time later. The 13th and 14th Amendments‚ which ended slavery and granted the rights of citizenship to black Americans‚ were often ineffectual in promoting racial justice. Throughout the following decades‚ race relations struggled against the remnants of Jim Crow to the forefront of American social issues‚ but
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organize the resistance to prepare for D-Day.
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and civil disobedience have been a hallmark of change from the early 20th century onwards. Though nonviolent efforts‚ multiple civil movements have peacefully broken a law in order to protest an injustice of said law. Usually done in a coordinated manner by a large group of people‚ these protest have been strikingly effective in bettering the systems they have set out to change. Peaceful resistance is therefore one of the most effective ways of protesting and correcting unjust and broken laws‚ and
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Chapter 5 Review Questions 1. Civil Rights are the government-protected rights of individuals against arbitrary or discriminatory treatment by governments or individuals. The concept of equality got introduced into the constitution. The 14th Amendment‚ one of three Civil war Amendments ratified from 1865 to 1870‚ introduced the notion of equality into the constitution by specifying that a state could not deny “any person within jurisdiction equal protection of the laws.” It is evident in the recent
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Amendments adopted after the Civil War. The movement spanned from 1954 to 1968 and consisted of major campaigns of civil resistance. Acts of nonviolent protests and civil disobedience produced crisis situations between activists and government authorities. Some people during the movement thought that being violent and using brute force would achieve more than what nonviolent actions would achieve. Gandhi says in his writings that brute force is a behavior for beasts and that killing people requires
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