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    Resistance

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    What Is Resistance/Weight Training? Resistance/ weight training is any type of exercise that causes the skeletal muscles to contract and detract with the resistance of an outside force. This outside resistance can be produced in many ways‚ a few examples are: dumbbells‚ rubber exercise tubing‚ your own body weight‚ bricks‚ bottles of water‚ or any other object that causes the muscles to contract. A common name for this exercise is weight lifting. There are many different exercises that fall within

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    Three Ways of Oppression

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    Three ways of Oppression In this essay‚ “The Ways of Meeting Oppression‚” Martin Luther King Jr. was speaking about three kinds of oppression and how people deal with their oppression. The first acquiescence‚ which means that the oppressed resign themselves to their doom. When this happens the oppressed person gets accustomed to their oppression and they never try to get out and become accustomed to it. He criticizes the people who use this first method. The second method talks about physical

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    When I met my client I conducted a coaching session with him where I focused using the four steps of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) such as Expressing Empathy‚ Develop Discrepancy‚ and Roll with Resistance and Support Self-efficacy. The NVC model of expressing empathy involves four step communication process that works with four different dissimilarities. First I made observations‚ not evaluations. We naturally have the tendency to exaggerate‚ interpret when someone is talking. Second‚ I was able

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    Romance of Resistance: Tracing Transformations of Power Through Bedouin Women‚” Lila Abu-Lughod discusses the growing resistance of Bedouin women of the Libya-Egypt region to the power dynamic embedded in their culture (Abu-Lughod 41 – 42). From her work in this region‚ Abu-Lughod hopes that through the discovery of the attempts of women to overcome the male to female power dynamic in this region‚ humans can better understand power through oppression. Once the relationship between resistance to the structure

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    Gandhi’s nonviolent movement worked because of his clear communication‚ nonviolent tactics‚ and his commitment to India gaining independence. Gandhi wrote a letter to Lord Irwin clearly explaining his views and intentions of ending British rule in India. “My ambition is no less than to convert the British people through nonviolence and thus make them see the wrong they have done to India‚” he says in this letter. In this quote‚ Gandhi tells Lord Irwin exactly what his end goal of his nonviolent movement

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    framework in critiquing systems of oppression. This approach is exemplified in the resistance Asian Canadian women showed in the 1970s and 80s (Li‚ 55). In the height of Western white feminism in the 1950s and 60s‚ many Asian Canadians felt like their experiences were not represented since it only focused on women’s rights (Li‚ 54). These women’s rights that white feminists advocated for erases the role imperialism‚ colonialism and racism plays in the oppression of racialized women. For racialized

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    In 2007‚ Rita Hardiman and Bailey W. Jackson published a piece of work explaining the conceptual model behind the phenomenon of oppression in society. In their work‚ Hardiman and Jackson (2007) explain oppression as a system where individual participants of society are subjected to a position of the “dominant” or “subordinate” role. The “dominant” role that oppresses and devalues is referred to as the “agent” and the “subordinate” role that is oppressed and devalued is referred to as the “target”

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    Responses of Caribbean People to Oppression By: Akemi Mascoll Form: U6 Alpha 2 Oppression in the Caribbean took place in many ways. These were taken place by the slaves or laborers who were tired of the harsh ways in which they were treated and decided to react either violently or non-violently towards the owners or planters. The Amerindians were one of the first migratory groups in the Caribbean. This group came in two main groups‚ which were the Tainos/Arawaks who came first‚ then the Caribs/Kalinagos

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    English III April 20‚ 2016 Opposing Oppression “… All men are created equal‚ that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights…” Written in the Declaration of Independence‚ these ideals gave the Founding fathers a reason to split from Britain. A noble idea to believe ourselves as equals to everyone with rights that not be taken away. Yet‚ some people do not agree with this idea and will try to snuff it out. Throughout history‚ oppression an issue that takes on many different

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