Essays Tagged: "passive resistance"
This is a college essay on Gandi, his life and his works. Includes works cited and parenthetical documentation
In 1896, after being attacked and beaten by white South Africans, Gandhi began to teach a policy of passive resistance to, and non-cooperation with, the South African authorities. Part of the inspirat ... Thoreau, especially to Thoreau's famous essay "Civil Disobedience" (1) Gandhi considered the terms passive resistance and civil disobedience inadequate for his purposes, however, and coined another t ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies
Moral Force Protest Vs. Physical Force Protest. Discusses in relation to our contemporary world.
. Aside from well constructed speeches and hunger strikes, the refusal to obey certain laws and the passive resistance, that is, resisting to incoming violence usually from the government, are other w ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law
The Black Panthers, with interviews from primary sources from Oakland
cker response to the problems of inequality and the unsuccessful attempts at peaceful protesting by passive resistance groups already formed against the oppression throughout America. The Black Panthe ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism
Holden Caulfield
r careful examination of the subject, Holden Caulfield, it has been determined that he suffers from passive aggressive personality disorder and shows signs of moderate depression. Holden shows many of ... shows many of the signs of these disorders.These signs include the following. Pervasive pattern of passive resistance to demands for adequate social and occupational performance. The resistance is ex ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors
Ghandi and the salvatage
foremost men to help lead the nationalist movement. Gandhi is probably the best known proponent of passive resistance and this idea helped him to achieve the goal of Indian nationalism. His inflexibl ... and to gain self-respect and confidence for his people. He believed adamantly in a few things, one, passive resistance, two god as a creator and not as a religion, and three, the return of India to it ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
A mock newspaper article about Ghandi which describes his basic achievements.
ble, but he has done so in a fashion that will forever revolutionize the art of rebellion. With his passive resistance, the people of India have brought the British Empire to its knees. This moment is ... off ties with Britain.Britain was at the mercy of this little man, and he knew it. Through years of passive fighting, Gandhi has achieved his goal of Indian home rule through a revolutionary idea of p ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History
Hollywood Turns Transcendental .
bewildered young minds. The transcendentalist values concerning non-conformity, individualism, and passive resistance evident in the civil rights movements and original pieces written by the American ... st authority by refusing to obey the replacement teacher. The students also discovered the means of passive resistance. While ordered to pay attention, they further disobey by standing on the desktops ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies
Suffragettes - Brief Notes
oycott.ALLTHESE METHODS NEED SUPPORT AND A LEADER.Peaceful-Advantages1.Unlikely to lose supporters2.Passive resistance can gain respect and dignity for your cause by not reacting even when provoked (G ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History
Martin Luther King
of the greatest feats in history, liberating India from the yoke of colonialism through nonviolent passive resistance. Gandhi's strategy yielded much less spectacular results in South Africa. It may ... elded much less spectacular results in South Africa. It may have been deducted then that nonviolent passive resistance does not work everywhere and was successful mainly due to Gandhi's leadership or ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Mahatma Gandhi
nuously to improve the rights of the immigrant Indians. It was there that he developed his creed of passive resistance against injustice. Before he returned to India with his wife and children, in 191 ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies
How successful was Gustav Streseman in aiding a German recovery 1923-29
ad a huge positive impact on the economy.The next thing he did when he became Chancellor was to end passive resistance. This helped Germany because it brought the industrial output of Germany back up. ... doing this made Stresemann rather unpopular with the German people, as they were wanting to stay on passive resistance and ignore the French, being told to work whilst they were there was a decision w ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History > German History
Leaders are important factors in revolutions which use violence to achieve their aims. To what extent are leaders an integral part of 'peaceful-revolutions.'
easing volume are those who have tried to procure a similar change, without the excess of carnage. 'Passive resistance' or peaceful protest is where the afore mentioned concept of accord is used to br ... t were instrumental in the success of their respective revolutions, even a revolution centered upon passive principles needs a leader. India is a good illustration of a country which used peaceful pro ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
The key factors for a 21st century organizational leader
ing unilateralism to achieve a singular objective. This approach to leadership generally results in passive resistance from team-members and requires continual pressure and direction from the leader i ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management
The Impact of the Nazi Party on the German society up to and including 1933
duction in the Ruhr valley, which produced four fifths of Germany's coal and iron was halted due to passive resistance to French occupation. When the government called an end to the resistance, many G ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History > German History
Was there passive resistance in Nazi Germany?
This essay is to discuss the existence of passive resistance to the Nazi regime in Germany during the years 1933-1945. I will look at the diff ... he Nazi support consisted mainly of lower middle class people, who were now hit by awful conditions.Passive resistance was in the beginning mainly individuals failing to go along with the new rules th ... able to mount opposition and organise well enough to form active resistance. This can be counted as passive resistance, so we can see that that did exist before the war, but it was basically limited t ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History > German History
How did Hitler become chancellor in 1933?
1922, French and Belgian troops entered German soil and seized goods. The German government ordered passive resistance but workers needed to be paid. The government printed money and hyperinflation se ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History > German History
How Gandhi Embodies And Transcends India
e through the embodiment and transcendence of India .Gandhi embodied and transcended India by using passive resistance, practicing human rights, and setting examples for other countries that they woul ... Even today Gandhi's wise soul is influential. India was well known for its idea of passive resistance. Passive resistance is practiced through actions of non-violence. While the Briti ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
Barleby's Struggles
Bartleby's Struggle When we think of protests and people who use passive resistance to fight against something the first thing that comes to mind is usually the civi ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Explain why 1923 was a difficult year for the Weimar Republic.
eaty of Versailles. 1923 brought the French occupation of the Ruhr. The German reaction to this was passive resistance, which meant the workers in the Ruhr refused to work for the French. This led to ... used to work for the French. This led to the hyperinflation: Germany was not producing goods due to passive resistance and this meant it was getting poorer; because Germany was getting poorer, the gov ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History > German History
Nazi Appeal And The Limitations Of Democracy
therexacerbating the soaring inflation of Weimar Germany. The government responded byemploying passive resistance to the French forces and began to print ever-increasingamounts of money. As a r ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History > German History