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Resistance to Early British Rule, 2002.
Examines why indentured servants, Native Americans, and African slaves did not join together to overthrow the oligarchy that ruled over the thirteen British colonies in the seventeenth century.
1,122 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 38.95
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This paper discusses the many reasons why a large-scale revolt against the British never took place: The three groups did not often have a language in common; the government of the colonies (and the government of Britain) were well-organized and armed; there was nowhere for people in revolt against the system to flee if they could not seize control; there was relatively little contact among the groups in many areas; and, if successful, these groups would have had to defend themselves against outside forces while engaged in the very difficult struggle to feed, house, and cloth themselves in an alien environment. It further discusses that the principal reason why there was no major seventeenth-century revolt was the differences in the dominant group's policies toward indentured Europeans, African slaves, and Native Americans which, in turn, produced different ideal goals among the people in these categories.
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"The absence of significant cooperation among the oppressed groups in the British colonies was not the case in Spain's Caribbean possessions. As Carew notes, there were many instances throughout the sixteenth century of the "joining together of Blacks and Indians in a common struggle" in the Spanish colonies--such as the cimarron revolts in Puerto Rico and Hispaniola (105). Such revolts and even more frequent acts of cooperative resistance continued for over 200 years in these colonies. But behind this cooperation was a "sense of community that was continually forged and reproduced in their everyday lives by virtue of the places they shared in the system of exploitation" (Carew 106). The difference between the situation of Caribbean and North American Indians was, however, that the former peoples were generally absorbed more directly and far more successfully into the system of slave labor than were the Indians of the British colonies. And in the seventeenth century African slaves were imported to the Spanish colonies in much greater numbers than in Britain's territory. Therefore the two groups were in immediate, constant contact and the chances of cooperative action were far higher."
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The End of British Mandatory Rule In Palestine, 2002.
This paper examines the reasons for Israeli independence and Palestine's lack thereof.
1,445 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 47.95
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This paper takes a historical look at why Israel received independence and Palestine did not, thereby creating an inevitable conflict which still exists until today.
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"The conflict between the Arab and Israeli forces that echoes audibly in today's monumental unrest is one that has persisted through innumerable eras and incarnations. At some points a discourse of political disagreement and at other points, the current historical axis being one of them, a hotbed for military action and unchecked violence, the ideal at the crux of it all is over a claim to the land now known as Israel. Established in 1948 at the behest of the Zionist movement, after centuries of Diaspora, Israel is certainly no less contested now than it was one hundred years ago. This naturally incites a question as to why the Zionists were rewarded for their efforts toward statehood while a Palestinian population was disowned and disregarded for similar desires. While the creation of a Jewish homeland stood as the paramount aim for an inestimable space of time, it was not until the period just after WWI, upon the inception of the British Mandate that the gears began to turn toward an allotment of the land known as Palestine."
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India's Ancient Civilization to Modern Day Politics and the Legacy of the British Raj., 2001.
A look at India's development from as early as the 3rd millennium and how other nations and civilizations often imposed their rule on India. The primary focus of the paper is on how British rule in India continues to effect modern Indian politics.
3,960 words (approx. 15.8 pages), 6 sources, $ 107.95
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In this paper the author examines how British rule has made an impact on Indian politics. Making comparison to Abdullah Hussein?s characters in ?Weary Generations?, the author suggests that British rule, in modern Indian politics, continues to be ?an unhappy marriage that still is not broken?. The second section of the paper discusses political institutions in contemporary India and their relevance, whilst the third section looks at Indian ancient civilization which the author suggests has led to a modern day philosophy of non-violence, religious tolerance. The paper concludes with a look at democracy in India as compared to that in China and Japan.
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?The English made many external changes that led to the Indian people's desire and ability to become their own unified country. Although unification may never have happened without the influence of the British, it was the Indians themselves that eventually achieved their unity. The British could not completely unify India.?
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Burmese Colonialism and Resistance, 2005.
An examination of the history of the British colonization of Burma.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 7 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper examines the history of resistance to British colonization by the Burmese people throughout the history of the British rule. The effects of British education and westernization, as well as the encouragement by the British to sustain ethnic and religious unrest in Burma, are two of the factors discussed in this paper.
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"Burmese Colonialism and Resistance Introduction The small country of Burma, or Myanmar, as it has been called by its current dictatorship since 1988, in Southeast Asia, is wedged between India and China, and also borders Laos, Thailand and Bangladesh. It has been a country of political unrest since the very early days of colonization in the region, and its military history goes back at least to the first century BC (Woodman 11). In 1824 Burmese military expansion caused conflict with British interests in India, and a two year war initiated a century of colonization and conflict with Britain that only ended in 1947 (Liang, and Scalapino 3)."
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Resistance and Pain, 2003.
An analysis of the notion of resistance in light of the way chronic pain sufferers use narrative and objectification to resist pain and how chronic pain in turns resists political economic pressures.
2,745 words (approx. 11.0 pages), 15 sources, MLA, $ 82.95
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This paper uses Foucault?s work on biopower and governmentality to analyse chronic pain as a resistance to power/knowledge formations that express themselves in terms of control over the body. It attempts to analyse chronic pain by using three different notions of resistance. It looks at how chronic pain causes a contraction of the social world especially in situations of biomedical practice when the moral decision ?it?s all in your head? can often be made by doctors. It examines how this process resists speech (and thus resocialisation) by analysing the dialectical tension this resistance has with the stress, rage and the impulse that drives us to unsettle or confound the fixed order of things. It then explores the resistance that people have to the pain that they feel followed by rage for order.
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"Chronic pain confounds many of the concepts and methods used for its analysis, in part because of the privileging of certain spheres of analysis. This is noticeable in a set of assumptions that are part of both biomedical and western philosophical theory. This set of assumptions assumes a divide between mind and body; it assumes that diseases are universal biological or pyschophysiological entities resulting from somatic lesions and dysfunctions. These can produce signs of symptoms, and one must decode the cultural elements of patients systems in terms of their underlying somatic referents. If the symptoms do not fit this mould, then one is denied illness in the biomedical model."
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Resistance and the Counseling Relationship, 2004.
This paper is review of the article, ?Is Handling Client Resistance A Pas De Deux??, by Jeff Rothstein about resistance and the counseling relationship.
830 words (approx. 3.3 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 29.95
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This paper states that Jeff Rothstein, LCSW, believes that the act of resistance should not be resisted on the part of the counselor because it is a sign the counselor is getting somewhere. The author points out that Rothstein reiterates the common Freudian trope that analysts and therapists should not remain in the patient?s or learner?s comfort zone, but rather, for the sake of the patient, poke at the discomforting contradictions and fissures, which exist within the patient?s consciousness and way of relating to the world. The paper stresses that resistance means a fighting back, and the counselor or instructor may get emotionally hurt in the process.
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"So long as this injury is not a real or emotional flesh wound, and is taken with a grain of salt, Rothstien says, such mutuality in the exchange between client and counselor can actually enrich the overall process. Of course, different therapists, depending on their background, respond to resistance in differing ways. Psychodynamically oriented therapists tend to work through the resistance, using the relationship between the client and the therapist as the vehicle for the work,? although such a methodology can often be exhausting for the therapist as well as the client."
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Violence And Resistance In Tibet, 2002.
Traces violence against the Tibetans by the ruling Chinese and world-wide resistance to this violence on behalf of the victimized Tibetans.
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 6 sources, $ 89.95
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Describes how Chinese political/cultural violence and expansion/colonialism, through violations of human rights and persecution, have created massive suffering in Tibet, resulting in a tremendous response on behalf of the Tibetans that is especially noticeable in their efficiently-organized resistance and their powerful will to survive and preserve their culture.
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Resistance Group Therapy, 2006.
An assessment of resistance to group therapy and methods to overcome it.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 13 sources, MLA, $ 31.95
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This paper examines resistance to group therapy and explores what methods can be adopted to overcome resistance. The paper examines how resistance can be both harmful and positive to the counseling experience. As the paper explains, resistance is most likely to be positive when counselors use it to help patients identify areas for improvement and strategies for overcoming their resistance in the future. The paper focuses its examination on new research supporting the incorporation of pre-group training as a positive method for overcoming resistance in group therapy.
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Proposition Overcoming And Encouraging Positive Group Therapy
Support For Approach
Conclusions
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"Many problems arising with group therapy stem from counseling that focuses on problems rather than solutions (Laursen & Oliver, 2003). Far too often patients find it easy to focus on their struggles and problems in a forum that supports such release. However a new approach to group therapy should focus on encouraging patients both to participate in individual and group therapy session that focus on their successes. In addition group therapy sessions should provide a forum where other members can help participants identify solutions to their problems rather than focus on the problem itself. By doing so patients will learn to take responsibility for their problems and recover more quickly."
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Nonviolent Resistance, 2002.
A paper which argues that nonviolent resistance is the only solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
1,128 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 39.95
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This paper argues the position that nonviolent resistance is the only proper way to achieve social change. It concludes this is so because history has proven nonviolent resistance to be effective in different countries across the world. The paper examines the successes of this form of resistance in the case of Martin Luther King during the civil rights era and Ghandi in his drive for independence from the British in India. The paper argues that nonviolent resistance promotes dialog and compromise between the oppressed and the oppressor, thus making it an effective solution in promoting social change in Israel and bringing an end to the conflict.
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"It forces the oppressor to view their actions as they are seen by those who are oppressed. When non-violent resistance is used the oppressor is forced to see the way their actions affect the lives of the oppressed and how the oppressor can be affected greatly if social change does not occur. For instance during the civil rights era blacks boycotted busses which hurt the bus lines economically. In this instance the oppressor saw how not treating people fairly could hurt them economically. Ultimately the powers that be decided that they would rather treat people fairly than suffer economic losses. The oppressed demonstrated that they had power and that they would use it to effect change?and social change occurred."
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Genetically Engineered Plants and Virus Resistance, 2004.
Discusses GE and viral resistance in plants.
3,450 words (approx. 13.8 pages), 26 sources, MLA, $ 97.95
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This paper gives an overview of genetic engineering in plants that is geared toward inducing virus resistance. Several methods of achieving viral resistance in plants through genetic engineering are detailed, as well as considerations of using these methods. Methods covered include post-transcriptional gene silencing, coat-protein-mediated resistance, ribosomal inactivating proteins, resistance genes and plantibodies. The paper also discusses both risks and benefits of using genetic engineering in plants and provides case studies of successful implementation of genetically engineered virus resistance in crop plants such as papaya and potato.
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"As the upward trend of the human population in the world today continues, the demand for sufficient food sources continues to grow as well. In undeveloped countries especially, the need for productive and healthy crops that can sustain a growing human population is not always met. In India, China and many African nations where hunger is a very real issue, the problem of food shortages can be greatly exacerbated by plant diseases and viruses, which can kill almost an entire field of crop of an unlucky or unprepared farmer. With the advent of genetic engineering, however, the possibility of creating plants with built-in genetic defenses against such devastating diseases has become very real, and in many cases has already been accomplished. A wide variety of strategies for engineering viral resistance in plants have been developed, and researchers have successfully utilized these strategies in creating plants resistant to papaya ringspot virus (PRSV) and potato virus Y (PVY), among others."
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Margaret Weitz's "Sisters in the Resistance", 1999.
A review of Margaret Weitz's book, "Sisters in the Resistance," about women serving in the French resistance during the Second World War, emphasizing their struggles and sacrifices in the face of wartime hardship.
980 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 1 source, $ 34.95
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"Margaret Collins Weitz very poignantly illustrates these desires and actions that women in France experienced in her book Sisters in the Resistance. Not only does Weitz substantiate these women's decisions and lifestyles, but also, through a combination of literary narration, she paints the lives of these women for the reader. She, together with these women, illustrates their victories as well as their losses, which lead to their eventual shaping of French history."
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Resistance to Hitler in Germany, 1994.
This paper discusses the resistance to Hitler during the Third Reich: Assassination attempts, conspiracies, leaders, moral, political and religious motives, popular opposition and passive and active resistance.
2,025 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 6 sources, $ 71.95
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"This paper will review six books concerning the resistance movement in Germany during the Third Reich. The first part of the paper will briefly discuss the background of the German resistance to the Nazi regime. The second part of the paper will compare three of the narrative works on the subject. The third part of the paper will compare three works which emphasize the moral dimensions of the resistance.
What has traditionally been lacking in the histories of the Nazi period in Germany is any study of the opposition to Hitler after he became Chancellor in 1933. A student of this period virtually comes to the conclusion that there was no serious opposition and that almost all elements of German society were "four-square" behind Hitler and the war he started. "
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Resistance at Kucera, 2005.
This paper discusses technological changes at Kucera Clothiers and looks at resistance towards new technology.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 3 sources, $ 26.95
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This paper discusses the pending IT change at Kucera Clothiers and the likelihood of resistance on the part of employees. The writer also examines how to overcome such resistance, noting that resistance is often a stumbling block as employees resist learning and using the new technology, instead favoring old methods and accepted procedures they believe have served them well to date.
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"In the introduction of new technology, resistance is often a stumbling block as employees resist learning and using the new technology, instead favoring old methods and accepted procedures they believe have served them well to date. Resistance at Kucera Clothiers is anticipated from those in the brick-and-mortar end of the business and not from those working at the online center, for the latter are certainly much more willing to adapt to technology and have also not been in place so long that they have developed habits that are difficult to break."
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Resistance in Southern Europe, 2002.
An analysis of the concept of "resistance" as a cultural and political means of expression, with a focus on southern Europe.
1,158 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 39.95
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This paper analyzes the general concept of resistance and resistance to dictatorial regimes in southern Europe, with an emphasis on Spain under Franco and Greece in the 1960s and 1970s. It does this by examining three works: Mikis Theodorakis's "Journals of Resistance"; Sharon Roseman's "How We Built the Road: The Politics of Memory in Rural Galicia"; and Karen Van Dyck's "Power, Language and the Discourses of Dictatorship."
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"Understanding resistance also means asking what constitutes an act of resistance in such regimes. Roseman in particular examines this issue. In "How We Built the Road...", she considers the ways in which Spanish Galicians reconstruct history on a local level (through folklore, etc.) in response to state attempts to bring the citizenry under control. In doing so, she invokes Reed-Danahay's concept of d?brouillardise. "Acts of d?brouillardise,? she states, "often involve both partial accomodations and resistance to externally imposed material conditions and cultural meanings." (Roseman 1996, 837) It is questionable whether those who employ this "technique", which can be loosely translated as "muddling through", ought to be seen as active resistors. Alternately, we can understand their "resistance" as passive, or, as Roseman argues, acts may be reconstructed later as acts of resistance though they may not have been conceived of in this way at the time."
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Employee Resistance to Technology, 2004.
A look at why employees resist integrating new technologies into workplace duties and what can be done to prevent employee resistance to technology changes.
2,593 words (approx. 10.4 pages), 17 sources, MLA, $ 78.95
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This paper approaches the question of why there is a predictable and often across-the-board degree of resistance from employees when it comes to approaching and adapting to new technologies in the workplace. It discusses the issue of why people often fear any type of dramatic or workplace change and are frequently reticent to go along with significant adjustments and modifications in lifestyle or workplace situations. It examines examples of the dynamics of workplace reticence, fundamental to understanding the more specific question of why employees resist new technologies. It also discusses what the negative results will be and are for companies which, in the present global environment and for the future, fail to properly prepare their workers and the work culture within their ranks for the advent of new technologies and for the outsourcing strategies now enlisted by many companies.
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"One of the key conundrums in implementing technological change, and getting employees to accept it, writes Jansen, is that ?virtually all discussions of change take the change agent?s perspective.? Hence, ?behavior that is not in line with the change agent?s? strategy for implementing that change ?is perceived as resistance.? With this in mind, it is possible that consultants, change agents, and even HRD professionals, ?create the very resistance they are trying to overcome,? Jansen contends. The way to get around this problem is by ?creating readiness? for change, and by ?building momentum? within management for employees? acceptance for change."
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