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Polands Solidarity Movement 1980 1989

Pages: 5 (1353 words) Sources: 4 Document Type:Essay Document #:29966337

… 2020). From early on, the movement embraced the nonviolence principle and pursued a wide range of nonviolent approaches including, but not limited to, protests and strikes, slow-downs, distribution of underground publications on the cause, running of underground radio stations (i.e. Radio S), protest painting, etc. This nonviolent stance became the defining element of the movement and made it possible – in 1989 – for the transfer ……

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Howlett, C.F. (1984). Nicholas Murray Butler\\\\\\'s Crusade for a Warless World. The Wisconsin Magazine of History, 67(2), 99-120.

International Center on Nonviolent Conflict – ICNC (2020). Czechoslovakia’s Velvet Revolution (1989). Retrieved from  https://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/czechoslovakias-velvet-revolution-1989/ 

International Center on Nonviolent Conflict – ICNC (2020, January 13). A Force More Powerful - English - Denmark / Poland / Chile (high definition) [Video]. YouTube.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM695veBSUU 

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Mahatama Gandhi

Pages: 2 (655 words) Sources: 4 Document Type:Essay Document #:95292861

… population. For instance, in Norway, teachers’ resistance against school Nazification was roughly 10,000 educators enjoying the support of approximately 100,000 parents. A few protests in other places involved a bigger crowd than this (Sinclair, 2017).
Citizens such as the pacifists encountered the unique challenge of reacting to … dictatorship and war-related cruelties. Even in Nazi Germany, direct peaceful…[break]…other Second World War traces: facing the Lieu de Mémoire stands the huge, granite Protestant Church (Temple Protestant) constructed in the year 1821 on the ruins of an old, razed sanctuary. This sanctuary’s entryway holds (aptly) the following inscription: ‘Aimez-Vous Les … another,’ or ‘love your neighbor as yourself’). In the year 1979, a commemorative plate was unveiled in the village to honor its courageous Protestant community, hailed as the mainstay of its resistance effort (Isalska, 2018).
World War II was different from the 1st World War in terms ……

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Ahmed, T. (2019). Mohandas Gandhi: Experiments in civil disobedience. USA: Pluto Press. Retrieved from  https://s3.amazonaws.com/supadu-imgix/plutopress-uk/pdfs/look-inside/LI-9780745334288.pdf 

Anthology. (n.d.). World war II and peace 1939-1945.

Isalska, A. (2018). A French village committed to deception. Retrieved from  http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20180806-a-french-village-committed-to-deception 

Sinclair, I. (2017). Resisting the Nazis in numerous ways: nonviolence in occupied Europe. Retrieved from  https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/non-violence-against-nazis-interview-with-george-paxton/ 

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White Collar Crime And The Department Of Education

Pages: 4 (1318 words) Sources: 3 Document Type:Essay Document #:56412463

...Protest White Collar Crime
A grade fixing scandal emerged at William Cullen Bryant High School in Long Island City in 2015. The principal of the school, Namita Dwarka, had been adamant with teachers that they help students to pass so that they can meet their graduation quotas (Gonen, Edelman & Golding, 2015). Several teachers and some students began to speak out about the pressure they were getting from the principal. Mary Bozoyan was one of them. She blew the whistle on what became known as the grade fixing scandal at William Cullen Bryant. Her reward was retaliation from the principal (Edelman, 2015). This paper will describe the issues and criminal activity that really goes all the way up the chain of command to the Department of Education. The major issues concern falsifying student grades but more importantly the quid pro quo conditions placed on schools and states by the federal government,……

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Edelman, S. (2015). School ‘retaliates’ against disabled teacher for criticizing principal. Retrieved from  https://nypost.com/2015/11/01/school-retaliates-against-disabled-teacher-for-criticizing-principal/ 

Gonen, Y., Edelman, S. & Golding, B. (2015). City finally decides to probe rampant grade-fixing. Retrieved from  https://nypost.com/2015/08/03/city-finally-decides-to-probe-rampant-grade-fixing/ 

Granata, K. (2015). Queens Community Demands Removal of High School Principal. Retrieved from  https://www.educationworld.com/a_news/queens-community-demand-removal-high-school-principal 

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Leadership Ethics For Social Change

Pages: 5 (1557 words) Sources: 1 Document Type:Essay Document #:41797562

… achieved, how it spreads, and so on. Hickman (2010) here aims to show the social change does not spontaneously manifest itself as a protest like that seen during the 1960s or 1970s. Instead, the author intends to show that social change begins organically, usually at a grassroots … the ideas have spread to a large population from a small population, social change is demanded and effected, sometimes through the sort of protests that one typically associates with social change. The author pursues this purpose by defining social change, the purpose of social change, the language ……

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Hickman, G. R. (2010). Leading Change in Multiple Contexts : Concepts and Practices in Organizational, Community, Political, Social, and Global Change Settings. SAGE.

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Racism In The United States

Pages: 3 (1011 words) Document Type:Essay Document #:45714688

… century after the ratification of the 13th Amendment before the Civil Rights Act would be signed into law—and it would take a major protest led by Martin Luther King, Jr. just to achieve that. From the Mississippi Black Code of 1865 to King’s Letter from Birmingham Jail ……

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Works Cited

King, Jr., Martin Luther. “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” 1963.

The Mississippi Black Code of 1865.

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Adolescent Psychosocial Assessment

Pages: 10 (2865 words) Sources: 8 Document Type:Case Study Document #:54875989

...Protest Adolescent Psychosocial Assessment
SECTION I – SOCIAL HISTORY
Personal
In list format, cover the following:
1. Name: John Mathew
2. Age: 18
3. Sex: Male
4. Race/Ethnic: Black, African-American
5. Education/Occupation: Student
6. Health: Okay
Social
John's family lives in an apartment situated in the middle of a range of complexes. The residence is right in the middle of communities in Washington, DC. The household is always abuzz with activity. There are two boys named Zebulon and David. The boys still call for their mother's attention. Ervin, my father, does not have a job. He is grounded in a wheelchair, following health challenges he has faced in the past couple of years. My mother is a part-time writer. Her name is Monique. The main poverty indicator about my family is the challenge we face in paying bills and lack of money to travel around (Sherman, 2012). Several aspects of culture……

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Alexander Jr, R. (2010). The Impact of Poverty on African American Children in the Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice Systems. In Forum on Public Policy Online (Vol. 2010, No. 4). Oxford Round Table. 406 West Florida Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801.

Belgrave, F. Z., & Allison, K. W. (2009). African American psychology: From Africa to America. Los Angeles: Sage.

Brittian A. S. (2012). Understanding African American Adolescents\\\\\\' Identity Development: A Relational Developmental Systems Perspective. The Journal of black psychology, 38(2), 172–200.  https://doi.org/10.1177/0095798411414570 

Chávez, R. (2016). Psychosocial development factors associated with occupational and vocational identity between infancy and adolescence. Adolescent Research Review, 1(4), 307-327.

Crain, W. C. (2014). Theories of development: Concepts and applications. Harlow, Essex: Pearson.

Fernandes-Alcantara, A. L. (2018). Vulnerable Youth: Background and policies.Congressional Research Service

Newman, B. M., & Newman, P. R. (2015). Theories of human development. Psychology Press.

Reubins, B. M., &Reubins, M. S. (2014). Pioneers of child psychoanalysis: Influential theories and practices in healthy child development. London: Karnac.

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Racial Tension And Violence In To Kill A Mockingbird

Pages: 6 (1655 words) Sources: 1 Document Type:Essay Document #:53390486

… the same name. The film was produced during a decade in which the Civil Rights Movement was reaching its zenith. Blacks had been protesting throughout the South, and Martin Luther King, Jr., would be arrested in Birmingham in 1963. There he would write his famous Letter from ……

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Works Cited

Executive Order 10925. Thecre. https://www.thecre.com/fedlaw/legal6/eo10925.htm

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Iron Contra The Covert Action Operation In Iran

Pages: 9 (2708 words) Sources: 8 Document Type:Essay Document #:25726659

… Seve, 2020).
When the foreign powers failed to destabilize and abdicate, the British tried to dislocate the premier one more time. Following mass protests and a three-day uprising and bloodshed – the Siyer-Tir on July 21, Mohammad Mossadeq, was granted powers to appoint the chiefs of staff ……

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Contini, C. (2013). A Realistic View on Iran: International relations and Global Politics. GRIN Verlag.

De Seve, M. (2020). Operation Ajax: The Story of the CIA Coup that Remade the Middle East. Verso Books.

Fowler, R. (2018). More Than a Doctrine: The Eisenhower Era in the Middle East. U of Nebraska Press.

Lee, C. T. (2013). A Cold War Narrative: The Covert Coup of Mohammad Mossadeq, Role of the U.S. Press and Its Haunting Legacies. Senior Theses, Trinity College, Hartford, CT.  http://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/theses/300 

Levin, Y. A. (2018). Operation Ajax in the CIA analytics: colonial knowledge in postcolonial age. Samara Journal of Science, 7(2), 200-203.

Luce, D. D. (2017, September 20). The specter of operation AJAX. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2003/aug/20/foreignpolicy.iran

Merica, D., & Hanna, J. (2013). In declassified document, CIA acknowledges role in\\\\\\'53 Iran Coup. CNN News. Retrieved June 15, 2020.

Roosevelt, K. (1979). Countercoup, the Struggle for the Control of Iran. McGraw-Hill Companies.

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Social Distancing As A New Normal Is Enslavement

Pages: 4 (1093 words) Document Type:Essay Document #:46329333

… say that we all must say enough to everyone because the longer we are silent and docile, the more idiotic our world becomes. Protest! Revolt! Walk out! What is the worst that can happen? They will just send you another $1200 check in the mail, so why ……

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The Influence Of International Jewry In The Founding Of Israel

Pages: 6 (1816 words) Sources: 5 Document Type:Essay Document #:97404308

… more and more land is occupied or annexed by Israel and Palestinians on the West Bank and in Gaza are marginalized. Some Jews protest these actions of Israel, which creates tension with the larger Jewish group. Even in Israel there is disagreement about religion, with many Zionist ……

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JMW, XII. Jewish Identity Challenged and Redefined: #16

JMW, XI. The Shoah: #21-41

JMW, VIII. Sephardi & Middle Eastern Jewry #32-35

JMW, X. Zionism: #42-55

JMW, IX. American Jewry: #52

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