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    disobedience are the peaceful protests of Dr. Martin Luther King he didn’t agree with some of Americas laws or treatment of humans he wanted equal rights for all. He rallied supporters and was able to give speeches addressing his concern’s and beliefs in a nonviolent manner. Honestly there really isn’t a difference between law breaking and civil disobedience because they both are breaking the laws. With civil disobedience it is because they know

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    Vu Nguyen BIOL 1003/22 ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE LAB REPORT Introduction Natural selection is a non-random process in which individual with favorable traits for the environment will likely survive and reproduce than those without these traits. In contrast to Natural selection‚ Artificial selection is the process in which desired traits are intentionally chose to breed among individuals. Antibacterial resistance is the process in which strong and highly resistant bacterial is selected against weaker bacterial

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    food and sit at the counters and wait to be served. Some times they wouldn’t get served at all other times they would get attacked‚ but they refused to fight back violently. As seen in this quote “They would sit down in a very orderly‚ peaceful‚ nonviolent fashion and wait to be served.” This quote supports the theme because they won’t back down and kept going on through hard

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    “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” he uses civil disobedience as a way to make people understand the importance of desegregation in the south. His desire was to see an end to segregation in the southern state of Alabama in 1963. Dr. King organized many nonviolent protests

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    describes a free society as one in which government “is constrained by the rule of law under which every individual and entity is treated equally.” A free society stresses toleration and respect of differences in belief and culture. Thus‚ peaceful resistance positively impacts a free society as it

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    Societies who have had oppressed people used civil disobedience to bring attention to the injustices they have suffered. Peaceful resistance to laws positively impacts a free society because it is plays on the conscience of the oppressors and makes it easy for people to stand up for their own rights. Martin Luther King Jr. is a prime example as to why peaceful resistance to laws has a positive effect on a free society. King was a marquee figure in the civil rights movement in the 1960’s. King encouraged

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    (Wright 2011) Upon this discovery‚ production and distribution of antibiotic drugs increased and within five years antibiotic resistance was distinguished. Not only do antibiotics help save lives but incorrect use of antibiotics exposes the microbes to the drug where

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    A seminar on Antimicrobial Resistance and stewardship strategies to optimize the activity of currently available agents Presented By: Guide: Itee Sharma Dr. D.S. Arora M.Sc.(Hons.)F.M.T Index Contents Page No. ➢ Introduction 3 ➢ Definitions 4 ➢ History 5 ➢ Major antibiotics in common use 6 ➢ Graphical Representation

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    Luther King composed a file that would put a stand the civil rights movement and also providing enduring inspiration to the struggle for racial equality. The “Letter From Birmingham Jail‚” that Martin wrote strives to justify the desperate need for nonviolent direct action. The outright immorality of unjust laws together with what a just law is as well as the increasing probability of the Negro resorting to extreme disorder and bloodshed. Therefore‚ to his utter disappointment with the church who‚ in

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    Gandhi used the term “Satyagraha” to refer to a kind of active but absolutely non-violent resistance to oppression. In his words: “Truth (satya) implies love‚ and firmness (agraha) engenders and therefore serves as a synonym for force. I thus began to call the Indian movement Satyagraha‚ that is to say‚ the Force which is born of Truth and Love or non-violence‚ and gave up the use of the phrase “passive resistance”‚ in connection with it‚ so much so that even in English writing we often avoided it and

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