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    Batteries‚ Resistance and Current   “Battery-Resistor”: Check “show battery” and “show cores”‚ watch what happens‚ adjust some variables   1. Why do electrons (blue dots) move? Draw a diagram of the battery‚ label the flow of electrons. The flow of current (+) is opposite; draw this and note if toward or away from + terminal of the battery.   The electrons move because of the battery voltage. The current flows in the opposing direction of the electrons and the electrons flow towards the positive

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    James Lawson

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    James Lawson and Nonviolent Direct Action Despite efforts to garner legislative equality for African Americans after the Civil War‚ the actual implementation of change did not occur for some time later. The 13th and 14th Amendments‚ which ended slavery and granted the rights of citizenship to black Americans‚ were often ineffectual in promoting racial justice. Throughout the following decades‚ race relations struggled against the remnants of Jim Crow to the forefront of American social issues‚ but

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    Chapter 5 Review Questions 1. Civil Rights are the government-protected rights of individuals against arbitrary or discriminatory treatment by governments or individuals. The concept of equality got introduced into the constitution. The 14th Amendment‚ one of three Civil war Amendments ratified from 1865 to 1870‚ introduced the notion of equality into the constitution by specifying that a state could not deny “any person within jurisdiction equal protection of the laws.” It is evident in the recent

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    Amendments adopted after the Civil War. The movement spanned from 1954 to 1968 and consisted of major campaigns of civil resistance. Acts of nonviolent protests and civil disobedience produced crisis situations between activists and government authorities. Some people during the movement thought that being violent and using brute force would achieve more than what nonviolent actions would achieve. Gandhi says in his writings that brute force is a behavior for beasts and that killing people requires

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    and civil disobedience have been a hallmark of change from the early 20th century onwards. Though nonviolent efforts‚ multiple civil movements have peacefully broken a law in order to protest an injustice of said law. Usually done in a coordinated manner by a large group of people‚ these protest have been strikingly effective in bettering the systems they have set out to change. Peaceful resistance is therefore one of the most effective ways of protesting and correcting unjust and broken laws‚ and

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    Throughout our history as a free society‚ countless nonviolent protests have arisen as a means to try to create change. Peaceful protest is not a new concept‚ even in America. Henry David Thoreau‚ a Transcendentalist writer in the 19th century‚ refused to pay taxes because he did not support the Mexican War. In Civil Disobedience‚ Thoreau claims that so many men today blindly follow the government’s wishes and that “in most cases there is no free exercise whatever of the judgment or of the moral

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    sparked the 381-day-long boycott of public busses‚ ultimately leading to the Supreme Court ruling the segregation of busses as unconstitutional (Rosa Parks and Civil Disobedience). Despite not causing harm to a single person‚ Rosa Parks’ acts of nonviolent protest indirectly helped put an end to segregation on the public transit system‚ and helped ignite the civil rights movement in the coming

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    organize the resistance to prepare for D-Day.

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    Satyagraha (/sætɪəɡrɑːhɑː/; Sanskrit: सत्याग्रह satyāgraha)‚ loosely translated as "insistence on truth"- satya (truth); agraha (insistence) "soul force"[1] or "truth force" is a particular philosophy and practice within the broader overall category generally known as nonviolent resistance or civil resistance. The term "satyagraha" was coined and developed by Mahatma Gandhi.[2] He deployed satyagraha in the Indian independence movement and also during his earlier struggles in South Africa for Indian rights. Satyagraha theory influenced Nelson

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    were and are many people who demonstrate negative resistance and civil disobedience to laws. Negative resistance can cause some problems for society. On the other hand civil disobedience can do some good for society. Civil disobedience can help obtain and preserve a free society. There are many cases of civil disobedience in the past as well as today. Civil disobedience is the act of refusing some laws or governmental demands by the use of nonviolent techniques such as boycotting and picketing (Dictionary

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