Rebellion

Empress Dowager Cixi was a Manchu regent who effectively ruled over China from her appointment in 1861 until her death in 1908. She ruled during the Boxer Rebellion, an anti-foreign and anti-Christian uprising led by a splinter group called the Boxers towards the end of the Qing Dynasty from 1899 to 1901. Empress Cixi’s changes to Boxer ideologies to reflect those of the state and her actions to preserve the state, doctrine, and race of China express her use of the Boxers as a nationalistic…

There are a wide variety of possible accounts that may cause a downward decent of Big Brother. The most probable outcome would be a series of rebellions against Big Brother. There are so many regulations, that breaking just one in a massive outburst would be effective enough to rally people against the system. A rebellion could range from a public defilement to a mass refusal to speak in Newspeak. Soon enough, the Inner Party will not be able to control the people and will step down from power.…

assembling a national army. All of these faults led to very independent states, each with their own laws and courts, and even currency, which did little to promote cooperation, economically or otherwise. All of these points came to a boil when Shay's Rebellion occurred in protest to horrible economic conditions. The inability of the national government to assemble a military force to…

Light Siege is a multiplayer first-person shooter video game centered around guns and other weapon-based combat. The game is set in the middle of an ongoing siege between the soldiers and terrorists who have already conquered towns. Using the weapons the players acquired during the game, the players explore and navigate the towns and eliminate the terrorists along the way. Multiple players can join the game and the more towns the players infiltrate the more aggressive the enemies become. A…

The Irish War of Independence lasted for about three years from 1919 to 1921.It all began shortly after the 1916 Easter Rising, when nearly 1,300 Irish Volunteers and 219 members of the Irish Citizen Army took control of several buildings in Dublin. One group of men captured the General Post Office, where James Connolly, founder of the Irish Socialist Republican Society, was announced the head of the army and Patrick Pearse, a long-time Irish Nationalist, read the declaration of independence.…

both for his prop and guide” This exemplifies a volte-face in the roles of Jane and Mr. Rochester’s marriage that rebels against the archetypal relationship in the Victorian era where a male would typically be the “prop” for a female. This theme of rebellion is envisioned invariably as a positive manifesto throughout Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre. One fashion that Jane’s nonconformity is marvelous is that she abandons her abusive household and traverses to Lowood. In chapter IV Jane explodes…

Parents shouldn't have a say in whether their kids can and can not date certain people due to the rebellion of teens. Teens, they see parents, or peers dating who they want they want to do the same. Also adding if parents or peers mange regulations to strictly kids out break or rebel and do what is right in their mind or imagination. During Romeo & Juliet, when Juliet's parents told Juliet she had to marry Paris she was basically on the edge, she said “I’d rather marry the person i hate rather…

The residents were treated horrible along with the conditions of the institutions being horrendous and unbearable for them. It was clear that the employees did not care about the residents. The videos on Pennhurst, Willow brook, and the State Boys Rebellion opened my eyes to this dilemma that was presented in the past and possibly present. I was unaware about people with disabilities even attending institutions. It shows me how the media does not relay these issues…

“…as activists engage in the process of demanding justice, they are also developing their own understandings of justice and building their own processes for expressing justice” (160). For the characters in Kristin Lattany’s novel, The Lakestown Rebellion, their individual development of their understanding of social justice…

Rebellion is shown in Montag when he begins to see that what he does as his job is not right. For all these years, he has been controlled by the rest of society to be taught that books are bad and must be destroyed. As he keeps noticing all the wrong in their society, he rebels against the common idea that they have all been taught. Books are destructive. First of all, Montag has a stash of hidden books in his ventilator, illegally, and then he decides to go ahead and read them, disobeying the…