RESIST

away from change. Denial is a self-protection mechanism that protects us from pain. The avoider sees change as painful, therefore believes that if the pain is ignored, it will eventually go away. It is normally a strong external circumstance or person that shakes the avoider up and propels her to change. The resister loves excuses. Although she may understand change is necessary or even desirable, she will still fight with change. Often when I am working with mom clients around weight loss issues, I am met with a lot of resistance. Clients will explain to me why they didn't stick to their diet, exercise like they had intended, or make the necessary changes they want to make. Even with coaching and encouragement, the resister will still resist change. For the resister, there are often more perceived benefits from not making the change than following through with the change. Until those benefits are resolved, the resister will remain…

There are many reasons why people resist the gospel. Perhaps the most often used excuse unbelievers exclaim for resisting the gospel is the testimony of a Christian who is living and acting according to the flesh instead of following the Holy Spirit. Let me offer an example of which this verse reminds me. When I was learning to fly, perhaps the most difficult lesson I had to learn was landing my aircraft. A radio beam is focused on the runway upon which the airplane must land. I can pick up…

Lesson’s poem "Please Resist Me" highlights attitudes and prejudices that many people in our society hold against immigrants, reflecting Zervos’ work. Still, rather that demanding acceptance and proclaiming his right to be accepted as an Australian and human being, Lesson takes on an opposing view point of disregard and defiance. He speaks of rebellion against the social pressure to conform to the clichéd Australian identity. With the sole intent of carving his own identity from the rubble left…

“Resist the Internet” The internet, resembles the dictator of our day to day lives. In life technology constantly bombards people of all ages. Humans are enslaved to the internet as author Ross Douthat states. Younger generations especially fall into this category because of the daily exposure to technology. Children grow up playing on tablets, computers, and phones instead of playing with dolls or going outside. In this essay the aspects of enslavement to the internet through the younger…

The lesson this week’s discussion starts off with the question “can we resist temptations”. The author of our lesson points out that our temptations are a part of life from the time we first trade our favorite pacifier in for those temper tantrums that insure everything is going to be done on our terms. I am also sure that none of us every faced a temptation that could have directed us down the wrong path in life during our teenage years. Then when we finally think we are mature adults, and we…

The English were able to resist absolution, by having traditions in place that tied the kings hands and had to have permission from Parliament, before citizens could be taxed or put a law into effect. This really didn't stop several kings from acting like they were absolute monarchy. This type of rule in the seventeenth century was a system where all governmental authority was concentrated in the hands of a monarch ruling by divine right. Such as King James I that secured confessions through…

the Europeans also needed some of Africa's raw materials, the great wealth within Africa was proven to be country's mineral reasources. South Africa also has access to gold and silver. I think that the Africans didn't want to buy European goods because they must have known that people thought that they were going to buy their goods. They wanted to prove those people wrong. Secondly, the Europeans might not have had any of the goods that the Africans had wanted or needed. Finally, the Africans…

Singer has two main premises on what we should do when it comes to assisting the global poor and these principles should be applied into our lives. There are two theories which he uses which are the strong and weak premises in which are guides of some sorts of what she we do to assist the global poor. There are concerns about Singer’s theory due to way he approaches his premises and he may at times be implementing to many harsh requirements for an individual to follow completely due to the ways…

Name: Zakisha H Question: Compare colonial resistance in two colonies. Resisting Europe About two-thirds of the world was under the control of European power. “At some point west Europeans ruled most of the world but not all of it.”1 However, Ethiopia and Japan managed to maintain their sovereignty. Although, Japan and Ethiopia was not a colony of Europe it easily could have been one. The Ethiopians and Japanese both used defensive modernization to resist colonization. Defensive modernization…

viewpoints is that we either learn or resist lessons in gender. We learn lessons in gender because of how the environment impacts our perceptions of gender and our personal perspectives of the definitions of femininity and masculinity. We learn lessons in gender because of how the environment impacts our perceptions of gender. Each gender has its limitations and expectations in the environment. Boys are generally anticipated to be strong, protect what they care about, and bring income into the…