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Resistance Fighters

Resistance Fighters is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Resistance Fighters rather than just read about it. In short: Resistance Fighters – The Global Antibiotics Crisis (German: Resistance Fighters – Die globale Antibiotika-Krise) is a documentary film by the German director Michael Wech and producer Leopold Hoesch. It was broadcast on Arte on March 12, 2019 and had its international festival premiere at the Copenhagen International Documentary Festival (CPH:DOX) on March 24, 2019.

Key takeaways

Resistance Fighters belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Resistance Fighters to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Resistance Fighters from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Resistance Fighters – The Global Antibiotics Crisis (German: Resistance Fighters – Die globale Antibiotika-Krise) is a documentary film by the German director Michael Wech and producer Leopold Hoesch. It was broadcast on Arte on March 12, 2019 and had its international festival premiere at the Copenhagen International Documentary Festival (CPH:DOX) on March 24, 2019.

Content The film deals with the phenomenon of antibiotic resistance spreading worldwide and the associated consequences for human cohabitation. The starting point of the documentary film is the United Nations General Assembly in September 2016 in New York, where the problem of the worldwide growing resistance to antibiotics was a central theme. In the course of the film, various experts in the field are brought up for discussion: Scientists, including Timothy Walsh of Cardiff University, one of the world's leading microbiologists on antibiotic resistance, who are looking for the causes of the spread of resistance and alternatives to antibiotics, politicians, such as the British economist and financial expert Jim O'Neill, appointed in 2014 by the then Prime Minister David Cameron as the British government's special envoy for antibiotic resistance, who want to draw public attention to the problem and also focus on the economic dimension of the increasing antibiotic resistance, as well as patients and their doctors who fight against infections with multi-resistant germs in hospitals. The use of antibiotics in animal feed plays a central role in the film. It also discusses the discovery of the first antibiotic penicillin by Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming and the rise of antibiotics to become a globally used remedy. The film was shot in the United States, United Kingdom, Vietnam, Bangladesh and Germany.

Production and distribution The film is a co-production of Broadview Pictures and ZDF and was produced in cooperation with Arte. It was funded by the Hessische Filmförderung and the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW. The film is distributed since February 2019 by the documentary film distributor Dogwoof.

Festivals and awards March 2019: International festival premiere at the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival CPH:DOX June 2019: Screening in Halle (Saale) at the Silbersalz Science & Media September 2019: US premiere in New York at the United Nations General Assembly. Opening speech by US Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar (with support from the Melinda and Bill Gates Foundation, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Wellcome Trust) October 2019: Canadian premiere at the Vancouver International Film Festival – Winner of the “Impact Award“ October 2019: Screening in Palo Alto at the United Nations Association Film Festival October 2019: Screening in Paris at the Pariscience Film Festival – Winner of the “Grand Prix AST – Ville de Paris” January 2020: Screening in Dhaka at the Dhaka International Film Festival January 2020: Screening in La Jolla at the Impact DOCS Awards – Winner of the “Award of Excellence Special Mention: Documentary Feature” February 2020: Screening in Rotterdam at the Dutch Global Health Film Festival February 2020: Screening in Sedona at the Sedona International Film Festival April 2020: Screening in Olomouc at the Academia Film Olomouc Festival 2020: Screening at the Kyiv International Film Festival June 2020: Nomination for the German Television Award in the category "Best Documentary" June 2020: Winner of the German Television Award in the category "Best Editing Info/Documentary"

References

External links Official website Resistance Fighters at IMDb

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Resistance Fighters

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Resistance Fighters claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Resistance Fighters before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Resistance Fighters ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Resistance Fighters

In research: Resistance Fighters appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Resistance Fighters in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Resistance Fighters is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 2019 documentary films, 2019 films, 2019 television films, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Resistance Fighters outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Resistance Fighters in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Resistance Fighters means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Resistance Fighters out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Resistance Fighters in simple terms?

Why does Resistance Fighters matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Resistance Fighters?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Resistance Fighters.