A protest is an expression of bearing witness on behalf of an express cause by words or actions with regard to particular events, policies or situation. There was an activist movement that took place In September 17, 2011, in Zuccotti Park of lower Manhattan, activist call it “Occupy Wall Street”. After reading the book “Occupy nation’’ by Todd Gitlin I learned more about the purpose and motivation that lead to this movement. Before I read the book, I remember watching the news showing people in the park protesting. I had no idea why there were people sleeping in that park with signs everywhere. I was confused about the purpose of it. I think the writer did a great job describing the emotions and events during this protest. He also wants to
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I believe there were too many important issues on demands at the same time and that cause lack concentration in the media. The protest could have been more successful if they had focused in only one or two issues combined at least to start with, like tax rigged for the rich and political corruption. On the other hand, the fact that they didn’t want a single leader to represent them, created more confusion and less respect from the press or government. Leadership is very important every institution needs a leader someone that could represent otherwise there could be a disaster, for example we need a president. We need someone to make rules because not everyone can make rules. I enjoyed reading this reading this book because like I mention before, it helped me to understand this issue. On the other hand, it helped me understand how influential is the media in events like this magnitude. The images I saw make me think this was just a group of bunds and lazy people trying to get attention. Thus, after I read this book my image completely changed. I think this movement could had been very successful with more support from the media. That’s why I prefer reading knew in social media, because I think is more realistic. TV news are controlled by the rich, events like the OWS don’t benefit
I believe there were too many important issues on demands at the same time and that cause lack concentration in the media. The protest could have been more successful if they had focused in only one or two issues combined at least to start with, like tax rigged for the rich and political corruption. On the other hand, the fact that they didn’t want a single leader to represent them, created more confusion and less respect from the press or government. Leadership is very important every institution needs a leader someone that could represent otherwise there could be a disaster, for example we need a president. We need someone to make rules because not everyone can make rules. I enjoyed reading this reading this book because like I mention before, it helped me to understand this issue. On the other hand, it helped me understand how influential is the media in events like this magnitude. The images I saw make me think this was just a group of bunds and lazy people trying to get attention. Thus, after I read this book my image completely changed. I think this movement could had been very successful with more support from the media. That’s why I prefer reading knew in social media, because I think is more realistic. TV news are controlled by the rich, events like the OWS don’t benefit