When 9/11 occurred the world reacted in a split second to the social matter, would our young generation reacts the same? Today’s younger society is seemed to be less interactive with social matters, than the olden day society. An author by the name of Stephane Hessel states that our young society is not doing anything about our social issues that are rising and we are neglecting the important matters. In, Time for Outrage! his argument is all about: indifference, outrage, unawareness, and non-violent matters that should be taken action towards. Hessel believes that today’s young society is lazy and does not take action towards important matters that make a huge impact on society. Well, that is true our young society must take action towards
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Learning the meaning of outrage is a key component to making a difference; a strong feeling of anger. To create outrage, something has to persuade the young American people to support and join together to make a change. In order for outrage to happen the young society needs to want to make a change and not be so self absorbed. Outrage is important due to the fact that it gives the person’s motivation to want to make a change, and do something towards it. As Hessel stated, “We, the veterans of the Resistance movements and fighting forces of Free France, call for the younger generations to revive and carry forward the tradition of the Resistance and its ideas.” Hessel basically calls us all out to take action towards our lousy so called a united generation. To make changes, you have to be outraged in order to be outraged you have to have a strong feeling towards something that makes you want to take action. In order to make a difference in today’s young society, it has to hit home. Our mentality is if we have clothes on our back, food in our stomachs, a roof mover our heads, and our materialistic items will be fine; although as soon as a social issue takes one of those things away we take action towards it. Also many times we are blind to these social issues because we do not often hear about them, or are distracted from the world by our own personal lives to notice. In “4 Reasons we Should Take America’s Inequality Personally” Paul Buchniet argued, “The regular media doesn't properly inform the public about all this. That should be their job, to report on issues that have a great impact on our lives, instead of hushing up the perversity of redistributed national wealth.” The media doesn't inform the people about how important social issues are in America and around the world. For example the terrorist
Learning the meaning of outrage is a key component to making a difference; a strong feeling of anger. To create outrage, something has to persuade the young American people to support and join together to make a change. In order for outrage to happen the young society needs to want to make a change and not be so self absorbed. Outrage is important due to the fact that it gives the person’s motivation to want to make a change, and do something towards it. As Hessel stated, “We, the veterans of the Resistance movements and fighting forces of Free France, call for the younger generations to revive and carry forward the tradition of the Resistance and its ideas.” Hessel basically calls us all out to take action towards our lousy so called a united generation. To make changes, you have to be outraged in order to be outraged you have to have a strong feeling towards something that makes you want to take action. In order to make a difference in today’s young society, it has to hit home. Our mentality is if we have clothes on our back, food in our stomachs, a roof mover our heads, and our materialistic items will be fine; although as soon as a social issue takes one of those things away we take action towards it. Also many times we are blind to these social issues because we do not often hear about them, or are distracted from the world by our own personal lives to notice. In “4 Reasons we Should Take America’s Inequality Personally” Paul Buchniet argued, “The regular media doesn't properly inform the public about all this. That should be their job, to report on issues that have a great impact on our lives, instead of hushing up the perversity of redistributed national wealth.” The media doesn't inform the people about how important social issues are in America and around the world. For example the terrorist