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    Teen activists try to make the world a better place to live in. They take risks and there not afraid to. Teen activism is to believe in what you think needs to be changed. Teen activists never give up. Malala Yousafzai school got shut down by the Taliban so she started to protest. She is fighting for all girls to go to school and she wants everyone to have a education. She never gives up. She takes risks. “She got shot in the head but when she was better she was still protesting and never…

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    Will you ever be a teen activist? Will you try to make a difference in the world? A teen activist is someone who wants to make a difference in the world, by doing everything they can. A teen activist is someone who faces big challenges to accomplish something beyond some of their abilities, yet that doesn’t stop them. A teen Activist is someone who is a teen and makes a difference. They will keep going as long as they live just for a difference in our beat down rotten world. Since we were just…

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    The Language of Activism: A Rhetorical Analysis on the Advertisement of Greenpeace Stressing the importance of media for social movements has long become a cliché now. Particularly in the contemporary society, where approximately three billion people worldwide have access to the Internet (Internet Live Stats, 2014), and 58 percent of adult Americans use social networking services (Duggan, Ellison, Lampe, Lenhart, & Madden, 2015), the effective utilization of media is the key to success of a…

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    The affordances of new information and communicative technologies have allowed the organisation of uprisings, protests and global activists to break geographical boundaries, increase the speed of information delivery, assist in the growth and flexibility of the people involved and challenges the power that tradition media and hierarchies hold. Jeffery S. Juris concurs. He states that “Facilitated by the greater speed, adaptability, and flexibility afforded by new information technologies,…

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    Side A believes that social media has really helped people to become involved in political and social activism. Malcolm Gladwell states in his article: The new tools of social media have reinvented social activism. With Facebook and Twitter and the like, the traditional relationship between political authority and popular will has been upended, making it easier for the powerless to collaborate, coordinate…

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    to be viewed as a useless act in political terms. The article argues that online activism is more than just signing online petitions and liking things. Each action is significant in the fight for some sort of political change. Critics of it view it as a way for people to fulfil their moral obligations without actually doing anything but click a button. This article goes against this, discussing why social media activism is actually quite effective, no matter the size of an act. The author…

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    Animal Rights For Decades the American society as well as many others, have been participants in an ongoing controversy regarding animal rights and animal protection. This particular debate has raised so much havoc in the world today, considering activist for animal rights are very passionate and will not stop on the account of politeness to get a point across. A widely known animal rights group established in 1980, known as Peta are famous for throwing buckets of wet paint on a various victims…

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    that were removed from everyday society and that had, as far as they were aware, been generally uninvolved and seperate from the American heterosexual population. This view began to change due to the highly visible and frequently reported political activism of a community comprised of articulate, educated young men and women that formed groups such as ACT UP and other, resulting organisations like TAG. (Gould, 2009) ACT UP, and and it’s leaders changed the face of LGBTQ public relations in the…

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    Throughout the history of activism within the LGBT+ community, there has been a common goal to promote openness and acceptance. By employing a strategy modeled after the civil rights movement, which mainly focused on assimilation into the dominant institutions as a means of acceptance, activist groups have received their fair share of criticism. In 1997, Cathy J Cohen, a Black lesbian author and social activist, published the groundbreaking article “Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The…

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    Those stupid inbred Conservatives, all they care about is religion, their guns, and cutting taxes on the rich! More like the stupid Libtards, am I right? Those Liberal snowflakes think that they can solve everything just by having the government pay for it, but nothing is for free, someone has to pay for it! The increasing narrative stretching across the country is that we are becoming increasingly divided. The statements above are just some comments that you might see daily if you dive into the…

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