Activism

Cesar Chavez uses personification by giving his nonviolent protest human ability. Using that personification Chavez tries to persuade the country into using nonviolent protest and steer away from a more violent form. Cesar Chavez also uses rhetorical writing to explain the importance of nonviolent protest. Chavez's use of personification in the excerpt “With which our struggles have grown and matured”. This piece lets us know that everyday their struggle gets worse. When the people go and…

Teen Titans In the world, people are often confronted with different problems. Each individual, however, chooses to either disregard those problems and leave them for others to deal with or take initiative to positively influence his or her community and others’ communities. Those who decide to wake up and make a difference for good in the world are called activists, but some are young teenagers still growing in their youth. Particularly, three teens, Malala Yousafzai, Alex Lin, and Iqbal Masih,…

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…

had the privilege of being one of the many valuable speakers for the ESPYS, an awards show for hundreds of famous athletes in a variety of sports ranging from football to water polo. In his speech, he thoroughly and carefully spoke against social activism and racial discrimination. Immediately following his message, the audience of thousands in front of him had risen and applauded as if the president had just spoken. In contrast, there’s Colin Kaepernick. Before his acts of protest, you may have…

Case study: Anonymous While the motivation of terrorist acts remains the same, the rapid evolution of technique has provided to those that use terror as a method to attain their goals, new weapons with a potential that is not fully quantified. The database, the measures of protection and security, the equipments meant to reassure our safety are exposed to those new types of weapons, the traditional methods of fight becoming impractical. The cyber-crimes are a supplement for cyber-terrorism in…

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,…

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…

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…

The nation has been split along a very clear divide. Very few can claim any spot in the middle, and most instead find themselves divided, speaking of how much they hate the other side. This is the divide that this presidential election has allowed for. We have begun labeling human beings based solely upon whom they voted for rather than the character they have displayed for years. We find the other side so despicable that we can’t even bring ourselves to have healthy discourse, but this is far…

The Art of Persuasion An activist is a person who seeks for social or economic change; similarly, an extremist is someone who holds intense beliefs and acts upon them. An extreme activist is when someone has fanatical beliefs about social issues and seeks to change them in utmost ways. Two examples of extreme activists are Henry David Thoreau and Martin Luther King Jr. Henry David Thoreau was an American author that was motivated by his disgust with slavery to write the persuasive commentary…