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    Malcolm Gladwell the author of “Small Change” Why the Revolution Will Not Be Retweeted. Educates readers about Civil Rights movement events from the past, and the effects of social media in today’s time. Technology has evolved over the years, giving birth to social media. Social media is wonderful for a lot of things, but is social media an effective resource for activism? In the article, Gladwell starts off by telling the story about four friends. Their names were David Richmond, Franklin…

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    Without reform we wouldn’t have change and improvements that are so dire to the evolution of life. The temperance movement was one reform that helped evolve our country and still has an effect on present day way of life. The American temperance movement was a social movement against the consumption of alcoholic beverages. It encouraged the moderation of alcohol. The temperance movement started after the American Revolution in…

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    Martin Luther King was a great leader in the civil rights movement. He fought for freedom by using nonviolence. His inspiring was Mahatma Gandhi, who said progress only happens throughout constant effort. He says unjust law is out of harmony with the moral law, however a just law is manmade law that square with moral law Kant agrees to this ideas too. According to King breaking an unjust law is not considered wrong. We have freedom of birthright which means that we are born as free. From it we…

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    “Environmental pollution is an incurable disease, it can only be prevented” once said by Barry Commoner, a former biologist and a founder of the modern environmental movement stated this quote back in the day 1900’s yet environmental problems still continues to be a huge problem, not only individually but it’s a social condition today. As humans we should see that we breath and survive because of the clean environment that we once had, but the question is that are we really living in a clean…

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    Vietnam War Opposition

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    1. How did US citizens express their opposition to the US invasion of Vietnam? US citizens expressed their outrage and opposition of the invasion of Vietnam fervently and loudly. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the earliest protesters were civil rights activists, who, having witnessed the oppression of blacks within the US, responded to Lyndon Johnson’s announcement of the invasion of Vietnam with wary suspicion. Other early protesters were students, hundreds of thousands of whom rallied in protest—and…

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    answering the question: What role should virtual social movements play within China 's “Great Firewall”? The issue deals with the fact that there is abundant censorship, not just on the Chinese web, but throughout China in general. Social media has the distinct feature of being a tool that can reach millions of people faster and without nearly as much censorship as other forms of collective action. My argument is that virtual social movements in China, have the ability to effectively exact…

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    recent years, the organization mainly focuses on dealing with environmental problems in urban ears and it wants to build sustainable and hospitable cities through reducing urban waste, improving the existing transportation system, and environmental education. So far, it has established more than 10 branches in Wuhan, Guangzhou, Nanjing, and many other cities. Apart from organizing social activities, Friends of Nature also engages in environmental lawsuits. For example, the organization recently…

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    Era Of Environmentalism

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    are then able to regulate environmental policies. Activists like Thorner are contributing to the number of growing deregulation supporters and pose a challenge to environmental education according to Stewart Hudson, president of the Emily Hall Tremain Foundation. His organization leads philanthropy efforts in the education of arts, environment, and learning disabilities. He too stresses the importance of environmental educators to adapt to the “evolving social and technological landscape” with…

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    I plan to write about animal production because the issue of food and it’s ability to be sustainably produced is a current issue that I am interested in. This issue relates to sustainability because if food, live stock, is continually produced at the same rate resources like land, water, and air will be scarce and the damage that animal production will cause will be irreversible. I have applied the Twelve Tests of an Arguable Issue and have been able to answer yes to each question. I would…

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    the "Noble Experiment" the United States announced that the sale and manufacturing of beverages that contained intoxicating liquor were illegal from 1920 to 1933. This action was known to many as the temperance movement, which had tons of supporters across the nation. The temperance movement of the 1920s failed because the demand for alcohol was not eliminated among many Americans, and the law was hard to enforce due to numerous illegal acts produced by it. The elimination of alcohol provides…

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