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    Tiananmen Square Protest

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    Tiananmen Square Protest 1989 People protest for a reason, there is a problem with something and they want a change, they want to be heard. They can last for a long time, days, months and years until they get what they want. During protest things can get out of hand and people become violent and that’s where everything gets too far. Today protesting isn’t as bad as it was before, we try to result to agreements and there aren’t as many deaths as there were as before. In 1989 Tiananmen Square was…

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    The Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989, more popularly known as the Tiananmen Square Incident or Tiananmen Square Massacre, were a series of student-led demonstrations in Beijing during 1989. The student-led protests were forcibly suppressed by tanks and armed troops 2 weeks after the government declared martial law and mobilized as many as 300,000 troops into Beijing. The death toll is still widely debated.The protests happened during rapid economic and social developments in China. The students…

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    the tweets and interviews, the authors’ attempt to fully understand the matter of the protests allows for the use of an ethical appeal, pathetic appeal, and logical appeal. After a rhetorical analysis, the authors’ varying…

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    participate in peaceful protests against something that, in their opinion, is unlawful or not fair. There are many inspirational and great examples of both peaceful and violent protesting bringing change. Many of today’s greatest influencers practiced peaceful protesting, and we have many inspiring quotes as proof. There is not a direct answer on why we should protest but there are a great many reasons why it is helpful. There are two kind of protests: violent and peaceful. Violent protests…

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    follow a variety of tactics, including protests. Two differing approaches include non violent and radical protests. But which approach is more successful and why? Or in other words, to what extent are peaceful protests more or less effective than violent protests towards governmental and cultural change? To be effective means, “producing a result that is wanted, having an intended effect,” according to the Merriam- Webster Dictionary. But in the context of protests, effectiveness can be…

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    been recent news reports about how people in America are going to march and protest during the president elect's inauguration on how they want to stop the inauguration and not have the president elect officially become president. However, does people protesting during the inauguration will stop the president elect from becoming president? In the ardent and fervent article, “Protesting 101”, the author claims that some protests are not very effective due to the people not procuring action that…

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    Civil disobedience has always been an option in the United States. People have the right to protest, request change, and challenge the government. Historically, protests only give positive results when the cause is one that will forever change the world. Peaceful resistance is not acceptable when the outcome will negatively impact the country at-large, or when the protestors get violent. Peaceful protesting is not always the answer. Laws are thoroughly thought out, planned, and executed by…

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    Protest has long been a reaction by people when they feel as if something wrong is being done towards them or people they care about. In the article titled “It was like a fever” written by Francesca Polletta they talk about various protest through time but, one seems to stick out in particular and that is the sit-ins done by college students in Greensboro, North Carolina. In the article they talk about this one so heavily because they say it was unplanned and “it was like a fever everyone wanted…

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    Wilson to face prison time. In a video about A 14 year old Shane Flower that was giving a choose to participate in a peaceful protest or a violent protest for the case. “ if it don't make a point then why do it?” that was given from the older gentleman that make many good points about protesting peacefully. I believe just like what the older gentlemen believe in that peaceful protest have bigger voice to the world then violence. Many people around the world have seen what have happen but people…

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    underappreciates the fact that the movement and its tactics are formed in contestation. Indeed, the formal sphere was rather unimportant in the Harak. First, this was the largest protest for decades that was not organised by a political party (Abu-Rish, 2016). Second, the Coordination Committee was set up to formally control the protests and facilitate the debate, but its membership itself was a source of debate (Abu-Rish, 2016). According to one activist, Mark Daou, YouStink and…

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