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    The impact of ICTs on social movement in China: Xiamen Anti-PX demonstration. INTRODUCION The past decade has seen the rapid development of information communication technologies (ICTs) in China. For example, “China has become the biggest mobile communication carrier in the world since 2001.” (Jun and Hui, 2010). The advanced communication technology is an important component in the social movements and plays a key role in environmental activism. As Hung Chin-Fu (2013) point out, the civil…

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    “Benefit all mankind” is South Korea motto. It means which is a selfless motto for a people who had suffered from being under a communism no less than 60 years ago. Once the cease fire cleared somewhat between North and South Korea they began to rise from their situation with nothing and became the proud country that it is today. With its fast growing economy and large technology industries throughout Asia it’s one of the few Asian countries predominate countries that is developed and stable. It…

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    Technology can be a very useful and helpful tool used in today’s modern day society. Technology can help people accomplish everyday tasks at a faster rate and accomplish those tasks easier. However, despite how helpful technology can be it also has its negative effect on the environment. One of the major environmental issues in today’s society is pollution. Pollution is caused by contaminates in the natural environment that causes changes. These contaminates disturb the ecosystem, cause human…

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    then legitimise a social movement in terms of its place in changing the culture of the society in which it is operating (McCaffrey and Keys, 2000). For example, the civil rights movement within the US framed their struggles as a human right issue and so legitimised to the white American public their attempts to alter American…

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    where activists discuss and manage their democracy movement. The most obvious example of this might be Arab Spring event where social media played important role…

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    The concept of sustainable development has become ubiquitous in many aspects of modern society. Most multinational corporations release annual sustainability reports and the word “sustainable” is on stickered onto cereals, water bottles, and even cars. Despite its familiarity, there is little consensus on the term’s true meaning. It means different things to different people at different times, consistently evolving as pertinent to environmental governance at the time, growing from a concept…

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    The book Praying for Sheetrock’s main focus was on how the Civil Rights movement united the people of the United States, both black and white, in the small Southern county of McIntosh. The novel begins with the efforts of a single man by the name of Thurnell Alston, taking on the goon of a sheriff that was oppressing black people in a “backwater” place in the south that the Civil rights movement had yet to prevail. The citizens of the region could perhaps care less about equal rights or…

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    Dec. 2015. Super Size Me. Dir. Morgan Spurlock. Hart Sharp Video, 2004. Film Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com. Web. 1 Dec. 2015. Pirog, Rich, and Nick McCann. "Is Local Food More Expensive?" 1 Dec. 2009. Web. 1 Dec. 2015. Norton, Kat. "Organic Movement Prezi." Prezi.com. 8 May 2013. Web. 1 Dec.…

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    Portu portrays the character of Clare with a strong Irish accent. She furrowed her eyebrows, widened her eyes and used exaggerated arm gestures in the direction of Aidan, as if talking with her hands to get her point across. Her flailing, large arm movements while grasping her injured arm, along with her tense facial expression and fast, loud dialect clearly portrayed her anger for Aidan’s carelessness. Once the two stopped arguing and started talking about traveling, Portu relaxed her face,…

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    They are dynamically individualistic—even to the point of contradiction where they challenge the reader to understand the voice of a lively spectator, a witness who not only observes but also creates life 's changing circumstances. The Black Arts movement refers to a period of “furious flowering” of African American creativity…

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