Temperance movement

“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…

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…

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…

With the rapid economic development and social environment, people consume natural resources at a faster pace and the negative effect on the nature is becoming more and more severe. Environmental issues, such as air pollution, water pollution, decreasing biodiversity, and deforestation have become prominent in many regions of China. In recent years, haze has become a popular term among Chinese people, especially in north China. The environmental problems can be harmful to residents, animals, and…

The era of environmentalism led to numerous laws being passed between the 1960s and 1970s. The U.S. Congress specifically passed a number of legislative measures to restore damage done to the environment and lay the foundation for preventative harm. Many of the actions taken are observable in nature today. Laws from this era that still impact society today include rules mandating air, endangered species, forest resources, and water. However, with the rapidly evolving institutions and industries…

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…

In Protest and Mysticism: The Rastafari Cult of Jamaica , Kitzinger expresses her varying opinions about the beliefs and customs of the Rastafarian religion, which she experiences first hand. She introduces the “politico-religious” (240) cult ,as the outcast of individuals who inhabit the “wastelands” (242) of Jamaica , and who believe that “the white world [is] the devil” and that the true “promised land” (243) is Africa. Rastas condemn their Jamacian citizenship because it is associated with a…

Philip Randolph created the March on Washington Movement to demand equality in the defense industries (Taylor). Prominent civil rights organizations also supported this March on Washington in 1941, including the NAACP and the Urban League (Taylor). The threat of the March on Washington greatly scared President…

There are many interesting grassroots solutions that are available for us to talk about. I found these two issues to I would like to talk about first that I thought were interesting and informal issues like these are Important. Talking about these topics in the news would shed light on how other people live in different countries. Even though it is now the 21st century times now are still suffering because of the early 15th century when the Europeans came to these southern countries during that…

Individual awareness concerning the current condition of the environment has risen to the attention of psychologists in recent years, their curiosity concerning what personality traits entice a person’s awareness, concern, and intentions to act on environmental needs. An individual’s self-awareness, or self-construal, towards the environmental decay brought on heavily due to destructive human behaviors, could stem from how the individual views themselves and their actions in relation to others…