Informative Speech On The Arab Spring
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Informative speech on the Arab spring
“Ladies and gentlemen, I stand before here today to share with you in one of the most historical moments in not only in the Arab world, but also to the entire world as a whole. Many of us would begin by asking, “what was this Arab Spring?” well, the Arab Spring was a revolutionary wave of demonstrations, protests, and civil wars in the Arab world that began on the 18th of December 2010. As to the question of “why it took place?” there were different local causes for the Arab Spring. However, the protests had the same motivations. The Arab world has a long history of struggle for political change, from leftist groups to Islamist radicals Primoz, (2011). As McCrummen, (2011). observes, collectively, people saw the emergence of corrupt political, economic and social systems controlled by dictatorial elites for decades, tremendous social turmoil provoked by poverty, corruption, greed, and violence, the evident injustice of crony capitalism, rising expectations of the young; and the delayed mushrooming of civil society that was surprising them for many years, and they therefore wanted changed (Peterson, 2011). It was an outcome of a number of repressive policies against Arab citizens from their own governments (McCrummen, 2011). . Tunisia was the first of the Arab country to over throw their government igniting other revolutions in Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Bahrain, and sparked protests in Algeria, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, and Sudan which answers the question of “where this Arab Springs took place.”
Though there were common factors, each protesting country had their own particular goals. For instance, protesters in Tunisia were largely calling time out on the corruption of the ruling party, In Egypt it was never the less the same, but primarily driven by religious goals, Yemen has had its own Geo-political tensions since unification in 1990, In Libya, it was an attack
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Informative speech on the Arab spring
“Ladies and gentlemen, I stand before here today to share with you in one of the most historical moments in not only in the Arab world, but also to the entire world as a whole. Many of us would begin by asking, “what was this Arab Spring?” well, the Arab Spring was a revolutionary wave of demonstrations, protests, and civil wars in the Arab world that began on the 18th of December 2010. As to the question of “why it took place?” there were different local causes for the Arab Spring. However, the protests had the same motivations. The Arab world has a long history of struggle for political change, from leftist groups to Islamist radicals Primoz, (2011). As McCrummen, (2011). observes, collectively, people saw the emergence of corrupt political, economic and social systems controlled by dictatorial elites for decades, tremendous social turmoil provoked by poverty, corruption, greed, and violence, the evident injustice of crony capitalism, rising expectations of the young; and the delayed mushrooming of civil society that was surprising them for many years, and they therefore wanted changed (Peterson, 2011). It was an outcome of a number of repressive policies against Arab citizens from their own governments (McCrummen, 2011). . Tunisia was the first of the Arab country to over throw their government igniting other revolutions in Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Bahrain, and sparked protests in Algeria, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, and Sudan which answers the question of “where this Arab Springs took place.”
Though there were common factors, each protesting country had their own particular goals. For instance, protesters in Tunisia were largely calling time out on the corruption of the ruling party, In Egypt it was never the less the same, but primarily driven by religious goals, Yemen has had its own Geo-political tensions since unification in 1990, In Libya, it was an attack
References: Goodman, J. David (2011). Thousands in Yemen Protest against the Government. The New York Times, New York. McCrummen, Stephanie (2011). The Great “Arab Spring” of 2011: Causes and Consequences. The Washington Post. Peterson, Scott (2011). Egypt 's revolution redefines what 's possible in the Arab world. The Christian Science Monitor. Archived from the original on 23 July 2011. Retrieved 11 April 2011. Primoz Manfreda (2011). The Root Causes of the Arab awakening in 2011, Accessed April 11, 2013 from < http://middleeast.about.com/od/humanrightsdemocracy/tp/The-Reasons-For-The-Arab-Spring.htm>