several events commemorating the anniversary of the September 11 attacks. In 2011‚ it became the site of the Occupy Wall Street protest camp. Many activists occupied the space and used it as a staging ground for their demonstration throughout the Manhattan Financial District. The Canadian activist group Adbusters initiated the protest‚ which subsequently led to Occupy protests and movements around the world. The main issues are social and economic inequality‚ greed‚ corruption and the perceived undue
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Social media and its tools have been recognized as a major and integral part of modern societies and globalization- the new world order. Huge developments in social networking and social media emerged in the early 2000’s. As social networking grew‚ niche sites started picking up interest groups. Despite the growth‚ expansion and diverse merits of the social media and its tools‚ it has been charged with various controversy and criticism. Social media networking in the new world order has an astonishing
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share similar views on how society should react to oppression. The motive behind each and every protest in American History is civil disobedience‚ an idea thought up by Thoreau while he spent the night in jail‚ due to tax evasion. He believed “that government is best which governs least.”1 His revolutionary idea weaved its way into the fabric of American life. As free people‚ we see it as our right to protest any laws we see unjust. In a society which controls‚ the need to rebel will always be present
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supporters run in hundreds of thousands‚ there is no dearth of critics of the movement as well. One of the most bizarre arguments against it is that the movement could damage the democratic fabric of the country. How a democratically sanctioned form of protest could damage the democratic fabric is beyond me. Not to mention the personal character attacks that even the Manmohan Singh government could not resist launching. For many cautious supporters-cum-critics the movement is a massive display of hypocrisy
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to vote. First‚ the women were determined to get their right to vote. For example‚ the women went on a hunger strike and did not eat for weeks. Next‚ even after the first groups of women were thrown in jail they were determined to go back and protest. For example‚ when police had come to arrest the women for obstructing traffic Alice Paul and a group of
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The group responsible for the conducting of these protests is being called “Concerned Student 1950”‚ which stands for the year the first black student was accepted into the university. Jonathan Butler‚ a graduate student of the University of Missouri‚ went on a hunger strike that he said would only end if
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primary platform used within Occupy Wall Street to encourage others to come out and join the protests. Additionally‚ social media was the primary way that these organizers of this movement got their message out to the public and to the media. For instance‚ in 2011‚ Kalle Lasn‚ a person that was considered a founder of the Occupy Wall Street movement reached out to Adbusters to increase public attention and protest participation. The selected magazine was an interesting choice because it was an online
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peaceful protesting. “Give peace a chance‚” a song he wrote became the fuel for many peaceful protests against the war. I think the government felt threatened by John Lennon because of the impact he had on the protestors and how they looked up to him. John was treated like a criminal by the government for voicing his dislike of the war in a peaceful way. I don’t believe he was ever violent with his war protests. The only thing in my opinion that could have been argued that John Lennon was endangering
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BASIC WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS acid rain [uncountable] SGE rain that contains harmful acid which can damage the environment and is caused by chemicals in the air‚ for example from cars or factories alteration of natural processes animal welfare‚ n the viewpoint that animals‚ especially those under human care‚ should not suffer unnecessarily‚ including where the animals are used for food‚ work‚ companionship‚ or research. This position usually focuses on the morality of human action
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the 381-day-long boycott of public busses‚ ultimately leading to the Supreme Court ruling the segregation of busses as unconstitutional (Rosa Parks and Civil Disobedience). Despite not causing harm to a single person‚ Rosa Parks’ acts of nonviolent protest indirectly helped put an end to segregation on the public transit system‚ and helped ignite the civil rights movement in the coming
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