Essays on Social Movements

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The Foundation of Global Change: Outreach Efforts Through The Internet

6 pages / 2574 words

The mediatization of our modern world is a largely controversial matter with notable pros and cons littering its discourse. Mass communication now includes the internet, mobile phones, and new forms of intelligent communication systems. It’s affected governments with Open-Data being increasingly prominent globally, it’s given...

Occupy Wall Street

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Rosa Parks: Mother of The Modern-day Civil Rights Movement

2 pages / 732 words

The acts of disobedience made a great impact in our future because it is what made society strong. People made a statement using disobedience and it was heard and applied. Just like Rosa Parks stood up for what she believed in and made huge impacts...

Montgomery Bus Boycott Racial Discrimination Rosa Parks

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Rosa Parks and Her Role in The Civil Rights Movement

3 pages / 1221 words

The race is recognized as a social and historical construct that allows racism to take place and be heavily influenced by cultural ideologies. With the long history of racialization and discrimination, in which race has been produced as a meaningful marker of social difference and...

Montgomery Bus Boycott Racial Discrimination Rosa Parks

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An Individual's Power to Change The Society: American Activists

1 page / 821 words

Introduction During the late sixties, isolation and separation were seen around the world, a portion of these developments comprised of people wanting to make a change. For example, the American activists Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Robert F. Kennedy, and Rosa Parks, who experienced numerous...

Martin Luther King Montgomery Bus Boycott Rosa Parks

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Food Security Should Be a High Priority in Australia

7 pages / 3243 words

Food and Agriculture Organization defines food security as “All people at all times have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life.” Food security includes the ability to buy,...

Food Safety Urbanization

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Pro Choice: Why Abortion Should Remain a Legal Right

4 pages / 1949 words

 In 2020 Poland, there was a mass protest regarding a reproductive rights ban. The Poland government had made a court decision to ban all abortions. Thousands of women, men, and adolescents gathered in the streets to get the message across that abortion is a women’s...

Abortion Pro Choice (Abortion)

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Analysis of Rebecca Solnit’s Walking and The Suburbanized Psyche

3 pages / 1338 words

Rebecca Solnit’s “Walking and The Suburbanized Psyche” expounds the alarming ramifications that suburbanization and the devaluation of walking has in today’s society. Suburbanization has forced us to lose a connection to our minds and bodies, which lead us to lose with our imagination along with...

Urbanization

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Urban Sprawl and Climate Change

3 pages / 1504 words

“Edward Lorenz put it, ‘climate is what you expect, weather is what you get’” (Allen, 2003) Nowadays, we are no having the weather that we expect, because of the global warming that humans are making, that is causing the climate change, and that is the...

Climate Change Urbanization

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Review of The Modern Global Issue of Urban Sprawl

4 pages / 1923 words

Strength comes with planning, precision, and continuous practice of past successes. Western cultures have proven this true in the last three centuries. Urban sprawl, another word used for urbanization. Urbanization mostly refers to the rapidly increasing population of urban areas. It can also be defined...

Urbanization

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The Life in The Areas of Urban Sprawl in Australia

2 pages / 871 words

Australia is one of the most urbanised countries worldwide, but is that good? Recent studies have shown that all the outer suburbs in Australia are falling behind to access to employment, amenities, services and urban design, factors that all facilitate liveability. But what is it...

Australia Urbanization

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Environmental Implications of Urban Sprawl: The Case of Urban Heat Islands

2 pages / 984 words

In an era of rapid urbanisation and industrialisation, the discussion around climate change is becoming ever more pertinent to the design of cities. Urban populations continue to rise and with that, cities are expanding in a phenomenon known as urban sprawl. As city living becomes...

Urbanization

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The 'Flower Power' Famous Image and Hippies Movement

4 pages / 1832 words

The “Flower Power” famous historical image represents peace and protests towards the vietnam war in 1967. In the photograph a woman is holding a flower in front of a solders rifle protesting against the war showing that the flower symbolizes freedom and peace from the...

Photography

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Influence of The #metoo Movement on Sexism in The American Workplace

2 pages / 1089 words

The original Me Too movement was started by activist Tarana Burke in 2006 as a community providing a safe space and resources to victims of sexual violence. However, the movement only went viral globally after actress Alyssa Milano started the #MeToo hashtag on Twitter in...

Sexism

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How Disobedience is The Foundation of Liberty

1 page / 672 words

Introduction When I was 13, I learned there are certain topics someone shouldn’t mention to other people. The three forbidden topics: politics, sex, religion. People don’t mention these topics for how personal they are but by how controversial they can be. If opinions clash into...

Civil Disobedience Liberty

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Civil Disobedience and Its Importance for Better Changes

2 pages / 907 words

Civil Disobedience and Its Importance for Better Changes Civil disobedience is the term for refusing to follow certain laws in a peaceful form of political protest. With a diverse use of literary devices like rhetorical questions, allusions, and imagery, authors like Henry David Thoreau, Martin...

Civil Disobedience Martin Luther King

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Civil Disobedience: Why One Should Disobey The Law

1 page / 673 words

When the law does not seem just it should give us citizens a right to break the law. When breaking the law one should know the punishment. Civil disobedience is an act of intentionally breaking a law or refusing to cooperate with the government. If...

Civil Disobedience

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A Reflection on Henry Thoreau’s Views on Civil Disobedience

3 pages / 1372 words

“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves”. Henry Thoreau wrote this statement in his essay “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience” that corresponds to his book “Walden”. The disobedience he refers to in this quote is civil disobedience that he...

Civil Disobedience

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Oscar Wilde's Views on Disobedience as a Valuable Human Trait

2 pages / 770 words

Disobedience can influence a person and show them a new way of thinking or a new solution. Throughout centuries, people have participated in disobedience in order to achieve a goal. Disobedience is a form of feeling, and is a feeling humans get when they feel...

Civil Disobedience Oscar Wilde

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Disobedience and Its Influence on Society

2 pages / 937 words

Who knows where our society would be without individual defiance? In the past, there have been a number of advocates of disobedience, that support the future of societal progression. These advocates were the only ones willing to take a stand against the injustices when no...

Civil Disobedience