Role of the Youth in Nation Building

The cultural revolution is a strange period in Chinese history laced with intense struggle and anguish. The cultural revolution mobilized the all of society to compete for all opposing factions that they belonged to (Ong, 2016). Mao mobilized the young people of society during a background of political turmoil, which helped Mao to mobilize the students in order to enforce his political legitimacy and ideas (Ong, 2016). Mao’s charismatic authority created his personality cult and most defiantly leant a helping hand in mobilizing the red guard movement (Ong, 2016) (Weber, 1946) (Andreas, 2007). No matter which faction of the red guard they belonged to, they all mobilized against their common enemy; the better off, upper class. (Ong, 2016). Multiple ideologies within the youth led red guard movement explain why the movement gained momentum and became incredibly powerful (Walder, 2009).

The key values and principles of youth work are to educate, empower, encourage participation and promote equality of opportunity and social inclusion. The principles of youth work are about offering services in places where young people can choose to participate, they encourage young people to be critical in their responses to their own experiences and to the world around them. Youth work is also about making young people more independent and helping them to make informed choices about their personal responsibilities within their community. These values and principles provide youth work with a purpose as well as

Youth work is an ideal setting in which to use a strength based practice. Many of the concepts of a strength based approach align with the core practises and principles of the youth work code of ethics one of these links is the concept of power over vs power with. A strength based approach says that power with, is a much better tool to use this correlates directly with two youth work principles

After the Revolutionary war, many countries were influenced by the Declaration of Independence. During the year of 1989, protesters and students from a Chinese university crowded Tiananmen Square in Beijing. The group protested against the corruption of government and demanded a change to democracy. Unfortunately, the group was suppressed and the protest ended in tragedy, about 3,000 people were

There’s not much to offer for the young generation. Before there was a huge emphasis on youth and bringing positive things to the community. That aspect has largely taken a back seat. There are no longer things geared towards youth. Instead the focus has been placed on business growth and the economy. The younger generation has turned to drugs and alcohol to fill the void of boredom, and lack of stable family structure. Instead of thinking through the long-term consequences of their decisions, students turn to the immediate “fix”. The dropout rate and the number of young adults in the area being incarcerated has increased. What can be done to minimize this

Places an obligation on local authorities and their associates such as the youth justice, police and well-being specialist organisations to co-work in promoting the prosperity of youngsters and to take courses of action to defend and promote the welfare/safety of youngsters.

These are some of the examples of the measures that have been taken to provide better services and care to today’s youths.

The justice punishment for youth were based on how society feels about these youths rather than focusing on what youths really need. Society felt that youth were breaking society’s rule , therefore they must be punished. Yet people do not look back and ask ‘why these people act the way they do’. Sometime the upper class society is ignorance of how these youths live, as long as their street is safe, then they have achieved their goal. People believe that by taking vengeance and made deviant youth suffer from their crime was a good punishment. Yet the root of deviant behavior occurs due to the reduction of social welfare. As long as the government could not do anything to support youth, the problem would still continue to

On June 5, 1989, soldiers and tanks from China's People’s Liberation Army physically oppressed the student led protesters. The events surrounding this day are referred to as the Tiananmen Square Protest of 1989, a democracy movement calling for political and social reforms in the Republic of China. The deaths that occurred as a consequence of the Tiananmen Square Protest was not the fault of the students, but rather, the disastrous situation of China beforehand, the common belief that demonstrations would succeed, and the government’s obstinate decisions.

In 1969, there was a series of global disruptions caused by people’s dissatisfaction with governments that hadn’t lived up to their promises, and a rise in police brutality to control these disruptions led to an animosity that separated the people and their leaders. These protests were often made possible by institutions of higher education, as these allowed young people to mobilize. For instance, in Berkeley, a diverse college population allowed student leaders like Mario Savio, and newspapers like the Berkeley Barb to mobilize people (Suri 168-69). Organizations like the Black Panther Party turned these protests violent, which became a common theme worldwide. In West Berlin, the Free University mobilized students who feared that the violence

Approaches to youth justice have evolved throughout the centuries and it is important for youth justice practitioners to be aware of the evolution of theory in order to be up to date with their knowledge and in their practice. Knowledge of current as well as traditional theoretical perspectives helps provide a new direction on

From the early stages of the project there was a commitment to ensure that young people were provided with an opportunity to have their voices heard. Several approaches were implemented in ensuring that this was made possible. These approaches included a campaign promoting the development of the youth plan, partaking in the results of the youth plan consultations, and promoting the development of the youth plan and the range of ways young people could participate. (Wyndham City Council,

As for the athletics programs it is important to provide juveniles with such programs because it will give them a chance to create bonds with other individuals their age without having to turn to gangs. Giving them a chance to come together and create bonds will help many of them socially and prevent them from looking into gangs for the “bonds” or “brotherhood.” As for governmental issues it is important to make the youth feel safe and provide them with protection and guidance.

“Youth work” means a planned programme of education designed for the purpose of aiding and enhancing the personal and social development of young persons through their voluntary participation, and which is—

Most of the problems facing today’s youth are not restricted to any one ethnic or religious group, but affect young people generally. Most discussions on youth have focussed on issues such as drug abuse, crime, violence, sexuality and poverty. In addition to these, today’s youth are afflicted by new challenges.