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    The Hashtag Activism

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    Speaking of social injustices and explaining what upsets someone gives rise to awareness of the injustice. The first step in change is knowing you have to change. I feel with hashtag activism, because there are so many things to support, so many movements people get lost in what they are supporting and so the activism simply remains an idea. No actions are made to actually activate because people only support on the internet, not many people are willing to actually go out and protest what they believe

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    The Planning Moment

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    and what really held my attention was that they used the Montgomery Bus Boycott as an example. It was just really inspiring to see that such simple steps can cause such a major change. It motivated me that if those simple steps can cause such an impact on history, than they can help me capture someone’s attention. The Planning Moment #1: Looking Inward really helped me in creating structure in my project. In my project I included a part where I spoke about who I was and who we (DCA) as an organization

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    Standing up for what you think is right and just, against several people who don’t think the same is usually nerve-wracking and not as easy as one might think; yet in Bob Marley’s song Get Up Stand Up, he makes you feel like anyone can do it just simple as that. Get Up Stand Up immediately beams that sense of fighting empowerment and doing what is right. Much of Marley’s inspiration for the song stems from his Jamaican childhood and growing up in a place filled with oppression and very little rights

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    The social action activity I participated in took place November 16th,2017 at the GEM Theatre, it was a town hall meeting on the topic of fostering diversity in Kansas City. The event was called Race, Place and Diversity Symposium that held many meetings throughout the day. The meeting I went to was the last one of the night there was a lot of verbal interactions between the panelist and audience. The panelist consisted of Susan B. Wilson (vice chancellor of UMKC), Gwendolyn Grant (President/CEO

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    All over Jamaica, men and women wear dreadlocks; they are considered very lazy and extremely poor people. The country is known for smoking ganja. There is a law that allows natives to walk around with machetes to protect their families. In Jamaica, 40 percent of the population wear dreadlocks. Many people assume that they wear dreads because of the lack of money in the country. In addition, people believe that all Jamaicans are Olympic runners. Majority assume that since the Caribbean is the birthplace

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    The Civil Rights Movement was an era in time where nonviolent protests shook the core of the South’s Jim Crow laws in the 1950’s and 1960’s. African Americans and a few white people were fighting for equal rights since the beginning of the Reconstruction Era. The main objective during the Civil Rights Movement was to dismantle racial segregation in public places and to stop discrimination against African Americans. African Americans were fed up with being denied their rights as American citizens

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    The Prologue Terra 1 had a lot of interesting information on the facts that it dealt with human ecology. My mother and I had many similar opinions when it came down to the facts about Terra 1. When reading that overpopulation in first-class was bad, we felt that the rich used way more energy. They could afford it more than lower class citizens. They had no limit on the amount they could use simply because of the money. Lower class citizens could not afford the luxury of wasting energy, they were

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    Up to the present time, the civil rights movement is a campaign that has been in play for a while. Over several years, different laws have been fabricated to shape a society that has more civil rights. Court cases have taken place that have caused the supreme courts to change laws. Quite a few Supreme Court cases have majorly impacted the civil rights movement: Dred Scott v. Sandford, Plessy v. Ferguson, and Brown v. Board of Education. Dred Scott v. Sandford was a U.S. Supreme Court Case where

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    The 1960s Civil Rights Movement is one of the largest social movements in American History. For many years prior, the majority of African Americans had just lived with discrimination as if it were a part of life. It took years for them to muster up the courage to fight the oppression and begin the Civil Rights Movement. Harper Lee uses a similar brand of courage in To Kill a Mockingbird, when many of the community members are put in situations in which they must be brave or cowardly. Harper Lee

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    conditions were bad so the people stood up and made change happen. The reform movements of the nineteenth century where very important to the improvement of society because of the education reform, women's rights, and abolition movements. The education reform movements was very important to the improvement of society because it greatly improved school curriculum, made a more skilled labor force, and educated more kids. This movement was started when a Maryland Politician noticed that the public school

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