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    As our world is dying, activists are working hard to try to fix the problems, and most activists are influenced by the many different problems around them, and some of them even risk their lives for their cause. Those problems around them made them want to change something in the world and make it a better place. Activists such as Malala, Alex Lin, and Martin Luther King Jr. were influenced by problems around them to start promoting their cause for women’s rights, racial equality, and environmental

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    Roberta Caceres Activism

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    United States, but in Honduras, she was a hero to many. As an activist, she fought against a dam that would uproot her indigenous community. She organized blockades and peaceful protests in an effort to stop the project, which would have had deleterious effects on the environment (sdfsd). Her activism successfully kept construction

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    Constitution, which gives all American women the right to vote. Many people fought for this including Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, and many other women and some men activist. The Women's Rights Movement was important in American history because it gave women rights. Lucy Stone was one of the many women activist. She lived in Massachusetts and lived from 1818 - 1893.In 1850 she held the first national woman's rights convention. At this convention, she gave a speech that was later printed

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    Abortion Vs Abortion

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    Last August 15, Greg Abbott governor of Texas, signed House Bill 214 into law, banning Texas insurers from covering abortions in general plans, despite protests from pro-choice activists that the bill should exempt pregnancies from rape, incest, and fetuses with critical medical conditions. Governor Abbott expressed, “I am proud to sign legislation that ensures no Texan is ever required to pay for a procedure that ends the life of an unborn child.” Texas will now require women to buy additional

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    Visual Analysis Paper “Mama Didn’t Raise a Victim” “Mama didn’t raise a victim” is a quote many American gun right activists know by heart. Many have seen their advertisement presented by the National Association for Gun Rights (NAGR). The NAGR uses ethos, logos, and pathos effectively to persuade their audiences on gun rights in America. The NAGR is a “nonprofit, nonpartisan, single-purpose citizens ' organization dedicated to preserving and protecting the Constitutionally-protected right-to-keep-and-bear-arms

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    Tree Falls

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    Merriam-Webster, a zealot is “a person who has very strong feelings about something (such as religion or politics) and who wants other people to have those feeling”. In the documentary If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front by Marshall Curry, activist Daniel McGowan us a zealot who is very passionate about the preservation of the forests across the United States of America. Throughout the documentary, the viewer follows the story of McGowan as he recites the past events of the Earth Liberation

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    mindfulness’s impact on environmental issues is a special one, for it focus on how mindfulness can facilitate the work of environmental activists. Hanh once said that “The best way to take care of the environment is to take care of the environmentalist” (Hanh, DR:87), and mindfulness can help us to achieve that from the following ways. First, mindfulness provides strength to activists. Activism is a tiring work that requires time and energy commitment and burnouts people really quickly. As Hanh described, for

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    Animal welfare versus animal rights is very controversial, but yet interesting subject. There is a huge debate between Animal Rights activists and Animal Welfare activists. Animal Welfare refers to the state of the animal; the treatment that an animal receives is covered by other terms such as animal care,animal husbandry, and humane treatment. Animal Welfare activists believe that animals should be treated humanely and fairly, but do not have the same rights as humans. Animal Rights is a belief that

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    Justice Term Activism

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    them down, conservatives, and textualist can be activist judges too. The late Justice Scalia considered himself a faithful textualist. Justice Scalia would often point out how wrong activist judges are in fact. Yet, Justice Scalia had struck down over eighty percent of the laws declaring them unconstitutional (Walker 2013). So, activism is something that really doe not adhere to any ideology. Although contemporary politics surely has made the activist claim solely for liberals, some very conservative

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    in our country. Some of the earliest activists were those living in America and attacking British tax collectors to oppose the British reign in America clear up until the United States of America decided to part from the King all together. Later there were individuals like Harriet Tubman, who wanted to bring an end to slavery and contributed to the cause by helping slaves escape from their plantations. Regardless of the time period or the cause for the activists, those individuals are still an important

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