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    the corruption in the government. The Arab Spring Movement was a series of anti-government protests, uprisings, and armed rebellions that occurred in 2011 throughout the Middle East. Most of them were to overthrow their dictator leaders. The Arab Spring Movement was in no way successful. Arab Spring has resulted in corruption, people haven’t gotten a real democracy,

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    conflict, economic hardships, and social endeavors. The Arab Spring, a democratic uprising, arose across the Arab world starting in 2010. The contemporary event of the Arab Spring and the historic French Revolution in the late 1700s share similarities. The Arab Spring started out in late 2010 in Tunisia when a street vendor named Mohamed Bouazizi committed suicide because of treatment from local officials. This catastrophe lit a fuse across the Arab nation.1 The French revolution broke out in 1789 when

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    Abdulaziz Alsheikh English Essay # 2 The Arab Spring: The Failing Strive For Democracy The Arab Spring was a series of pro-democracy protests and manifestations across the Middle East and North Africa, which started the winter of 2010 (BBC, 2014). Many people rose up, standing against the dictatorial and autocratic regimes that had ruled their home countries for many years. The goals of the Arab uprisings were clear (Walker & Tucker, 2011). The revolutions aimed to shift their countries

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    Makda M. Dejene Composition 1 Bill Lund 9/23/2014 Cause/Effect Essay: Social Media/Arab Spring Social Media has changed the world. There is no doubt in my mind when I say the most important global advancements in recent history is the change in ways we communicate. In modern United States, most people living here often fail to understand the price of freedom. We have read books about slavery, we have watched documentaries about women's right and we have heard many stories of wars that came

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    Comparison Of Arab Spring And Kony 2012

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    Contemporary social movements such as Arab Spring and Kony 2012 use the Internet and social media as potential tools towards change. But why are some more successful than others. This paper argues that when news outlets see the potential for change, they “premediate” (Richard Grusin) its possibilities, and make that change ever more possible in their coverage. On the other hand, extant stories that are more reactionary do not get the same amount of new exposure, and remain static. In other words

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    throughout world history, Syria’s civil war began as a chain of significant circumstances which lead to eventual turmoil. Although the Arab Springs, a series of uprisings against dictators in northern Africa and southwest Asia, was the primary basis for the Syrian civil war, climate change induced drought was undoubtedly the inception that provoked the Arab Spring in Syria. Water is essential to human life aiding in agriculture production and livestock care as well as basic human nourishment. Without

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    The Arab Spring, starting in 2011, brought about a passion for change and democracy in the Arab world. However, there were grave consequences to the Arab Spring, including but not limited to bloody civil wars and as a result, a dramatic increase of refugees. In 2015 alone, “the IOM [International Organization for Migration] estimates that more than 464,000 migrants have crossed into Europe by sea” (Park 1). Many states that have been affected by the refugee crisis have reacted with security theatre

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    political protests known to date due it to its far-reaching scope and heavy reliance on online communication and organization between activists. These internet-based protests soon spread to the offline world and helped shape the entirety of the Arab Spring both in the eyes of its participants and those watching from around the world. However, the internet and its help reach much farther than just this one example. Previous North Korean citizens have also used the platform to express the mistreatment

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    power for more than four decades on the solid loyalty of its religious bloc in a loose alliance with Christians, Druze, and, sometimes, one or more of the other smaller, ethnic groups. A prominent feature of the 2011–12 rebellion is a largely Sunni Arab bid to overthrow that “coalition of minorities” regime. (Carpenter, 2013: 1-2) One cannot talk about Syria without talking about the region as a whole. Since the end of the Cold War three Western led ground operations in the Middle East have been added

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    explaining the concept of revolution, its definition, and application in Egypt and Tunisia. I will further discuss the achievement that took place since the revolutions in both countries and finally will conclude by demonstrating the effect of the Arab spring on the Muslim brotherhood. ‘Revolution’ tend to occur when the basic needs of a population are not met by its government, when there is a violation of basic human rights, when there is no hope, when people are oppressed, when people are at some

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