...A Teens World Every teen activist makes a difference, just one step at a time. Malala Yousafzai and Alex Lin are teen activists. Malala wants all girls, throughout the world, to be allowed an education. While, Alex started a movement to reduce the waste of electronics and recycle e-waste. These two are great teen activists because they help make the world a better place. Malala shows intelligence and determination, while Alex shows perseverance and leadership. Teen activism is really important because these are teens that take a stand to what is right and getting rid of what is not right. Teen activism is very meaningful because teens are helping not only where they live but the whole world. It is important for Malala to take a stand because some people do not know what is happens in other parts of the world and she takes a stand for what needs to be done internationally. Something needs to be done in parts of the world where there is terrorism and where girls cannot go to school. Teen activists are important to not only the people they help, but they are important to the...
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...What do schools being shut down and kids being bullied have to do with each other. Teen activism. And something needs to be done about it. And teens are doing just that. Teen activism is where teens notice something wrong, or not right in their community, or around the world and decide to do something about it. To become a teen activist you need to work hard and have much dedication to what you do. In this essay I will be talking about two kids who are teen activists, and what they’re fighting for or what their passion is, what challenges they’ve faced, and what they’re doing now. This paragraph is about Malala Yousafzai. Malala is fighting for female child education. Malala had her school shut down by the taliban. Malala then tried to get...
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...English 101 The Age of “Likes” Over the years, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have greatly impacted modern culture in more ways than one can possibly imagine. It has become an addiction to constantly check your feeds on the numerous social media sites it has made available to us. Through social media we stay connected with family and friends. We discover what our favorite celebrities are doing and what topics are trending worldwide. It has simply become innate of us to do so. Social media has made it normal to share your life with the world, get noticed by celebrity, become a celebrity, and voice your most honest opinion about someone, impacting modern culture in a positive and negative way. Mark Zuckerberg impacted modern culture in a way that no one saw coming. He created a social media platform that would revolutionize the way people all over the world communicated and interacted with one another. In the drama film, The Social Network, the film portrays the foundation of Facebook and how it impacted peoples lives both positively and negatively. Facebook helped create this platform where Harvard students could share information about themselves that no social media site had done before. It allowed users to see if one was in a relationship and also allowed users to block or deny friend requests. The site became so immensely popular it branched out to other popular colleges before going global and accumulating over 1.3 billion active users since its creation. While there...
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...Teen activism is about young people making a difference in the world. There are many terrifying things going on in our world right now. But a lot of the people trying to make a change in our world our teens. Teen activists are inspiring because they fight for what's right, they speak out, and they want to make a difference. Teen activists are inspiring because they fight for what's right. It seems that every activist wants to help, and they don't stop fighting for what's right and what they believe in. For example, Malala Yousafzai. Malala was born on July 12, 1997, in Mingora, Pakistan. As she grew up she noticed a problem and wanted to fix it. Malala fought for young girls education everywhere. On October 9, 2012, she was shot in the head,...
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...One of the most successful social media platforms in today’s technological era, Twitter is an information network made up of 140-character posts known as “Tweets.” In Bonilla and Rosa’s (2015) research article for American Ethnologist, the authors tease apart the significance of Twitter as an ethnographic field site and extension of modern activism and social discourse. In identifying a social media platform as a field site, Bonilla and Rosa focused in on Twitter’s use of hashtags as a way to index or mark themes in conversations, whether large or small. Hashtags filter the noise of social media down to one slice of discussion, and draw attention to what people in our world want to talk about. Racial issues are particularly salient as trending topics of discussion on Twitter, seen not only by the significant community of African Americans on the site (“Black Twitter”), but by the discourse following black teen Mike Brown’s death by the hand of a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri....
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...The Online World Sejal Bahety Woodbury University The Online World Technological innovation has caused social media to become widespread and deeply integrated into modern society. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, our lives has become so blended with these forms of connections that it’s difficult to imagine a single day without these sources of media. The most active users of social media are teenagers and young adults and their lives have changed tremendously after using this form of communication. Social media has made it possible for people to network with people from different parts of the world. It is a huge source of information and a platform where people can present themselves to the world. Although there are some positive stigmas on our use of social media, it has numerous disadvantages like creation of fake identities, cyber bullying and social loafing. As technology is progressing, it is enhancing the way people present themselves in front of the world. The main concept of a self-image is a person trying to show the viewer something about themselves. Social media has tremendously affected the self-image of people. Social networking sites like Facebook, Instagram and Tumbler are full of photos. The need for attention is increased throughout the years. People try to mask their identity and highlight only some specific personality traits which they want others to know about. People believe in everything they see on these profiles and most of the times do not...
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...MEDIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION STUDY GUIDE NO LOGO BRANDS, GLOBALIZATION, RESISTANCE WRITTEN BY JEREMY EARP & DANIELLE DEVEREAUX Challenging media CONTENTS NO LOGO BRANDS, GLOBALIZATION, RESISTANCE NOTE TO TEACHERS.............................................................................................................................................................................pg. 03 THE MEDIA LITERACY CIRCLE OF EMPOWERMENT....................................................................................................................04 OVERVIEW.........................................................................................................................................................................................................05 PRE-VIEWING EXERCISES..........................................................................................................................................................................06 INTRODUCTION Key Points..........................................................................................................................................................................................................07 Questions for Discussion & Writing.....................................................................................................................................................07 NO SPACE: BRANDED WORLD Key Points......................................................................................
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...GEN100 Assessment 5 Importance of diversity and networking in social awareness and social skills Submitted to: Rhonda Hoare Submitted by: Mr. Rajinder Singh Kingra 26 Aug, 2015 TABLE OF CONTENT Name: Page no. Executive Summary 3 Introduction 4 Main ideas 5 Conclusion 7 Reference list 8 Summary Diversity and networking highly improves social awareness and social skills in business interactions. This report identifies...
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...The organization I chose volunteer for is the League of Women Voters of California. The league is an organization for both men and women that strives for participation in government. What sets them apart is their goal of encouraging people to make informed and educated decisions. The League of Women Voters is non-partisan and does not support any particular political part or candidate. When I contacted the local office I was told by Cheryl, the woman who oversaw my volunteering, that they needed a makeover for their brochure and flyer. This brochure was extremely outdated and needed a serious overhaul. In conjunction with a classmate, I redesigned the brochure to give it a more modern appearance making it more eye catching in hopes of creating more league memberships and provoking more donations. I would have to say this became my main goal of my volunteering experience. Although I was asked that the writing on the brochure went unchanged I wanted to do redesign the graphics and layout of the brochure to make is more interesting and readable. In a way I feel like the hard work I put into the brochure would strengthen and increase the growth of the league. The second piece I worked on with my classmate was the organizations flyer. The flyer was essentially of form that people could use to join the League of Women Voters or simply enclose a donation and at the same time give a little information about the group. In both the brochure and flyer color played an important...
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...typically associates it with extremely loud noises, unorthodox fashion style, and often offends the people who hear it. This is not necessarily all true. Yes punk rock is loud and it may offend people, but it does have a purpose and conveys its own meaning. Punk formed and developed as a reaction against oppressive figures of authority and as a musical and social outlet for teens that strayed away from the mainstream. Punk rock music has an extensive history. “While punk’s anti-authoritarian and rebellious imagery has its antecedents in both the 50s and 60s, the music itself was very much a product of its environment and decade - the 70s” (encyclopedia). The attitude of punk has been around almost twenty years before the music and the music was able to communicate the messages of athese rebellious teenagers. The roots of punk are disputed constantly. Some believe it started in U.K., while others claim it started in New York City. Regardless of where punk started it still has the same foundation anywhere in the world. John Savage brilliantly explains this concept of punk in Pre-Punk Rock: Strakhov 2 In fact, what became known as Punk during 1975 and 1976 had been floating around in various different guises in several cities during the previous few years: New York, Cleveland, Paris, and London to name but four. It was an international sense of boredom with the prevailing culture that saw misfits of all hues go back to maudit, maladjusted noise and try it on for size. Throw it at...
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...Berkeley Preparatory School Jim Brown’s Role in Shaping Perceptions of Athletes as Advocates for Social Change. Arjun Tummala Honors US History - H Block Mr. Kurt Wahlgren March 15, 2024 To what extent did the activism of Cleveland Browns running back Jim Brown shape perceptions of athletes as advocates for social change? Table of Contents:. Introduction Jim Brown's Emergence as an Activist Public Perceptions and Reactions Legacy and Influence on Athlete Activism Tainted Legacy Conclusion. Both historically and contemporarily, professional athletes have gained popularity not solely for their exceptional abilities within their respective sports, but also for...
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...started in the media as a news reporter-anchor and a morning-show host. She also is the first african american woman to own a company called Harpo. "Oprah Winfrey (WIHN-free) was born to Vernita Lee and Vernon Winfrey, a young unmarried couple barely out of their teens. Vernon was in the armed forces when a postcard from Vernita notified him that he had become a father. Winfrey’s first name was to have been Orpah, but a misspelling on her birth certificate renamed the child Oprah." Reference: http://eds.a.ebscohost.com.proxy.cecybrary.com/eds/external?sid=82227a9e-24e5-4dd4-9524-291d010d2d2b%40sessionmgr4005&vid=3&hid=4202 American television host, actress, producer, philanthropist and entrepreneur Oprah Gail Winfrey was born on January 29, 1954, in Kosciusko, Mississippi. After a troubled adolescence in a small farming community, where she was sexually abused by a number of male relatives and friends of her mother, Vernita, she moved to Nashville to live with her father, Vernon, a barber and businessman. She entered Tennessee State University in 1971 and began working in radio and television broadcasting in Nashville. Reference: http://www.biography.com/#!/people/oprah-winfrey-9534419#activism-and-charity& In 1994, with talk shows becoming increasingly trashy and exploitative, Winfrey pledged to keep her show free of tabloid topics. Although ratings initially fell, she earned the respect of her viewers and was soon rewarded with an upsurge in popularity...
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...The Social Media Effect by Aryn LipNicki (link: http://arynlipnicki.wordpress.com/2013/05/17/the-social-media-effect) Personal Satisfaction - the largest negative effect of social media is the fact that studies have shown that Facebook actually makes us less satisfied with our own lives. The cause for this seems to be that we have a tendency to share only positive things in our life on social media, but not the negatives. As a result, we present a utopian picture of our lives to the outside world, despite what the reality may be. I don’t think it is always a conscious decision to do this, we just simply choose not to share the more challenging aspects of our lives with the world at large, often saving that for those closest to us. This is completely understandable, but from the receiving side of things, we are only seeing great things happening in our peers’ lives. Then also consider the increased magnitude of people from whom we see regular updates, compared to in the past. There is a big difference between hearing the good news from your dozen close friends, and hearing about all of the positive things that happen in the lives of your 140 Facebook friends. Suddenly we are constantly being bombarded with updates as people get engaged, married, have kids, buy houses, get job promotions, take amazing vacations – it can all be a bit overwhelming. My takeaway from all this: realistically this isn’t something that is going to change, but try to keep in mind the effect as you use...
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...Abstract 1968 a series of walkouts, or “blowouts”, encouraged by the teacher Sal Castro occurred. These walkouts were done by courageous Mexican-American teens tired of the lack of education. These teens identify themselves as Chicanos, and the Chicano Movement. All rights that Mexican-Americans have are owed to those Chicanos of the 60s and the policies they advocated for. Those fights were about much more than education, they fought for racial rights, class rights, feminism, and immigrant oppression. Many people still remain uneducated on just how much the Chicano movement played a part in today's society since it is often overshadowed by the Civil rights and Vietnam war protests. The results of the Chicano movement are seen everywhere, Mexicans now have a clinical role in media,...
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...against the status quo, the spirit of 1968. The British supergroup were at the forefront, the voice of the generation, with no visible ties to political ideologies. The 1960’s were a turbulent time in society; between the Cold War, Vietnam War, and overall political unease, the band used their music as a microphone. Beatlemania grew from screaming teens at the front row to a new way to channel their opposition of the status quo. John Lennon in particular became very vocal and, “decided to use his media fame on an even bigger scale: to become an advocate for peace" (Syverson, 2014). Like most in the United Kingdom, The Beatles were affected by political decisions, such as high taxes. As celebrities, not only did they utilize their position in society to voice their opinions, they also spoke on behalf of their fan base. The fans followed the example of their idols to voice their own opinions and question political and societal authority. While One Direction do not possess the same political drive that The Beatles had, they too have used their status to raise their voices. For example, they teamed up with Global Citizen to promote social activism as a means to end extreme poverty. Given the political climate when The Beatles gained popularity, their public sphere, a concept from the 18th century was incredibly different than our modern sphere. In contrast to the limiting nature of technology in the 1960’s, modern media is oversaturated with platforms for discussion. The chief difference...
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