No Regeneration Documentary Analysis

The growth of technology remains a vital part of today’s youth, in which many believe that this technology is a disease in today’s society and youth because of the rapid disconnect with the natural world. Some individuals believe that this advancement in technology has impacted today’s youth’s concern on societal issues. In the documentary, “#Regeneration,” it highlights how our society is able to create social change through action and draws examples from time periods and historical events that do not have the technological advancements our society has today. This documentary ignores the impact our adolescents have with social media today, unlike the individuals back then. Today’s adolescents should always play a role in activism when it affects
The extent of activism depends on the adolescent’s concern about the issue, but it is everyone’s responsibility to contribute effort into an activist cause when it concerns their future. One activist cause that affects the majority of today’s youth is the fight to defend higher education.  In 2016, on March 4th and October 7th, students across the country came out to protest against university budget cuts and the increasing cost of tuition. For example, there was a protest at the University of California at Berkeley, where there was a sit-in at a library, which drew about five hundred participants before the campus police blocked access. There was also one at Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge, where several hundred people gathered on the campus's parade grounds for a "funeral" for higher education. Issues like this affects many individuals around the nation and it is the individual's responsibility to contribute effort and whether it is heard or not, that does not matter. The purpose for activism is to create change for a societal issue or injustice. What matters is whether or not today’s youth care and have concern for such societal issues that affect them. Understandably, not everyone can travel to these protests, however adolescents still hold a
An adolescent should not only be knowledgeable about the cause itself, but should also be aware of the potential side effects and negatives bringing forth the social change the adolescent is campaigning for. For example, the Temperance Movement, which was a social movement that campaigned against the consumption of alcohol and alcoholic beverages. As history has written it, this impactful movement was heard and as time progressed there was a ban on alcohol and alcoholic beverages, which was known as Prohibition. Prohibition outlawed alcohol, but consequently it brought forth an increase in organized crime. Due to the people's ignorance and their inability to completely evaluate such a change, Prohibition created more evil than good. The purpose of learning history is to not repeat the past mistakes our predecessors have done. So, in this day in age, adolescents should should be completely knowledgeable about every point about the social change they are campaigning for, which includes the effects it has on the rest of society. Therefore, the extent of activism of today’’s youth should always be backed by their knowledge about the cause. In other words, if adolescents want to truly play a role in an activist cause or campaign for it, they should be immensely erudite on the