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    In “A Homemade Education”‚ by Malcolm X‚ the intended audience is any individual‚ primarily from the minority groups. Malcolm X states that how is one to “get civil rights before first he wins his human rights (X 233)?” This pieces main purpose is to persuade the reader to dive in a mind set of an “Austrian monk (X 230).” An individual who can apply his understanding in reality‚ with hopes of acquiring piece and prosperity. Being locked in prison was his best bet‚ as an “articulate hustler (X 227)”

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    Tactics have always played a strong role in many activists and social movement group. Past social movement organization used tactics such as sit-inns‚ marches and boycotts in order for people in authority to enact change. Today as some of these tactics have become routinized‚ some activist and social movement organization have taken it into their own hands to change tactics so that their message will have a stronger effect. Tactics can be seen as a form of communication and performance claimant use

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    Teen activists stand up for what they believe and they fix what needs to be fixed with the world. Teen activists fight every day to make their cause right. Malala yousafzai is fighting for education to all. Alex Libby is standing up against bullying in schools. Craig kielburger is fighting for villages around the world to have access to food‚ clean water and many other needs. These activists all stand up for what they believe in and they know that they can make a difference in the world. First

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    The Fight For Rights Teen activists are people who stand up for rights‚ education‚ environmental problems‚ and other obstacles. Activist are conscientious‚ determined‚ resourceful‚ and ambitious‚ and three activists are Malala Yousafzai‚ Alex Lin‚ and Iqbal Masih. Each of these courageous teens all had objectives to help their own causes. Malala fought for education. Lin gridlocked toxic waste. Masih repelled slavery. We need more people in the world like this because without them‚ we would

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    6 Judicial Activism in India Chief Justice P.N. Bhagwati Last fall the Law School was honored by a visit (rom Indian Chiefjustice Praiullachand Natwarlal Bhagwati. Justice Bhagwati came as the guest of Prof Marc Galanter‚ himself an expert on Indian law and a consultant to the Indian government in the Bhopal disaster. Bhagwati is the 17th chief justice of the Indian Supreme court‚ and follows his father as a justice of that court. India Today called Bhagwati‚ ’~conscious disciple of Felix Frankfurter

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    Judicial Activism Active Judiciary‚ passive executive In normal circumstances‚ judicial activism should not be encouraged. But the circumstances are not normal. The political system is in a mess. In several areas‚ there is a situation to administrative paralysis. Take the recent Hawala case‚ which is a good example of judicial activism. What transpired in this case is very instructive. In this case the prime minister’s name was also involved‚ and

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    USU 1300 Is Judicial Activism in the best interest of the American people? Suzanna Sherry reminds us in her working paper‚ Why We Need More Judicial Activism‚ that “an examination of constitutional practice shows that too little activism produces worse consequences than does too much” and since we cannot assure judges are consistently “fair” it is better to be overly aggressive than overly restrained. In the most basic sense‚ judicial activism is when judges apply their own political opinion in

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    Judicial Activism vs. Judicial Self-Restraint There are many differences between Judicial Activism and Judicial Self Restraint. Judicial Activism is the process by which judges take an active role in the governing process and Judicial Self Restraint is that Judges should not read their own philosophies into the constitution. Judicial activism is the view that the Supreme Court should be an active and creative partner with the legislative and executive branches in help shaping the government policy

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    felt like it was natural for me to be drawn to the topic of arts in Cuba. At the start of this semester I was most concerned with the ways in which Cuban artists of all forms were dealing with activism. I eventually found myself struggling with the concept of activism itself and was left wondering if activism was even something that Cubans were allowed to grapple with. Understanding the great deal of power that socialism and Fidel Castro’s regime had over the Cuban people it seemed impossible for them

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    STRATEGIC ACTIVISM AND NONMARKET STRATEGY David P. Baron and Daniel Diermeier Stanford University and Northwestern University ABSTRACT Activist NGOs have increasingly foregone public politics and turned to private politics to force change in the practices of firms and industries. This paper focuses on private politics‚ activist strategies‚ and nonmarket strategies of targets. A formal theory of an encounter between an activist organization and a target is presented to examine strategies

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