resources and money to build schools for at least 50‚000 children in South AfricaIn May‚ Oprah also held a Legends Ball in which she honored 25 of her personal African-American heroines‚ among them civil rights activists Dorothy Height and Rosa Parks. She remains an Civil rights activist because her voice has helped change the outlook on African Americans‚ and has laid out a eaiser path to freedom for Blacks
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“ We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced “- Malala Yousafzai A teen activist is someone who is standing up for what they believe should be fixed‚ a teen activist is someone who speaks out even when others are silent‚ they stand up despite the danger and are heard. Malala Yousafzai‚ Craig Kielburger‚ and Alex Lin all are teen activist fighting for different things‚ but still making changes. Malala Yousafzai is standing up for girls education. And according to the article
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Being an activist is not exclusive to a certain type or class of people. Some people take activism as a job‚ other people take activism as a duty or ought that they have to do. Activists do some civic engagement work such that they try to make people’s life better and painless in some circumstances. There are so renowned people that had a great impact in the term of dedication their lives to help who are in need. Princess Diana as an example did major charity contributions during her life. She was
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In the book Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons‚ Ellen Foster grows up in the south dealing with many hardships like her mothers‚ fathers‚ and grand mothers death. Ellen learns to understand race by growing up around many African Americans. Ellen learns many differences about the ways African Americans and whites live by spending time with Starletta and her family. Starletta’s family all stay in one room. They have no toilet so they have to go to the bathroom outside. Starletta’s mom makes quilts and
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Cesar Chavez: The Worker’s Activist A man from a small town in Arizona changes the rights for farmers all over the world. The man was‚ Cesar Chavez. Chavez was born in Yuma‚ Arizona on March 31‚ 1927. During the Great Depression‚ his family lost their farm and moved to California to pay off the debts they had accumulated. In 1942‚ after graduating the eighth grade‚ Chavez became a farmworker in his new state. Four years later‚ he joined the United States Navy where he served for two years
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Gender-Based Violence: An advocacy guide for grassroots activists in Uganda Acknowledgments This guide was produced as part of CARE’s Great Lakes Advocacy Initiative (GLAI)‚ which seeks to address gender-based violence in Uganda‚ Burundi and Rwanda. GLAI is funded by CARE Norway. Thanks to CARE staff‚ community-based facilitators‚ sub-county coordinators and partner organizations in northern Uganda who shared their experiences‚ ideas and passion for preventing gender-based violence in their communities
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either mentally or physically‚ for one’s survival. Ellen shows this skill throughout the novel by dealing with child abuse. One example of this is her ability to cope with her father who is a self-destructive alcoholic. In the novel‚ Ellen is left to live alone with her father after her mother sadly passed away. This makes her life a lot worse because when her father is drunk he expects her to take her mother’s place. For example‚ one night when Ellen was at home her father tries to grab her and actually
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Ellen Lubell is the founding co-partner of Tennant Lubell LLC‚ and specializes in non-profit and intellectual property law. Her clients range from universities‚ publishers‚ civic-minded start-ups and small businesses‚ to individual artists and academic faculty. She was recently General Council to a Latino organization conducting voter registration drives and civic engagement in Latino communities‚ an Advisor to an international scientific society about to publish a new peer-reviewed journal and
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Ellen Goodman‚ a Pulitzer prize winning columnist‚ author‚ speaker‚ and commentator who refuses to call herself a pundit. Ellen has long been a chronicler of social change in America‚ especially the women’s movement and effects on our public‚ private lives‚ and has spent most of her life chronicling social change and its impact on American life. As a Pulitzer Prize winning columnist she was one of the first women to open up the pages to women’s voices and became‚ according to Media Watch‚ the most
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Conner Longmire Contemporary Authors‚ Period 8 7 December 2011 The Ignorance to Suffering The story of Ellen Foster is a beautifully written novel that shows the true long-term affect of how abuse affects the child emotionally‚ spiritually and psychologically. The book Ellen Foster written by Kaye Gibbons is about a ten year old girl named Ellen Foster in how she deals with abuse from her intimidate family however‚ Grandmother‚ Aunts and cousin. At the same time‚ she battles with racial discrimination
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