Black Lives Matter uses protests to raise awareness and gain support from minorities to challenge major social and political issues. In his article‚“How #BlackLivesMatter Came to Define a Movement” Niraj Chokshi describes the beginnings of the movement following the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner in 2014. Richard would address the issues the movement faces with the constant belittling through the use of the hashtag “All Lives Matter”. The article‚ “ The Rise of Black Lives Matter”‚ by Sara
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Syrian Children Matter Too Q: What are the Syrian children facing and how do they feel about the Syrian War? Why doesn’t the U.S. intervene to help the children? The war in Syria has been happening for over five years and has claimed the lives of more than a quarter of a million people. The problem began in 2011 in the Syrian city of Deraa. It started off between soldiers who support the President of Syria‚ Bashar al-Assad‚ and a group of rebels who don’t want him in power anymore. The
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How a society punishes their criminals can say a lot about the way the citizens live their lives. Here in the United States we would rather take better care of someone in prison for life than a person on the street who has never committed a crime in their life. The philosophy and practices has changed drastically in the last 30 years. Rehabilitation was the main focus for the beginning of the 20th century. This gave way to a new found focus on justice‚ and fairness in the 1970s. Crime control was
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Why the state? The state is a faceless entity that is sovereign‚ which consists of institutions that govern the general population of a certain territory. This jurisdiction on a particular territory is practiced through different uses of power. First and foremost the state uses its power to legitimize its actions towards the population under it. It legitimizes all that is what the state think is good for the nation. Pierre Bourdieu discusses these modern tendencies of the state‚ which was
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Does Ideology matter in politics today? An ideology describes a set of ideas which encompass ones expectations‚ actions and goals. They are a consistent set of beliefs. Ideology exists in every facet of political decision making‚ much like how society views the world around them. They offer an explanation to understand‚ explain and change political reality.[1] The well known figure of Karl Marx who was among other titles‚ a political theorist‚ was lead to the conclusion that great injustices occurred
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The State in the Modern Day Context The state can be seen as a concept which has emerged over thousands of years in order to sustain the needs of societies growing in size and complexity. This growth in size and complexity was coupled with the growing need for authority and order‚ due to special mechanisms being needed for society to benefit from its increased social power and productive capacity (Petho‚ 2010:6). State formation passes through stages of development and hinges upon ecological‚
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Bloomington‚ Indiana there has been protests about the Black Lives Matter movement. The Black Lives Matter movement “is a chapter-based national organization working for the validity of Black life” (Haki). The Black Lives Matter movement began in 2012. This movement is important because it is about equality. Equality is important because every life matters. The point of the Black Lives Matter movement is to show that one life does not matter more than another and that black lives just need some help and
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February 20‚ 2013 Looking Back at Kent State University‚ 1970 In the late 1960s and early 1970s‚ student protests against the Vietnam War were fairly common‚ and often violent. The May 4‚ 1970 protest at Kent State— just one of hundreds of campus protests scheduled for that day in reaction to President Nixon’s announced military push into Cambodia—was considered relatively peaceful by historical standards. Many questions arose after the National Guard opened fire on a crowd of protesting students—
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The United States is a nation full of different ethnic‚ cultural‚ and racial backgrounds. Its diversity is what has made it the great country it is today‚ but these same contrasts have caused a strain among different groups of people. This is particularly evident between different races. The Black Lives Matter Movement is the manifestation of the unrest in African American communities nationwide. Police shootings sparked an outcry from African American citizens to change various racial issues‚ but
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movement in the United States in 2012 called “Black Lives Matter.” Essentially‚ The Black Lives Matter Movement currently transpiring is a nationwide movement within the black community in effort to actively advance and solidify the importance and unbiased treatment of Black life. The Black Lives Matter Movement is built upon the long and horrific history of black Americans’ daily first hand experience and unfair treatment in the United States. As a whole‚ the Black Lives Matter Movement endeavours
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