U.C. Berkeley: home to sun-kissed biologists and liberal student activists. These are the two main stereotypes associated with this prestigious university. While these two attributes do form much of the campus’ culture‚ there is so much more to be discovered at University of California‚ Berkeley. Situated in Berkeley‚ California‚ overlooking the San Francisco Bay‚ lies an urban campus with a thriving Greek life. In addition to a myriad of social and extracurricular activities‚ are thousands of stressed
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voice actress. Ellen was born on January 26‚ 1958 in Louisiana. Ellen is now 59 years old and happy. She is a strong activist for the LGBT community and for animal rights. She is lesbian and married to Portia de Rossi. They has 2 dogs and both follow veganism. Ellen Degeneres is a renaissance person because she made coming out of the closet in the public eye more acceptable. Before Ellen told everyone she was homosexual rarely anyone come out especially on T.V. Most people thought “choosing to be
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Phoenix was born as River Jude Bottom[1] on August 23‚ 1970‚ in Madras‚ Oregon‚ the first child of Arlyn Sharon Dunetz and John Lee Bottom.[4] Phoenix’s parents named him after the river of life from the Hermann Hesse novel Siddhartha‚ and he received his middle name from The Beatles’ song "Hey Jude".[5] In an interview with People‚ Phoenix described his parents as "hippieish".[4] His mother was born in The Bronx‚ New York‚ to Jewish parents whose families had emigrated from Russia and Hungary.[6][7]
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The vegan diet is more than just a diet it is a positive message. In Called Home‚ by Barbara Kingsolver she talks about our disconnection from nature. Our lifestyles have dominated us by dictating what we do and what we have time for. Food has been left in the hands of farmers‚ the government‚ and multinational corporations. The supermarket is at our convenience alongside fast food restaurants with products that contain chemicals as ingredients and illness from poorly raised and manufactured animals
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‘I feel pain therefore I must be.’ Be what? Alive? Important? Aware? Even human? Does lack of language or our lack of understanding of a language mean lack of Being? And therefore lack of suffering? This are only a few of the many questions philosopher Peter Singer poses in Animal Liberation‚ his review of Animals‚ Men‚ and Morals in which he argues that animals are no less human they we are and we will (or should) come to see animals just as we came to see (though are still struggling to) African
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associated with punk rock (Kirchner‚ 2009). Background: the 1970’s to the Present Individuals who are straight edge take a pledge to live a drug‚ promiscuous‚ alcohol‚ and cruelty free lifestyle. Sometimes‚ this even extends into vegetarianism and veganism and Hare Krishna‚ a belief based on Hindu scripture (Kirchner‚ 2009). The basic philosophy of the straight-edge lifestyle centers around self control and regaining as much of one’s personal control over their lives as possible‚ by getting rid of
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Rather than adapting to a healthier lifestyle‚ such as veganism‚ many people decide to remain unhealthy and continue to eat fast food‚ junk food‚ and don’t exercise. One of the many excuses used to retain an unhealthy lifestyle is that it is more cheaper and convenient to have what is at hand and give into one’s
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“Cultural appropriation” is a phrase that seems to be cropping up more and more over the past couple of years. Social media users and social justice bloggers have been calling attention to the phenomenon in pop culture; recent examples include backlash towards Harry Styles and Lana Del Rey for wearing traditional Native American headdresses in photos and music videos‚ or black actress Amanda Stenberg’s explanatory video “Don’t Cash Crop on my Cornrows.” This dialogue brings up an important question:
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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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2007 MORE: High Fiber Diets Vegetarian Diets FlagPost a comment While some people can’t imagine a day without meat‚ others insist that a vegetarian or vegan lifestyle is the best way to enjoy food and stay healthy. Vegetarian lifestyles and veganism have slowly moved from fad status to healthy living in the Western world‚ embraced by millions of people interested in eating natural foods and foregoing questionable meat sources to get their daily protein. If you’re still on the fence about diving
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