1 March 11‚ 2013 Greenpeace “The environment Protectors” As inhabitants of this Earth‚ one of our main priorities is to protect the environment that has been given to us. While many people may have forgotten about the importance of protecting and maintaining Earth‚ there exists a series of organizations whose main purpose is to protect all natural aspects of the planet we call home. One of the major and oldest organizations is Greenpeace. The main goal of Greenpeace‚ as explained by the organization
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from all the turmoil taking place in The United States of America. The war in Vietnam‚ the Civil Rights Movement and Lyndon Johnson’s “The Great Society” spurred the rise of this hippie movement. A hippie is a person who removes himself/herself from society‚ hereby cutting all political ties. Hippies moved to communes and grew their hair long‚ as a way to reject authority. However‚ the hippie movement is most known for its free love and experimental drug use practices. Hippies would sleep with whomever
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The International Whaling Committee(ICW) is an IGO that was created in 1946 by the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling. The IWC was created to ensure conservation of whale stocks and development of the whaling industry. The IWC presently has 40 members‚ with membership open to any state willing to sign on to the ICRW. The IWC meets annually; it has a small Secretariat and is lead by the Secretary-General. It is further divided into three committees: the Scientific‚ Technical‚ and
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Reform Movements in the United States A reform movement is a kind of social movement that aims to make gradual change‚ or change in certain aspects of society‚ rather than rapid or fundamental changes. A reform movement is distinguished from more radical social movements such as revolutionary movements. Reformists’ ideas are often grounded in liberalism‚ although they may be rooted in socialist or religious concepts. Some rely on personal transformation; others rely on small collectives‚ such as
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various social networks organized an anti-national education movement‚ which resulted in a great ring of the public and the concession of the government. In this movement‚ social networks play an important role‚ they facilitate the mobilization of people‚ bringing awareness of the people so as to enlarge the scale of the movement. In this paper‚ I will mainly investigate the role of social networks in strengthening and undermining the movement‚ and also the effort tin bringing participant with different
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organized temperance movements‚ including Australia‚ Canada‚ Britain‚ Denmark‚ Poland‚ and of course‚ the United States. The American temperance movement was the most widespread reform movement of the 19th century‚ culminating in laws that completely banned the sale of all alcoholic beverages. The movement progressed from its humble local roots to nationwide organizations with millions of members and large amounts of political power. The growth of the temperance movement resulted from the changes
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Chipko Movement‚ started in 1970’s‚ was a non violent movement aimed at protection and conservation of trees and forests from being destroyed. The name of the Chipko moment originated from the word ’embrace’ as the villagers used to hug the trees and protect them from wood cutters from cutting them. Chipko movement was based on the Gandhian philosophy of peaceful resistance to achieve the goals. It was the strong uprising against the against those people‚ who were destroying the natural resources
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The modern militia movement took off in the mid-1990s‚ with the first large militias appearing in 1994 and growth continuing over the next several years. The movement reflected widespread anger over what was seen as the meddling of a relatively liberal administration in Washington—from gun control to environmental laws to a variety of other federal mandates. But what really ignited the movement was the bloodshed in Ruby Ridge‚ Idaho‚ and Waco‚ Texas. In 1992‚ during a standoff between white supremacist
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Anti +arrack movement Anti +arrack movement means movement against alcoholism. An anti- arrack movement was created in a remote village in Dubagunta‚ in Andhra Pradesh in 1972. It began as a spontaneous movement of women against alcoholism and agitated to force the closure of the arrack (liquor) shop in the village in Nellore district and adopted by the other districts of Andhra Pradesh. There was no organized leadership to start with in the anti-arrack movement. Most of the groundwork
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Women’s Movement in Manipur Introduction Women play a very important role in the social life of Manipur. A study of social life and social change of Manipur will be incomplete without a study on women. Women participate in multifarious activities of socio-economic and political matters. They does not raised only women’s issues‚ but raised all others social issues such as discrimination of the minorities‚ negligence to culture‚ language ‚ marginalization due to developmental process leading to displacement
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