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Art Activism and WWII's Korean Comfort Girls, 2008.
An analysis of how artistic activism is attempting to draw more supporters to the comfort women's cause.
2,042 words (approx. 8.2 pages), 7 sources, MLA, AU$ 86.95
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This paper discusses the ways that artistic activism portrays Korean girls who were sent to serve military brothels of the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) throughout occupied Asia, during World War II. It discusses how, together with international law, litigation and documentation, artistic activism has attempted to draw more supporters to the comfort women's cause.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Artistic Activism
Exhibits in North America
Concluding Discussion
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"Far work continues to be promised in the future, as more women and other artists take up the cause of the comfort women, making use of their testimony collected in several countries and what are said to be numerous surviving photographs taken shortly after the end of the War or at different times in the surviving comfort women's futures. For viewers not at all interested in imperial Japan's atrocities in Asia or the comfort women in particular, each work discussed in this paper, nonetheless, succeeds in a kind of informal reminder that what we see in the exterior or a person, or in perceptible emotions, can tell very little indeed as to a person's precise life experience. Of the third or so of comfort women to survive their existences of being military prostitutes, each had an horrendous story of devaluation, violence and injuries of all kinds."
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The Stock Market and Shareholder Activism, 2004.
Considers the stock market in general and the rise of shareholder activism.
690 words (approx. 2.8 pages), 0 sources, APA, AU$ 31.95
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This paper considers the stock market in general and the rise of shareholder activism. It concludes that shareholder activism is likely to increase rather than decrease as increasing numbers of investors hold greater amounts of wealth in the market.
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"Companies can raise capital in two ways by issuing debt or selling equity. Debt is a straightforward borrowing arrangement that does not change the ownership structure of the firm ..."
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The Internet and Women's Activism, 2005.
This paper looks at the Internet as a means for linking the world in a common cause, focusing on women's activism.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 3 sources, AU$ 35.95
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In this article, the writer points out that the Internet is an ideal location to participate in activism for women in developing countries. The writer notes that in a world of global politics, a global economy, and even global education, it is not a surprise that global activism takes place. The writer explains that the Internet allows women's issues in developing nations to become more widely known, permits assistance from people in countries who would otherwise be unable to provide it, and allows community building in such a way as was unavailable even a few decades ago. Further, the writer notes that several such activist groups support women's issues in Afghanistan, the focus of this paper.
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"The Internet is an ideal location to participate in activism for women in developing countries. In a world of global politics, a global economy, and even global education, it is not a surprise that global activism takes place. The Internet allows women's issues in developing nations to become more widely known, permits assistance from people in countries who would otherwise be unable to provide it, and allows community building in such a way as was unavailable even a few decades ago. Several such activist groups support women's issues in Afghanistan, the focus of this paper. Certain disadvantages do exist in using the Internet for activism on behalf of women in third world nations."
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Judicial Activism vs. Judicial Restraint, 2002.
The paper examines the way that the judiciary is empowered with the freedom to act in opposition to the wishes of the electorate using judicial activism, unlike the political branches who must follow the wishes of the voters.
1,161 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 4 sources, MLA, AU$ 54.95
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The paper discusses how judicial activism is necessary because some issues are too difficult for the political branches of the government to confront. It examines how advocates of the opposing theory of "judicial restraint" hold that the judiciary should follow precedent carefully and defer to legislative decisions. It also analyzes the reasons the system of governmental checks and balances and judicial review was set up.
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"Another important principle implicit in the Framers' writings and actions was that no branch of the government is infallible and this must be seen to apply to the majority of voters, whose will is expressed through their elected representatives, as much as it applies to the un-kingly presidency and the nonpartisan judiciary. Thus the will of the majority in various states was that schools be segregated by race and the rules of these localities codified this expressed wish of the majority which resulted in a status quo in which white and black children were educated separately and, according to advocates of the system, equally. Strict adherence to the will of the majority and to the right of states to decide their own course of action would have meant that the Supreme Court could only decide in Brown v. Board of Education (1954) that the majority's wishes must be respected. The decision to order desegregation, however, was based on no explicit Constitutional basis but on the finding that "government-supported racial discrimination violates the principle of equal justice under the law" (Patterson 425). Although this was widely perceived as a case in which the Constitutional principle could not be denied it should also be understood as a textbook case of the need for judicial review and the invalidating of laws that are unconstitutional."
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AIDS Activism, 1994.
This paper discusses AIDS activism: History, delay in community reaction, ACT UP, Gay Men's Health Crisis, ideologies and strategies, leadership, dissension, fundraising and the role of entertainment industry.
2,700 words (approx. 10.8 pages), 10 sources, AU$ 128.95
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"By the start of the 1990s, 200,000 Americans had already succumbed to the AIDS virus, and at least one million more are probably infected today. Unless a spectacular breakthrough comes soon, most of these people will be dead before the new millennium. This is the setting for the continuing battle against AIDS, a battle which has been going on for at least ten years now. Gay activist organizations, which had been little more than parade planning committees and social groups in the 1970s, became voices of rage and civil disobedience in the 1980s and 1990s. Less radical AIDS organizations such as the Human Rights Campaign Fund (HRCF) and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGTLF) continued to work behind the scenes. Fund raising groups in the private sector, such as the American Foundation for AIDS Research (AmFAR) and AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA), were sponsored heavily by celebrities, including Elizabeth Taylor. Initially, however, there were two AIDS activist organizations responding to the crisis."
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Aboriginal Activism in Australia, 2002.
A look at activism by the Aboriginals in Australia since the 1930s.
2,156 words (approx. 8.6 pages), 11 sources, APA, AU$ 90.95
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This paper provides a brief history of the colonization of Australia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by the Europeans and examines the effect it had on the native Aboriginal people. It looks at how an incident in 1926 when a Aborigine killed an Australian causing the murder of the whole tribe, led the Aboriginal to reconsider their situation and to organize themselves to initiate a movement, a protest against the brutality and discrimination against them. It examines how in the late 1920s and 1930s, the modern movement for the Aboriginal rights began and looks at the governmental policies and changes that resulted ever since.
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"These organizations made in the 1930s demanded that Native population must be saved and that the government should implement policies which would guarantee the safety and protection of the Native people and their lands. The government of Australia took some steps to provide some sort of relief to the Aboriginal population, the government created more reserves, but these had strict control of the government. The Europeans settled in Australia had always considered the Aborigines as inferior beings with primitive culture and life style. It was believed that the population of Aborigines would soon die out but this was challenged by the mixed race children which started to spring up in Aboriginal settlements. The Native people understood that in order to gain complete freedom and end of racial oppression they have to fight for the rights of the Native people [Miller, 1985]."
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Anti-Abortion Activism is Terrorism, 2002.
A discussion on anti-abortion activism as an act of terrorism.
1,435 words (approx. 5.7 pages), 9 sources, MLA, AU$ 63.95
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The following paper discusses why anti-abortion campaigns must be halted by providing the reader with media references and statistics with regards to the anti-abortion population. This paper discusses what must be done in order to put the pro-choice laws, that have already been enforced, into practice by a well-briefed, well-trained state system.
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?Only a small, militant section of the population is actively anti-abortion.
They believe that abortion kills a living human baby in a painful way. For example, a pro-life website, ironically called The Pro-choice Homepage, describes abortion this way: ?forceps must be used to grasp the baby's body because of the child's advanced development. The baby is dismembered as the abortionist twists and tears the parts of the body and slices the placenta away... the procedure is devastating...?
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Student Activism in the Civil Rights Movement, 2002.
This paper describes the role of student activists in the quest for civil rights during the 1960s, emphasizing their role in the "sit-in" movement, Freedom Rides, the Mississippi Freedom Summer of 1964 and the rise of Black Power.
3,120 words (approx. 12.5 pages), 13 sources, MLA, AU$ 121.95
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This paper states that, regardless of whether student activists were rioting or peacefully sitting-in, they played a fundamental role in encouraging social reform in civil rights in the 1960s. The author believes that their volunteerism inspired other youths to more actively participate in their communities and supported a great liberal tradition in colleges and universities. The author feels that, most of all, the activism and gains produced the foundations for many other movements that occurred in the 1960s: The free speech and anti-establishment movements, the anti-war protests and women?s rights.
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"The social and political conditions of 1960s America spawned a revolutionary attitude. This emerged from the new humanism, a mood that materialized from a deep felt revulsion to man?s inhumanity against man. The era?s movements were grounded in a democratic vision; the belief that all people should be full members of society, that individuals become empowered through meaningful social participation and that politics should be founded on respect and compassion. The activists attempted to express the voices of those society treated as ?other?: racial and ethnic minorities, the poor, women, homosexuals, and Vietnamese peasants. Students particularly caught on to this movement and spread it to the general public through protests, demonstrations, and activism within the community."
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Labor Activism in Charles Dickens' 'Hard Times', 2005.
This paper reviews 'Hard Times' by Charles Dickens, one of his last great pieces of work.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 3 sources, AU$ 47.95
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This paper examines Charles Dickens' treatment of trade unionism and labor activism in 'Hard Times'. The paper notes Dickens' distaste for wanton capitalism but notes also his distaste for the factionalism and divisiveness sparked by labor militancy. As it turns out, his preference is for workers and employers to find a common ground and to re-discover their common humanity.
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"The work of Charles Dickens surely ranks among the best and most moving in all of English literature. Dickens' work is especially poignant when he talks of the plight of the laboring poor in nineteenth century England. The following paper will explore Dickens' attitude towards trade unionism and labor agitation by looking carefully at one of his last great works, 'Hard Times'. As will soon become apparent, Dickens was far in advance of his times when it came to according labor activists the respect they deserved - with a few notable caveats. With that in mind, it is to a discussion of Dickens' Hard Times that this paper now turns. Dickens' attitude towards trade unionism and labor agitation was plainly evident in 'Hard Times'."
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Student Activism, 2004.
This paper discusses the unique role of university students as a voice for social progress movements.
985 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 7 sources, MLA, AU$ 46.95
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This paper explains that, in America, students have been involved in activism for over two hundred years, with the first significant movement in the 1930s. The author points out that the term "student power" was idealized in the sixties after the growth of "black power" philosophies came about from the Students Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which challenged the notion that African-Americans' political voice was too weak to fight and win. The paper relates that students have an advantage over common activists because (1) they have more time than average working adults, which gives them the opportunity to learn, network and organize and (2) they have a vast sea of close-at-hand peers with similar goals and privileges, which makes it easiest to organize for social change because a close community shares immediate consequences.
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"University organizers have also found great progress in social change outside of the academic community as well. Students from several U.S. universities created such a striking discourse of protest that they were successful in discontinuing college-endorsed sweatshop clothes (Birch). "Raising people's awareness is important to make sure people know what's going on", says Angela Hale, of Women Working Worldwide. This is what the spirit of activism is all about: Education! Making fellow students, citizens, and politicians know about harms being caused is the first and most important step toward social progress."
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Internet and Women's Activism in Afghanistan, 2005.
Examines how the internet has impacted women's rights movements in Afghanistan.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 11 sources, AU$ 119.95
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This paper discusses the role of the internet in the transnational mobilization of women's movements in Afghan using as a specific case study a set of seminars sponsored by US women activists and intended to support women's political activism. The main argument of this paper is that the internet is a key component in transnational organizing.
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"The current study on social change emphasizes the importance of transnational advocacy networks and a globalizing civil society, in which borders between states become permeable to international political activism (Keck and Sikkink 1998; Della Porta, Kriesi, and Rucht 1999; Tarrow 1999). Such transnational organizing has blossomed within the women's movement, as elsewhere, and has affected the types of resources available to activists. Efforts to produce change in gender relations can now rely heavily on elite and expert social networks, in which women's organizing has become increasingly professionalized and "NGO-ized" (Alvarez 1997; Ray 1999; Silliman 1999). Local feminist activists now participate self-consciously in international forums, and construct a women's movement understood as being both local and global (Bystydzienski and Sekhon 1999)."
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Activism, Authenticity & The Solidarity of Self - The Social Forces that Shaped the Sixties in America, 2001.
This essay is about the transformational turmoil and cultural chaos that was the decade of the 1960s.
2,075 words (approx. 8.3 pages), 3 sources, MLA, AU$ 88.95
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This paper historically covers the period of time between 1960, which marked the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement sit-ins in North Carolina, and 1973, which was the year that America's involvement in Vietnam ended. During this span of time, both the Civil Rights Movement and the Women's Liberation Movement were highly active and the nation became heavily involved with the Vietnam War in Southeast Asia. In addition, the largest youth movement in history swept across the nation as students on college campuses all over America organized, rebelled, and eventually brought about a staggering amount of political, social and cultural change. This paper describes the forming of the Sixties Movement and it's actions as well as impact on society.
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"The Age of Industrialization that accompanied America's entrance into the twentieth century brought with it the promise of unprecedented national prosperity and progress. The ten years proceeding the turn of the century had marked a decade of industrialized change that had greatly improved the quality of American life and had ended the long and stifling sociocultural period known as the Victorian Era (Garrett 288). Those involved in the developing fields of social and economic sciences noted the changing demographics brought on by the Industrial Age and began to chart patterns of predictions for a rapidly urbanizing America. They foresaw a series of successive social, economical and political changes for an American culture poised on the edge of progressive and eager for evolution and change. These formulas for the future proved effective in aiding cultural and economic adaptability for only the first few decades of the twentieth century, however. Neither the science nor the society of the developing American culture of the early 1900s could have conceived the concept of accelerated speed and veering versatility that these changes would begin to adopt around the middle of the century. Even the most highly advanced and sophisticated technology of today could ever have predicted the transformational turmoil and cultural chaos that was to be the decade of the 1960s."
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Activism as a Recourse for Poverty, 2002.
How individuals and groups in society can combat poverty.
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 3 sources, AU$ 119.95
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This paper discusses the problem of poverty and the course of action that individuals and groups can take to address societal ills such as poverty. The specifics of what constitutes societal problems differs from society to society, but the basic spirit remains. Some societies in our world, like that of Offred's (which is mirrored in any dictatorial, patriarchal, oppressive society), are indeed directly harmful to broad selections of that society. Poverty is an oppression. Like many liberation theologians, Ngugi uses Marxist social analysis. Each character represents a broader section of society and the individuals they rebel against represent the whole of the governing body of society.
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Civil Rights and Student Activism in the Sixties, 2003.
A look at how the civil rights movements effected student life on campus in the 1960s.
1,147 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 3 sources, MLA, AU$ 53.95
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This paper provides a brief review of the impact of the Civil Rights Movement on the campus-based student movements and American politics during the 1960s in America. It begins by introducing the political climate of the time and then provides an overview of civil rights movements and student governments.
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"Certainly the students of the sixties were faced with a dilemma never faced by the World War II-generation: while the nation was pulled together, morally and politically, in one direction during WW II in its effort to defeat the Axis, however, the nation was completely polarized during the sixties by the divisive war in Vietnam. Young black and white men in America were being drafted and sent off as cannon fodder to the war in Vietnam in increasing numbers. Despite polls which indicated that the majority of Americans favored an end to the war in Vietnam, and assurances from the Johnson and Nixon administrations that there was a plan to end the war, the plan turned out to be the continued prosecution of the war in Vietnam in a misguided effort to avoid a Domino- Effect in Asia."
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Black Women Activism, 2002.
A study of lives and political influence of the black American women, Ida Wells and Sojourner Truth.
1,470 words (approx. 5.9 pages), 5 sources, AU$ 65.95
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This paper examines the courageous struggle of African American women for equality. It explores the stories of to activist Ida Wells and Sojourner Truth, who over came to the cultural and educational restrictions of slavery to fight institutionalize prejudice in the white male dominated American society. The paper describes their empowerment through the Pentecostal religion.
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"In America that women got equality was a great feat considering the barriers they had to face, but that black women emerged in society as activists who overcame the societal restrictions was nothing short of a miracle. For these African American women had to overcome their slavery, their culture, the negative stereotypes associated with them and the prejudice which came from both white men and women. They were sometimes illiterate and sometimes educated, and yet, either way emerged victorious overcoming their every handicap in society. It these women amongst whom Sojourner Truth and Ida B Wells are but two name that gave feminist black activism a new life."
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Active Citizenship, 2007.
This paper discusses how active citizenship means the active participation in the political process of a country.
2,119 words (approx. 8.5 pages), 7 sources, MLA, AU$ 89.95
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The paper defines active citizenship and the importance of active civic and political engagement. The paper examines the need to introduce this concept in school curriculum, making students more aware of their responsibilities as active citizens of a country. The paper discusses several impediments that might come in the way of exercising the right to active participation in local and global affairs.
Outline:
Defining Active Citizenship
Active Citizenship and Social Capital
Active Citizenship and Education
Active Citizenship and Impediments
Conclusion
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"Citizenship is an important political and philosophical concept and it occupies a pivotal place in western political thinking. What is citizenship and who is a citizen are questions that have attracted unlimited attention from political circles in western countries. Citizenship is usually associated with belonging to a country that allows a person certain rights. Citizenship is thus seen as a status by virtue of which a person enjoys some important rights such as right to vote, property, education, work etc. However a not so recent but definitely a relatively new concept in the area is that of active citizenship."
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