Looking back at this final project I was very happy with the outcome and what I wrote because it enabled me to think back to everything we talked about in class during the semester and tie in all those ideas to my main theme of the essay, which was the role social activism plays… Continue reading Final Reflection

In chapter 6 of this changes everything Klein makes a very controversial statement, saying that climate change denial is in fact at the feet of the environmental community. She talks about how many large environmental (“Big Green Groups”) organizations have close ties to large polluting businesses. Instead of these environmental groups placing the publics attention… Continue reading Klein Reflection (up through Ch.7)

After reading the Introduction and Chapter 1 from the book Tweets and the Streets by Paolo Gerbaudo there were a few quotes that stood out the most as they were very intriguing. The first quote that I found to be very interesting was when Gerbaudo said: “It is remarkable how in the face of this… Continue reading The Impact of Social Media and Modern Technologies on Today’s Society

While reading the texts Ordinary Resurrections and Standing Up for Children by Kozol and Edelman one of the main connections that I made was the stressed importance of children in society and the difficulties that these children have to go through on a day to day basis. In the text Ordinary Resurrections, Kozol’s main focus was on the tragedies that children… Continue reading Blog Reflection 1