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Attending An Informational Protest Here At Siena College

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For this event paper, I decided to attend an informational protest here at Siena College. To bring awareness to domestic violence in our society, Siena College hosted the One Billion Rising Revolution in the Sarazen Student Union on February 12th, 2016. One Billion Rising is one of the biggest revolutions intended to end violence against women in the world. Many people around the world come together to express their opinions, dance, and rise up against domestic violence. At this event many different dance teams at Siena College were asked to send ten of their dancers to this event to perform. Out of twenty girls on the team, I volunteered to learn a short dance and perform it for a good cause. The One Billion Rising Revolution connects to the theme Diversity, and the article “Why Does Diversity Matter at College Anyway?” by Jeremy S. Hyman and Lynn F. Jacobs because they prove that diversity is important when bringing awareness to a certain cause, because it helps promote worldliness to understand the multiple perspectives and experiences of different kinds of people
I chose to go to this event because I was interested in learning about domestic violence. This is a topic I 've learned a little about in high school, but I 've never had the opportunity to learn about it first hand from an professional speaker. At this event, Siena invited a speaker to come and talk about the issue of domestic violence against women around the world. After her thirty minute presentation,

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