Social and cultural change is happening all around is. It’s affecting and involving people with different ethnicities, nationalities, genders, etc. Norms of today may not have been norms in the past and vice versa. Most changes have pushed towards a better society. These changes led to an advancement or improvement of the government, economy, human behavior, etc. Some argue that the present is predestined or that it happens magically. In other words, people believe that gay marriage is now normal but sometimes forget to recount the crimes against the LBGT community, which led people to push for reformation. The past events are what shapes our opinions and beliefs about others and ongoing problems of the world today. If humans couldn’t look back to the past, humanity wouldn’t be able to address hidden problems and create effective change pertaining to that problem. Our present would be catastrophic, with the presence of extreme racism, hate crimes, continuous wars, and soforth.
Climate change slowly began in the 1800s when fossil fuels started to gain popularity. Fossil fuels made former
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Moreover, we wouldn’t have a reference to see what solutions worked and what didn’t. Occupy Wall Street didn’t leave a significant impact but it has influenced others to take action in a more effective way. There’s also been the birth of many movements that represent many different people. There’s groups that represent indigenous people, the elderly, disabled, and more. There’s even social movements that aim to create a cleaner future by ending fossil fuels. Although we started late, we’ve been taking action by building and creating renewable sources. These continuous changes have led to a present where everyone has basic rights, at least in America. People are not as biased to others as people were in the past. The present isn’t too bad compared to the previous years and
There are always times in history that help shape and mold the world for later years to come. Some of these are World War 2, the Great Depression, and even that attacks on 9/11 on New York. Some are only a brief instance and some are over a long stretch of time but no matter the time it takes the impact is felt by the entire world. One example is the Columbian Exchange. This Columbian Exchange involved trading between Africa, Europe, Asia, and the New World. There were environmental and demographic effects on all of these place and while some were very similar, some were very, very different.
As established by the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the past is something that has existed in a time before the present; a series of events that occurred previously. In the contrary, the present are events that are occurring in the moment, and the future, events that will occur. Now, the past plays a huge role on what we are and will be. The greatest philosophers have concluded through time that history repeats itself because citizens are not aware of the situations that occurred in the past, being that the reason why it repeats. Since the past is a determining factor of our future, one should learn and acknowledge events that marked our lives, and at the same be conscious about the history, so these events do not happen again.
The way that we view history changes all the time and one cannot say that the way that we view actions is static. A great example of this would be during the creation of the United States when slavery was legal and completely acceptable. Back then it was a common practice to use slaves for labor. During that time the action of slavery was morally and legally just. Soon after though people changed their minds about how slavery should be seen. Soon people decided that slavery was morally wrong and should be illegal. This is important because it shows that the way we view action does change over time like the way we view
Jackie DiSalvo (2015) wrote a paper called “Occupy Wall Street: Creating a Strategy for a Spontaneous Movement”. Her central claim is that Occupy Wall Street movement had the potential to grow and create military, national, class-planned, multi-issue movement that never been planned in our time before, but it was misuse by the anarchist’s influence so the social movement was a failed. She uses Mark Bray’s research and some of her own research to explain why the movement was a failed and how anarchists influence this failed movement. In her article, DiSalvo (2015) splits up her work into four sub topics which was: “Occupy Wall Street Anarchism, Occupy Wall Street Strengths, Sources of Occupy Wall Street Contradictions, and Problems with Anarchism”. She explained in each sub-topic the data that she collected and a conclusion based on this information (DiSalvo, 2015).
Occupy wall street is a great example to show the big and rich corporation are just greedy, during the 2008 Financial World Crisis what lead that to happen is because is rich corporation is being greedy they are trying to look for a low risk but high return investment, so they’re plan was giving people mortgage even though they don’t good credit, so the housing price will skyrocket because back when giving mortgage for people that have good credit mortgage debate was good investment. The Richer corporation wants to be greedy starting to buy more and more of these securities, and they also made loans without verifying income and offered absurd, adjustable rate mortgage with payment people could afford first, but later it will beyond enlarge
There has been a massive change in the different ways that the public police are reacting to protests across North America (Gillham,Edwards,Noakes,2011). During the Occupy Wall Street Movement , it becomes evident that police have taken new measures in securing the streets and preventing protesters from taking things out of line (Gillham,Edwards,Noakes,2011). A few of the strategics used by police were directing the protestors, to a free speech zone (Gillham,Edwards,Noakes,2011). An area where it be simple for police to maintain and control the risk , many of the protestors bring forward (Gillham,Edwards,Noakes,2011). They also barricaded the park and sidewalks and put into force an advanced surveillance system , which consisted of a
September 17, 2011 is the day the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement began in Zuccotti Park, located in New York City. The main issues include social and economic inequality, greed, corruption and the undue influence of corporations on government according to The New York Times. The mix of moral foundations based on ideas from the anthropologist Richard Shweder, outline six clusters of moral concern - care, fairness, liberty, loyalty, authority, or sanctity. OWS main moral issues include: fairness, care, and liberty. Fairness – the rich (the “1” percent) got rich by taking without giving. OWS protesters viewed the
Ideologies, social patterns, social structures or cultural customs influences an individual’s perception of history. History is used as a building block for upcoming generations, thus making it difficult to accept differences among societies.
In America, protest has been used throughout history as a vehicle to change. Protests bring attention to issues that would or could be overlooked or ignored. A current protest receiving national attention in our media is the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protest. The Occupy Wall Street protest, along with other Occupy branch protests are essentially ineffective protests. When compared to successful protests in the past, they are not having as much success gaining public support. There are many reasons this could be the case. There is no clearly defined goal or a specified outcome resulting from the protests. They are managing their funds inefficiently and in many cities they are creating more problems than they are solving.
Have you heard in the news about the Occupy Wall Street Movement of recent years? Starting in September of 2011, people began protesting around the globe about unequal distribution of wealth in the world. Their slogan, "We are the 99%" represents the idea that the general public is the 99 percent and that the other one percent is represented by the wealthiest members of
The concept of climate change has been around for quite a while. The earliest mention of climate change dates back to the 19th century. Swedish scientist, Svante Archenius was the first scientist to study the effect of CO2 on climate. (Rodhe et al 1997)
History gives us a sense of morality, and helps be conscientious in the present. This can be related to the quote by George Santayana,“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Although there have been negatives in history as the article says, the past influences the present and the future, and without a piece of history being there the world today would be a different place.
he world is constantly moving and changing, people and animals are no longer the same one day as they were another. I believe that there are so many people who believe that the world is not changing because of our history. For example, In the United State we are always prone to repeating certain actions throughout history even though we know certain things are wrong and study the mistakes of our ancestors or our founding fathers in schools. We know their decisions were not the best for everyone and people today continue to make the same mistakes that do more harm than good for everyone as whole. It’s like a never ending cycle that may never be broke at some point.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, when global warming was merely a thought to occur among the presence of the greenhouse effect, scientists started to believe it would good for the environment to experience global warming. During the late 1950s, a couple of scientists took further examinations once they noticed there appeared to be a rise of carbon dioxide gas (CO2). Which resulted into the average temperature rise before the end of the twenty first century. Roger Revelle speculated for earth in the twenty first century to encounter a rough effect as soon as the green house effect exerted. After 1960, additional scientists begun to examine when the atmosphere experienced a rapid raise of CO2 (Impacts of global warming, February, 2016).
Climate change is defined as “a change in global or regional climate patterns, in particular a change apparent from the mid to late 20th century onwards and attributed largely to the increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide produced by the use of fossil fuels.” Climate change has happened as a cycle throughout history, with ice ages occurring, and then warming. The earth naturally warms and cools, but due to the burning of fossil fuels the rate is growing exponentially.