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Student Activism

Student activism has been around almost since the beginning of America, and in the article Student Activism: Are Student Protests Still Alive? the writer David Masci, discusses whether or not high school and college students have lost the the desire to stand up for their rights which sometimes are not even agreed upon by authorities. The article also gives different perspectives on whether or not students should even be allowed to be politically active in the sense that they should be at school only to learn, and teachers should only be at a school to teach and do nothing else. There are so many different perspectives on the issue, and debatable topics that could be at hand because the ...

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activism by wordiq.com is “work done by students to effect political or societal change” (wordiq.com par. 1). The first perspective on the “freedom” topic for students being able to stand up for certain rights is that they should be given much more room to do what they please, involving becoming active in different political events. Different ways that college students may become more politically active would be protesting certain events for example when California college students recently walked or “marched” because they believed college tuition was being raised unnecessarily high and to protest certain racist events that had been happening at the college and according to The Huffington Post “Recently protests have occurred on several California campuses including Berkeley, UC San Diego, UC Irvine, UC Santa Cruz, and UC Davis” (Kannalley par. 5) which are major public schools in the state in which students feel they are being robbed of tuition money because it is going up each ...

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Added: 3/10/2011 10:53:03 PM
Submitted By: Miclynn12
Category: Education
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