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Summary Background of MOSOP Tactics and Its Evolution to the Present The history of man has been one characterized by occasional resurgence with distinct causal identities comprising of hyper nationalist beliefs, contentious religious principles, ethnical cleavage thinking, secessionist claims, and denial of fundamental inalienable human rights, environmental rights being at the epicenter in the recent times.... Basically, these ethnic militias emerged with the sole purpose of challenging the poor choice of policies over environmental degradation emanating from oil extraction with little or no return at in certain instances (Onishi, 2000, par....
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Historical Background In more recent times, there are many examples of mass movements that played more or less an important, if not decisive, role in the development of the respective states and societies.... The early stages of the war of American Independence appear a notable example of civil disobedience, including mob violence and resistance, which, however, subsequently developed into a full-scale armed conflict (Williams, 1980).... A working-class movement in the early 19th-century Britain, named the Luddites, attempted to hold up the “steady march of capitalism” by destroying and sabotaging the machines that were ousting the workers from their jobs (Richmond, 2012); while the advent of the socialist movement eventually brought the world the 1917 October Revolution, the Cold war, the Vietnam war, the Cuban missile crisis, etc....
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nbsp;The Environmental Justice Movement is one of the various types of social movements refering to a group of individuals or organizations with a common ideology.... The essay "The environmental Justice Movement" focuses on the critical analysis of the major issues concerning the environmental justice movement.... The environmental Justice Movement has the main agenda of challenging the unfair distribution of hazardous, toxic, and dangerous waste products....
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The paper "The Scramble for Africa - the Trend toward Globalization" states that a new model of global capitalism, spearheaded by America, began to take hold in the 1990s in the hopes of reversing the economic stagnation in the Third World that had marked the decades since world war II.... This trend could have major economic, political, social and environmental implications for regions such as Africa" (par.... Unfettered by the kind of government regulation constraining huge multinational oil companies in developed countries, there is a grave risk that they could fail to implement environmental and other safeguards, thereby risking the health and safety of the local populations....
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Carroll and Shabana consider it a post-world war II phenomenon defined as the “economic, legal, ethical and philanthropic expectations that a society has of organisations at a given point in time” (2010: 89).... The aim of this paper is to critically discuss and evaluate an environmental issue that an organisation addresses using the framework presented by Wood (1991).... Third section will discuss the business case for CSR followed by analysis of the environmental issue using the corporate social performance model and finally, a brief summary will be given....
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Maathai returned to her roots, using the Kenyan women's movement and initiated an influential tree-planting program; the Green Belt Movement.... The author of this essay highlights that Kenya is a 582,644km2 country that lies on Africa's eastern side with Nairobi being its capital city....
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By providing a point of national pride with which an entire population could not only rally around but hold up as role models and heroes, the Space Race provided an outlet for the pent up frustrations that were left simmering from the second world war.... hellip; This research will present studies from the decade that defined not only a truly pivotal moment in American and world History, but details that the effects from that era still have a direct impact on both modern politics and present-day cultural movementsFindings that support the argument of influence will be compared to those that describe the decade as something other than the proving ground for American cultural mettle....
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Social movements have led to many political and social changes globally.... This work called "The environmental Justice Movement" describes the social movement to fight for environmental justice, the role of upgrade programs.... The environmental Justice Movement has the main agenda of challenging the unfair distribution of hazardous, toxic, and dangerous waste products.... The environmental justice movement was officially started in the year 1982 after the decision by the government to have a waste landfill in Warren County, North Carolina....
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