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Imagine being bullied relentlessly. You are just standing there not doing anything about it, nobody helping you to fix it and you can’t even tell the person bullying you to stop because you do not have the courage. Now Alex is spreading the anti-bullying theme all around the world not only his community. The person that has the courage to be an activist can show and help people live to their full potential and not letting the other people bullying them get to you and speakup and stand up for yourself. Teen activism is where teens speak and demonstrate about a life problem correspondingly they have people stand behind them and support. Activism can help many people with traumatizing life experiences and can seriously change their life. Activists can stand for many things one case is bullying. In extension teen activists have a strong passion for what he does. They try to do as much as …show more content…

“Alex agreed to take part in Bully in the hope that his persecutors would stop tormenting him” this was displayed in the article Life after Bully: Teenage star of hit documentary finally escapes his tormentors... and finds happiness in new school. Alex was able to not only do something he loves which is being an activist but he was involved and didn’t just say i'm here and going to say things about bullying he was into it. Teen activists can help the community in many ways. For example Alex Libby has benefited the community Alex is one of the main advocates for anti-bullying. He has accomplished so much for his age. Alex has changed his life and a lot of people around him. High school students come up to him and hug him. He is such a role model to many kids in the community people try to be like him. He has touched on many people’s lives at just the age of the 16 year old Alex Libby. Alex turned the community into something else. From and really negative brutal environment to a really helpful kindful positive community to make everyone unite as

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In Engaging Apolitical Youth by Melissa Ames the idea that young readers today are becoming more involved with how our country is being run and what the leaders are saying is a prominent theme throughout this article. I believe that Ames if using a lot of facts and it seems as if she has done extensive research into all of these topics. I believe that Ames is backing up her statements with many different sources and references. Ames is clearly saying that there is a direct correlation between dystopian novels and the amount of your adults interested and involved with politics in the modern world. Ames shows this by bringing up that “total vote has increased consistently throughout the past four presidential elections: 2000, 14.3%; 2004, 16.0%;

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Before Alex got hurt he didn't have many friends besides his teammates, he was like that invisible kid at school.. When he was hurt he wasn't that invisible kid anymore. People started talking to him who usually did not and he also got invited to the most popular girl party. When Alex was hurt he was got to have a interview with this girl named Christine Whitford she was a reporter for the school newspaper. He quickly starts to fall for her.

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Throughout American history, few groups if any have experienced the social and economic inequality African Americans have experienced. Since the 1890’s, they’ve accomplished a lot like gaining the right to vote, getting segregation abolished, etc. Many of these changes were spurred on by activists of the Civil Rights Movement. These activists were people like Oliver Brown who is the reason Brown v. Board of Education occurred, college students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University who started the Greensboro sit-in, and everyone who participated in the peaceful protest in Selma, Alabama. In each case, activists made a positive impact; Oliver Brown’s case made people see that segregated schools are unjust, the students

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Teen activism “I don’t see anything uncommon in it,” states Alex Lin a former teen activist. Teen activists, who are they, what do they stand for ,and what does it take to become one? Teen activists make a big difference in this world, they devote time and energy to helping others a they don’t let challenges get in their way ,they stand up for what they believe in, and they encourage others to do so. All it takes to become one is lots of determination and a voice and the bravery to stand up! Alex Lin!

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Alex was on Bully not only because he wanted to stop getting bullied, but also because it focuses on families coping with the abuse of their children that they are facing from bullying. It also focuses on trying to show what kids are facing when they are getting bullied, and what it looks like. After being on the show, Alex was working very hard in class, bringing all of his grades up, all because he was on Bully. Another thing that Alex Libby got out of for

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There are many Teen activists in the world. And they all have a lot in common and a lot they do different. All teen activists have to speak out to spread the word of their claim. For example, Malala Yousafzai chose to go worldwide and got on youtube and tv interviews. Alex Lin however did not he didn’t have as big of a problem so he stayed local in his community and spread the word by mouth in his community.

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Living on Earth tells us that when he was eleven he came across a newspaper that talked about the dangers of e-waste(e-waste is electronic waste that is unwanted, and not working) and when he read this article he knew he had to make a difference. When they first started they found out that it was easier to refurbish the e-waste then to recycle it so they refurbished computers and gave them to people who needed them. Based on the article take part Alex and his team after they had started WIN they went to pass a bill that would combat e-waste in Rhode Island but the bill was rejected. So after coming back from congress they revised the bill then they went to the town council then to the state house then got petition signed then they passed the bill in two thousand and six. He and his friends made a group called WIN and they started small by making their first e-waste center in westerly and since then they have made seven media centers world

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The three teen activists who inspire me the most are Malala Yousafzai, Faye Carey, and Emily Rigel. The first teen that supports the idea that teen activists inspire people to do good things, is Faye Carey. Faye Carey fights for new homes of abandoned dogs. In an article from News Hub, Teenage Girl is Dogs’ Best Friend, it says she wants “to give animals a second chance.”

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Have you had a challenge in life and that challenge helps you that's the way way these teen activist are. A teen activism is a teen who faces many challenges in life and that challenge help’s them and if you ever have or had one of them challenges read more more and find out what challenge they had. Some teen activists get help from adults. For example, one teen who got help from adults is Alex Libby.

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There are many types of a teen activist. One type of teen activists is they fight for what they believe in even though their lives may be at risk. Examples of them are, Malala, Barbara Jones, and Barbara Jones, and the three boys who fought the Nazis. Even though their lives may be at risk they fight for what they believe in to help other

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Why he is an activist is that he when he was in the 6th grade he was bullied especially on the bus. But the bullying got worse. His parents reported that they wanted to bullying to stop because Alex’s mom thought the he might not want to be in the world anymore because of the bullying. According to www.pbs.org when the parents reported of the bullying the principal said “ I’ve been on that bus the kids are good as gold” Which wasn’t true. So a news crew heard about it and asked Alex’s parents to film what is happening.

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Alex lin tried so hard to get rid of pollution so it won't damage the earth. He also wants to get rid of it so we won't have global warming,sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, human health it can also cause death to some animals in the wild life and last it can cause lung cancer and we know that today is very bad. So this is how alex lin is putting his life at risk and his friends life to try and save his community and a lot of other people. This also shows that alex lin was brave.

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Sometimes the world can seem like a dreadful place surrounded by brutal situations with no way out. Child labor, bullying, and world hunger are just some examples of those situations. These circumstances can lead to physical injury, social problems, emotional problems, and even death. Luckily, some teens around the world have decided to stand up for what they believe is right. They change the world by making things better for us.

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When playing the role of an activist on in any form, activism is constantly prominent in their lives. Activism is defined to be the policy or action of using dynamic and often confrontational campaigning by means of organizing demonstrations and protests to achieve the goal in bringing about political and/or social change. Then there is slacktivism which refers to the actions that are performed via the Internet to support and stand up to a political or social cause but which can be regarded as requiring little time, effort and involvement, e.g. signing an online petition or joining a campaign group on a social media website. When considering activism, certain pros and cons come to mind.

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The renaissance was a time of art and rebirth. Many great artists appeared during this time bringing their own individual skills and talent. These artists were Michelangelo, Leonardo, Donatello, and Raphael. However out of the four, Leonardo was the most significant. Not only was he a great artist, but an inventor, engineer, and scientist.

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