Paige Lauren Koller
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As Social Movements Evolve, Consider the Pit Bull.
Abstract The war on nature versus nurture continues with another subsector argument for or against the ban on pit bulls. Pit bulls became attractive prospective fighters in dog rings when the underground, illegal sport became overwhelmingly popular in the 1970s because of their genetically stocky build and their perceived strong jowls (Dickey, 2016 p.14). This development sparked the controversy: are pit bulls inherently evil or are they conditioned for it? Several advocacy groups have developed to defend pit bulls including #EndBSL, #BanTheOwnerNotTheBreed, and #DontBullyMyBreed. While well-known social movements such as the civil rights movement and #BlackLivesMatter have utilized confrontational and managerial rhetoric for their causes, these particular groups have incorporated a strength-in-numbers strategy as well as recognized the value of social media and hashtags and have campaigned for proper education and care instructions for dogs, especially pit bulls. Through the lens of genre criticism, particularly focusing on social movements and activism, the criticism explores social movement elements, the concept of public-enemy-number-one, systematic racism coupled with distasteful media coverage, the role of social media and hashtags, and asks the following research questions:
By Paige Lauren Koller4 years ago in Education
The Spell of Madness
There weren’t always dragons in the valley. We used to live simple lives without such disturbances until our village was put under a spell of madness. Long ago, it was decided that the behavior of individuals, good or bad, should be known and atoned for. When someone commits a crime or behaves unfavorably, the individual suddenly is cursed and sees the dragons who also live here. They are forced to live in constant terror at the sight of them. I have heard there are hundreds who fly around our village and over the valley, often times provoking those who can see them and causing them to spiral into a trance of fear. If someone leads an innocent life free of such insolence, then they are not plagued by the dragons; in fact, they cannot see them at all. This has caused devastating paranoia in our once peaceful village.
By Paige Lauren Koller4 years ago in Geeks
