Monday, January 14, 2008
Concept of Protest
In my opinion, I believe a protest occurs when someone disagrees with something in society and decides to take action against that something. For instance, a protest occurs when a person disagrees with a law of society and then takes action to let their opinion known that he or she is against it. For something to count as a protest, I believe that the person who is protesting against something must gain the attention of society. In order for that person's opinion to be known that they are against something, that person must let people in society realize his or her opinion. Otherwise, their opinion is of no great influence, and the protest is useless and unsuccessful from the start. A protest must be recognized and must gain the attention of society, in order for it to be a protest. In my opinion, some conditions for something to be considered a protest are that it must gain public attention, must be logical and reasonable so that people will support it, and must cause a great change and influence in society. Furthermore, I believe a protest must be a huge event. Otherwise, no one would pay attention to it, and the protest would not matter to anyone. It would be as if you had never protested in the first place. In addition, a protest is only successful when the protest succeeds in causing the change it desired in the first place. Therefore, I believe that the results of a protest are the most important to its success.
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I agree that a protest can be much more successful if it generates support from other people in society. This first requires that the public becomes aware of an issue, so letting society know of an opinion with logical and well-thought-out arguments is an important first step. While a protest can be a huge event, I believe there are other ways of successfully staging a protest. For example, a protest could comprise many individuals living their lives in a certain way, demonstrating a certain belief or value. Without holding a large event, these individual actions could be respected and generate interest in the issue.
I totally agree with you on the fact that a protest arises when someone disagrees with society and takes action. However, I found it interesting that one of your requirements is that the protest must be a huge event. While I do agree, that the success of protest is directly related to how large a following they have, I don’t think that an event not being huge makes it ineligible to be considered a protest. While a protest may be small and unsuccessful, it is still a protest because it involves an unsatisfied person taking action. Also, even a small protest can further the movement of its belief if one person listens to them. While it may not have reached its goal, it could possibly set up more success in the future.
This is a great discussion going on here - keep up the good work, everyone!
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