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POST 7,COUNTER-POWER : MARCH FOUR OUR LIVES MOVEMENT       March for our lives is a youth and peaceful movement very powerful in the USA. Create ans addressed for young people, they aspire to make a "Peace Plan for a safer America". They are based on several arguments : the "gun violence epidemic" : every day more than 100 people of different ages and living situations, are the target of a gun fire and victims keep growing. With this plan, 200,000 lives could be saved in 10 years.    But more than just numbers, they speak directly to the next Presidential and Congress with six bold steps.    The movement opposes the gun lobby, the NRA which is still very powerful and is bribing the state. The American people are therefore divided in two parts The pacifist movement is very strong with its important communication, a well thought out website, videos and testimonials. The march of 24 March 2018 was the biggest youth-led protests since the ...

POST 3: Agrihoods: The Newest Trend In Millennial Living | NBC Nightly News (18/12/2017)     HIPPIE COMMUNES.    T hroughout the late 1960s and 1970s, a deep-seated social discontent developed among young people in the United States. These were men who’d been forced to fight a war they didn’t believe in only to return home to a country that didn’t want them.   T he country was filled with college graduates lacking any job prospects, young women who refused to lead their mothers’ lives, and the myth of an “equal” society that couldn’t seem to shake its nasty history of segregation and inequality.   T he product of this dissatisfaction was hippie culture, and from hippie culture sprang hippie communes–group living spaces, communities, or villages where like minded individuals could live simply like their agrarian ancestors (usually with the help of some mind altering substances). And, most notably, hippies placed communal needs and values...

 Nobel savage, is in literature, an idealized concept of uncivilized man, who symbolizes the innate goodness of one not exposed to the corrupting influences of civilization. The myth of the good savage is the idealization of man in the state of nature. The idea that "the good savage" lives in a paradise on earth before the original sin developed in the eighteenth century, having its foundations in the explorers and conquerors of the Renaissance. The myth of the good savage has allowed contemporary writers to develop a form of social criticism of the aberrations and injustices of society. The most popular adaptation currently is The Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. Montaigne discusses the subject in the chapters Cannibals and Coaches of his Essays. Many critics maintain that the author is in favor of indigenous peoples who live quietly in the wild and against Europeans who are only interested in enriching themselves...