Social Issues and Consequences of the Chinese Internet Censorship

The giant internet is just over a decade old now, but its impact is great and powerful on the entire world. It has been considered as a positive force to spread and build up democracy. But due to the elements in the society who use this powerful force to bring differences, China condemns it and considers it to be a serious threat to its society. Today internet covers many aspects of the society and many perspectives show the view of how uninhibited internet would affect social life in China. The Chinese internet censorship bars communication modes of Internet which are of unique quality, like the one which helps getting in touch with fishy kind of characterized individuals, set of groups and organized communities.

The Chinese internet censorship put many aspects of the modern life in a new stark and poignant perspective. Among the various ramifications caused by the Chinese internet censorship, there are many that also illuminate some of the positive as well as the negative consequences of the emergent internet as a mode of interpersonal communication from the Chinese society. According to reports, when there were terrorist attacks in the world and all communication modes were cut off there are many people who will tell you how they managed to get in touch with their loved one’s by using the internet.

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Changing The World With Words: How To Write And Sell Articles On Social Change

PROJECT PURPOSE: To write and publish articles about people and institutions whose lives and missions are dedicated to a bold and inspired purpose or vision.

I created Project Purpose in the spring of 1995 after realizing, that in ten-plus years of writing for national publications, the articles I most enjoyed writing, from start to finish, were about people making a difference in the world, especially those of the “unsung hero” category. At the time, I’d only worked on a handful of these articles, but they were the ones I remembered most fondly. Before Project Purpose, editors knew me as a former small animal veterinarian turned freelance writer who specialized in writing about animals, health and related topics. Today, most of my editors know me as a writer of profiles, interviews and essays about people who are changing the world.

IS WRITING ABOUT SOCIAL CHANGE FOR YOU?

Although one of the most often quoted rules of writing is, “write about what you know,” I think it’s much more important to write about what interests you, what you’re passionate about, what you find fascinating and worthwhile. While this may include topics you know a lot about, there are many subjects I’ve written about that I was far from an expert on, but which piqued my curiosity. So, if social issues quicken your pulse, write about the ones that interest you.

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Obesity & Weight Management is a Social Issue

Much has been written about obesity and globesity. Obesity is perhaps the biggest drain on any nations economic resources with a mind-boggling costs to which researchers are yet to put a final figure. But the estimates run into trillions of dollars across the world.

Governments across the world is mired in deep bureaucratic mechanisms to do anything more than put out food guidelines. Even this does not reach the intended public.

The issue needs to be tackled massively by the society that has spawned the problem in the first place.

So what are the social alternatives?

Dissemination of Information

This perhaps could be biggest tool to use against the fight for obesity control. Every institution from schools and collages to corporate have to disseminate, nay flood their audience with information on obesity and weight control, its evils, cost to individuals and food guidelines to control obesity. The stakes now are too high for everyone for the issue to be left to government alone to tackle.

Social Boycott of Fast food joints

A massive campaign especially aimed at the youth on the perils of a fast food culture and how it is eating into the very vitals of a healthy society. The campaign may include ‘No Fast Food’ days, creation of nutritional communities and clubs that actively protest the opening of new fast food joints in the local community. Nutritional communities may bring pressure on the fast food companies to put out nutritional information on the food they serve.

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