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  1. Apr 2021
    1. ne kid who needs no New Year’s resolutions on the environment is 14-year-old Alex Lin. When he was 11 he came across a newspaper article about the massive piles of E-waste—that’s waste from electronics and computers that’s generated around the world.

      this shows a youth activist, changing the world as a teen, doing the impossible.

    2. You kind of incorporate time to do it into every day and if not every day, definitely on a regular basis because I mean, sure there are times where I would have projects, reports, tests the next day. Or, even sports games and stuff that I need to get with, but usually I’m able to find time during the week to do the work.

      This shows that he is also investing a lot of time, and that he is doing this ontop of all his work, he also has sport games!

    3. CURWOOD: By the way, how do you find the time to do all this work on top of what—homework, sports, piano, and well, let’s face it, being a kid?

      This shows that he is determined to do what he wants to do, so he does this ontop of his homework.

    1. No matter your cause, from nuclear proliferation to gender identity and bathroom choices, you’ll meet plenty of people online with differing views than yours.

      This shows that youll meet a lot of people who have different thinking than you, and you can learn from them.

    2. oin (or start) an organization that supports your cause

      You not only, do what it helps with the world, you can also help yourself by doing what supports your cause.

    3. An activist is anyone who sees the need for change and devotes their time to doing something about it.

      This shows that an activists, put effort and time to do what is good for everyone.

    1. millennials and teens are more likely to volunteer than other recent generations, and are more civically engaged.

      This shows that teens are more likley to be an activists more volunteered, and more engaged, putting more effort.

    2. running pet rescues on Facebook, creating local TEDxYouths, holding math tutoring programs and mentoring peers with special needs.

      This shows that people are investing time into their work just help others, tutor, and speical needs helper.

    3. Teen firefighter has ‘heart and soul’ to get job done

      In the video, it says that the best part of the job is just being there for them and helping them.

    1. . Our generation needs to step into our raw power -- the priceless power of being young and mad. We need to stay hungry long enough to get angry.

      This shows that they need to be more agressive? What does hungry mean in this text? How will this affect the fact with the problem in youth activists?

    2. who are too overwhelmed to address all the world's problems in Connecticut.

      This shows that they know the problem, but why are they overwhelmed? Will this motivate them to be an activists?

    3. sanctioned, existing clubs, rather than launch their own radical actions, without much resistance or critical questioning.

      This shows that they are launching radical questions and that it is motivating them

    4. I know they are capable of great and ingenious uprisings, a type of protest that is totally 21st century, a trademark Generation Y invention. Viruses in campus administrators' computers with pop-up windows demanding no more expansion into poor, local neighborhoods? Mock draft cards sent home to their parents?

      This shows that they are capable of what they can do, but they also think that they are supposed to be the best in all of people, like pressuring the poor and other stuff