Question: How could we combine Duhigg, McKibben, and Moore’s methods for social change to create the most effective way to help slow down climate change? Possible Answers: Take Duhigg’s Weak ties, McKibbens statistics, and Moore’s morality and sense of goodwill and combine them together in a fashion that will affect every kind of personality type … [Read more…]
The three methods proposed by Charles Duhigg, Bill McKibben, and Kathleen Moore all have different strategies that they believe will provide the best avenue towards change. Duhigg believes in the weak ties of mankind and how those provide the best ways for people to connect and create change. Bill McKibben on the other hand, believes … [Read more…]
Kathleen Moore, the questioned in the Sun Interview, “If Your House is on Fire”, has a very similar approach to social change as to Bill McKibben and Charles Duhigg. All three authors all believe that we have to work together to help prevent further damage from occurring on this planet. However, each author has a … [Read more…]
Charles Duhigg author of “From Civil Rights to Megachurches” and Bill McKibben, main speaker from the short film “Do the Math” both have ideas of the changes that have occurred in the country and why it happened. Duhigg goes about this by using the equal rights movement for black people in the United States and … [Read more…]
Charles Duhigg’s three-step process to social change in his article “From Civil Rights to Megachurches” makes a doable idea of how to change what needs to be changed. His three steps include the ideas that one, a movement starts because of the social habits of friendship and the strong ties between close acquaintances; two, it … [Read more…]
The movie Do the Math was a very interesting approach to trying to stop the ways that oil companies are ruling the world. The main purpose was supposed to be what can we do to save the Earth, however, throughout the movie it mostly appeared to be an attack the gas and oil leaders or … [Read more…]
Alexandra Samuel, writer of the article “‘Plug In Better’: A Manifesto”, argues “families need to embrace the potential of online tools as a way of reconnecting,” (3), and while I agree with her that families need to embrace the potential of online tools, I also think that families are using online tools way too much … [Read more…]
As I was walking around the halls of my high school my senior year, I noticed a huge difference between my peers’ mental health in comparison to when they were in elementary and even middle school. In elementary school people were happy, excited for school and to learn and create. As soon as high school … [Read more…]
Alexandra Samuel wrote in interesting approach to the new “unplugging” methods that seems to be sweeping the nation. People are supposed to stay off of the internet and from their electronic devices for certain time periods in order to feel better about themselves. However, in Samuel’s eyes this is not the best of approaches. She … [Read more…]
Many people are wondering why there is such a fuss going around today’s society on the topic of present day technology. To be completely honest, it is definitely necessary. This is because everyday there is a new child getting addicted to their cell phone or video game or TV show, and frankly, it is harming … [Read more…]
