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This article is regarding animal rights activists that are protesting where beagles are transported to get sent to laboratories for testing at Humberside Airport in England. They are an organization protesting and dedicated to raising awareness about the UK's under-reported and concealed vivisection industry. They continue to fight for beagle dogs bred and sold by MBR Acres dog farm in Huntingdon in the hopes of putting an end to this, as the dogs are ultimately only alive to be abused through animal testing." People commonly band together to form a social movement, an organized activity in which people set out to encourage or discourage social change" (p. 530).

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Animal rights activists recently hosted a protest at the Humberside Airport over beagles exported from the airport for laboratory testing.

The protest was held by the Hull Animal Rights Team, as part of the " Free The MBR Beagles" movement. MBR, or Marshall Bioresources, is a large beagle-breeding company that supplies dogs to research labs to use in experiments and testing.

The dogs are subjected to short, cruel, pain-filled lives, despite several non-animal alternatives available for research purposes in place of animal testing.

In an effort to stop the facility from breeding and killing so many dogs, activists established Free The MBR Beagles and discovered they were flying dogs out of the Humberside Airport using Bin Air. The dogs were shipped to a research facility in Ireland, where they likely met untimely and painful deaths.

According to BBC News, a spokesperson for the protest said, "As a nation of animal lovers, we cannot continue to let this happen."

MBR claims its "dedicated to maintaining high standards of animal welfare," but that contradicts the reality the dogs face when subjected to testing.

BBC News reports that Robert Gordon, another spokesperson for the protest, said: "Thousands of Beagle puppies are bred at MBR Acres each year to be used in painful animal testing. Their short lives will be filled with unimaginable suffering."

At this point in time, animal testing is unacceptable and we should demand a change.

Sign this petition to stop the beagle-breeding facility in Yorkshire now.

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Activists Protest at Airport Against Flying Beagles for Animal Experiments

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Animal rights activists recently hosted a protest at the Humberside Airport over beagles exported from the airport for laboratory testing. The protest was held by the Hull Animal Rights Team, as part of the " Free The MBR Beagles" movement.

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Collective behavior can be a group of people together in an unanticipated and likely controversial manner (p. 528). Riots are a form of collective behavior, "a riot is a social eruption that is highly emotional, violent, and undirected"(p.530). As seen on this video inside the Capitol Hill Riots, individuals were not fighting "against injustice," but rather were driven by former President Trump, who was spreading the rumor that the votes that denied him a second term were fraudulent. "Collective behavior is sometimes guided by rumor, which refers to unconfirmed information that people spread informally, by word of mouth or by using electronic devices."(p. 530).

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Structural-Functional Perspective: Modernity as a Mass Society

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Structural-Functional Perspective: Modernity as a Mass Society

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"A mass society is a society in which prosperity and expanding bureaucracy have weakened traditional social ties." (p. 539). We are viewing society from a macro perspective as time passes, society grows and evolves, and individuals in society have less control. Society usually adapts to any minor changes but in modern society these changes can now come rapidly. (p. 540) This quote by Durkheim demonstrates that society has an impact on an individual's character or the principles that guide him through life, and that what we see as moral will disappear if society is not present.

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Social-Conflict Perspective: Modernity as Class Society

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Social-Conflict Perspective: Modernity as Class Society

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"Social-conflict theory sees modernity not as an impersonal mass society but as an unequal class society in which some categories of people are second-class citizens." (p. 542).  In America, class inequality is sustained by faults in our social class such as the small and privileged minority that controls and manipulates a disproportionately large portion of the nation's wealth. These privileged upper-class (capitalists) may then pass on their money and properties to future generations, ensuring the existence of this privileged upper-class as seen in the cartoon. "The richest 1 percent of the population controls about 37 percent of all privately held property" (p. 542).

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Symbolic Interactionist Perspective: Modernity and the Individual

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Symbolic Interactionist Perspective: Modernity and the Individual

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"Mass-society theory suggests that so much social diversity,  widespread isolation, and rapid social change make it difficult for many people to establish any coherent identity at all" (p. 542). Individuals get meaning from their interactions with other individuals and society. Because of society's norms, discovering oneself has significance behind it. "The freedom to choose has little value without standards to guide the selection process, and in a tolerant mass society, people may find little reason to choose one path over another. As a result, many people shuttle from one identity to another, changing their lifestyles, relationships, and even religions in search of an elusive “true self.” (p. 543).  In this art piece we can see a woman stressing over her looks and viewing herself in different perspectives probably trying to choose the perfect one.

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Postmodern music videos can be seen as controversial as it does try to get debates and opinions across, the music video I picked is intertextuality as it addresses issues such as political issues currently taking place in the US. This video depicts people who refuse to come out of their "bubbles" to recognize real world problems that need to be fixed. The theme park in the video was called 'Oblivia,' and it is thought that 'oblivia' means 'oblivious,' implying that people are uninformed of the present political difficulties. "Members (and even leaders) of a  postmodern society are less confident about what the future holds...Postmodern people maintain (the idea), different people see different realities, and there are many ways to socially construct the world." (p. 546).

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Katy Perry - Chained To The Rhythm (Official) ft. Skip Marley

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Modernization and Our Global Future - Dependency Theory

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Modernization and Our Global Future - Dependency Theory

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https://youtu.be/6AGmpKsJAYI

This video perfectly explains dependency theory and how it looks into why countries aren't able to develop like others. "Dependency theory asserts that rich nations achieved their modernization at the expense of poor ones, by taking their valuable natural resources and exploiting their human labor." (p. 547). Existing national and international economic and political structures are to blame for their inequitable circumstances they are unable to modernize or cut ties with rich nations as they depend on them. "Even today, the world’s poorest countries remain locked in a disadvantageous economic relationship with rich nations, dependent on wealthy countries to buy their raw materials and in return provide them with whatever manufactured products they can afford. (p. 547).