Final blog post-definition of protest

After being in this class, my definition of protest has extended its boundaries. I still believe that protest is a human beings desire to enact change in the world, however now I believe there are more devices of protest than I previously thought existed. Protest can come in many forms and fashions. Viewing the "Critical Mass" video made me realize that even if someone is not intentionally trying to protest, a progressive change in the world can still occur when people are working together. After being in this class, I realized that protest can spawn from anyone, with any motive as serious as that of self immolating oneself to advocate peace or as silly as running around in gorilla masks to raise awareness of sexism in hollywood. After covering a broad array of protests in the world, I feel that proest encompasses many more peoples lives than previously. Effective protests can be very impromptu or can be highly planned out. However, it seems that those who are more active about making a change are the ones to plan out a more innovative way to display their protests. The best protests are the ones that reach the most amount of people, in my opinion. I realized this after viewing Michael Moore's film, as he reached a majority of the US population and brought awareness concerning the Bush Administration by making his documentary film. All in all I am much more educated in the devices of protests as a result of this class.