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Change and the World

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    http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/change_the_world.html As I sit at my desk about to start the next episode of Pretty little liars, a show I have only just started watching, I start to look at my twitter feed and see so many thinks happening, my friends talking about relationships and the fun of being students, MPs telling their members what to think, government ministers who have forgotten how to think, doctors caught between their ethical duty and drive and being abused by a man who knows they will choose their patients over themselves, I see people fighting not only to end racism, gender inequality and their religion but staving off attacks from people that judge groups by the actions of a few. Atop all this scientist, politician, businessman and citizen clashing over how 'save' our planet and species. I sit and I wonder, is this my generation?  am I a member of the generation whose legacy is mobile and armchair activism, a generation that spends more tim