Discuss the statement " Art changes the world as much as government and politicians do"

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“Artists have a say, and what they say can change the world as much as politician can”

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I am going to argue that art doesn’t change the world as much as government and politician do. All individuals are living in a society ruled by the government and laws which influence people’s behaviour also having new laws and protests have changed the way people lives and have change the world.

For example the march on Washington (1963) after America became unified in its quest for independence it was the biggest political demonstration ever staged in the United States, and a day that would quickly become part of the national narrative.

Another example would be the Iraq war Protest (2003) America's invasion of Iraq evoked worldwide outrage and anti-war protestors took to the streets to display their opposition to what they perceived as more needless deaths.

Also The President of The Unites States Barack Obama has forever changed the history of American presidency. He added a new chapter, to how he is the first African American president.

There are five specific areas where civil society has made very important political and social contributions. These are: women’s right, ecological justice and environment protection, human rights of ethnic, religious, race, and sexual minorities’ movements for citizens’ participation and accountable governance and resistance and protest against unjust economic globalisation.

We need political systems and politician to provide an environment where societies can prosper, and where the wealth generated by that prosperity can be used for the good of all. Political systems provide infrastructure, protection, law, and education.

However you could argue that the arts and more importantly have just as much influence as the world around us as politicians’. To start off with I would like you to imagine waking up in the morning to a world where there has been as is not artists of any kind whether that is music or visual the first thing you may realise is that there would be no architecture (no house or bed) or music or advisement (on your breakfast cereal thinking about it there would probably be no government as there is no art to use to intimidate or inform subjects (the earliest form of written communication was cave painting) and if you don’t take that into account the arts represents 10.6% of the UK’s exports of services in the modern world employing over 1.5 million people in the UK according to government stats in 2011 and it’s on the increase. You may say that politicians have passed laws to prevent predigest against women and racism but if you look at society as a hole traditionally artist where at the for front of socialites change leading to the changes in law for example munitions and artists that where at the front of popular culture in the 1970’s such as john Lennon (and the Beatles) and is wife Yoko Ono who herself produced controversial art work and inspired Lennon to produce more politically powerful work such as imagine that changed the way many saw the world around them opening their mind to equality.

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“Artists have a say, and what they say can change the world as much as politician can” is a controversial statement as we can argue that politics and politician have an impact in our society, as without a government and laws we will be living in a chaotic community likewise it can be argued that arts have changed the world by giving people inspirations and new ideas, without any type of art we will be living in a completely different society, many people now days are more interested in art than politics.

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**** Some very good and not so good arguments are put forward. The whole essay needs a better structure ie arguments for one side then the other and then a conclusion. The essay improves as it goes along. The writer should have proof read. If they cannot be bothered to go through it then many markers will wonder why they should.