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ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

Started by Charles Kennedy, a golfer from Florida, later taken over by the ALS association, the challenge dares nominated participants to be filmed having a bucket of ice water poured on their heads. A common stipulation is that nominated people have 24 hours to comply or forfeit by way of a charitable financial donation.

The purpose of the ALS ice bucket challenge is to raise awareness as well as money for the ALS disease, more commonly known as the Lou Gehrig's disease-- A neurological disease that consists of a progressive neurodegeneration which affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord. This disease eventually leads to deaths of motor cells in the patient's body and leaves the patient totally paralyzed.

The ALS ice bucket challenge went viral this summer on social media websites all around the global, billions of people have done this challenge, and billions more are being or about to be challenge. The powerful influences that social medias can bring to our world nowadays in this high-tech era is incredibly significant.

If you get challenged by someone to do the ice bucket challenge, don't be scared. Having a bucket of ice water poured down your head is actually not that bad. I've already done it, it was refreshing! Just do it for charity.