In 2012‚ a family called the Greens ran Hobby Lobby‚ which is a craft store. This family are Christians and have strong faith in what they believe in. Being a very religious family‚ that they believe that giving or promoting contraceptives‚ will make them seem as if they are going against their own belief (Oyez‚ 2013). Contraceptives are artificial methods or various techniques to prevent pregnancy due to sexual intercourse‚ so the Greens family refuse to provide those things to their workers. This
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morning Mrs Njapha‚ teachers‚ parents‚ students and to the class of 2016. It is really an honor for me to be addressing you at your speech day function today. When Mrs Lategan asked me to be the guest speaker at this function I was initially pretty nervous was I going to be funny‚ interesting or inspiring. Afterall the last time I spoke at a public function was at my sister’s wedding and considering they were family it wasn’t a tough crowd to please. Standing here on the podium gives me an immense
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The attorney’s representing Hobby Lobby used the company’s religious beliefs and their rights to uphold their views to avoid providing coverage for a medication that they consider to be an abortifacient. I do believe that respecting one’s religious beliefs is important. However
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Hobby Lobby‚ 2014). There is a blurry‚ but definite line where our rights can be obscured by other Amendment’s purposes to help us as well. With Hobby Lobby’s founders‚ the Green family‚ beliefs in certain contraceptive methods that are “abortifacients”‚ like RU-486‚ and the priority of giving employees the right accommodations
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“Why I Am A Visigoth” In “My Graduation Speech” written by Neil Postman‚ he indicates how there are two types of people in the world: an Athenian or a Visigoth. He explains how both groups flourished more than 1‚500 years ago and gave a general idea of what an Athenian is and how they lived versus what a Visigoth is and how they conducted their life. What I understood from Postman’s speech is Athenians are well rounded‚ overall good people. They cherished life‚ language‚ and knowledge. Postman wrote
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Hobbies: Why you should develop them? Hobbies can be defined as activities that we love doing in our leisure hour. Nurturing and discovering your hobby will make you more confident besides adding some skill in you. Hobbies are not only relaxing and instill sense of fulfillment in us. They greatly help in improving our personality by presenting an array of benefits. The most important thing that a hobby does is gives us time with ourselves. Have you ever noticed when you are doing something that
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Five years from now I hope my work environment scenario is somewhere in my speech therapy classroom at an elementary school. There will be funny motivational posters on the walls and lots of bright stimulating colors and decorations everywhere. There will be a little reading area in a corner with bean bags‚ a patterned rug‚ and a cubby style shelf filled with books for reading levels from pre-k to 7th grade. I’ll have a speech phonic flag banner at the front of the classroom with all the consonant
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14: Keep your TROPHY Everyone has moments of doubt‚ of discouragement‚ of frustration‚ even the most successful and seemingly strong. One thing we can do to encourage ourselves is to remind us of our past victories. For this reason we need to keep our trophy. Every time you look at the sword of the giant‚ you’ll remember the victory. How do we practically do this? A very simple way is to write our story down. Or put it on a paper and put it on your wall‚ or on your desk. How did David do it? He kept
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In the case of Burwell v. Hobby Lobby‚ the Supreme Court made the wrong decision because a company is not a person and thus does not have the same rights as one. Hobby Lobby employs 23‚000 people‚ all of which could receive all 20 state covered forms of birth-control. The owner of Hobby Lobby felt that certain forms terminated a life‚ which many doctors disagree with. Hobby Lobby claimed they were being forced to allow employees to receive these forms violated their religious rights and decided to
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One way that my roots have affected me is by my speech communities. The speech that my community has is mostly urban with some southern speech from the older generations. How I was personally affected is that I have the best of both worlds: I have the skill of understanding and speaking to different age groups. Covington
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