peaceful manner while accepting the consequences. Many people feel it is wrong and disruptive; however‚ it is what makes people free and true to themselves and what they believe in. Peaceful resistance to laws positively impacts a free society because it is truly giving the people their freedom. It does not harm anyone‚ since it’s only done to prove one’s point or to let them stand up for what they believe is right. The normal population seems to dictate that civil disobedience is wrong because it
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Freedom and justice are the words our nation is shaped around. Our constitution believes in freedom of speech and the right to a fair trail. I believe these are two examples of freedom and justice shaping our nation. As a country we stand together‚ united‚ because of our constitution. Freedom is the right to be able to do as you please unless it interferes with the rights of others. My freedom is very important to me because it gives me the right to speak my personal thoughts. This is important
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My Responsibility to America “To be an American for me means freedom and justice. I also think being an American is a big responsibility.” This is the response of 10-year-old Neil from Wisconsin when asked the question‚ “What does it mean to be an American?” Neil is right; Americans have responsibilities that are imperative to living in America and helping the United States be prosperous and successful. If everyone were to learn and follow these obligations‚ America could be the utopia it was meant
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once famously said If liberty means anything at all‚ it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.’ This sentence sums up the very essence of free speech; it is‚ as Orwell believed‚ the mother of all civil rights. Without the unconditional freedom to offend it cannot exist. Ideas are‚ more often than not‚ dangerous things. There is little point in having freedom of speech if it only defends the most popular and innocuous of opinions. The freedom to offend can perpetrate racial
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can not be taught‚ you must see if for yourself. Plato: You all live in a life of lies‚ you have never seen the truth. Not like how I have. Ibn Tufayl: And how have you seen the truth? Plato: I have left “the cave” that you are all living in. I have climbed out and can see the light of the world while you can only see the shadows that are cast on the wall. Ibn Tufayl: What do you mean by shadows? Plato: The shadows are the base level of understanding in our world and that is what most people will
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Curley’s wife wasn’t always mean. She was a sweet innocent girl named Emma‚ but one day her childhood was scarred. Emma was born somewhere in Salinas into a poor family‚ struggling to survive twenty years before the great depression. Her mother was fair and beautiful. She was well educated and in her late twenties when she gave birth to Emma. Her father was an alcoholic who always came home intoxicated after his 9-5 job. To go along with his heavy drinking‚ her father was also abusive and occasionally
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citizens have met their bare necessities. What does Aristotle mean by ‘good’? Does it mean happiness? Stability? I found this idea particularly intriguing because Aristotle points out that this goodness is best achieved collectively rather than individually. Is this possible? As Aristotle himself points out‚ people typically act in their own self-interest “in order to obtain that which they think good”. (1252a3) If the state aims at the “highest good” (1252a6)‚ does this necessarily benefit
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What does hospitality mean to you? As once noted by Henri J.M. Nouwen‚ “Hospitality means primarily the creation of free space where the stranger can enter and become a friend instead of an enemy. Hospitality is not to change people‚ but to offer them space where change can take place.” In my opinion‚ hospitality represents kindness in welcoming guests or strangers. It isn’t about judging who is good or who is bad‚ it is about accepting people for who they are and being caring as well as respectful
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IF THERE’S ONE thing I learned in graduate school‚ it’s that the poet Philip Larkin was right. (“They fuck you up‚ your mum and dad‚ / They may not mean to‚ but they do.”) At the time‚ I was a new mom with an infant son‚ and I’d decided to go back to school for a degree in clinical psychology. With baby on the brain and term papers to write‚ I couldn’t ignore the barrage of research showing how easy it is to screw up your kids. Of course‚ everyone knows that growing up with “Mommy Dearest” produces
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What Does It Mean to Be Well-Educated In the article “What Does It Mean to Be Well-Educated” Mr. Kohn point out 6 points on being educated. Point 1.The Point of Schooling. (Nel Noddings the professor emerita at Stanford University‚ urges us to reject “the deadly notion that the schools’ first priority should be intellectual development” and contends that “the main aim of education should be to produce competent‚ caring‚ loving‚ and lovable people.”) I like this quote on the purposes of education
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