Independent School District that students do not “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech and expression at the schoolhouse gate.” Students should not be forced to wear school uniforms because they restrict freedom of expression‚ promote conformity rather than individuality‚ and they are widely opposed by students. The first reason that students shouldn’t be forced to wear uniforms is because they restrict freedom of expression. In 1969‚ students decided to wear black armbands in protest
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"People don’t talk about anything...and nobody says anything different from anyone else" This quote‚ from Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury‚ demonstrates how this fictional society had no individuality‚ yet they expressed no disprovement of the conformity. To be so simple minded as this civilization was would have eventually lead to self-destruction. To support my theory‚ recall in the novel when the old lady chose to commit suicide because she did not have freedom. She felt that even though she was
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themselves." Abraham Lincoln. Every individual must exercise his right to be free in expressing his thoughts .He has to be unique and different.Each individual must believe in his \her moral worth. Society has to promote the exercise of one’s goals and desires and so value independence . Each one must have the freedom to oppose external interference upon one’s own interests by society or institutions such as the government. Advanced societies are chiefly concerned with protecting individual freedom against
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private passion. Pressing matters of family or work may call one to put personal aspirations on hold for the sake of the whole. But does one necessitate abandonment of the other? Which way will lead to a happier life? Tom Wingfield‚ the disillusioned narrator of Tennessee Williams’ Depression-era play‚ “The Glass Menagerie‚” must battle through this specific plight. He struggles to find the answer to the question of when desire overrides duty. All humans are blessed with a plethora of gifts‚ but
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year summer Spenser started heading down a road that most would consider as the ‘wrong’ road. He is really into playing the drums. His father played drums for a band when he was younger so Spenser’s father taught him how to play the drums. Spenser’s desire and passion for music is what I think lead him down this road. Spenser joined a band and he got into bad habits that his band members were into. They were habits I did not want to get myself into. It started out as just a little experimenting
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shadowing her life because of the fact that she has six toes on each foot and is classified as a deviant. In my opinion‚ the Waknuk society is such a place where an individual’s desires and needs hold no flame in front of their believes and unless the Government benefits from them‚ there is no point of them being fulfilled. All desires and needs have to be deemed acceptable by the society‚ if not it is considered unacceptable even if it is breaking the strong relationship between a mother and a child just
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Conformity vs Individuality: Looking Upon Each other In discussions of Conformity and Individuality‚ one controversial issue has been that there is no healthy middle and that some of the conformists don’t get judged. One of the sides‚ argues that if you conform you will not get judged. The other side states that both conformist and nonconformists get judged. My personal view is that both conformist and nonconformists get judged because some people conform to everything and some people will judge
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I think the morality of someone is not giving at birth it is something that is learned and directly influence by their surrounding and role models. People will sometimes go against their moral compass because of harsh situation they have been put into. The minds of people are easily manipulated due to the overwhelming power of peer pressure and environment. So when does one lose their identity in a group and become a vessel that follows every order. How does one decide that the obedience in hand
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2013 To what extent is it possible to lose one’s personal identity in order to conform to society? Numerous theories have been put forth regarding personal identity. From the early views of Descartes who believed that mind and body were separate‚ to more recent views such as Jung’s model of the psyche and Hume’s theory that identity is composed of many related but constantly changing elements. (Sproule‚ 330). However just as we obtain a personal identity‚ can we also lose it when trying to conform
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expand on a speech I gave entitled “Creativity verses Conformity” by discussing the benefits of cultivating creativity in a conformist society and how that relates to and protects against the idea of the culture industry. Conformity is defined in the journal The Development of Adaptive Conformity in Young Children as “the adoption of majority decisions” by Thomas Morgan‚ Kevin Laland‚ and Paul Harris. There is obvious and apparent evidence of conformity and the draw to
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