Refutation Essay On Freedom Of Speech

The United States of America is a land founded by immigrants for immigrants and as a result there are a lot of different nationalities, religions, and cultures that all interact here. As Americans we need to be compassionate and understanding towards them. Political correctness is necessary in this changing and progressive world that we live in. We do have the first amendment; however, that only really affects the government’s interactions with people in regards to free speech. People’s interactions with one another are not affected by the First Amendment. Furthermore, it is better in Europe because people cannot get offended by what others say about them. America needs to be more progressive and censor ourselves so that no one is offended …show more content…
In the conclusion I indicated that the freedom of speech is a fundamental building block in the structure of America. It is the first amendment in the constitution, clearly the founding fathers found it important. Furthermore, it is one of the things that separates us from the rest of the world (with a few exceptions). It is crucial that we uphold this most basic right despite it being attacked by political correctness police. In the conclusion I changed my point of view and I concluded from the complete opposite opinion. I stated that the first amendment and the freedom of speech only affects the government and not peoples individual interactions with one another. Furthermore, I argue that America was contains a diverse population and we must strive to not offend people. America is progressing and our speech should also. Political correctness defends people from unnecessarily being offended, which is the best thing for everybody. I changed the mood slightly. I feel like the first one was more authorities and the second was a little less. My mood in the first was meant to excite and energize people whereas the seconds was more subdue and just saying, “hey maybe we should be more careful with what we say.” I also feel like the second was more relaxed, I appealed to people emotions in different ways in the original and the revision. The first was more …show more content…
I used three journal articles, one website, and one textbook. The comments I received for the project was that I had a few minor mistakes. Upon review of the rubric I discovered that the majority of the points I lost was a result of the citation. I expected that this would be where I would lose the points. I would say my weakness was citations and the accuracy that it required. I did not have to resubmit. The project was quite long. This required me to pace myself and take it bit by bit. The first thing I did was I scanned numerous articles and websites to find which ones I liked the best. The ones I liked I bookmarked and saved for later. After I book marked a few more than the required amount I re analyzed the articles to pick the best ones. Once I compiled the master list I went through one by one first reading the article a few times to gather the crucial information then I wrote the analysis of the article. After that I put together the citation. I distributed them so I only did one article and citation per sitting. This helped keep me fresher and get less tired. The project was challenging for me because of the MLA formatting for the citations. I very much enjoyed the research; however, that was challenging. The reason for that was because there was a lot of information on taxation, but it was hard to go through and find articles that would go bet with my paper. For example there were a