Freedom Riders Essay

My personal communication style is normally I get very frustrated when I'm trying to prove my point especially if I have actually facts to back me up in my argument. Especially in a personal setting it feels to me sometimes that people tend to talk over me. I'm not much of an person of emotion, my argument are a matter of right and wrong. I have learned that an academic argument is a method for communicating a singular position with evidence, logic, and persuasion. There are essential elements…

“A Stolen Life” is an autobiographical memoir of Jaycee Dugard. Dugard was abducted in June of 1991 at the age of eleven on her way to the bus stop. She was abducted by Phillip and Nancy Garrido. For the next eighteen years, she was held captive and forced to endure repeated sexual abuse and false imprisonment. A Stolen Life has repeatedly been not only challenged but banned in many middle schools across the nation. This book has been banned for its references to drugs, smoking and alcohol,…

have been protesting during the national anthem, this, in turn, is causing an uprising about when should people be allowed to protest. People should be able to protest whenever they feel like because that is part of their constitutional right to freedom of speech. Toni Smith author of “A Leader is More Than a Messenger” writes about how everything is advertised during major events. She goes on to explain how sports are filled with political messages even though they relate nothing to the…

Though free speech only represents one topic in a larger subset of aspects of society that make up individual liberty, it is often thought of as one of the more important aspects of individual liberty. Individual liberty is essentially entails the extent to which a person has the ability to act as they see fit. Free speech guarantees “the ability to speak freely, to express any view, without censorship.” Rather than merely representing the most basic protection of opinions (free speech doesn’t…

The scenario is about requesting Roger M. Agro, the manager of Countryfield Fair, to allocate time for interview to collect information about the 150th annual Countryfield Fair. College for America (2016) states that “fair is a popular local tradition” which can be reported and run in the Local Interest Section. The ethical issue is that the manager’s reply to the email seems to show a very high tenderness upon the request. In fact, he suggests to offer free tickets to whoever I show up with in…

Trump was declared the winner of the 2016 election. Citizens were peacefully holding up signs, chanting and gathering together in order to protest. However, once the protesting started, police were called into towns to strip away the protesters' freedom. Police sprayed civilians with ice cold water on chilly days when the weather was already below thirty five degrees. Likewise, another example from the news involves the piping system being placed uncomfortably close to the Native American…

The Catcher In The Rye: Why Ban Such A Great Book? Bad words, explicit content, a kid who is being viewed as a bad influence. These things all correlate to the concern surrounding the book The Catcher In The Rye. According to the About Banned and Challenged Books Article, “A challenge is an attempt to remove or restrict materials, based upon the objections of a person or group. A banning is the removal of those materials.” The article also tells us, “Books are usually challenged with the…

An Australian’s response to the Ban the Burqa article The ban the burqa article is a short piece of writing that clearly opposes the beliefs of a number of Australian politicians. The article is divided in to three main parts, each focusing on a different argument against banning the Burqa and Niqab. In this piece I would like to express my views as a citizen of Australia as well as discuss arguments for and against the motion. The piece opens with a very bold statement: “The burqa and niquab…

In this article, author talk about the a controversial speaker who was shouted by the students on Thursday night, disrupting a program and confronting the speaker in an encounter that turned violent and left a faculty member injured. President of the college, issued an apology to all people and speaker who wrote the book name ‘’The Bell Curve’’ linked to lower socio-economic status with race and intelligence. Apart from that, Professor Ms. Paton said that community had “failed to live up to our…

Witch hunts were and still are a grand part of today's societies, they just are not called witch hunts anymore at this point in time. Exploring the 'burning' of books of which these show an idea or portion of history in which people of this modern era believe to be; extremely unkind, hurtful, and degrading to the accusing person(s), in regards to a book. The accusers can seldom make a strong argument as to why certain books, should be deemed ineligible for consumption of a young child's mindset…