Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution

vastly different from her previous poem. This poem also has a much different tone compared to the other. In “Bleeding Heart”, the poet sounds almost desperate. But this is not the case in “Pillow Talk”. In the beginning of the poem, Giménez Smith states her situation as a female slave. She writes about how she’s under someone’s thumb but they somehow “got here the same way you did”. She also mentions how the other person promised her and that they did not fulfill those promises. But in the end…

In John Adams’ Reflection on the Missouri Question, Adam observed the growing division between the northern and southern states regarding the issue of slavery. Some of the observations were that the northern states were supportive of the abolition of slavery, while the southern states were against the idea of abolishing slavery. This is likely because the southern states living are highly depended on farming, and farming requires a lot of labor. As for the northerners, they focus more on the…

Banning A Streetcar Named Desire from the High School curriculum Society has a responsibility to protect the minds of the innocent within the world’s corrupt culture. However, some would argue that banning books takes away the freedom of the youth and divulges more about the censorship than if it were not banned at all. As it stands, the matter of sheltering students versus indulging them in inappropriate subject matter has always been of the utmost importance. The line of censorship is…

Rhetorical analysis Is unpaid internship worth it for students? The author Anya Kamenetz, wrote “Take This Internship and Shove It”, published in 2006 in the New York times. In this article, Kamenetz claims that unpaid internship is not beneficial for college students. This essay will show how well Kamenetz wrote her article by using rhetorical strategies which are the ethos that builds on credibility, logos that can convince readers with the fact and statistics and pathos that draw the…

The Civil Rights Movement began shortly after the end of World War II. The United States took their largest stride with the Supreme Court’s decision in the Brown vs. the Board of Education case. This decision deemed separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. This decision sparked a revolution that would change America forever. Once the movement began there was stopping it, and Martin Luther King Jr. realized this. He preached a change that the African Americans…

James Howe, the author of The Misfits, is in support of the allowance of books: “Banning books is just another form of bullying. It’s all about fear and an assumption of power.” James elaborates that banning books is a different articulation of bullying. The definition of bullying and censorship do not differentiate abundantly. Bullying is using superior strengths to use force upon someone for their struggle of power. The definition of censorship is using superior strengths to condemn the…

upcoming events. After the May 10 book burning, many Jewish professionals saw what would be happening in the near future and took this as an opportunity to leave Germany. Mainly writers, artists, and doctors fled and tried to immigrate to the United States. Certain immigration…

What if the Constitution had been burned, and otherwise destroyed? There would be controlled chaos. This is a portrayal of a dystopian world, one example in particular is the futuristic version of the world called Fahrenheit 451. The constitutional rights of the people in the book Fahrenheit 451 have been infringed upon. The first scene is when the house owned by the old lady gets burned down, in this scene the 1st, 4th, and 6th amendments are broken. For example, the first amendment is broken…

There are many arguments about whether or not a book should be banned from public schools. Most school districts have banned books for many reasons like for containing racial topics, political views, and religious views. Some people believe that certain books include too much negativity. This is what caused The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to be targeted by some school districts because of the different controversial issues contained in it. However, there are also many positive things that…

Freedom Writers is a 2007 film based on the book The Freedom Writers Diary by a teacher named Erin Gruwell. The story was based on Woodrow Wilson Classical High School in Long Beach, California. In the beginning of the film, it showed violence between the law enforcement and protestors. A protestor was holding up a sign that said “No Justice. No Peace.” in Los Angeles, California in 1992. The film continued to show facts such as over 120 murders in Long Beach in the months following the…