Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution

wanting so bad to fit in Alice goes. They started playing a party game called button, button. It sounds like an innocent game, but it was not fully described before being played. Later, that night Alice felt as though her senses were alive when she states, "I sorta asked Jill what happened, and she said that 10 out of the 14 bottles of coke had LSD in them and, "button, button," no one knew just who would wind up with…

Classic Argument Paper – Gun Control vs. Pro 2nd Amendment Argument ENGL 123 Jesse H. Dixon Embry Riddle Aeronautical University Worldwide It’s should come as no surprise that the gun control argument in America is fiery and emotional, with logic and civility most often being pushed aside by frustration, fear and anger. Most arguments over gun control come full of fallacies, and emotional appeal rather than true factual data. Neither side is happy with current gun laws. Gun…

child labor, workers compensation, direct elections, and political reforms. The Progressive Movement shaped the United States into the nation it is today, without it women still would not be able to vote, prohibition would probably still be in affect, Native Americans would not be United States citizens, labor laws would not have been established, and business…

First Amendment and American Library Association give the author specific rights, which many claim are often violated. Pieces are challenged by parents, students and those who are offended by the subject matter. All banned books include something that has been censored. A very important, debated question about censorship is, what is the morality of censorship? Censorship hurts morals and people. Censorship absolutely violates the viewers and readers First Amendment rights. The First Amendment…

Eddie S. Glaude, writer of “The Real ‘Special Snowflakes’ on Campus Free-Speech Debates”, tackles a well-argued question asked by liberals and conservatives. Do students who are attending college universities have the right to protest on campus? Right off the bat, Glaude categorizes conservatives as those who are against freedom of speech. This is the first small yet obvious piece of bias- bagging on conservatives. By placing them in this category, students now look at all conservatives as…

Lisa McGirr’s book, The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State, argues that alcohol was a major part of the New Deal and previous scholarship concerning alcohol has marginalized the subject or emphasized the failure of Prohibition. Contrary to this scholarship, McGirr claims the opposite, “that beer took its place in the vanguard of New Deal measures” (xiii). Referring to the title of her book, McGirr convincingly proves that the war on alcohol was waged on African…

Reflection Paper #1 The text that was most impactful for me was Kellie Bancalari’s “Free speech on campus? Not for adjunct faculty, it seems,” on USA Today. Bancalari’s article talks about free speech on campus and how the one group that has to be the most careful about what they say is adjunct professors. Adjunct professors are professors that work part-time and do not have tenure nor are they on track for tenure. She wrote that if adjunct professors say anything controversial or “incendiary”…

When two rhetors are engaging in a debate, they can easily argue past one another if a mutual level of stasis is not settled upon. In the debate of “A Short History Of Torches And Intimidation” written by Sarah Bond and “Parents Fight Over Pledging Allegiance In Schools” written by Tovia Smith, both rhetors can agree that symbols serve a certain function and when those functions are abused it can cause conflict and uproar, especially when the function confronts the question of whether or not it…

As William Bernbach once said, “An important idea not communicated persuasively is like having no idea at all.” It is true that the importance of writing persuasively on crucial matters is clear in many areas of life. One of the most important subjects about which it is important to write persuasively is politics. This is because of the way the media, especially when it comes to conspiracy theories, is constantly trying to persuade the people to believe different things, and the only way to make…

derogatory actions or images like in graphic novels, presence of unsuitable themes and also expression of contradicting view about religion, philosophies, and politics. In an article made public to raise awareness about the societal censorship, the author states: The books banned for their “immoral” content are the best to read since they speak of the aspects in humanity and highlight the errors in society. (2015) This leads us to question the true motive in trying to suppress the freedom of…