Figures of speech

Through her modernized leadership techniques and values, the female leader, Catherine the Great exemplified cultural competence. She demonstrated cultural competence through her non tyrannical approach including: supporting the serfs, celebrating the religious freedom of Russia, and displaying gender equality. As part of Catherine's initiative to change Russia for the better she believed Russia would benefit from the abolition of serfdom. Catherine began campaigning for a law freeing serfs…

Society has become a twisted place of greed and narcissism creating the confines of stereotypes it wishes us to follow. Citizen’s minds have been twisted to the point of ignoring nature and turning to the materials of mankind. We must strive to declare ourselves free from the oppressive government and laws that control our present and future. Certain things are given to humans that must be a right to have. As an American citizen, We have the right to be free from a materialist society and…

Argumentative Essay Hate Speech in Social Media According to Nelson Mandela, former President of South Africa, “For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others” (“Nelson Mandela,” 2015). Although, hate speech is thought of as a form of freedom of expression, it does not respect or enhance the freedom of others. Therefore, it is not truly a form of freedom. Hate speech is the advocacy of hatred that promote…

Patrice Tseh E102 Professor Worke 02/18/2018 Rhetorical Analysis Essay Steve Jobs' “You’ve Got To Find What You Love” Speech In the speech “You’ve Got Go Find What You Love,” by Steve Jobs, the author talks about certain events in his life that led him to become the successful CEO of Apple computer and of Pixar Animation Studios. He explores with great details, the fact that he dropped out of college, was fired from a company that was founded by him, and how he feared he was going to die after…

Censorship is a very common practice that is used by many different countries and parties. It is “The suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc. that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security.” (Oxford Dictionaries) Governments typically use this to hide or keep information from their people. In a novel, Fahrenheit 451, Guy’s government hides how knowledgeable and useful books can be to one’s self, but they want to keep their society…

How important is freedom of thought? Benjamin Franklin is quoted as saying, "Without freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom & no such thing as publick liberty without freedom of speech." Freedom of thought is defined as the freedom of an individual to hold or consider a fact, viewpoint, or thought, independent of others' viewpoints1. In Chapter 2 of John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty, Mill addresses the issue of whether people should be allowed to limit, or eliminate, anyone’s…

Censorship is what governments use to hide the public from reality. The novel Fahrenheit 451 expresses how a person’s mindset develops by the knowledge they receive. For instance, if the government controls information that literature, media, the internet, and forms of communication give, civilians will know nothing more than what the government provides to them. Those in power limit information to the public in order to seize control over the population. Some countries that possess events which…

Niall Ferguson declared, “It's all very well for us to sit here in the west with our high incomes and cushy lives, and say it's immoral to violate the sovereignty of another state. But if the effect of that is to bring people in that country economic and political freedom, to raise their standard of living, to increase their life expectancy, then don't rule it out.” (The observer 2011) What Niall Ferguson defined was an aspect of Intervention. Intervention, according to Andrew Heywood is the…

Vigilantism is when citizens or groups take the aw in their own hands, without any training or legal authority. Vigilantism has always been a well known subject and plays a role in the idea of the American Justice. Whether in the American old west, the pre and post Civil War South, and even today in our cities, vigilantism have always been a controversial subject. Vigilantism is also present in different countries like Israel, Mexico, parts of Africa and Europe, alongside in central American…

Novels all around the world have different thoughts and opinions, but when some novels state the true facts, citizens seem to not like them and try and get them banned. A lot of these controversial novels have the harsh truth in them which parents seem to debate against and do not want their children reading, such as The Help or To Kill A Mockingbird. The banning of novels are for multitude of different reasons, however when novels are banned a lot of humans speak out their opinions and state…