Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

1.) To be an American is a privilege, it’s a true blessing to be able to live in the United States of America. Being an American is being free, being able to live the life you want. Marrying the person you want, choosing your career path, and getting an education to become the best you can be. Being an American lets you practice whatever religion you want. Doesn’t matter what color nor what culture you came from everyone is treated equally. Francis Scott Key wrote ‘The Star-Spangled Banner”…

Constitution’s First Amendment grants us the right to free speech. This right means that “you are allowed to express yourself freely without interference or constraint by the government” (Ardito, 2013). We are allowed to express ourselves in different mediums, therefore our expression…

Free Speech: The Guardian of our Liberties On June 15, 1775 our young country, low on ammunition and entrenched on a small hill, fought against the near invincible British Empire. Although this fierce battle only lasted three hours and ended as a victory for Britain, the Battle of Bunker Hill gave our forefathers the will to continue the fight. The fight for the freedom to speak against the monarch and his laws. Our forefathers face innumerous odds to eventually win the freedoms they were denied…

family, but most importantly to communicate with one another. As part of our First Amendment right here in the United States social media sites such as Facebook is a valuable outlet for free expression. Some countries such as Cuba does not permit that right and can be a cause of prosecution or arrest. As a huge part of our daily life, social media has a lot of influence on the world today. According to The First Amendment, Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or…

because it is ‘offensive’ to substantial parts of, or a majority of, a community. The refusal to suppress offensive speech is one of the most difficult obligations the free speech principle imposes upon all of us; yet it is also one of the First Amendment 's greatest glories — indeed, it is a central test of a community 's commitment to free speech” (). However, if a hierarchy of rights is constructed then the protection against advocacy of racial or religious hatred in the ICCPR Act 20 is…

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character”. This quote was one of the most famous quotes of Martin Luther King that he used in the I Have a Dream speech. The I Have a Dream speech is one of the most remarkable speeches ever. This speech had an exceptional flow that was caused by the amazing style that MLK used. MLK used various types of rhetorical devices, such as…

The definition of Civil Disobedience by John Rawls, widely accepted by many, is defined as a public, non-violent, and conscientious breach of law undertaking with the aim of bringing about a change in laws or government policies. Ronald Dworkin has divided civil disobedience into three types: integrity-based, justice-based, and policy-based. Integrity-based civil disobedience disobeys a law he/she feels immoral. Justice-based civil disobedience disobeys laws in order get back some rights denied…

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…