Parts of speech

these articles were on from that publication of the newspaper. The principal’s deletion of these articles did violate the students’ rights under the 1st Amendment. According to the 1st Amendment, “Congress shall make no law… abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.” This means that the people of the United States have the right to say whatever they want in what they print. This right extends within school, and since students have the same rights as every other citizen, their right in…

Freedom of speech has always been a topic of conversation on whether or not we really have it, or it’s portrayed like we do so the American people can be content. There is plenty of proof on the fact that our freedom of speech is actually being taken away from us. Even now as our generation is more open minded, it doesn’t mean that we allow for anyone to have what they think is right, heard. Then whenever we question that our right is being taken away, we are meant with critiques that we are…

Freedom of Speech: Do We Still Have It? The United States has it been under attack in the United States by the police controlling the protest, from people shutting down protest from public schools and businesses. Freedom of speech, the first amendment which states, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the…

The Fight for Free Speech (Speech Critique) It may seem as if free speech and expression is a simple concept to understand, but it becomes difficult to draw a line when obscenity is present. Obscene documents are not easy to detect. There were times where many forms of free speech were considered obscene by the Supreme Court. The only way to determine whether material was obscene or not was by the Comstock Act. A variety of victims of the Comstock Act tried to write what they thought would…

The Core of Our Democracy Freedom of speech, religion, press, peaceful assembly, and petition to government; these freedoms we wouldn’t have if not for the first amendment. The first amendment is the most superlative amendment because of the freedom of speech and freedom of religion. As Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas once said “Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.” (ALA…

Free Expression through Social Media As Americans we have been granted the right to Freedom of Speech. Hence, we are protected to speak freely, but there are exceptions to this right. Therefore, we are allowed to express ourselves freely through multiple outlets such as through television, radio, and internet. The latter has been a prominent way of expression for Americans recently, especially with the creation of social media sites, such as Facebook and Twitter. Being able to express yourself…

identified in the Bill of Rights and the Constitution. Civil liberties include: Freedom of speech, the right to privacy, the right to be free from unreasonable searches of your home, the right to a fair court trial, the right to marry, and the right to vote. The First Amendment expresses “Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.” The prohibition on abridgment of the freedom of speech is not absolute. Nevertheless, government cannot make a law to narrow…

singing going on in our classroom. The school SLP pushed in to our classroom all the time to teach us to be patient when playing with our friend. This gave me a different perspective on people who stutter because to me a stutterer was just a normal part of my day as a child. However, this is not the case for all environments for people who stutter, and movies such…

linguistic studies introduces an important sub-part known as Pragmatics. Pragmatics shows the study of meaning of how words string together to create meanings which may be different depending upon context. Pragmatics borrows different types of disciplines such as philosophy, sociology other parts of linguistics and anthropology to approach the behaviour of languages. Pragmatics contains theories which are still being explored and studied, such as speech act theory, politeness and impoliteness…

imagine that I was writing a speech for my 12th grade graduation, I would think of a symbol that could represent my hard work and dedication throughout my whole school career. This symbol that I am using is a lion. This symbol also represents my graduation. This is because on your graduation day you have finally accomplished and defeated school. My symbol will also help you do this with good achievements and a good heart. One part of the symbol shows hard work, this part of it shows how…