Parts of speech

In the How a Member Votes module, this simulation was based on the voting of “yay” or “nay” on a bill. The bill was about flag desecration, which Wikipedia defines as “a term applied to the desecration of flags or flag protocol, a various set of acts that intentionally destroy, damage or mutilate a flag in public.” Often, this action is intended to make a political point against a country or its policies. In this process, I voted “yay” to yay pass the bill. The reasons behind my decisions are…

Freedom of Expression or Freedom of Invasion? From hieroglyphics, the printing press, to the computer, the concept of communication has been an integral part of society in order to express and spread ideas. With the vast advancements in technology and social media tools, communication has evolved into a far more immediate, efficient method for greater involvement in activities locally and globally. Clay Shirky, in “The Political Power of Social Media: Technology, the Public Sphere, and Political…

time where computers have become such a large part of our daily lives, we find that people, particularly young people, find themselves to be braver facing a computer screen. Reports of students as young as 10 have committed suicide cased on what their peers have said about them on the internet. This is an ongoing problem in our society today and most people say that our schools should do something about it, but is it violating a students right to free speech or protecting the victim? In most…

Witch hunts were and still are a grand part of today's societies, they just are not called witch hunts anymore at this point in time. Exploring the 'burning' of books of which these show an idea or portion of history in which people of this modern era believe to be; extremely unkind, hurtful, and degrading to the accusing person(s), in regards to a book. The accusers can seldom make a strong argument as to why certain books, should be deemed ineligible for consumption of a young child's mindset…

wants to post the instructions for making a homemade bomb on his blog? Scared for him? Me too. We have a greater number of available audiences on the Internet than in a multi-national company. Hate speech is one aspect on the internet that can be a downfall for people’s life. Other forms of this speech, however, are by the very nature of their content, biased toward violence and physical harm to others (Tavani, Page 294). Many such websites are available on the internet. Some antiabortion…

Patrick Byrne Mrs. Draus Grade 10 English, Period 1 March 20, 2015 Stop Music Censorship Music provides a powerful form of expression and individualism that helps to entertain, relax, and calm the mind, while containing the power to help one detach themselves from everything that is taking place around them. The power of music scares some people who become afraid of the powerful potential it has to shape attitudes and beliefs. Music has existed for a long time, dating from about 1500BC and…

my entire family behind. While others continued to write controversial statements about the government and politics, I left because I was not a fighter. Even though Ethiopia’s Constitution explicitly protects freedom of speech, in reality the government ignores it for the most part. In 2011, Reeyot Alemu, my close friend and a journalist, who founded the monthly magazine Change was arrested (“CPJ Concerned About” Par. 2). Why? They do not like what she writes, censorship. She was accused of…

magazines as portraying women’s bodies as “chopped-up parts of the female anatomy, packaged like cuts of meat at the supermarket. 3. Brownmiller should have included if and only if to enforce that the three-part test only regarded material as obscene when evidence of patently offensive, hard-core sexual conduct; lack serious scientific, literary, artistic, or political value; and appeal to the prurient interest of an…

authority. To Mill, there is continuous tension between two values in politics: liberty: individual freedom and Authority: the need for constraint. The struggle b/w the relations is carried on by the tyranny of Gov't. He breaks down authority into two parts: firstly, necessary rights belonging to citizens. Secondly, the "establishment of constitutional checks by which the consent of the society, or of a governing body, supposed to represent its interests, was made a necessary condition to some…

my Grammy pay for a new fender bender since she could not afford one. As a child and now teenager, it is easy for me to misunderstand phrases and figures of speech that I just do not have the experience in life to fully understand. I tend to take things more literally than a figure of speech should be taken. There is one figure of speech I am glad I took more literally than it was intended. I heard my mom interviewing a family for her preschool awhile ago and I heard her use the phrase,…