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    in all schools. Every start of the school day kids, teachers, administrators and staff pile into the school. It is comfortable for any deranged person to blend in and fill out an unforgettable activity. Armed guards control the access in the schoolhouse. They are there to defend the school entrances and watch the people coming in and out. Armed guards are retired law enforcement. They know what suspicious behavior looks like and will be able to find if someone is out of the average.…

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    friends. They were restrictions on the way a freedman should live. The black codes denied blacks to testify against whites, to serve on juries or in state militias, or the right to vote. “We are not permitted to own the land whereon to build a schoolhouse or a church …” One black complained about having limited restrictions during a black convention in Mississippi. The death of slavery obviously didn’t mean the birth of freedom for…

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    “If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter”- George Washington, these words discoursed are just as valid today as when they were first spoken. In present time censorship obstructs our freedom of speech and disrupts our ability to create our own distinct voice. Currently the exact meaning indicates that censorship is the suppression or prohibition of any part of any book, film, and news that is considered obscene, politically…

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    If I was to recreate the Jamestown colony, my first priority would be to send hard working people. I would make sure those people would have good work ethic and could work together. Some main occupations i would look for in people would be a doctor or nurse in case of any emergencies. A farmer could come in hand with helping grow crops and farm for food , because you need food in order to survive. a man that could build well, also aa blacksmith for any metal needs any women that could sew to…

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    Recently, students are experiencing some of their freedoms being taken by school administrators. Why would they do that? Mostly because the school administrators want to create a safe and healthy environment where students can learn. So the school administrators take away the student's right to speech. It sounds crazy, but the school administrators do this because the students are minors, and it is not violating their rights, but some disagree to that. Should students have the right to speak out…

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    Daru The Guest

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    The story “The Guest” establishes the values in conflict that Daru encounters when he is ordered to turn in an Arab prisoner to the police. Daru struggled with the sense of loyalty he feels toward his friend and people to do what was asked of him. However, he was also conflicted towards the belief of one making their own choices. Daru expressed his strong feelings against Balducci’s demands, “every bit of this disgusts me, and first of all your fellow here. But I won't hand him over. Fight, yes,…

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    When reading the “The Guest” by Albert Camus we find ourselves in the middle of the struggles that a man named Daru. Daru who is a school master lives alone in a schoolhouse. He spends his days teaching children but due to the snow his students “who lived in the villages scattered over the plateau had stopped coming” (Camus 1) One cold morning he see two men making their way to his house and that is when his troubles begin. The choices made by Daru in “The Guest” are a perfect example of what an…

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    Albert Camus Isolation

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    He is content with his isolation. For example, Camus describes Daru as “a monk in his remote schoolhouse, nonetheless satisfied with the little he had and with the rough life, had felt like a lord” (“The Guest” 2). Meursault further isolates himself by “knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness” (“The Stranger” 59). His actions isolate him…

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    Tinker Case Summary

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    students' rights do not disappear upon entry to a school. When the majority made their statement, they said that “it can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate” (Unit 6 Slide, Majority Opinion). This helped to expand students' 1st Amendment freedom of speech rights because it showed that those rights still apply to all the students within the building just as much as they apply to the students…

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    Nothing Daunted Summary

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    and cattle. Dorothy and Rosamond spent nine months on a grand tour of Europe after college in 1910, then, bored from the society and chaperones balls and no current prospects of marriage, they went off to teach the children of homesteaders in a schoolhouse on the western slope of Colorado. Dorothy is supposedly engaged during their 1 year term teaching but not much is mentioned…

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