Tinker

Going into this movie, most of what I heard was that I wouldn’t like it. This prepared me to focus on following what was going on, leading me to enjoy the movie more than I otherwise would have. Because Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is so complicated, it pushes many viewers away. But the complicated paths of the plot and the characters in this movie simulate trying to find and follow a real spy, which takes a kind of focus many viewers aren’t prepared for while watching a movie. However, being a movie about spies, it’s possible that some viewers will be interested enough to invest themselves in the plot enough to figure at least a little bit out. This is somewhat like what spies do in real life, since they have to infiltrate a foreign government, for example, and then figure out important information and where that connects. Beyond this, it’s difficult to say exactly what it’s like being a spy, since these organizations tend to be secretive. Thus, this movie is accurate in the way the story is told. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy tells a nigh incomprehensible, winding tale of spies in Europe; the details follow what we’re often told about spies in the media, but the way the story is told, as well as the style of cinematography, allow the viewer to experience what international espionage may really be like. Before getting any further, it’s worth…

In December of 1965, Mary Beth Tinker, her brother John Tinker, and their friend Christopher Eckhardt, students of Des Moines public schools, decided they were going to wear black armbands to school for a period of time in protest of the Vietnam war. The school board found out about the students’ plan to protest, and decided to put a ban on the wearing of black armbands on school property. If any student came to school wearing an armband, they would be suspended. The three students decided to…

Tinker vs. Des Moines In 1965, a group of students including John and Mary Tinker decided to wear black armbands to school in protest of America’s involvement in the Vietnam War. When the principals in the school district heard about their plan, fearing disruption due to the protest, they made a new rule prohibiting armbands at all the schools in the district. This caused some of the kids to change their minds about wearing the armbands, but not John and Mary. They wore the armbands to school,…

The Tinker v. Des Moines case deals with the persecution of a group of students for wearing black armbands to school in protest of the Vietnam War. The group of students, siblings John F. and Mary Beth Tinker, and friend Christopher Eckhardt, were suspended for wearing the war protesting armbands after they refused to take them off. School officials argued that the students wearing the armbands may result in riots, due to the division of peoples’ opinions on the Vietnam War. The case eventually…

Does the Constitution only apply in certain situations? Is it a document in which one can pick and choose what to enforce? In the court case of Tinker v. Des Moines Mr. J. Fortas and Mr. J. Black have very different outlooks on the topic of freedom of speech and whether a few students could or could not be protected by this law. In December 1965, a group of students in Des Moines held a meeting in the home of 16-year-old Christopher Eckhardt to plan a peaceful, silent, protest on their support…

In the case of Tinker V. Des Moines, it shows how the supreme court did not want students to be allowed to publicly express themselves or their opinions. Also how the teachers should have freedom of speech in school or out of school. The argument that is stronger for me is for the students and the teachers to be allowed to have freedom of speech and should always be protected. To begin with, at the public school in Tinker V. Des Moines, the students and the teachers organized a small protest…

Tinker v. Des Moines case Complete Citation Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, 393 U.S. 503 (1969) Parties Involved in the Case John F. Tinker, fifteen years old, his younger sister Mary Beth Tinker, thirteen years old, and their friend Christopher Eckhardt, sixteen years old. Date and Place Where the Case Was Tried This case was contended on November 12, 1968. The court was chosen February 24, 1969. In a 7-2 choice, the Supreme Court decided that the…

Freedom of speech protection is guaranteed by the First Amendment. However, there always seems to be tests that come along and challenge the boundaries of this guarantee and to what degree in which they are protected. The case I will use for this paper is “considered the seminal opinion in this area of constitutional law” by University of San Diego School of Law Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues and referred to as a “landmark case” by Thomas L. Tedford and Dale A. Herbeck. The case of Tinker…

Tinker vs. Des Moines This court case took place in the December of 1965, in Des Moines, Iowa. A group of students at a local high school decided that to protest the Vietnam war, they would wear black armbands from December 16 until New Year’s at school. The principals at the high school learned of the protest, and established a new rule on December 14th. The rule stated that any student wearing a black armband would be asked to remove it, and anyone who failed to remove it would be suspended. …

book is described by someone as being “difficult.” As long as we’re proficient in the language the book is written in, no book should be “difficult” for the careful and attentive reader. Or so I thought. Paul Harding’s surprise Pulitzer Prize winner, Tinkers, needs a little time and more than one reading to understand the depth of its many layers. Tinkers weighs in at fewer than 200 pages, yet its prose is so dense and detailed that by the time we’ve finished (often at a single sitting) we feel…