Essays on Freedom

Sula was Toni Morrison’s second novel, and was started in 1970, when second-wave feminists insisted on female solidarity; when labor market demanded women both in the workplace and at home, and when the position of women had not been as polarized by domestic ideology since the Victorian Era. It was a time when feminism ceased to be a middle-class privilege and women from all ethnic backgrounds took up their pens to voice their dissatisfaction. This novel may be considered a product of Morrison’s own curiosity towards female relationships, as she wonders in the Foreword to Sula: “What Continue reading...

Introduction

The Boston museum of Fine Arts has a large collection of objects that have different historical relevancies. Most of the objects have similar characteristics as far as texture and composition are concerned. However, individual differences in aspects such as the spatial illusion they portray and the color they have makes the objects unique. Over the years, the museum has done a great work in collecting different objects from different artists in order for them to be stored. This paper will analyze two objects from the museum: Sons of Liberty Bowl and the sugar box. Important to note is the Continue reading...

The narrator places himself as a British police officer to represent the symbol of the imperial country. The police officer describes how he is agitated by the British authority to the Burmese people. He feels that the Burmese are oppressed by the British imperialism to the extent that he believed “I had already my mind that imperialism was an evil thing” (p.3). This indicates that people lived in poor conditions such as poverty due to the forces of imperialism and although he was British, he could not support the Britain oppressive authority. He said that he was “for the Continue reading...

Introduction

A speech code refers to a regulation or rule that restricts or limits speech beyond certain legal level and, therefore, limits the freedom of speech. Speech codes are common in work places, universities and other private organizations. Usually, the main purpose of the speech codes is to suppress forms of social discourse or hate speech that is perceived to be inappropriate for the implementers. The issue of speech codes in universities has sparked opposition from the students. This has been motivated by a desire from the students to enjoy the rights of free expression and speech that other people Continue reading...

Learning how to study and understand great art provide one with a remarkable prosperity of great artistic works. Accordingly, an artist’s visual language and the ability to read helps in opening up new ways of seeing enabling one to comprehend the unfolding of history and historical events. Ultimately, art helps to reveal the human experiences in all their lively emotional and dynamic existence. In short, the ability to demystify imagery as well as the motives of art enables one to understand historical events and to challenge the contemporary arrangements.
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The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin

The Story Of An Hour is a short story that narrates the time that pass by between the moment protagonist, Louise Mallard, leans of the news that her husband died and later discovers that indeed her husband is still alive. Once she hears of her husband’s death, Mallard perceives herself as a liberated woman but her perceived joy is short-lived.

Symbolism

The troubled heart
The heart trouble that Mallard suffers from depicts a woman’s perceived physical weaknesses. It further represents Mallard’s hesitancy regarding her troubled marriage and her need for freedom. Mallard’s heart illness is the Continue reading...

Introduction

Civil liberties are the freedoms and guarantees that the government cannot limit to an individual, either by law or judicial interpretation. Such civil liberties are; freedom from forced labor and slavery, freedom from torture and death, and so on. Many contemporary states have constitutional documents and bill of rights that function to warrant civil liberties. Some laws have been enacted by different countries using different legal means like ratifying and signing or address some controversial civil liberties. Controversial examples include; reproductive rights, property rights, civil marriage and rights to possess and bear arms.
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One of the central questions of philosophy has always been a debate as to whether or not humans are free to make their own choices, or whether or not the causality of the external world affects are ability to make choices. This question is important because it underlies the centrality of what it means to be human and how culture is constructed. If freedom to make choices exists, then institutions such as prisons are just, because they punish on the basis of the assumption that someone who has committed a crime was acting freely and of his own violation. Continue reading...

Generally, the free speech zones are the places that are set aside in college or university campus or in the public places to use the right of speech in the United States. The term “free speech zone” insinuates that the free speech is not allowed everywhere. However, this idea must be to limit the unruly crowd to maintain peace and discipline. It is the responsibility of the educational institutions to provide safe and secure atmosphere to the students for learning and help them to excel. The free speech zones are not created to limit the freedom of speech, but Continue reading...

Zinn Howard is a playwright, historian, as well as social activist. Zinn was an Air Force bombardier and shipyard worker before joining college. Zinn received Ph.D. from CU (Columbia University). Howard has taught at Boston University and Spelman College; moreover, has received a Lannan Literary Award, the Thomas Merton Award, the Upton Sinclair Award, and the Eugene V. Debs Award.
Chapter One, "the Indians, Columbus, and Human Progress" discusses early civilization of Native American within N. America as well as the Bahamas, slavery, and the genocide executed by the Christopher Columbus crew, as well as the violent or brutal Continue reading...

It is easy for any of the people living today to underrate the value of the freedom and equality enjoyed in the country. This freedom has not always been there. It is an effort of people who lived in the past and sacrificed their all to ensure that racism and ethnicity have been eliminated. After slave trade had ended, the blacks would hardly dream of sharing a restroom with the whites, the power to vote just a dream they never thought would come to pass. A black president would be a dream as impossible as a trip to the Continue reading...

Every human has certain rights. Apart from the gender specification, human rights are equal and same for all genders. All humans are allowed to live according to their wishes and freedom. No one is allowed to impose restrictions on any one. The national and international laws also impose a great stress on equality.

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The developing and under developed countries see more human rights violation cases. The main reasons are poverty, social disparity, lack of education and lack of implementation of laws
There are many organizations working on the violation of human rights. In every part of the world, either Continue reading...

Section 1

As McGregor explains, the Chinese Communist Party (The Party) had gone to the extent where the citizens are not allowed to control their own lives. The party has created minimum freedom different from the Friedman argument of the maximum freedom. Therefore, McGregor reveals the essential difference between the maximum freedom and the minimum freedom using examples of the minimum freedom in china. The desire for the Chinese citizens to chase for their own self-interest is constrained by The Party. In order to demonstrate how the maximum freedom society differs from the minimum freedom society, McGregor provides example of the Continue reading...

Exercise Two

The one way Anova test results are listed above (See excel file). Before beginning the one way Anova, the main assumptions are: all groups are normally distributed and have equal variances. We have three different groups: type one, type two and type three. Within the groups degree of freedom is df1=37 and between group’s degree of freedom is df2=2. At 5% level of confidence the f-value calculated is greater than the tabulated (critical value) of F. That is, 5.5774>3.2516, hence the null hypothesis is rejected. The variances for the three types of groups are significantly different.

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Written by Huxley Aldous, Brave New World revolves around the making of a controlled world to ensure a healthy correlation among human beings. Said control is achieved through producing humans who fit at different levels in the society. With the Alphas leading and the Epsilon falling in the latter position, the world achieves a systematic classification that places people in clusters. Consequently, the text talks of two worlds that encompass the World State where the elite live and the Reservation where outcasts are controlled. Huxley informs his readers that, those living in the World State appear younger and better Continue reading...

U.S. History

The reason why the United States entered the First World War is justifiable. At first, the United States had pledged to be neutral; however, it later changed its stand when German mines destroyed and sunk several American ships that were travelling to Britain. The tension between Germany and the United States arose over Germany’s segregation of the Isles of Britain. Britain was one of the closest trading partners of the United States. In 1915, the Germans declared an unhampered warfare against all vessels and ships, whether neutral or not, that entered the war zones around Britain. Continue reading...

Slavomir Rawicz’s “The Long Walk” is set during the Second World War, revolving around seven men who manage to escape a Soviet labor camp, one of them being Rawicz himself. As the leader of the group, Rawicz chose to escape with men who were determined and strong enough to endure the harshness of the treat. Rawicz was a patriotic man, and the Russians had to drug him in order to make him “confess” to crimes he had not committed. Rawicz escapes with the hope and intention of rejoining his troops and reuniting with his wife.
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Different views concerning slavery triggered division amongst the states consequently, leading to secession from the Union in 1860. Abraham Lincoln’s election as President brought conflicts especially among his opponents in the Democratic Party who held different views on how to deal with Slavery. Lincoln’s stand on abolishment of slavery pushed the south away especially, considering the fact that, agriculture was their main source of income and also because slaves played a major role in providing labor which would affect them considerably. States that seceded met in Alabama forming their new found nation and making Jefferson Davis their Continue reading...

There has been a number of debates as to whether college students should be given the opportunity to choose their courses or not. Like any contentious subject, there has to be opposition and those in support of the issue. While others are of the opinion that, courses should be chosen for college students, others believe that, students should be given complete freedom to choose the courses they would love to study. When students join college, they are forced to study for subjects they do not want to. Many students complain that they are not allowed to choose subjects they Continue reading...

Kate Chopin was born in Missouri and she has represented the rebellious spirit of her era. She led an unconventional lifestyle, which was depicted in all her writings and was the kind of woman who dared to stand up for her true beliefs and ideas. According to her biographers and literary critics, ‘Kate Chopin’s writing style was a result of her passionate love for the writing style of Guy de Maupassant.’(1996, Le Marquand). Chopin was influenced by Guy de Maupassant who wrote about people’s everyday lives, but she went a step forward. She created her own Continue reading...

The Constitution rests on a proposition of all constitutional governments through the definition of limited governments. It adds that constitutions are legal and not simply political limitations to the government. There are considerations by various anti-thesis on the arbitrary rule. The contrary imagery to this is despotic government for which the government depends on willingness above law. As the constitution declares all men equal, what is the connection between equality, liberty and happiness? Liberty and equality are incompatible concepts that tend to conflict at most times. Liberty means being free from interference and this is what has driven liberalism Continue reading...

Classic English Literature

On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous speech “I Have A Dream” at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. The speech is a call to end racism and discrimination. The speech is the epitome of the civil rights movement in America. Through his speech, King shared his dream of living in a world where there is true freedom and equality. He dreams that someday America will be a nation where people will not be judged according to the color of their skin but through their character. The speech is a persuasive and inspirational speech which Continue reading...

Mikhail Baryshnikov was born on 27th January, 1948 in Riga, Latvia. He is famous for dancing throughout the world. His dance is the sublime vision. Mikhail Nikolaevitch Baryshnikov began his ballet studies in 1960. He studied in Vaganova School the then Leningrad with Aleksander Pushkin. He won the top prize in the junior division of the international Varna Competition. His teacher described him as “the most perfect dancer I have ever seen”.
He made his debut at Maryinsky theatre where he danced the ‘peasant’ pas de deux in Giselle, in the group Kirov Ballet. A new instrument unique for Continue reading...

Introduction

It cannot be denied that the environment has undergone massive degrading in recent years. In addition, several environmental features and resources have been used by authoritative regimes to fund their own selfish interests and the average citizens who own these resources no longer enjoy them. In his essay ““Freedom, Wilderness, Wilderness and Freedom”, Edward Abbey conducts a comprehensive outlook on how political machinations have led to the improper manipulation of the environment such that it is no longer an enjoyable feature to earth’s average inhabitants. He contends that wild places especially the wild is very important and meaningful Continue reading...

The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a story that features the coercion Fredrick Douglass encountered before his escape to freedom. In his narratives, Douglass offers the readers with fast hand information about the pain, brutality, and humiliation of the slaves. He points out the cruelty of this institution on both the perpetrator, and the victims. As a slave, Fredrick Douglass witnessed the brutalization of the blacks whose only crime was to be born of the wrong color (Cruse 32). He narrates the pain, suffering the slaves went through, and how he fought for his freedom through Continue reading...

The right to privacy can be limited for security purposes. For instance, a prisoner does not have a right to toilet doors which can be locked from the inside (Citizens Information 1). The decisions of the Court have established that prison officers can properly monitor as well as record conversations of prisoners provided that the prisoner and his or her visitor have been cautioned that this will be carried out (The Free Dictionary 1).
According to John (1), in prison, there is deprivation of security. When imprisoned, a prisoner is placed into prolonged closeness with other convicts who in Continue reading...

Shakespeare in the “Julius Caesar” play was much concerned about how individual lives. He provides an insight of the human’s life by raising the argument about the aptitude free will versus the power of fate in life. The playwright ultimately backs the philosophy in which freedom and fate have delicate coexistence. He uses characters such as Cassius, Caesar and Brutus to bring about the issue of the fate and free will. As Cassius and Brutus were attempting to eliminate Caesar from power, Caesar suggested “men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is Continue reading...

Introduction

Traditionally, colleges follow a top to bottom strategy, where all the major curricular planning takes place at a leadership level. Even there are myriad educational institutes, where the liberty of choosing the subjects is limited. On the other side, there are many upcoming educational institutions, where student-let curriculum is an emerging phenomenon. With excellent educational system in United States and United Kingdom, the educational planners are still concerned with high percentage of dropouts in the first year of university that is 25% in United States and 11% in United Kingdom (Yorke & Longden 2006, 16). This scenario causes immense problems Continue reading...

Analysis of "Outcast" by Claude McKay

Outcast written by the famous poet Claude McKay is a typical 14line sonnet that expresses the live that he went through and the life that he desired. He wrote the sonnet in the 20th century. However, an analysis of the sonnet reveals its relevance in the contemporary world.
Claude expresses the dark background of his parents (line 1). Sometimes, we are not happy with our background, and we, therefore, strive to change our environment for the better. We strive to attain that position where our body and spirit desire (line 2). We might consider our experience as a shadowy Continue reading...

How Did Religion Influence Early U.S. History
A value of knowing the origin of nations helps to understand their social orders and laws. America is the only nation in which the starting point of a great person has been vividly observed. This is so because the growth of nations bears some marks of their origin. The situations that followed their birth and contributed to their development affect the nation. On evaluating the elements of state and the oldest monuments of American history, one can discover the prejudices, the habits and the ruling, which constitute the national character. This explains Continue reading...

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Anderson, James D. Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935. The University of North Carolina Press.
In “Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935” Anderson covers the years before the Civil War (1861-1865) and those that followed. Anderson tries to “tell the story of the unique system of public and private education that developed by and for black southerners between 1860 and 1935” (1). As the pro-slavery force, the Southerners found it hard to view previous slaves as their equals. Slaves were viewed as mere property and were as a result Continue reading...

The Tempest illustrates Shakespeare’s idea of power and how it is exercised. In the island where all the characters were brought together by the tempest, their individual desire for power and how they plan to achieve it shows how man constantly struggles to possess power and rule over others. This characteristic of man is explained in Friedrich Nietzsche’s view of power, which states that it is the Will to Power that drives man to desire control and achieve it. He explains that life is a plurality of forces striving after an increase in the feeling of power, Continue reading...

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Since the mid of the 20th century the first amendment right of the students has been in controversy. In its decision the Supreme Court stated the students not to “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate” on the Tinker vs. des Moines case.
Right to free speech plays an important role to achieve healthy democracy in a free society. New communication sources including internet have expanded the ability to express oneself and share information and participate in social and democratic political processes.

Difference between right of journalist in public and private high school

Thomas Jefferson, “Speech limited is speech lost”, the students must Continue reading...

QUESTION 1:

The two types of demands for economic security are limited and absolute security. The limited type of security can be achieved for all. On the other hand, absolute security is not achievable in a free society. Hayek (2007) says that an absolute security is not up for an offer except under some circumstances. One of these is the case of judges. They are given total independence. He says that the first type of security is against severe privacy in physical terms. The second type accommodates a set standard life. Further, on, he says that if a society has self-actualized; Continue reading...

Freedom

Freedom is the right to do what you want without being controlled or restricted by anyone. This is according to the Longman dictionary definition of the word freedom. However, it is difficult to define what exactly freedom is except if the restrictions on human actions are deeply analyzed. Freedom has residual areas which individuals can access in the society. It contains inbuilt restrictions which make one to respect the rights and freedom of others while in exercising their own freedom. For instance, my freedom to stretch my hands may be infringing on my neighbor’s freedom to breath. Therefore, Continue reading...

Milton Friedman was a renowned American economist, writer and statistician who was awarded the 1976 Nobel Prize in Economics sciences for his exemplary efforts in research on consumption analysis, complexity of stabilisation policy, and the economics of monetary history and theory. He was born in 1921 to Jewish immigrants. Friedman earned his B.A degree at the Rutgers University at the age of twenty; he later did his M.A in the University of Chicago and completed his Ph.D. from the Columbia University in the year 1946. Apart from being a lead researcher in the field of free market economics, Milton Continue reading...

This is a case of Juli and Steve and their positions on the issue whether the release or publication of certain works of art, which in their case was the Laramie Project should be regulated in an event that not doing so creates the possibility of igniting public unrest or compromising the community of individuals who are not involved in the dispute. In the case, Steve argues that the public release of the Laramie Project should be cancelled and be ultimately banned from the campus. Juli, on the other hand argues that there is nothing wrong with publicly releasing Continue reading...

Comparative Politics

Some of the dependent variables in comparative politics include political stability, state capacity, political culture, and democracies. This paper discusses democracy variable, independent variables, and two constant variables. Freedom House is a non-governmental organization located in Washington D.C. It has numerous offices in many countries around the globe (Giannone, 2010). Freedom House has a Board of Trustees that encompasses business leaders, state officials, media, labor leaders, and scholars. Freedom House publishes a yearly report based on the degree of freedom in many nations and territories in dispute around the world. Freedom in the world survey evaluates global freedom within Continue reading...

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Written by Huxley Aldous, Brave New World revolves around the making of a human controlled world to ensure correlation among the same. For instance, the world state works at producing humans who fit at different levels. With the Alphas leading and the Epsilon falling in the latter position, the world has an order that everyone follows. The text talks of two worlds, the World State where the elite live and the Reservation where outcasts are controlled. It is important to note that, those living in the World State appear younger and better looking Continue reading...

The state of nature is one of the crucial concepts in political and moral philosophy. It is worth nothing that the state of nature is used in various fields, which include social contract theories, religion, as well as international law. It focuses on the lives of people before the societies existed. There are several philosophers that have elaborates on the state of nature of men. Some of the philosophers include Locke and Hobbes. They have developed various perceptions on issues of law, state, as well as right to property. The natural rights and natural law follow from various aspects Continue reading...