Essays on Tinker

Issue 1

1) The issue is whether president Ingles can limit Professor Castro’s freedom of speech. 2) The law is from the Putnam v. Keller, 332 F.3d 541 case in which the court held that the campus was a public forum (Lee & Kaplin, 2013). Putnam, therefore, had the same level of access to it as any other member of the public. 3) Because the school is a public forum, the students should be free to speak Spanish in the school compound. I picked this fact because it relates to the stigmatization claim in the Putnam case. The students were being ...

It needs to be reckoned that one of the main aspects of a fictional literary work is the characterization that goes on to bind the entire text together accentuating its affective appeal to the readers. Literary artists too have come to exude their aesthetic and literary quintessence when it comes to the question of penning characters in their respective stories. For the purpose of proper comprehension of the matter in context, one can take into reckoning three very popular short stories that have come to gain the accolades of the literary critics as well as the avid readers all ...

The Chrysanthemums is a brilliant short story written by the most prominent writer of the Literary Naturalism movement, John Steinbeck. The writer brilliantly depicts the involvement of environment and stresses the necessity of social connections. The major symbols of the story are the beautiful, decorated flowers the chrysanthemums, which are closely connected with the protagonist Elisa Allen, in both a spiritual and physical way. At the beginning of the story the woman wore a filthy garden outfit , which was described almost in the end of the story : “Elisa turned and ran hurridly into the house. In the bathroom ...

Role of Cyber Speech and First Amendment

The Internet has transformed communication throughout the world, allowing people to share information instantaneously at relatively low cost. The Internet is regarded as the most participatory form of mass speech ever developed in the world and it is the main channel of communication that is behind the development of cyber communication. Students in schools and colleges communicate amongst themselves through social sites such as Facebook and Twitter. They can receive first-hand information that has not even reach their school administration. More often, students use these sites to express their feelings about politics, school administration, and relationships. Most of them ...

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is a novel written by a famous American female author Annie Dillard. The book tells the reader about the world around the author and the feelings it awakes in her. One of the major topics revealed in the novel is nature. With the use of well-chosen stylistic devices Annie Dillard manages to portray the weather both looking horrible and beautiful. The story is told from the perspective of the narrator, whose name is not mentioned, but the reader can connect her to the author. The narrator dwells near to Tinker Creek that is situated in ...

Analysis of Mark Parker's Career

Ups In 2006, Mark Parker became the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Nike, Inc. and since then Nike's annual revenue increased up to 60 percent. In addition, Nike's profit of 57 percent is another visible achievement of Parker. Parker became a prime wheel that helped the Nike, Inc. to double its market cap. Moreover, Parker has embraced innovation as well as prioritizing designs, which became the success of Nike. He is one of three-person design collaboration, alongside Japanese style-maker Hiroshi Fujiwara, designer Tinker Hatfield, and Nike spokes-icon Michael Jordan to form HTM team, which acts as Nike's core Research ...

Under the existing Tinker (“Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District”) standards, should the online speech, created by Ms. Erikson on her private laptop, outside the schools premises and without intentionally targeting the students at school be considered on-campus? Should the actions of Ms. Erikson, which neither reached sufficient magnitude in the classroom, nor made the students unable to participate in the classroom discussions, nor required the school administration to pull down their ordinary duties, as well as did not create a hostile environment to the defendant, so that he could not attend classes, be considered substantially disruptive?

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“The Chrysanthemums” is a tale of women entrapment and the undermining of an individual because of their gender. Elisa is unhappy, distraught and conflicted by the events of the day. Her one source of pride, the chrysanthemums project is not taken seriously. She is surrounded by men who deliberately ignore the kind of work she does. The main source of neglect and abandonment is her husband. From the beginning, it seems like he does his husband duties very well because he promises to take his wife to dinner and at times shows concern about her well-being. He however, dismisses ...

The Court of Appeals should reverse the district court’s decision, and grant to Ms. Eriksen a motion for preliminary injunction, because Ms. Eriksen engaged in constitutionally protected free speech. This case encompasses the violation of First Amendment rights and this court ought to “conduct an independent examination of the record as a whole, without deference to the trial court.” Bery v. City of N.Y., 97 F.3d 689, 691 (2d Cir. 1996). For the First Amendment issues, the appellate courts must make an independent inspection of the whole record in order to ensure that lower court decisions do not ...