...London riots Manuscript Hello! My name is (...). I am very pleased to be here tonight, to talk to all of you. I am going to talk about the riots that are still going on just outside of these doors from my point of view, and hopefully help solving some of challenges that the nation is right now facing. After three days of fire, violence and looting in England, countless analyses are trickling in the media, each with their take on the cause of this sudden riot. Everyone wants to know how peaceful demonstrations in North London, unexpectedly turned into riots, that just as unexpectedly, has spread like wildfire over London and the UK and has created global debate. And I am pretty sure we are all left with the same question, because; what makes people set fire to small, family-run businesses, and why would someone beat up a random by-passer or rob somebody who has already been beaten up? But what creates the greatest schism in the analytical reverberates among experts, politicians and basically everyone with a twitter profile, are the lootings. Why do all these young people from poor areas, wade into smashed shops, take the goods and then just leave with a grin on their face, absolutely careless of whose watching? With the conservatism dominating this country, many people will think that a bunch of thugs who thoughtlessly commit criminal acts, do not deserve an explanation for their unacceptable behaviour, and supporters of the liberalistic mind will shake their...
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...Many people think that freedom of speech is a right all humans should have because it allows people to express themselves. That is true, but nobody has ever thought that freedom of speech can actually harm people too. Apart from all the good things freedom of speech brings, people often miss the numerous bad things that freedom of speech brings. Some of these things included using freedom of speech to discriminate, expressing slanderous facts to the public and it can also promote unwanted riots that will cause havoc to a city. I think that freedom of speech should be limited to protect people from harm. Firstly, freedom of speech can be used as a way to discriminate people without consequences. If freedom of speech isn’t limited and anyone can say or express whatever they want, lots of people can pass out booklets discriminating gay people or a certain religion, because they dislike them. Everybody can tell that those people are abusing the freedom of speech, plus they wont receive consequences for doing so if freedom of speech isn’t limited at all. Which is why freedom of speech should be limited in order to protect those people from discrimination. Secondly, freedom of speech allows people to express slanderous opinions or facts just so they can gain trust from the city residents and gain power. Once too many people believe that person, it will be too late to stop and tell the truth because there will be too many people that that believes the lie and wouldn't believe the...
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...think that we still use Aristotle's rhetoric, Roughly 300 BC is when Aristotle created the rhetoric and we still use his ideas today. Aristotle's work is believed to be the first known contribution to persuasion. Robert F. Kennedy’s Speech Following the Death of Martin Luther King Jr. was altogether very persuasive, his use of ethos logos and pathos was superb. RFK and Mlk were both firm believers that nonviolence was the most effective form of civil disobedience. Robert F. Kennedy’s Speech Following the Death of Martin Luther King Jr. was altogether very persuasive, his use of ethos logos and pathos was superb. Mr. Kennedy’s use of Ethos in his speech helped build his trustworthiness to the audience. RFK told a personal story about his brother being shot, it was the first time that he...
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...TWO TYPES OF PROTESTS MY OPINION / BELIEF I strongly believe yes and no peaceful resistance to law is a positive and negative impact to a free society. Peaceful protests are the key to having your freedom of speech against federal law . History has proven what a peaceful protests can do and what a riot can cause. I strongly believe that whatever you stand for whether violent and nonviolent protesting; is a freedom you are given, although you need to know what you are actually standing for and not just another bandwagon effect. Peaceful protests can have a positive impact or a negative impact. I strongly believe peaceful resistance to law is a positive and negative impact to a free society. There is a difference between two types of...
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...Dilys Rose: Street of the Three Terraces (1993) Module 2: David Cameron: We are all in this together, August 15 2011 Tottenham Riots, London | 6th August 2011 | Sky News: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnfdrUnFe8c England riots: 'The whites have become black' says David Starkey http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14513517 Definition of chavs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chav Getting to the roots of the UK riots: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/08/09/f-uk-riots-faq.html Group work on David Cameron’s speech: We are all in this together * Rhetorical analysis of the speech * Use the model of rhetorical analysis pp. 14-19, to analyse and comment on the speech. 2 A | A | B | C | D | E | F | 1 | Andreas | Vivi | Maria | Mads | Nynne | | 2 | Mads K | Karen | Simone | Frederik | Christine | | 3 | Julia | Gülkiz | Julie | Derrick | Stina | | 4 | Magnus | Maja | Line | Mikkel | Laura | | 5 | | | | | | | I: START IN THE LETTER GROUPS (20 min.): In the letter group you are to discuss what the speech is about and how you may use the pentagon. Write down a disposition as to an analysis and comment on the speech to present in your number groups. II: IN THE NUMBER GROUP (20 min.): In the Number Group you begin with the...
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...Imagine living in the Civil Rights Era where racial tensions between African Americans and White Americans were very high. Your race determined what jobs you could and weren’t allowed to get. If you weren’t dressed nice as an African American restaurants could deny you service. Transportation was much longer since only a few taxi cabs will pick you up if you were African American. Real estate agents would direct you to neighborhoods based on your color of skin. Despite finally achieving equality life was very segregated. This built up anger is one of the few reasons for the cause of the Watts Riots. On August 11, 1965 an African American man by the name of Marquette Frye was arrested for drunk driving by California highway patrolman Lee...
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...called for more jobs and all around freedom. It remains one of the most popular mobilizations ever created. It was planned and birthed by a union of civil rights activist and people of feminist support, in which most were African Americans. The protest drew nearly a quarter of a million people to our nation’s Capital. One of, if not the most memorable moment of The March on Washington is Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech (“The Forgotten Radical History of the March on Washington”). The entire speech was an ascending oratory that still speaks volumes today just as it did fifty plus years ago. The speech commanded social and racial neutrality, and looked to a desegregated society. The main idea behind Dr. King’s famous speech was very simple; equality for all mankind was necessary for the future. It was 1963 but yet Dr. King was so far down the line in terms of the next generation and what was needed for the nation and all people of different backgrounds, cultures, and ethnicities. He had the formula; the very last portion of the speech summed it all up when he said: “This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand...
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...skyscrapers or to visit the monumental Statue of Liberty. However, even some New Yorkers don’t know the history behind what makes New York the city it is now. New York is a diverse metropolis, which has a notorious history. It can be imagined as an army of soldiers with war scars. One of those solider is the Neighborhood “Harlem”, one of its biggest scars is the Harlem Riot of 1935, which was the result of the poor economic standards in Harlem and the Police Brutality. Harlem is famous for its cultural movement, which is known as the Harlem Renaissance, or the New Negro Movement. There’s a quote by Martin Luther King Jr. which is mentioned in his acceptance speech for his Noble Peace Prize, “I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.” The Harlem Riots of 1935 was simply another attack to help end the battle of racism. According to Wang, Tabitha C in her online article, Harlem Race Riot (1935) the riot occurred on March 19, 1935, when a 16-year-old black Puerto Rican teenager stole a 10-cent knife from a store called Kress Five and Ten on 125th Street. Soon after Police officials detained Rivera, no charges were made against him. In the heat of the moment, crowds began to emerge in front of the store and much rumor spread through the street of Harlem that Rivera...
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...assignment Robert F. Kennedy’s Remarks on the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. (analysis) Robert F. Kennedy’s speech on the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. was given on April 4, 1968 in Indianapolis, Indiana to an audience that was full of bitterness, hatred, and revenge for the killing of a beloved civil rights activist and philanthropist of the United States. The concern for riots and bloodshed was apparent to the Senator prior to addressing the audience in Indiana, and even with all of this fear, the Democratic Presidential nominee was able to effectively address the crowd with care, passion, and love. Although Kennedy was faced with a diverse demographical audience with different skin color and cultural differences, he attempted to bring the audience together with hope for the future of the country and the ability to move forward from the tragedy. The audience at the speech by Kennedy after the assassination of MLK Jr. was composed of a largely black crowd in a section of town that was predominately poor. Prior to the speech the audience was unaware of the assassination of Dr. King. Senator Kennedy was on a campaign trail and was planning on speaking on his potential to become the President of the United States. Just prior to the beginning of the speech the Senator was made aware of the assassination and had to quickly come up with a speech to keep the audience calm and inform them of the incident with compassion and understanding. The audience was filled...
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...Although many historical people debate rather the farmer were heroes or villains, nevertheless they truly were heroes, because the farmers were being put in jail for no reason, they stood up for others not just them self, and lastly the Riot Act. To begin with the farmers were freedom fighters because they got put in jail for not paying taxes.In other words because they were broken and had very little money they went to prison.It states in document A writien by Daniel Gray, paragraph two says,”There is little money right now.The harsh rules for collecting debt will our jails with people who owe money.”This provies that if you were broke you got put in jail for no reason, not because the farmers didn’t want to pay the taxes they didn’t have engouh money to pay them....
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...ride interstate buses through the south to test federal law. Buses were burned and flipped by resisting whites. A group called the Albany Movement, staged sit-ins and boycotts in Albany, Georgia. Martin led these marches all over Albany (“Martin Luther King Jr.”: Bader 48-52). Martin used these non-violent throughout the civil rights movement. Martin Luther King Jr. had a significant role in the civil rights movement. The “I have a dream speech” rocketed Martin Luther King into being the sole leader of the African American community. He used the phrase “I have a dream” in his speech to describe his vision of the United States without racial prejudice or injustice (Martin Luther King Jr. Delivers). The speech led to nationwide rallies as a cause of white outrage. The rallies were based out of Selma, Alabama, as part of a voter registration campaign (Martin Luther King Jr. Delivers). The speech on the stairs of the Lincoln Memorial had 250,000 people in Attendance. King’s speech was nationally televised and praised by the press. The speech led him to become the youngest person to ever receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 (Martin Luther King Jr. Delivers). Martin Luther King’s letter while in jail responding to criticism by white clergymen on their views of segregation further helped Martin Luther King in his role as the leader of the civil rights movement. The clergymen’s focal message is that arguments against racial segregation should not be handled on the streets but in court...
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...There’s nothing like living in the United States, where diversity grows from coast to coast and the freedom of speech is instilled in all American citizens. America’s inception created the need for people to be safe and secure while pursuing the right to speak out against its government and instill change. The thousands of immigrants who poured into the U.S. left homelands full of tyrants and voiceless societies. Many historical events in America’s history would have never happened without free speech. The voices of many were often quieted and banned from returning because speaking against your government was seen as disgraceful. How can this be possible? The look to America, as it provides freedom and free speech for all. Free speech has been...
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...from within one political context to another. Typical duties relate to keeping the peace, law enforcement, protection of people and property, and the investigation of crimes. Officers are expected to respond to a variety of situations that may arise while they are on duty such as an unlawful assembly. Freedom of speech is one of our most dearly held rights and a building block of any democracy. But there are laws that govern the assembly of people for the purpose of holding a protest rally. A peaceful demonstration or assembly can be a productive way to express what we feel is wrong with our government. While such a protest is considered a part of our first amendment rights, most cities do require a permit in an effort to help avoid traffic and crowd problems. The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees individuals the right of freedom of assembly. Under the Common Law and modern statutes, however, the meeting of three or more persons may constitute an unlawful assembly if the persons have an illegal purpose or if their meeting will breach the public peace of the community. If they actually execute their purpose, they have committed the criminal offense of riot. Even as a police officer you strongly support Article 2 of the Constitution. Which includes "the right of the people to bear arms." The U.S. Supreme Court stated that the militia reference doesn't limit arms to only law enforcement and the military. Most Americans have a constitutional right to own guns for...
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...amendment applied to students or just adults. The students argued that they should be allowed to wear armbands to display their praise for the people of the dead during the war. The staff thought this shouldn’t be allowed, mostly because of their influence of their actions might disrupt the learning environment of the class and (possibly) the school. This is understandable. They only wanted was best for the students. Although they are doing this for the best for the students, isn’t this a little restricting? Yeah sure, they don’t want the students to form a riot, but not allowing them to express their feelings from the war by not letting them wear arm bands, worse case not allowing them to return until they didn’t wear it? That’s the reason why the case was started in the first place. This could be avoided if they were allowed to wear the armbands in school…to a certain extent that is. Besides, this could be the exact reason why a riot might form, the restrictions is causing a stressful strain to the students and couldn’t take much more of it. In 1965, 3 students Mary Beth and John Tinkers and one other student in Des Moines, Iowa decided to wear black arm bands to school in representation of mourning the dead and protest the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War was a military conflict fought primarily in the Southern Vietnam in the year between 1959 and 1975, the Vietnam War cost the United States 58,000 lives, 350...
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...Source one shows a quote by Maximilien Robespierre. This quote means that you cannot just pass unjust laws and consider them to be just. Robespierre was the leader of the Reign of Terror, and during the beginning of the French Revolution he believed that laws should obey fundamental rights according to this quote. Throughout the revolution however, his views changed drastically, and this is clearly shown in his speech to the National Convention regarding his justification for the Reign of Terror. His speech includes his justification for wanting France to be a republic and why the Reign of Terror must take place. The speech follows a format that goes from inspiring to contradictory very quickly. In the beginning of his speech, he outlines the aims, objectives and goals that the revolution set out to achieve as: liberty, equality, and brotherhood, however these were not achieved during the Reign of Terror.During the middle of the speech, Robespierre contradicts his previous goals/aims/objectives of liberty, equality, and justice by saying that the Reign of Terror was necessary to root out anyone who opposed the republic or die with them, because being a republic was what Robespierre believed was best for the nation of France. Robespierre believed that France needed the “virtues and miracles” that a republic conveyed, and they needed to do away with the “vices and snobbishness” that a monarchy displayed, as well as he wanted to be a model for the other nations of the world. His...
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