... The relationship between education and individual freedom has tend to become a controversial issue due to the amount of decades it has been around, and many other reasons. The main reason why education and individual freedom has become controversial is because of the accessibility that people have towards the two. Some people don’t have access to the two due to the economic shortages of their location, and many other because of the living conditions they are in. In Frederick Douglass’s, “The Narrative Of The Life Of Fredrick Douglass An American Slave”, Douglass believes that with out the proper education a person does not have complete freedom. Just as Douglass believes, Martin Luther King Jr.’s, “The Purpose of Education”, emphasizes mainly on how he believes that with out the proper education, a person can not be completely free because a person needs to be able to use his or her education in the proper manner. Both education and freedom are related to each other due to the idea that a human being must be able to acquire education, and must use the education acquired in the most successful manner, in order to be free. As Martin Luther King Jr. and Frederick Douglass feel, I also believe that having education plays an extreme role when it comes to individual freedom, because I feel that the more education that I human being has, the more freedom...
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...In every rhetorical context, we can evaluate how an author creates a cognitive framework or the process of turning a group of complex elements and data into a simpler, easier to understand format. This framework includes the actor, goal obstacle, and tacts of a story; assumptions about the audience; values that guide the audience; and essential facts. These components can be seen throughout Stokely Carmichael’s “Black Power”, a speech from the 1960s after the assassination Martin Luther King Jr. Although Martin Luther King Jr. believed that peaceful resistance was the best way to combat racial discrimination, Carmichael thought otherwise and shows that belief through his use of this cognitive framework. Although it can go unnoticed at times,...
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...intolerance is evident. People are empowered to overcome such situation but some choose not to. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. once said that “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy” (King 46). Another Civil Rights leader, César Chávez, once said “Preservation of one’s own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures” (Cashill 234). In the film of producer Paul Haggis, Crash shows different characters, with different lifestyles, and different socioeconomic statuses and how they collide with one another. Crash, written and directed by Paul Haggis, is a 2004 film about how in Los Angeles, during a two day period, people of a multi-ethnic background will track the unpredictable intersections and struggle to defeat their fears as they interweave in and out of each other’s lives. It depicts how African-American, Caucasians, Hispanics, and Asians collide in different times throughout the film. It differs from other films and has an impartial approach to the issue about racism. Rather than splitting the characters between offenders and victims only, the cast is shown as themselves being racists in diverse circumstances and conditions. Paul Haggis wrote this film after a life experience of his own – one night, coming home from an evening out with his wife, he was approached by two black men who took the his car keys and drove off on his new exotic car. Realizing...
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...According to "Martin Luther King Jr Quotes" (1963), Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Choice theories are the choices to commend or abstain from wrong had an implement of free will based on the offender’s hard work to reduce pain and exploit pleasure. In this paper, I will look at choice theories and how they relate to crime and a little about common models in how society determines which acts are considered to be criminal, and how these are impacted by choice theories of crime. A choice theory is the evaluation on offenses caused by a criminal due to the consequences of conscious choices. It is also known as the rational choice theory. According to this theory, criminals want to disobey the laws when he or she believes that the price of doing so does not overshadow the profit. In fact choice theory has an inner behavior to our life and that it is hereditarily motivated by five desires: freedom, ability, love, survival, and responsibility. The choice theory also has 10 Axioms that are based on a therapy method that is all about serving customers taught to formulate excellent choices. Some of the axioms are: behaviors that he or she choose but mainly those he or she act on, one that he or she can control, relationships long term and short term, behavior is made up of four mechanism- physiology, feeling, acting and thinking, and all behaviors are divided into verbs. Everyone as a choice in life whether if he or she decides...
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...During my first year of college, I became aware of difficulties Los Angeles communities faced. I made an attempt to reconsider many of the informal understandings that I had previously accepted as just being "life." One of the paths I took to expand my knowledge of the issues in Los Angeles involved taking a course called "Engaging LA." As a class assignment I read "Concerned Citizens: Environmental (In)justice in Black Los Angeles," The author, Sonya Winton, describes the environmental difficulties that low income communities face. She claims that politicians in Los Angeles are inequitable; the politicians spend more time trying to upgrade the high income communities, instead of improving the negative in the low income communities. She reports that one of the problems in the low income communities-in Los Angeles-is the placement of landfills. Winton observes that landfills are usually neighbors, if not residents, to the low income communities. She states that the reason politicians choose to place these waste facilities in the low income communities is because they believe that the residents of these communities care little about environmental issues. Winton states that the politicians double-cross the residents by offering them jobs, and by...
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...that America has come to known Mr. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. King was one of the illustrious leaders for the civil rights movements back in the 50’s and 60s. He has done things in his life that many would say was courageous. Mr. King wrote a letter stressing the issues the black community were facing in Alabama. The letter as we all know is called “Letter from Birmingham Jail”. The seven page letter give or take was a thought out and well-structured letter. The concern he stressed for the coloreds and no actions taken to resolve the issues ate away at Mr. King. All the hard work that he put into having freedom for the underdogs...
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...Individual Paper ?? Professor ?? University of ?? Class 10/13/2012 Introduction After carefully reviewing Mr. Anil Ravaswami’s memo to Ms Castle (A. Ravaswami, personal communication, October 10, 2012), I can say without a doubt that anyone who shall choose to base any idea, form an opinion or make a decision shall ensure that their critical thinking light is turned on. I have evaluated the memo using the ten step critical thinking method developed in Asking the Right Questions (Browne & Keeley, 2012 p. 9). As part of this method, systematic evaluation is completed by asking yourself ten different questions that help to identify things such as bias opinions, false statements or fallacies, attitudes, omitted information and even help to identify rival causes for reasons given or evidence used. By using this method of critical thinking, Cliffside Holding Company of Massapequa (CHCM) will have a much more clear perspective as to whether or not a leadership development program should be created and funded for junior insurance executives. What are the issues and the conclusions? The first of Browne and Keeley’s ten step method is to ask yourself, “What are the issues and the conclusions” (Browne & Keeley, 2012 p. 18). When you read Mr. Ravaswami’s memo you can clearly identify the prescriptive issue at hand which is whether or not CHCM should establish and fund a new leadership development program for junior insurance executives. The issue here is...
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...absolutely know it is wrong not to help a wounded person according to the caring aspect of morality. Knowing something is not right to do but to do, people contradict themselves by the influence of societies, individualism, and governments. First of all, societies can change people’s ideas and behaviors about morality. In other words, people will choose what others doing in a society instead of obeying the criteria of morality. Therefore, this action will emerge a moral contradiction. For instance, there was a shocking incident happened in Foshan city in the south of China. A two- year- old girl was twice hit by two different cars on a very busy street and 18 pedestrians indifferently passed the girl without doing any effort to help the girl. The girl was finally saved by a garbage collector after lying on the street for a long time (The Guardian). Many Chinese people and social medias strongly criticize the two car’s drivers and the 18 pedestrians for their cruel responses to the girl. The author Yajun Zhang from the article Shocking Foshan incident reveals an unspoken illness at China's core indignantly says: Whatever the reasons are and wherever we place the blame, there is no excuse for witnessing a human being dying without doing anything to help. As many Chinese web...
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...AUTHOR: SIMON SINEK Year of Publication: 2009 Title: START WITH WHY – HOW GREAT LEADERS INSPIRE EVERYONE TO TAKE ACTION Publisher PENGUIN GROUP (USA) INC. Place of Publication: NEW YORK, NEW YORK. USA “Start with Why - How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action” by Simon Sinek Sinek, S. (2009). Start with why: How great leaders inspire everyone to take action. Penguin. Word count : 1,566 Executive Summary of paper: This report provides an analysis of the key points developed in Simon Sinek’s book “Start with Why” – How Great Leaders inspire everyone to take action”. Sinek studies the great leaders who have the ability to motivate people by inspiring them to act. The report also highlights the ideas that have strategic significance for the Human Resource profession. In particular, how managers can provide a positive organisational environment in which employees are inspired and motivated to achieve a high level of work performance through the understanding of WHY. Why Start with WHY? Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Action by Simon Sinek (2009) is a book about how some organisations and leaders have been able to inspire those around them. Sinek explains in his opening chapter that “there are leaders and there are those who lead” (p.5). This book has been written as a guide to augment a naturally occurring way of thinking that some great leaders have, so that we can all learn from this blueprint. Sinek allows...
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...belief that some races are inherently superior (physically, intellectually, or culturally) to other and therefore have a right to dominate them. In the United States, racism, particularly by whites against blacks, has created profound racial tension and conflict in virtually all aspects of American society. Until the break through achieved by the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s, which domination over blacks was institutionalized and supported in all branches and levels of government, by denying blacks their civil rights and opportunities to participate in political, economic, and social communities” (p.1). From an outsider, one may think that the United States has rid itself of the majority of racism with not only one but two elections voting Barack Obama as the President and Leader of this country but this is far from true. As Donna Brazile (n.d.) (a black columnist, professor at Georgetown University and author of “Cooking with Grease”) explains, “According to the poll, 51% of Americans now express explicit anti-black attitudes,...
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...Freedom, equality, justice and power are the foundation of leadership. Today's world is filled with diverse groups of people; they have different cultures, nationalities and personalities. Because of this diverse environment we deal with change very often, in the workplace, school and at home. John Maxwell once said, "A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way." A leader means someone who has ability to lead a group of people, someone who people follow and idolize. And leadership is one of the rare and precious human capitals, especially in today’s society. Without leaders to guide and shape decisions society, the world will be mess up. Leaders are usually respect by youth, people in same age, and elders, they may make some bad choice sometimes, but they still deserve these respect. By being a leader, a person can have many different options to take. People are not born like a leader, but the options they got through the growth make them became leaders. If people have quality to know what are freedom, equality, justice and power, they must became a good and effective leader soon or after. Freedom is to live without any shackles. People are born free; they have free to speech, write and think. “Freedom is not a matter of choice, it is a destined path, an undying yearning for the peace of one's soul until attainment.” (Churchill, 2003) Good leaders can give another people freedom while give themselves freedom. Free is the easy word to say but...
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...Angelou experienced the brutality of racial discrimination, but she also absorbed the unshakable faith and values of traditional African-American family, community, and culture (Angelou, 2012). Growing up in Stamps, AK, Angelou learned what it was like to be a black girl in a world whose boundaries were set by whites (Longly, 2013). As a child, she always dreamed of waking to find her "nappy black hair" metamorphosed to a long blond bob because she felt life was better for a white girl than for a black girl (Franks, n.d.). Despite the odds, her grandmother instilled pride in Angelou with religion as an important element in their home. Maya Angelou contributed to black history by publicizing the discrimination of her people (Franks, n.d.). I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, prevails in moments wheremetaphors correspond perfectly to the emotions of Maya Angelou's relationship with Annie Henderson, her grandmother. It is distinctly exemplified when three white girls perform a handstand pantyless in front of Momma Henderson revealing their power of white sexuality in...
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...about the past, it brings a smile to their faces and a warm feeling in their hearts. For others, it is just the opposite. Perhaps it was something that was rushed into for the wrong reasons, or maybe it just didn't work out. Marriage can make people grimace or run away scared. Still for some, it is a dream that cannot be realized. Not because they haven't found "the one" yet, as many of the people I speak of have been with their partners for years. It is because the law will not allow them to marry given that they have chosen partners of the same sex. America prides itself on civil rights and equality, however we fall short where gay marriage is concerned. Homosexuals should be allowed marry and enjoy all of the rights and privileges that come along with being a legal union. Most Americans like to consider themselves open minded and non-prejudice people. If you asked them if gays deserved equal rights concerning holding jobs or buying property, a large number of them would agree. However, when the issue of gay marriage comes up, suddenly the rules of equality change. As the topic becomes more prevalent in society, it seems there are more and more arguments against it. CNN reports that nineteen states not only won’t recognize gay marriages, but have amended their constitutions to outlaw them. Why is such prejudice this being allowed? A strong belief of many people is that marriage is for procreation and that children should not be raised by same sex parents. This claim is...
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...4 Main Idea • • • • • What is a main idea? What is a topic? How do you recognize the difference between general and specific ideas? What is a stated main idea? What is an unstated main idea? Everyday Reading Skills: Selecting a Book Copyright ©2010 by Pearson Education, Inc. 118 CHAPTER 4 Main Idea What Is a Main Idea? The main idea of a passage is the core of the material, the particular point the author is trying to convey. The main idea of a passage can be stated in one sentence that condenses specific ideas or details in the passage into a general, allinclusive statement of the author’s message. In classroom discussions, all of the following words are sometimes used to help students understand the meaning of the main idea. thesis main point central focus gist controlling idea central thought Whether you read a single paragraph, a chapter, or an entire book, many experts agree that your most important single task is to understand the main idea of what you read. Topic Main Idea Major Detail Major Detail Major Detail Minor Detail Minor Detail Minor Detail Minor Detail Minor Detail Recognize General and Specific Words The first step in determining the main idea of a selection is to look at the specific ideas presented in the sentences and try to decide on a general topic or subject under which you can group these ideas. Before tackling sentences, begin with words. Pretend that the sentence ideas in a selection have been reduced...
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...History 222 – African American History Since 1877 Instructions: • You will find the list of films you can choose from in the assignment section of the course. • Go to the list and pick your film. You must view the entire film. If you can’t access films because of deployment, geographic location, or other reasons, please let your instructor know so they can give you an alternate assignment. • Please type you answers into this sheet. You must submit the worksheet two ways: 1) upload the worksheet as a Word document 2) cut and paste your answers into the student response box for the assignment. • You must answer in complete sentences, using a short answer/paragraph format. 1. What is the title of the film you picked? A Class Divided 2. Why did you pick this film over the others offered? I chose this film mainly because of the strength of the message that was taught by Jane Elliott to her class. The controversial message in 1968 could have had a very horrible outbreak of speculation from the school district as well as the parents of the children she was teaching. Mrs. Elliott sought to open the eyes of her students by placing them in an experiment where their eye color is a discriminating factor, I was intrigued because they were so young and I wasn’t sure if they would understand the meaning of what Mrs. Elliott was trying to teach. I was very wrong in my assumptions of course. 3. What is/are the central message(s) of this documentary/fictional...
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