Authoritarian Theory, Libertarian Theory, And Social Responsibility Theory

They are stealing African American’s liberties. He also indicates that America represents slavery rather than freedom due to the fact that 30% of the population in America is chained to slavery. By attacking Americans, and what they stand for, DuBois appeals to the audience 's emotions. He gives them a feeling of remorse and culpability. It is important to create pathos foremost in the speech, because it attracts the audience’s attention, as well as tugging at their heart. Once the audience’s attention has been grabbed, DuBois can then move into establishing credibility and authority for his civil liberties movement.

During Reconstruction, African Americans’ freedoms were very restricted. There were strict regulations on voting, relationships, employment, firearms, and other freedoms that white people had. African American faced disenfranchisement for years after being freed and becoming citizens. In What a Black Man Wants by Frederick Douglass, Douglass angrily demands the freedom to vote that every American deserved. He assesses the black man’s contribution to society and wonders why this contribution has not led to more rights. Those who were supposed to be fighting for the rights of freed slaves were not speaking up. Even the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society was not fighting for the rights of the freed slaves. Because of the restrictions on voting, African Americans did not have the same power over their own lives that white people had. Disenfranchisement is just one way white people limited freedoms of freed slaves.

Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that of Declaration of Independence, extended for us" and "what have me or those I represent to do with your national independence?” He was starting how Americans were celebrating "freedom" and "independence" when nearly four million humans were kept as slaves and scraped from their rights and left nude and alone in the world. How can someone be so shallow to ask a former black slave to talk about freedom how shallow can someone be to speak of freedom in America when slavery still existed? Frederick Douglass grabs the audience’s attention by giving out strong diction in his speech as he says “above your national, tumultuous joy, I hear the mournful wails of millions, whose chains, heavy and grievous yesterday, are today rendered more intolerable by the jubilant shouts that reach them,” he is explaining that while Americans celebrate this so said freedom he still hears the cries of those slaves who suffer. And that it is becoming now less and less hard for people to hear out their shouts, In different occasions he use words like justice, Gratitude, Liberty, Prosperity, And independence. These loaded words that mean so much to the slaves words that seem almost impossible for them to obtain words they seek to keep nut cant. Words that America thinks can only ne for those whom face is dressed in

By supporting the Revolutionaries actions to break free from British Rule, Douglass alluded to the similar fight that the American population faced to attain the same liberty that white citizens had. With the same courage the Founding Fathers had to create a free country, the American generation of 1852 faced a similar test to uphold the values of the Declaration of Independence, and liberate American slaves.7 After applauding the Founding Fathers, Douglass acknowledges that the emphasis of his speech is not to give praise, but to call on America to act on it’s own failures and begin to faithfully fulfill the nations oath.8 He asks his audience, “Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us [African Americans]?”9 This rhetorical question Douglass presents, challenges America to reevaluate what they are truly celebrating on the Fourth of July, for it is surely not the freedom in which they claim to have achieved. Douglass asserts that asking black people to rejoice in the “shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery”10 and do not respect the courage, and steps the Founding Fathers took to create a free, liberated nation.11

Discuss Politics in the Gilded Age. Include major political events and issues, and the roles of the “bloody shirt,” corruption, patronage, and reform movements.

Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” and Henry David Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience” collectively persuade their audiences to disobey authority when it concerns social injustice. King takes a more assertive yet respectful approach, and makes it a point to explicate the intolerable treatment that the black community had to endure under the encroachment of segregation laws. In addition, Thoreau expounds why it is so important for citizens to object and take action upon the corrupt laws that the government had imposed on the blacks, insisting that civil disobedience is a means of freedom. Both of these influential men successfully utilize occasion, purpose, tone, appeals and rhetorical strategies to

Explain how ideas about democracy, freedom, and individualism in the colonial period found expression in the development of cultural values, political institutions, and American identity during and after the Revolutionary War.

All his life, Equality has been facing the factor of fear and thought that he had no way to liberty, or freedom. It was almost as if he had never experienced happiness because of the rules and controls he had to stand by. Until he met her. She went by the name of Liberty

The meaning of freedom for black Americans have changed over time, during the Gilded Age Blacks’ definition of freedom was defined as a new “social order” still driven at the hope of an American society breaking free from the anti-democratic restraints imposed by a corrupt government. This concept of freedom changed when WWII and the 1960’s Conservative Revolution started ,allowing blacks to reap the benefits of social, political and economic prosperities by having the “right to choose” and participate in part of the American society .

Though times have changed, Alain Locke tries to convey that meaning into many of his writings. Alain Locke has been an activist for the many years of the Harlem Renaissance. He spoke forward about how the ancestors of African American referred as the “Old Negros” and the newer generation referred to as the “New Negros” took different outlooks on life. American Negros goal in life at this point in time was to change their mentality. But how? Locke had introduced many readers to the vibrant wondrous world of African Americans. He opened the eyes to what American Negros can do and not what they cannot do, no one should be restricted by any boundaries.

During the American Revolution, different people had different points of views on Freedom and Liberty. In the book, Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson, it talks about these different types of people and their views. More specifically, the slaves, Patriots, and Loyalists. The varying perspectives on this certain topic, drove bad actions between these three groups. Patriots were very rebellious and did not agree with the hierarchy, British, Loyalists, nor the King. While, the Loyalists were complete opposite and obeyed all laws made by the King and Britain. Slaves, on the other hand, were most passionate about rights, liberty, and freedom. Both the Patriots and the Loyalists owned slaves and did not allow them entitlement, making the slaves indecisive

Hurston's work was written during the Harlem Renaissance, whereas A Letter From Birmingham Jail was written during the Civil Rights Movement. These two time periods hold significantly different perspectives for African Americans. During the Harlem Renaissance, African Americans were beginning to assert through literature their pride and hope for future rights. Hurston exemplifies this as she calls herself "cosmic," discloses her surprise at a white man not seeing the impressiveness of Jazz music, and exclaims, "Sometimes I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company!" Conversely, King's letter depicts the attitude of the Civil Rights Movement. African Americans then not only had hope, but they had a campaign driven by their agitation at constantly being denied their innate rights. As a prominent leader of the Civil Rights Movement, we can see the attitude of the time period as he states, "I am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom," and "It seeks so to dramatize the issue [racism] that it can no longer be ignored." King seeks only one solution: end racial prejudice. King's entire missive is focused completely on the goal of the Civil Rights Movement. While Hurston criticized racism, her work wasn't focused on ending

Both “On the duty of Civil Disobedience” by Henry David Thoreau and “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King,Jr., respond to the relationship between the government and its people. They both address the same topics, yet they approach it using different methods. Thoreau and King add first-hand experiences from their lives as well as cries for the resolution of nationwide racial discrimination within their writings. They also use their writings to speak their concerns to different audiences.

Many theories that are postmodern theories are related to reality in mediated communication than most of the modern global theories. According to Kamalipour (2006), “One of the earliest attempts to think about media internationally was a book published in the 1950s entitled Four Theories of the Press (Siebert, Peterson, & Schramm, 1956). Its authors set out to create what is sometimes called a taxonomy, which means dividing up all the various versions and aspects of a topic into systemic categories and sometimes subcategories as well. The taxonomy the authors proposed was that the world’s various versions and aspects of a topic into four categories or models: authoritarian, Soviet, liberal, and social responsibility” (p. 23).

“Absolute liberty is the absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself” - Henry Brooks Adams. There has been great debate, past and present with regards to what constitutes as an individuals liberty. It has been subject to constant ridicule and examination due to violations of civil rights. Freedom, liberty, and independence are all important human rights represented within John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty.