Freedom Isn T Free: Sympathy By Paul Laurance Dunbar

During the 1960s segregation was at its peak. In the poem titled “Sympathy” by Paul Laurence Dunbar and in the poem “Caged Bird” by Maya Angelou, both authors describe caged birds longing for freedom and free birds. Both of these poems relate to Hunter-Gault's story of being discriminated against University of Georgia. The exposition of her story is that the university is doing everything in their power to keep her out. She also encounters many conflicts while earning her right to attend their school. Discrimination has taken place all throughout US history but in Hunter-Gault's case she rewrote history by being the first student of color to be excepted to an all-white school.

Today in our modern great nation, we have the freedom of speech, the right to your own life, and the opportunity to change the way we live. At least to some extent. In the other parts of the world, people do not always have the freedoms we have. In the story of anthem, by Ayn Rand, Equality 7-2521 lives in a country where freedom does not exist. But rather controlled by a higher power. Equality 7-2521, lives in a communist country.

Native Americans have been around for many of years. They were around for 10,000-30,000 years. This proves them to be the one of the first civilizations to begin in our country. In Daniel Richter’s prologue, he describes Native Americans in terms of “agency” through discussing their agriculture, culture, and civilization as a whole. The Never forgotten article portrays the tragedy of the Native American population through discussing their negative stereotypes and the “White Man’s Burden”. As a result of the “White Man’s Burden”, we see misconceptions of their humanity and culture. In the story of Pocahontas, we do not get the view of a Native American individual, instead an Englishman by the name of John Smith tells a narrative of Indian Princess, Pocahontas in his point of view. This causes inaccuracy in history through misconception of Native American culture, their beliefs, and always thinking negative/bad about them. In this case, John Smith talked very provocatively amongst Pocahontas. He sexualized her and talked about her physical traits and not so much how she was as a true person. In Daniel Richter’s Prologue: Early America as Indian, Never Forgotten, and Pocahontas, they describe Native American life before the Europeans came to America as civilized, diverse, and lively as well as depicted misconceptions of their culture and humanity through conveying an importance in historical agency and its role in developing a thriving civilization.

Terrorists attacked the United States on September 11, 2001. More specifically, they attacked four buildings on the east coast resulting in nearly 3000 deaths. Following this event, numerous stories of survival and hope came in. It was during this time Adam Mayblum sent out an email to friends and family telling his story of how he survived, and it was later published as an essay. He stated in “The Price We Pay,” “…they should know that they [the terrorists] failed in terrorizing us” (193). Did the terrorists fail though? Are we afraid?

Twelve Years a Slave is based upon a true story and autobiography about a free African American man who had to fight for his life as well as his freedom after being captured. Solomon Northup was born a free man in Minerva, New York. Northup was known around town as an excellent fiddle player who had a wife, Anne Hampton and three children. In 1841 two men offered him an opportunity to get paid to play in a music show, but was then drugged by them and sold him into slavery. He was enslaved for 12 years, which hints the title, and he served multiple masters. Some nice who treated him fairly and some cruel and mean.

The second stanza of the poem explores the concept of communication, as many methods are stated. For example, “birds to carry messages/taped to their feet/there are letters to be written.” (25-27). This gives the reader the images of trying to desperately communicate with someone. Birds are seen as a sign of freedom and this gives a sense of being able to communicate freely.

The poem “Sympathy” by Paul Laurence Dunbar is well known for its little caged bird. The articulation of this poem derives from such aspects as the use of rhetorical devices such as imagery and repetition, and overall meaning of the piece being strengthened by such written aspects. There are some freedoms that must not be restricted such as freedoms to (feel,...)

This article,”In the land of the free,’ are you free to sit out the national anthem?” Was written by Jaweed Kaleem, who discusses the topic of an athlete sitting down during the national anthem. The athlete Colin Kaepernick, remained seated during the anthem while his fellow teammates stood covering their hearts. By doing this Kaepernick set the national debate about “race on a collision course with three pillars of American patriotism: football,military and police.” The author goes on and explains how blacks don't feel as if they should honor a country when before they weren't treated as an equal person. This debate was blown up by the social media which started to affect politics. Kaepernick gives off personal moments that happened to him

In the 1880’s to 1990’s, the government had not yet reached a point at which they could proclaim the United States as safe. However, in our contemporary society, this is not the case, as a majority of the U.S. is considered safe. It is safe to say that, although, the people of other centuries viewed freedom as a trivial and considered their safety to be of utmost importance. This phenomena in the centuries happens to not apply in our current society. Therefore, H.L. Mencken’s statement about not wanting to be free is not necessarily wrong, but does not apply to society at the moment. There are many examples of new men in this case adults who view freedom from their parent’s gaze is far more important than them securing a good life, good wealth,

I think that Kaepernick is stupid and very disrespectful to our nation and to all of the men and women who fight for our country. Collin will kneel during the playing of the national anthem, while their are people with no legs that still try and stand up during the national anthem. I believe that he is in the wrong here, because he is disrespectful to the nation. “In the ‘land of the free,’ are you free to sit out the national anthem?” by Jaweed Kaleem, he writes about what Kaepernick was doing, did before the football games. Now, since he started doing this kneeling before the game, it has brought out many other players and their beliefs about standing up and placing their hands across their hearts, so the players are either kneeling or raising

Essayist and social critic, H.L. Mencken once said, "The average man does not want to be

Few phrases evoke American patriotism in the same magnitude as the pledge of allegiance. Written in 1892 by Francis Bellamy, he hopped to inspire americans and remind people of what makes america great. In the final line “liberty and Justice for all”, Bellamy summarized the ideals our country was founded on and what we should continue to strive for as we grow as we continue into the future. That the government should preserve the liberty of its people.

After the War of 1812, Francis Scott Key wrote the Star Spangled Banner describing America as “land of the free” (Morley). Francis wrote those famous words in 1814. If that statement was true, why was it that only certain people meaning only a small group of individual males in America were free but most importantly what was done about it to make it a true statement for all men and women?

One of the most traumatic times that America has ever been through was the time of slavery. It has taken years for the country to recover from the atrocious time period in which “equality”, was not equal at all. The historical fiction, 12 Years A Slave by Solomon Northup, was first published in the United States of America by Derby and Miller in 1853 but the newest addition was published in 2014. The novel is an autobiographic account of Solomon himself who had been born a free man in the state of New York in July of 1808. Shortly after creating a great life for himself he was kidnapped drugged and sold into slavery. As the title suggests he lived his life as a slave for 12 years and was put through things no person no matter whom they

One similar theme in each text is the idea of freedom. In Boy’s Life, the main character, Corey, feels trapped inside of his classroom on the last day of school. All he wants is to begin his summer vacation, where he is free from the burden of books, facts and figures, and dates and quotations. In paragraph 8 he’s dying to get out of class and shows major impatience when the class down the hallway is let out early. He even says, “My insides quaked at the injustice of it.” Freedom is also a theme in the fable because the story is about an animal born into a cage, and this animal has never experienced freedom. In fact, the animal “saw above and about him confining walls, and before him were bars of iron.”