How I Learned From The Class Writings

The argument starts with two main points. The first is how the majority acts as a faction to oppress the minority, and the second is how justice can not be fair “until liberty be lost in the pursuit”

Ron Padgett, the author of Creative Reading, recalls how he learned to read and write as though these things happened yesterday. Like Padgett, I tried recalling my reading and writing history.

In the past, not everyone has had their freedom, but I will do my part to give to allow this equality because I value the idea of every individual of every gender, race, and religion to have their civil rights. For example, may it be a meeting in my NHS group or an important decision for a project, I allow everyone to speak their ideas. Freedom of speech is an important right for each individual to have. At a modest meeting like mine or an executive meeting of Mr. Hart’s, I know we both let others speak their views. Every person has the right to talk, so lets hear the ideas flow, and the possible benefits that may be the result. Another right that should exist across the country is equality. This is still a present-day issue, and I argue on Senator Hart’s side of everyone should be equal. As I endorse civil rights today, Senator Hart did it back in the 1960s when he showed his approval for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The ability of having one’s integrity is important to achieving a successful life, so let every man and woman have their power so they can be a part of the bright future ahead of

This year I have learned a lot from College Writing, this class has taught me a lot about my own writing and what makes a good essay. I have learned a lot about myself as a writer and as a person throughout the course. In this reflection of the past semester I will be going through my past papers and talk about what I liked and how I could’ve made them better. I will also be going through the activities that have shaped my writing the most. Hopefully, I will be representing how I have grown as a writer throughout the year because of this class. Before taking this class I was already relatively confident in my writing abilities and was excited to take the class. Now that the course is completed I am even more confident in my writing because of all the new techniques and helpful tips I learned.

One of the main points of both of these essays was how to handle unjust laws. They go on to talk about how an unjust law is created by the majority, and is made without regard to the

Over the course history, there has been a gradual progression towards obtaining universal civil rights for all people regardless of race, religion, gender, or culture. Certain individuals, such as Abraham Lincoln, John Stuart Mill, and Christine de Pizan have left permanent marks on public opinion because of their large and effective contributions to that progress. The tone and method of the arguments they made for the attainment of universal human rights have cemented its advancement. Even though most of the populace has not always accepted the importance of human rights, these writers wrote arguments which effectively helped convince the majority of their validity. Effective arguments on slavery and women’s rights have incorporated

Perhaps the biggest disadvantage to individual rights is asking ourselves what societal rights we want to protect. There is a need to keep order, to protect life and liberty, but at what cost? By keeping individual rights that we currently have, we face the disadvantage of have the guilty set free. Yet, we still have the assurance that we can be more secure in life and liberty, by enforcing certain rights, even if it doesn't always go the way we feel it should.

Even if it could, Shelby should be advocating the use of BL over FEO since it is lexically prior according to Rawls. Taking one principle from the middle of the chain and extrapolating it beyond the apparatus defies the Rawlsian framework. Shelby’s response to this obvious violation is a bit surprising: he assumes basic liberties are already in place. “This principle [FEO], were it to be institutionally realized in a well-ordered society in which the basic liberties were secure and their fair value guaranteed, would mitigate, if not correct, these race-based disadvantages” (“Race and Social Justice” 1711, my emphasis). The problem here is that we do not exactly live in a well-ordered society where everyone’s basic liberties are secure. Obvious examples include impediments to transgender bathroom access, gay marriage (pre-2015, which was still after this piece was written), and abortion. Or rather, in terms of race, we live in a society with a history of racial injustice. Even if black people are granted basic liberties today, the foundation is plagued by violations, which impact the current distribution (of, let’s say, property). Mills’ point is that “the correction of BL violations would seem—by the very lexical priority relations both authors emphasize—to need to be dealt with first, even before we get to the question of the applicability of

As a six-month-old baby books had opened up a whole entire new world of experience for me. My inspiration to learn how to read and write was encouraged by my Mother and Grandmother. This is because they read out loud to me before bed occasionally and gave me the best time of my life by introducing me to a library. By two years of age I developed speech and other communication skills. This helped me understand and develop a favorite book, “PJ Funny Bunny,” and I would stare at the pages pretending I was reading them. I would continually pretend to read with other Dr. Seuss books, Smurf pop-up books (I imagined I was a part of these for hours), sniff & scratches, and sensory books. I had just begun

In this journal I want to talk about how unfair the court system is. Every once in a while, the new on a black guy got shot by a police would rammble on about being prejudice. In the history of the court system their has been many unfair trial such as the Dred Scott v Sandford. Where Dred Scott tried to get his freedom from the supreme court but was denied. Even though his master, John Emerson, escorted him onto free soil in Illinois and the Wisconsin Territory, and thus had legally, even if inadvertently, granted him freedom. Even in some of the story I read I saw how prejudice other is. Through out my life time I have seen these type of judgement others put on others without any need of reasoning.

Walking through the halls at school I do not always fell equal. I will see the yard moms give outspoken students chance after chance to keep their electronics, but they take my headphones when there simple around my neck, not even on. Civil rights are not only what we hear about Martin Luther King Jr, but they extend to everyday life. In the text, “Letter from Birmingham City Jail” by Martin Luther King Jr, the speech “Commemoration Ceremony for the 50th anniversary of the events of bloody Sunday” by Barack Obama, and the text “The letter to my son- Ta-Nehisi Coates” by James Baldwin, the authors discuss the importance of having rights that protect us and that would bring equality to everybody. People like Roy Moore are trying to remove amendments such as the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments, but that would be a step back for equality.

The course definitely changed the way I approached writing a paper. One day in lecture you quoted Ernest Hemmingway saying, “The first draft of anything is shit.” This changed the way I approached and wrote papers. I used to start papers the night before, barely look over them and making few changes. This course encouraged me to outline, write a rough draft and constantly review then finalization the paper. Peer review before this class I though was pointless because most student hardly pay attention to the paper and usually wrote “good job.” The students in the class actually read my paper and gave honest feedback and ways to improve it. Also to have a teacher read your draft and give feedback with what is wrong and ways to help the quality of the paper helped greatly. This English class was definitely different than high school English.

He uses the term ?totalitarianism? to explain that history uses justifications to commit such acts of right infringement. Dr. Williams claims that this exemplifies the government owning our rights and choices, and using laws to make choices for us where as our rights should apply. From a rightful stand point, his argument of this could be considered applicable. However, the government?s stated agenda is to constantly protect the citizens of the state via laws, rules, and social standards. One can argue that rights are being infringed on, but the government has factually shown that deaths have decreased in auto accidents, and therefore they succeed in protecting the state. For example, the increase in seat-belt usage has caused a 14 percent reduction in serious and fatal accidents in the state of North Carolina (Success Stories 1999). Apparently, the placement of seat-belt restrictions has allowed the safety of citizens to continue. Beyond the safety benefit, this has allowed the lowering of insurance premiums and savings of health-care related costs (Success Stories

The essay “Best Idea; Every Dictator’s Nightmare” was admittedly one of the most confusing articles I’ve ever read. I wrote about eleven hateful reflections about how confusing the article was until I got to this one. However, after reading it for the twentieth time, I finally realized that all the complicated paragraphs were just trying to convey one simple message: every human deserves their natural rights. Regardless of ethnicity, political stance, economic value, sex, or sexuality, every human deserves the same natural rights. For some reason, the idea of the “perfect being” has been held so highly and proudly that anyone who is different than that “perfect being” is constrained in one way or another. So, considering the majority of the

The last part of the first section talks about voice and dignity. It makes a point that people should be allowed to express how they feel about things and not be penalized for it. “Some people have better ideas than others; some are smarter or more experienced or more creative. But everyone should be heard and respected.” (p. 57)