The Parable Of The Ship Summary

There are lots of different situations where students of a public school are deprived of their right of free expression given in the fourth amendment. One example of this is the case of Engel vs Vitale. This court case took place in 1962 when a parent of a child sued because of a New York State law that required students to recite a nondenominational prayer every morning, "Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon Thee, and beg Thy blessings upon us, our teachers, and our country”. This law goes against the Establishment of Religion clause of the fourth amendment. Another violation of The Bill of Rights is the Tinker v. Des Moines case. This case took place in 1969 when two students, MaryBeth Tinker, and her brother wore black armbands to protest the Vietnam war. However, the result of this action, according to the article, Supreme Court Landmarks from the United States Courts, “ Fearing a disruption, the

The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell shows that the Puritans were more than a colony of uptight Englishmen. Her thesis is about how the Puritans were a writing based group of people. The Wordy Shipmates starts off with Vowell stating, “The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief. And by dangerous I don’t mean thought-provoking. I mean: might get people killed” (pg 1). Vowell supports this statement throughout her book by explaining how religion plays an important role in every part of the Puritan lifestyle. She explains that they thought of themselves as "God's new chosen people” (pg 24).

Citizens in America are born with a various amount of rights. One of these rights include the freedom of speech and expression. However, school administrators have the ability to restrict a student’s expression. The Supreme Court Cases ‘Bethel School District v. Fraser’ and ‘Frederick V. Morse’ gave schools the right for the administrators to discipline children when they see fit. Students should be able to express themselves in any way without fearing that their school administrators will discipline

The Tinker vs. Des Moines case helped determined and interpret legal rights of young citizens for the first time. A group of students made a decision to wear black armbands to school to support a peace establishing agreement during the Vietnam War. As a result, the participating students; Mary Beth Tinker, Christopher Eckhardt, and John Tinker got suspended for their actions (Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District).The school outlawed and attempted to penalize petitioners for a “silent, passive expression of opinion”, that didn’t cause any commotion (Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School Dist). The parents decided to sue the school for disrespecting the student’s constitutional rights of expression.

Universities that have been trying to quash free speech have encountered some court reversals of their attempts. But campus leftists have not given up. The newest university gambit to limit speech mirrors the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission guidelines concerning sexual harassment in the workplace, (creating a hostile environment) or they attempt to base their speech code on the "fighting words" doctrine enunciated by the Court in Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire

Recently the Ohio State University refused to rent campus space to white nationalist Richard Spencer so he could speak. While this is understandable considering the message that Spencer has been known to preach, the Ohio State University has been accused of denying Richard Spencer his first amendment right. An attorney for Ohio State told Spencer that while the University valued freedom of speech, the speach would cause a serious threat to public safety. Spencer’s response was a lawsuit against Ohio State University. Spencer had sued several other schools in the past as they wouldn’t allow him to speak and it appears that he has now sued Ohio State.

In 2007 the first amendment rights of a school kid named Joseph fredrick were allegedly violated in school for having a sign reading “ BONG HITS 4 JESUS”. His principal Morse confiscated the sign and suspended him for 5 days. Just because of that Fredrick took his case and kept on going up, and kept on having more trials and eventually reached the supreme court, and his case was accepted. And then the trial date set. After a lot of fighting and arguing, Frederick lost the case to Morse having fought hard against her. Fredrick lost because the Supreme court ruled that you

Expression, one of the core freedoms expressed in our Bill of Rights, carries many forms. The case of Margery Washington and David Schultz versus the Chicago District 299 school board concerns two high-school students who chose to express their convictions by each wearing a hoodie and button to school in support of Trayvon Martin and in protest of controversy surrounding his death, the two students were asked by the school to remove them, citing a violation of the school dress code. After two days suspension, the students complied and removed the articles, but have petitioned their way to the Supreme Court. Given the invalidity of the punishment laid upon the students’, along with violation of the students’ First Amendment rights, precedent

Recently, there has been a lot of discussion regarding free speech on college campuses. Our first amendment gives us the right of Free Speech but many groups retain the ability to censor it within their own organisation, such as in the workplace and in both public and private lower education. I believe that the ability should be extended to colleges and universities (both public and private). Students should have the right to be at school while feeling physically safe. An example of this right being violated because of someone else’s “free speech” was last spring at American University in which bananas were strung up on nooses around campus with AKA (a historically-black sorority) labeled on them the day after AU’s first black female student

Depending on who you are and what you're viewpoints are this case is very controversial, That being said, it's a perfect case to look into. A student by the name of Matthew N. Fraser was suspended from school for three days. This was because he delivered a “provocative or obscene” speech to his fellow classmates. The student saw this as a issue or a violation of his right to freedom of speech. He was speaking at a public assembly when his peers and teachers saw that his words were indecent and unnecessary. So he decided to take this to the supreme court and when this happens the Court had ruled that this was not in violation of his rights so he was suspended for three days. Yes he did take this case to the Court but he was not able to win

Similarly, imposing threats and/or hate speech upon others is a violation of others’ rights and freedoms. What is the point of having freedom of speech and a democracy in the US if it allows others to be degraded? The rights of all Americans should be respected and despite what the Constitution states, people have to take a step back and analyze the fact that their words can affect others. Students should be restricted as to what they’re saying to others for this exact reason. With little being done with the hate speech present in today’s campuses, more ignorant people are allowed to walk the streets unpunished. Hate speech must be controlled. Although people should be given the right to express how they feel, it must be done in a manner that would not cause others any harm (“Hate Speech People Students First”).

One such example is outlined in the case R v. Denbigh High School where a young muslim girl was unable to attend the high school out of refusal to wear the school’s uniform, stating a preference of her more modest jilbab.21 The girl argued a breach in her right to freedom of religion. The girl’s claim was denied on the basis that she could have attended a number of other schools within the area, and under the circumstances it was inappropriate for the courts to disrupt the decision of the school, which had acted with the the well-being of the majority of its students in mind when creating the uniform.22 The foundation of human rights lies at the ability to properly educate oneself as well as the ability to freely speak what has been learned. Throughout the 20th century monumental improvements have been made on these grounds, allowing for the progression of further rights, and will continue to evolve through decades

In “Excerpt from Shipwrecked Sailor,” the attitude of the crew members change through the story. First, they started frightened and discouraged about not finding land. They were also scared about the convicts that might be on the island that could impair them. Paragraph 1 states, “Having pulled about twelve miles along the shore from Goat Island, where we first got under the lee, and seeing no sign of a cove or harbor, we began to despair of getting ashore before daylight.” This quote portrays that the crew is desperate for seeing land and they are also scared that they wouldn’t find the land.

In terms of the ship of Theseus, I think that yes it has become a different ship than it was before because there is no constant in the ship. Completely new wood is added that has nothing to do with the materials from the old ship, (no DNA like in humans). It is purely an inanimate object with no soul or anything other than its physical aspect which was promptly being replaced.

In the Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a poem that tells the reader to understand about the supernatural, romanticism, spiritual meaning, and shows illustration as in picturing that things occurring in your head.