The Freedom Of Struggles By Adriane Lentz Smith

Writers and artists incorporate imagery into their works in order to describe the challenges that come with diversity. Struggles appear to people who do not fit the status quo as characters feel isolated from their country and the people within it, frowned upon by other citizens, and faced with countless challenges. Individuals facing challenges often have to find a way to escape their hardship, indicating that they are upset with being controlled. In the short story “Liberty” written by Julia Alvarez, a family from the Dominican Republic faces the challenge of getting their Visas in order to escape the dictatorship in their country. Although the main character Julia is sad to leave her dog named Liberty behind, she has no choice but to kick

The article I will be discussing is called 21st – Century Slaves by Andrew Cockburn. It exposes the chilling tales of others’ tragic experiences when caught in between smuggling across the borders, trafficking and forced labor; it also gives the point of view of those who force them to do actions that aren’t fair. The author is persuading the reader that this goes on around the world, not just in one country, and that most of stories are similar to each other. The genre of 21st- Century Slaves is investigations & exposes, and the audience are people who are against slavery. The article has photography by Jodi Cobb with images that illustrate men, women and kids doing labor and just showing that this is their reality. Jodi Cobb explains to John

In "Oppression" by Marilyn Frye, Frye discussed how a bird cage symbolizes the systematic oppression of women. Frye explains that if you look at a single wire in a bird cage you cannot understand why the bird, is unable to simply fly around the wire and be free. But, when you step back and look at the cage as a whole system of interlocking wires you realize that the bird has no chance of escaping because of all the barriers put in their way (Frye). This is exactly the same case for women. When somebody tries to see the oppression of women. they look only at one problem women face, refusing to step back and see there is no one cause for their oppression. If instead they looked at all the barriers women face at once, they would finally see that women have no way of escaping oppression without continuous efforts of every person involved in the oppression, including the woman being oppressed and the sexist men doing the oppressing.

American Scripture is a work of nonfiction written by Pauline Maier and published in 1997 by the Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. publishing company. The book centers on the writing of the Declaration of Independence and how it influences America. It also looks at the various aspects that control and shape how the Declaration is written. Within the book, many of the fundamental principles of United States are discussed. Three of the most important ones addressed throughout the book are limited government, popular sovereignty, and equality.

When founding the United States, the founding fathers sought to avoid the tyrannical rule they thought Great Britain exemplified. In order to do this, the founding fathers looked to history, specifically, the failed democracies of Ancient Greece and Rome, to model their country after. Now, the United States is regarded as a nation being founded upon and one that upholds the principles of democracy and liberty. Due to the United States’ association with liberty and democracy, it has become the common assumption that tyrannical rule could never occur here. However, recent occurrences of authoritarianism in Europe throughout the twentieth century, show that there is not much of a difference between Americans today and

“We must open the doors and we must see to it they remain open, so that others can pass through it”

The Revolution released the potential for America to become very democratic; allowing space for political and social struggles to spread ideas of freedom and challenge the old way of doing things. Ideas of liberty invigorated attacks on both British and domestic American foundations and so did the beliefs of equality in the Declaration of Independence, which caused many in society who were seen as the substandard bunch such as women, slaves and free blacks to question the sanction of their superiors.

The people of the United States of America pride themselves on being noble and free members of an exemplary society, one with values which other countries should use as guidelines for their own government. As a general principle, the republican theory that defines America’s Constitution is one that values pluralism and diversity, and protects individuals’ rights against all kinds of government abuse. The Declaration of Independence, written as a founding document for the freedom and values that the Americas established in escaping British control, states that “We [Americans] hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Regardless of its many guarantees to personal liberty, the original Constitution was deeply flawed in its express recognition and permission of slavery. Spread out amongst the seven articles are contradictory statements regarding the treatment of slaves within the U.S. government, such as prohibiting Congress from banning the slave trade until 1808, calling non-slave states to return escaped slaves into bondage, and distributing slaves to those in the House of Representatives and the Electoral College. The autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, exhibits the corruption of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness outlined in the Declaration of

Federal Judge Skelly Wright and James Farmer, saw the difficulty in change. Both of which knew which change comes a ton of backlash, and both of them knew in order to create change, you must speak out, and let others hear your voice. Skelly Wright had made the decision to desegregate New Orlean Schools which in this time period was racially something that was heavily disagreed on. While Farmer had almost been shot. Both of which had powered through this hate to become who they are today. These sources show that in order for people to create change, which can take a long time, they must speak what they feel, and ignore the backlash that might come to them.

Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs are both prominent influential authors of the Reform Era. Both writers, who spring forth from similar backgrounds and unimaginable situations, place a spotlight on the peculiar circumstances that surrounded the lives of the African American slaves. After reading and analyzing both Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, and the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass; readers discover the horrifying truths that belong to the past in connection to slavery.

In “Human Freedom and the Self,” Roderick M. Chisholm takes the libertarian stance, arguing that freedom is incompatible with determinism, that determinism is in fact false, and that humans do posses the kind of freedom required for moral responsibility. Chisholm argues that a deterministic universe, where all events, including human actions, proceed from prior events without the possibility that they would proceed differently than they do prevent the possibility that humans are responsible for their actions. To validate his libertarian beliefs, Chisholm sets out to prove that humans are responsible for their actions and also the thoughts that lead to those actions. In order to answer this problem, Chisholm believes we must make some assumptions about the man who preforms the act.

America is the land of the free and the home of the brave. Well, at least half of that sentence is true. America, a nation-state founded by freedom, equality, and protection of individual liberties, was soon becoming a nation-state where everyone was not protected. Many groups of people were not getting the representation they were guaranteed. Many citizens rallied behind one another, calling for the government to intervene. They believed it was up to a strong unified nation-state to protect everyone’s individual liberties. We can see in excerpts from the North, the South, and also from Russia, that people believed a strong unified nation-state is the best way to protect their individual liberties.

The winner for the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for his book Battle Cry of Freedom, James M. McPherson, is a great american civil war historian. Born in Valley City, North Dakota on October 11, 1936 McPherson attended St. Peter High School. After graduation he attended Gustavus Adolphus College and in 1958 earned his bachelor’s degree with Magnum Cum Laude. He later attended John Hopkins University and earned his Ph.D. in 1963 and is now currently working as Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. McPherson is most well known for his work Battle Cry of Freedom, but he has wrote a number of other well known books including Tried By War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief. In 2009 James was a co-winner for the Lincoln Prize for this same book, and elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

The phrase, “We the people”, holds a lot of meaning to American citizens. As the first three words of the United States Constitution, it signifies a core value intended to act as a unifying factor in America’s democratic society: popular sovereignty. This is the idea of a majority rules, or to put more simply, the one with the most votes wins. The U.S. system of government relies upon the fact that the American people are capable of coming together to make informed decisions about matters that will ultimately better the lives of everyone. Despite this, however, there are certain instances in which a minority group will impose on or have more influence than the majority group. This phenomenon occurs all the time in politics, as politicians tend to regard the predilections of small groups of citizens as opposed to the general populace.

Most developed nations are democracies where people have rights and freedoms to do as they please. Unfortunately, abundant other nations restrict freedom because of the opinions of a select few, whom happen to have further power. Freedom can be separated into many categories, such as social, economic, political, and religious freedom. However, there can be certain extents to which one can be practiced as somewhat of a contract to provide for the advancement of society. Persecutions, arguably discrimination, have always unjustly interfered, and, therefore, these accommodations did not always exist. Even in the most seemingly free country, oppression runs rampantly. In the mid-twentieth century, the fight for freedom saw itself expanding into the media, music, and, most effectively, literature. Literature is the prime outlet to voice opinions, and, in most instances, it is consistent with exposing injustices. Famously, Iris Murdoch incorporated numerous aspects and oppressions of her personal life, and of her time period in general, into her novels. Freedom is the most outrageously oppressed human right in the world, most eloquently in Iris Murdoch’s Under the Net, Jackson’s Dilemma, and The Unicorn, and the paradigm deserves to be scrutinized.