Are the poor and the wealthy equally concerned about the “freedom from fear”? It’s very clear that the poor and the wealthy have different concerns. The poor worry more about finical issues while the wealthy are more concerned with economic or personal issues. But there are some concerns that they share quite equally such as the freedom from fear. To prove this, we will analyze the text from Barack Obama’s “Welcoming Remarks” speech and Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s “Four Freedoms” speech. During the time period in which Franklin D. Roosevelt gave “The Four Freedoms” speech it was a time of hardship for all Americans, not just the poor. “And that is why the future of all the American Republics is today in serious danger”. Even the president …show more content…
In his speech Obama said how we have stood together as a nation and we fight as a nation to make sure that citizens can live free from fear. “We stand together and we work together and we bleed together and build together, in good times and in bad… We believe that our citizens should be able to live free from fear. So, like generations before us, we stand untied in the defense of our countries and against those who would terrorize our people”. In this he makes a good a point that regardless of your finical situation if the United States was taken over it would not matter how much money you had you would still live in fear. In conclusion, as you can see from both speeches that both the poor and rich have to deal with fear and that they both want freedom from this fear. In “The Four Freedoms” speech we hear how it was a time of hardship for all Americans showing us that in the worst of times we are all in it together. In the “Welcoming Remarks” speech we hear again how in hard times we stand, work, and bleed together. Americans, regardless of their money situation, truly do face the United States problems
Covert’s article is an analysis of a tweet made by the current American Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, who in the tweet, stated that freedom is “the ability to buy what you want to fit what you need”. His tweet is deemed curious because Ryan puts forward a conception of American liberty
President Obama starts off his speech with a vocal view of the proposal to raise the minimum wage while also detailing its prevalence. He begins with displays of pathos, stating how he has been calling on Congress to “reward the hard work of millions of Americans” who are rife with financial befalls. This indicates that he is neither ignorant of the lower social classes nor playing with politics. President Obama shows that he means what he says and will attempt to pursue such ambitions, even if his attempts are ultimately in vain. He does this whilst asserting how popular the bill is among “three in four Americans”. This
America: “The land of the free, and the home of the brave” (Key 7-8). When our forefathers overcame the colonial reign of the British Empire, they formed the United States of America based on the premise of enlightened ideals promoting life, ownership of land, and liberty. But after the revolution, the country’s problems were far from solved. The country’s post-revolution issues sparked a Civil War, which was followed by a reconstruction. In some ways, the Civil War and Reconstruction helped the United States accomplish its original goals, but in many ways, that was not the case.
The Fourth Amendment allows U.S. citizen to feel secure. And that security is not going to change because the fourth amendment is “set in stone” (salon.com, 2013). Obama did speak on the security of phone calls and he said the government looks at the duration phone calls and their numbers. However, he did go on to say “This program, by the way, is fully overseen not just by Congress, but by the FISA Court, a court specially put together to evaluate classified programs to make sure that the executive branch, or government generally, is not abusing them and that they’re — it’s being out consistent with the Constitution and rule of law” (www.fednews.com). The Judicial Oversight on the information that the government receives allows citizens to
started off with, “ My fellow citizens “ in the beginning of their speeches to
The price of freedom should be borne by all, rich or poor. I learned this first hand as a United States Army Recruiter and a volunteer soldier who fought in two wars representing my country. As a military recruiter from 1971 to 1991, I was tasked with soliciting men and women who were high school graduates to enlist into the United States Army. Often times I would call a home to speak to a graduate about joining the army, and a mother would answer; I would tell her the purpose of my call, and often times her answer would be “not my son”! I would often replay, “well mam, if not your son, then whose son”! I very seldom got an answer but I often wondered if I could read her mind, would she be thinking about whether I should be contacting
Now a day we bypass valuable freedom opportunities in everyday life and we see them as nothing. For example, being able to even walk in your backyard in the evening, or taking your own kids to school, matter of fact even the privilege to attend school, calling your family members in no time, being able to relax, have an easy day and working at a place of your liking. All these things are part of our freedom that we normally don’t think about or how these things would greatly impact our life. These were small things that greatly impacted a slave’s life in the 1930s, not being able to choose their own life path, always being the use of everybody else, never having the opportunity to take a deep breath of fresh air. This was my life as a slave
Schools and Cars: School authorities require not get a warrant before seeking an understudy who is under their power; rather, a pursuit of an understudy require just be sensible under all the circumstances.
The Fourth Amendment reads: “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated and no Warrant shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the person or things to be seized” (Smentkowski, 2014). The Fourth Amendment clearly states that an individual has the right to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures, but what constitutes a search? The Bill of Rights was created due to the founders and the authors of the Constitution wanting to protect and preserve the rights of the citizens. The Fourth Amendment
America is known both conventionally and historically as 'the land of the free'... but is that really the case? In his article titled Freedom and Money, G. A. Cohen addresses this question through the relationship between freedom and money, or more specifically the lack thereof: poverty. As Cohen shows, experts all along the political spectrum agree that the poor are entitled to far less opportunities than their wealthier counterparts. The controversy with the subject thus lies, instead, in the ambiguity of the term "freedom" and what it implies, as well as to what exactly it's beneficiaries are permitted. The political left believes that because the impoverished are financially unable to exercise many of their freedoms, their economic status
During the Gilded Age, growing disparities between the rich industrialists, financiers, and employers of the era and poorer workers contributed towards a shift in people’s opinions and beliefs about freedom. The elite and the urban poor came to have contrasting views on what freedom meant and what social conditions and governmental roles promote and protect the liberties of citizens.
This means that being an American during this period was hard and individuals that were considered poor were not given all these rights as I stated before. These rights were only available to individuals that own land or have a business or have money. In order for individuals to have a status they needed to have
3) Explain the meaning of the principle of parallelism in outlining. Give an example of parallel construction.
Many ideas are important within the American culture, but to the American sense of patriotism, freedom is most fundamental. The idea of freedom is central to the American politics – which is at times referred to as liberty. Since the birth of the nation, freedom has been the vocabulary of the American language and its importance cannot be underestimated. The Declaration of Independence, for instance, ranks liberty as an inalienable right. On the other hand, the Constitution reckons that it purposes to protect civilians’ liberty. The importance of freedom has even stretched further than the political arena and has prompted the birth of civil rights movements and other activist protests. The Cold War and the Civil War were all for the cause of freedom. The importance that Americans attach to freedom can also be demonstrated from the erection of statues, banishment of slavery, use of liberty poles and a right to vote for adults. For many years, women and the African Americans have for a long time fought against denial and infringement of their freedom . However, given the importance that Americans affiliate to freedom in the conceptualization of their country, it has been the subject of modifications over the course of years especially before the Revolutionary War.
The poem Acceptance Speech by Lynn Powell is about a housewife who feels undervalued by her family and by society. The title of the poem suggests that the character has received an award for achieving something brilliant, but in fact she is being sarcastic and conducting an imaginary award ceremony for herself in her kitchen, since no one else is willing to appreciate her hard work. The poet uses irony and personification of kitchen utensils and ingredients to add humour to the play. She uses the In this poem, the character deals with her desire to be appreciated by propelling herself into an imaginary scenario in her kitchen where she is in the spotlight and humorously personifies ingredients in food who are just as under appreciated as