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    Society and the opinions of others are greatly influential. Other times, internal motivations are the guiding force. This fight between external and internal motivation is explored by Jane Austen in her novel Persuasion. She uses theory of mind and free indirect discourse to argue that internal motivations are better guides than persuasion from society, family, or any other outside force. In Persuasion, thoughts are greatly privileged over actions. As a result, readers are given insight into characters’

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    Freedom Summer The 1960s was a very hostile time for African Americans, especially in one particular state. In Mississippi, only 7% of the African American population was registered to vote, while other southern states had about 50%-60% of the black community participating in elections. Though preventing someone from voting based on their skin color was unconstitutional, many towns in Mississippi made it almost impossible for anyone of color to enter the voting booth. Many efforts to try to encourage

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    A Battle of Rights      The Student Protest Movement of the 1960's was initiated by the newly empowered minds of Americas youth. The students who initiated the movement had just returned from the “Freedom Summer” as supporters of the Civil Rights Movement, registering Black voters, and they turned the principles and methods they had learned on the Freedom Rides to their own issues on campus. These students (mostly white, middle class) believed they were being held

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    Freedom of Speech Report The purpose of this report is to identify how “Freedom of Speech” can affect people and inform how the freedom of speech movement started. The questions that I want to answer is how the freedom of speech movement started, how people are affected by freedom of speech online and how freedom of speech affects a society. Freedom of speech has played a major role in history and has been important to the building of our society. There have been many different ways people have

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    The Free Speech Movement (FSM) at the University of California at Berkeley started during the fall of 1964. (Freeman, Jo) But there were many events leading up to this point. The Free Speech Movement began to obtain momentum in the fall of 1963 and the spring of 1964 the Bay Area was rocked with the civil rights demonstrations against employers who practiced racial discrimination. (Freeman, Jo) These students believed that this was wrong and felt the need to do something about it. So many Berkeley

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    On December 2nd, 1964, Mario Savio delivered his most famous speech on the steps of Sproul Hall on the campus of UC Berkeley. His address, most famously known for it’s passage on “The Operation of the Machine”, called university students and TAs to participate in civil disobedience in order to disrupt parts of the university’s functioning. This effort was to show the administration that the students were autonomous human beings, and not “raw material” to be “bought by some client of the University

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    is to identify how “Freedom of Speech” can affect people and inform how the freedom of speech movement started. The questions that I want to answer are how people are affected by freedom of speech online, how freedom of speech affects a society and how the freedom of speech movement started. Freedom of speech has played a major role in history and has been important to the building of our society. There have been many different ways people have taken freedom of speech to the extreme and this is intended

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    fashion. This makes dialogical works a lot more ‘objective’ and ‘realistic’ in nature. Bakhtin’s discussion of dialogism is both linguistic and novelistic. He uses it to “refer to particular instances of language, perceptible in novels and popular speech; and also refers to a defining quality of language itself, and its most fundamental sense-making

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    use of free indirect discourse in both the novel and the film to strengthen the comparison of characterization between the two mediums. Exploring the role of free indirect discourse in both pieces will give the reader a clear understanding of how the author and director are able to strategically characterize each protagonist. In "Emma," Jane Austen employs free indirect discourse

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    unpunishable advocacy and expression of ideas as a form of free speech even if such statements constitute hate speech, and the punishable encouragement of and incitement to criminal actions, a distinction on which the above-mentioned Hood case was based. To do so, they set forward different tests and standards against which to measure the statements under analysis. In his paper, Pew (2016) reviewed different of such tests in relation to speech act theory. According to Pew, the early tests focused on

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