Securing America and Protecting Civil Liberties September 11‚ 2001 was one of the most devastating disasters that our nation had encounter. The fact that we had been targeted on our own land and the fact the terrorist were being trained being here in the United States put fear and a sense of insecurity in our nation. The terrorist attacks upon our nation prompt the Bush administration to make homeland security its top priority. The focus was to make an effort to prevent future terrorist
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My name is Patrick Lang. I am 18 years old and was born in Barberton‚ Ohio. From there I moved to my current home in North Tonawanda‚ New York. I went to North Tonawanda High School for four years and graduated with the class of 2011. I am currently attending Niagara County Community College and majoring in criminal justice‚ carrying a total of 15 credit hours for this semester. Some strengths I would consider myself to have include being responsible and efficient. Also a couple weaknesses I would
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Avid Speech This was my first year of participating in the avid program‚ and to tell you the truth‚ I wasn’t sure what to expect. However‚ I feel that with the help of Mr. Kaiser’s freshmen avid class‚ my first year of highschool will become one of my most memorable. From field trips‚ to tutorials‚ our class has been extremely interactive with one another. We have gone on a total of 3 field trips. One to Pacific Lutheran University‚ one to UW Tacoma‚ and one to Evergreen State College.
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At the diversity speech‚ we were given the wonderful opportunity to listen to the stories of three very different women: Dr. Xiaoyi Liu‚ Pia Driessen-Knittle‚ and Bernadine Lewis. Listening to these women speak really opened my eyes to how different we all truly are from each other. Although these women were probably some extremes of diversity‚ it demonstrated a good sense of differing backgrounds. Regardless of where these women came from‚ they found themselves here in America‚ on stage‚ speaking
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encompass all that a person is. A Ted talk by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie warned about the dangers of single stories. A single story is essentially a stereotype built by limited knowledge or interpretations of something or someone. The point of her speech was to say that both people and culture are more complex than the one side people are aware of. This remains true with identities. A person
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Civil Liberties “Don ’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained‚ for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.” —Abraham Lincoln. The Bill of Rights was made as a promise to the smaller states that feared centralism so they could sign the constitution. The Bill of Rights or the Ten Amendments started in 1791 and the last was in 1992. Moreover thanks to the Farmers‚ the constitution can be changed or have many amendments depending on the opinion of different generations
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reasons. Patrick Henry is one example of a brave American‚ because he kept fighting for what he thought was right.We have a lot of examples of hard working Americans‚ in Walt Whitman’s poem he writes about how all Americans females ‚ males and children are hard working. Langston Hughes talks about equality with all Americans whether they are African‚ American‚ Chinese etc. The American Voice is characterized by the theme of bravery. This is demonstrated in Patrick Henry entitled “Give Me Liberty or Give
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is simply your everyday editorialist for a daily newspaper. Or‚ as the former executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida (ACLU)‚ could she possibly have her own agenda? One of Blumner’s columns entitled "Let’s stand up for liberty" was published in a well known editorial writers magazine called "The Masthead". In summary‚ it focuses on freedom of speech‚ and how we tend to lose sight of it‚ or even have it taken from us during national hardships. She feels that the government
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Civil Liberties Essay Within a democratic society citizens obtain a specific set of civil‚ social‚ and economic rights which others are not entitled to in others countries. World War II was a significant event in history when the United States went to war for its freedoms. During WWII‚ American’s feared for their safety and for the continuation of these civil liberties due to Hitler’s fascist minded Nazi regime. In Four Freedoms by Franklin Roosevelt‚ the importance of why we fight for our
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Kat Knightly Hamilton English 3- 3rd Block 21 October 2013 Patrick Henry and Benjamin Franklin Patrick Henry and Benjamin Franklin both knew that success sometimes requires persistence along with compromise. Compromise is defined by The Oxford Dictionary as an agreement or a settlement of a dispute that is reached by each side making concessions. By using this definition and analyzing these speeches‚ it is obvious to readers that both politicians were willing to make compromises. There are
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