Essays on Free Speech

The famous speech given by Elie Wiesel called “The Perils of Indifferences” was one of the best speeches given. Wiesel used rhetorical strategies to prove his message. That indifference is worse than hate. He questions the morals of other’s. Elie used ethos, pathos, logo and...

When people decide to have children, they never expect to be the few parents who children are born with differences from their own. These differences can be a disability, sexuality identity, or even their ability. What happens when these parents end up having children with...

“I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it”, a quote giving perspective of many on free speech. This quote gives an example of a different view some may have on this topic,...

If Liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. Free Speech has been a major topic for years, controversies on different aspects of the 1st amendment have plague America for centuries. The limits of...

Speech recognition is the capacity to listen to talked words and distinguish different sounds exhibit in it, recognize them as words of some known language. In the computer area, the Speech recognition is might be characterized as the capacity of the computer framework to acknowledge...

The speaker is Robert Buller, an environmental sociologist, who wants to speak to the students about his history and experience as an environmentalist and sociologist over the last four decades. His aim perhaps is to inspire a passion in sociology among the students and motivate...

Imagine this, you are outside, you look up but there is no sky, you look around but there are no buildings or trees or even grass. You are in a baron wasteland nothing but dust on the ground and nothing but dark clouds loom overhead,...

What has the world come to? People are being unfairly punished for exercising their right to use the first amendment of this great country. Dave Chappelle tackled this issue in an ingenious way with his most recent show on Netflix ‘Sticks & Stones’. Also, according...

Attention: How many people work long hours in the day whether it’s doing homework and studying or working an actual job? A study done in Lancet Medical Journal studied about 600,000 individuals and found that those that worked long periods of hours had a 33%...

Lupita Nyong’o spoke at the Massachusetts Conference for Women in 2014 with goals of empowering women and telling the story of how she became an actress. She used a steady tone throughout her speech, as well as strong eye contact. Nyong’o also articulated her words...

Every school in the world at one point has given their students homework on weekends and holiday breaks, and that isn’t fair to the students. Every year students must go to school 10 out of the 12 months in a year. Every week us students...

Universities should encourage free expression and free inquiry on both students and faculty; they should be able to create and transmit knowledge of their own without fear of judgment. If limits are being placed on a students freedom of expression or on the extent to...

The number of students demanding protection from distasteful ideas is growing yearly. Some students complain that both racist and oppressive words are being vocalized within their universities. For example, the State Department was required to ban words such as “Islamist”, “jihad” and “caliphate from the...

David Foster Wallace’s commencement speech, “This is Water,” opens up a complex discussion on whether we can “adjust” what is “hardwired” into our brains. Robert Kurzban’s book, Why Everyone (Else) is a Hypocrite, contributes to this discussion with its neurodeterministic perspective and skepticism of the...

If you were to ask ten people if and how we should censor speech in the online space, you would get ten different answers. We in the United States are able to freely express anything that we want to without fear of repercussion. This is...

“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” – Voltaire. The Catholic church suppressing atheistic books. Hitler banning all books in Nazi Germany except for his autobiography, Mein Kampf. The apartheid government prohibiting news of resistance being...

As President of the United States, you are expected to carry out a multitude of jobs and duties. Presidents are not only expected to lead the country and its people to succeed but also motivate and encourage them along the way. There are many ways...

What do you imagine in your head when I say the word, Russian? Maybe some of you may imagine a bottle of Vodka, others may imagine a bear on a tricycle or a Balalaika. If you put that all together it may look something like...

Back in 2010, Aaron Swartz, a tech prodigy and political activist, sneaked into a basement closet at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and secretively connected his laptop to the school’s high-speed Internet network. Using the school’s credentials, he gained access to JSTOR, a digital...