This essay focus on 3 stories. The first one is titled “What, of This Goldfish, Would You Wish”. The second is titled “American flag stands for Tolerance”. The third is titled “The Lottery”.
Yonatan had a brilliant idea for a documentary. He’d knock on doors. Just him. No camera crew, no nonsense. Just Yonatan, on his own, a small camera in hand. Asking, “If you found a talking goldfish that granted you three wishes, what you would wish for?
Once again the issue over ones' right to burn the American flag has become a heated debate in the United States. In 1989 the Supreme Court struck down a Texas State law that prohibited the destruction of the American flag. The Supreme Court ruled that the Texas law violated the First Amendment. To avoid any other flag burning cases, the U.S. Congress passed 'The Flag Protection Act of
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There are many ways to express discontent in this country, without burning an American flag. (And remember those that do are able to do so because this nation even protects actions that set fire not to another nations' flag but their own flag, a notion I have struggled with) Does flag burning represent a just way to 'petition the government’, an administration, a political party, all of America's horrible mistakes? (Which there are many) or does it represent the aspiration of 'We the People'? Listen folks, I realize we are far from 'We the People" simply because it’s harder to change peoples' mindsets than it is to pass legislation. I just do not believe that Americans should burn their flag as a form of protesting the government. It is interesting because I created a survey regarding how Americans felt when they saw people from other nations burn our flag and the results were staggering. Using a random sampling of 200 people, 182 were angered when seeing the act committed by people of other nations, 12 thought it was a legitimate form of protest and 6 did not care one way or the other. The 182 people were then