In Jill Lepore's New York Burning and Lynda Day's Making a Way to Freedom, both authors detail the varying political and socio economic realities that impacted the slave trade in New York, the growth of ruling powers and the every day lives of enslaved people. Day illuminates readers on slaves who left their impact during their time such as Elymas Reeve and Blind Betty. Both of whom, despite their status as enslaved people, were highly esteemed and recognized during their time. By shining light on lesser known historical figures, Day honors these unsung heroes. Day's reports on the 'triangular trade' are particularly enlightening.
The constitution of the United States was a document created to fix the major problems the Confederation government had following its creation. The meetings in which the document was created founded the style of government that has lasted to this day. It created the Executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government, it created our bill of rights, and it separated powers between the states and the newly formed federal government. Negotiations started as very difficult between the representatives of the separate states.
Choice is what led both Wes Moores to end up where they did. One being in prison for the rest of his life and the other being a road scholar. They were both lucky to get as many chances as they did. The other Wes ended up in prison by choice. There were three choices the other Wes made because he wanted to not because of fate.
Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony was a slow paced documentary, but I found it to be interesting and full of information I did not know. What I like about Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony is that they were different from each other, while complementing each other at the same time. They were both bold and independent, but they lived different lives, which meant they each brought something unique to the table. Stanton grew up in a wealthy family and was discouraged from getting an education from her father. Anthony on the other hand was seen as equal to men and was encouraged to receive an education from her father.
Florence Kelley is a reformer and social worker who was an advocate for working women and young children. She had a mission to change child labor laws in all states and improve the condition for working-class women. In her speech, she discusses the reality of child labor and the laws that certain states have in place for child labor. In the first two paragraphs, Kelley establishes her credibility by using key facts and statistics such as “We have, in this country, two million children under the age of sixteen years who are earning their bread” and “No other portion of the wage earning class increased so rapidly from decade to decade as young girls from fourteen to twenty girls.” She also mentions the facts about laws in other states such as
To Abina, the word “free” means the freedom to have will over her own body, actions, and health. To be free is to be independent, and to be regard as a female individual who works to buy her own clothes, a sign for independency. However, her perspective of freed men is different from other such as James Hutton Brew, a lawyer representing Quamina Eddoo. Brew argues that a man is not considered a slave if there is no money involved, no beating or mistreatment, not being called a “slave”, and no field work given (Getz and Clarke, 19-20). This demonstrates how words that come from an important man hold so much powers and values compare to words coming out of Abina, a young female slave.
In other words, when we say that an act is “free” that the act has the freedom necessary for moral responsibility. It does not mean that there is no cause, or that it was caused by a previous event that is caused by a previous event. It mean that it was caused by a person. This is what Chisholm means by an “agent.”
Throughout history, rules and/ or the church commissioned work to control the masses, giving them visual rules and regulations on how they should live to make it to heaven. I feel Moore is taking somewhat of an opposite approach where he is displaying his disgust to those who are trying to manipulate and control society. Moore is bringing attention to the fact that Texas, one of the biggest history book suppliers for public education, has been altering our history for years. History as we’ve been taught isn’t exactly what happened, instead it is what the authors and publishers want history to be. In an education foundation course I took, we studied this extensively; the history we know is not the history of the United States, instead it is the history per Texas.
Three of the most important aspects of any story are the point of view, characterization and plot. In the short stories “Geraldine Moore the Poet,” “The Story-Teller,” and “Enemy Territory” this statement proves to be true. With a good analysis, all of these things can be found in the stories. Additionally, the point of view, characterization and plot can relate to the theme. The point of view needs to be scrutinized throughout the whole story.
The community needs to be aware of the issues as well since they
In providing health care, the clinical duties between doctors and nurses varies between the U.S. and Austria. Generally, in Austria, doctors have more autonomy in making decisions about their patients than their U.S. counterparts. For example, doctors determine the length of stay in Austrian hospitals while insurance helps drive those decisions in the U.S. Also, I learned that the Austrian healthcare system is not as far along in delegating certain physician responsibilities to nurses.
Aunt Lydia’s more relevant quote in The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, is the two freedoms, who gives the reader an accurate insight of the Gilead society. This quote exposes the contrast between the freedom before and after the settlement of the Republic of Gilead, and the mentality of the brainwashed nation. It is well known that the Gileadean era is a dystopia, but the reader must study deeper into both societies –Gileadean and pre-Gileadean- to understand which one is really worse. Before the appearing of the Republic of Gilead, freedom was seen as a person’s desire, however, on the Gileadean era, freedom is a collective idea. On the current community, freedom is settled by laws based on moral and social values, but ignoring the
“I believe the freedom to choose my course in life but I do not believe I am free to choose the consequences of my
But real free will, according to Taylor, appears in case of strong evaluations which determine important actions and decisions. Taylor, as well as Campbell, supposes that a person who makes acts has free choice to act in another way. And, “according to our definition, the act was freely performed. So not only would such acts be free, but they are also acts for which someone could be held morally responsible” (Free Will). So, Taylor assumes that moral responsibility is reflected in free choice of a person.
According to John Locke, it is not the Will of a human being that makes him or her free. The Will is simply a faculty of freedom, insofar as a person who expresses Free Will is simply acting freely in accordance with his or her desires. For Locke, It is the person who is free; he proclaims that “free will” is a misleading phrase, whereby “freedom” and the human “will” are two separate categories which must be clearly defined in order to be properly accounted for. A Person who is free may do what he or she wills. Freedom, for Locke, consists in a person’s power or ability to act or not act on his or her will.