Freedom

Thomas Aquinas on the Freedom of the Will(Q10a2 and Q13a6)  Free will and predestination were issues that shook the early medieval world. By Thomas’ time at the High Middle Ages, the influence of St. Augustine was still paramount in western thought, and hence, the question of the will and its capacities remained critical. For both thinkers,…

Freedom can be defined as the state of being free from something that can control you. Everyone including teenagers or even kids wanted to be free from their parents’ control because they find that when they are free from someone’s control, they can do anything they want. Teenagers and kids would definitely seek for freedom…

Introduction Freedom Writers is a drama based on the book “The freedom writers’ diary” by Erin Gruwell and her students at the Woodrow Wilson Classical High School in California. The book is an agglomeration of the writings of these students, inspired by their teacher, to write about the experiences they had to undergo due to…

The Sedition Act The Sedition Act of 1798 allowed for punishment of anyone found guilty of making false statements with the intent to oppose the federal government or incite sedition within the United States (Ragsdale, 2005). Both English and American courts had relied on a collection of court precedents and traditions to prosecute individuals for…

Freedom of Speech in a Religious Assembly Let Freedom Ring “The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God” (KJV Psalm 9:17). An average of over 160,000 Christians have been killed every year since 1990 (Colson). Statistically speaking there have been more recorded Christian martyrs in the twentieth century than…

The Freedom Writers Diary by Erin Gruwell and her students show many great examples of the vast importance of tolerance. This novel is about one teacher who taught her students tolerance and knowledge. This novel even shares how to support tolerance and diversity. Tolerance is important to have in this world because without tolerance, there…

Balancing Individual Privacy with Press Freedom Alan F. Weston, a privacy expert at Columbia university, once wrote: Privacy Is the claim of individuals, groups, or institutions to determine for themselves when, how, and to what extent information about them is communicated to others (self information control right). In this age of mass media, individual privacy…

However restricting these elements can lead to a enthroned and confined living, which abolishes the Idea of being free. The Giver and the AY Jazzier cartoon on Journalist, Peter Greatest, shows the conformity the community In The Giver faced In the community and the limitation on knowledge of the world around them. The cartoon explains…

Freedom oMalaysia – Assembling the Peaceful Assembly Act — Amanda Whiting APRIL 4 — The process of enacting the Peaceful Assembly Bill 2011 and the public debate and disappointment this has engendered illustrate some of the worst, and yet also some of the most encouraging, aspects of the law and legal culture in Malaysia. When…

Freedom is defined from different aspects, and according to different cultures, freedom varies from culture to another. Some define freedom as a natural right. Freedom is the right to do what one wants, live where he wants, eat what he wants, learns what he wants, and chooses the religion In which he believes, without ignoring…