Freedom
Most of the existential thinkers laud humanity's boundless freedom to chose

Total freedom is in existence in the world where the virtual actions of humanity cannot under any specified circumstances cause harm to anything real. Knowledge is the significant key to the establishment of the applicable methods. Every force in the development of humanity produces something of exceptional value. The nature of the response we exercise towards daily life determines the true worth of humanity. For an individual to live a successful life in consideration to the aspect of freedom, greatest ideals selected as availed and incorporated in the course of life. The ability to cope with every aspect in regards to the education system as witnessed in the case of Charles Bronson in writing is capable of causing a person to lead a quality life.

Does humanity's freedom has a limit? Why or why not?

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References

Hughes, J.A., Martin, P.J., & Sharrock, W.W. (2003). Understanding classical sociology: Marx, Weber, Durkheim. London [u.a.: Sage.

In trying to be different from the rest and in trying to act against reason people are either false or they prefer to believe that they actually have an alternative. Considering this, it is only safe to assume that freedom, as Kant sees it, is limited to performing acts that act in accordance with reason. Unlimited freedom would mean that one would act against reason and against his or her purpose as a typical human being that is expected to contribute to the well-being of society. If what Kant thinks is actually true it means that people are unable to act in accordance with their personal convictions and that they are merely a part of a greater mechanism. Being a person would be nothing more than just a dream, considering that one could not actually exercise his or her free will and that basically everything that he or she…...

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Works cited:

Gardner, Sebastian, Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Kant and the Critique of Pure Reason (London: Routledge, 1999)

"Immanuel Kant: Metaphysics," Retrieved May 11, 2011, from the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy Website: http://www.iep.utm.edu/kantmeta/#SH8a

"Kant," Retrieved May 11, 2011, from the John Carroll University Website:   -- 00.htmhttp://www.jcu.edu/philosophy/gensler/ms/kant 

Freedom of the press is a cornerstone of democratic societies. The phrase "freedom of the press" means that television, radio and other media can report the news without interference from the government. In addition it includes freedom of speech, or the rights of individuals to express their opinions without fear that the government will harass or arrest them for what they have said. Freedom of the press is an important part of the Universal Declaration of Human rights put forth by the United Nations (Wikipedia, 2005). It includes the entire process of producing news from gathering to writing, publishing, and distribution (Fink, 2002).
Freedom House, an organization dedicated to the monitoring of freedom of the press around the world, tracks which countries have the most effective rights supporting freedom of the press as well as those countries where rights have been eroded, and those countries where freedom of the press does…...

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editors. 2001. "The News Letter has won an important victory for the freedom of the Press." News Letter, May.

Fink, Herschel P. 2002. "Freedom of the press becomes a river without water': an attorney describes the fight for access to news in a post-September 11 world." (INS Coverage). Nieman Reports, Dec. 22.

Gessen, Masha. 2000. "Moscow Dispatch: Beat the Press (freedom of the press seems increasingly endangered under the leadership of President Vladimir Putin). The New Republic, June 5.

Goldfarb, Michael. 2005. "Study Finds Decline in Global Press Freedom." Freedom House, April 27. Accessed via the Internet 8/30/05.

John Stuart Mill suggested in his famous work on Liberty (1859) that human freedom in society should be absolute to the extent an individual's desired conduct does not harm other individuals. Experts in philosophy (Taylor, 1980) consider the following passage to represent Mill's position most comprehensively:

The object of this Essay is to assert one very simple principle...That principle is, that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection. That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others." (Shields, 1956).

Authority over individuals within this principle is the underlying basis of civil law and the statutory definitions of criminal conduct in free societies. Dictatorships, autocracies, and oligarchies generally do not subscribe to Mill's principle, but impose limitations…...

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References

Shields, C. (1956) John Stuart Mill: On Liberty. Bobbes-Merrill Co.:

Indianapolis

Taylor, R. (1980) Freedom, Anarchy, and the Law: An Introduction to Political Philosophy. Prometheus: Buffalo

The period of reconstruction was seen as a failure. WEB Dubois in his "Black econstruction in America" (1935) "The slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery." Eric Foner, in his assertion regarding the black perspective, "econstruction must be judged failure… it was a noble flawed experiment, the first attempt to introduce a genuine inter-racial democracy in the United States" (255-256). Other such as Booker T. Washington asserted that the reconstruction failed because it started from the wrong premise and in the wrong place. He asserted that reconstruction was political and targeted civil rights when the real focus should have been self-determination and economic equality. During this time in American history the Ku Klux Klan was glorified as white vigilantes, romanticizing the notion of torturing black people. According to T. Harry Williams,

econstruction was a battle between two extremes:

the Democrats as the group…...

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References

DuBois, W. (1935). Black reconstruction in America, 1860 to 1880. New York, NY: The

Free Press.

Foner, Eric. (1988) Reconstruction: America's unfinished revolution, 1863-1877. New

York, NY: Harper and Row.

'm not afraid of my school, my teachers, my streets, but somehow inside of me, there is some fear: know things are different.
Both of my grandfathers served in the Navy during World War ; both fought to protect an idea of freedom and security that was taken away from me at 12. My grandfather was 17 when he was on wo Gima - these 17-year-olds did not even respect that which they were taking away.

am now 18, and can't imagine having traded prom and homecoming last year for a military-issue weapon and a station in raq. don't even know what it must be like to be an raqi - do 12-year-olds there wish they could walk down the street worried only about bullies from the senior high? Abraham Lincoln said, "Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves." And as we send…...

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I would guess they'd carry on, just like we do, and tell their children to be careful outside and rationalize that a 12-year-old maybe should have a cell phone - just in case. In all the wars my grandfathers and great-grandfathers knew before me, only once in 136 years of freedom did that war touch their soil. Only once, one Sunday in 1941, did they taste that kind of fear - until September 11th, 2001, when those who seek to destroy our way of life brought their unholy mission to our shores and I woke up, went to my middle school, and started an 8th grade day like any other, not knowing that my whole world had been shaken.

On September 11th, terrorist fanatics challenged freedom in New York. Two years before that, three bullies on my block did too. Poverty, struggling school systems, broken homes, border security, immigration, new languages - all of these changes we are struggling to accept force us to reconsider all that is "American" and redefine what we are committed to keeping Free.

And so we are faced with a new age of choices, and I don't claim to have any answers. But what I do know, what Mills wrote, and what Simone Weil affirms, is that the prize for freedom is making that choice at all, and "Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose."

Freedom to Be Yourself
Harry Brown, the author of How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World, once wrote "...the only way to achieve total freedom is to jettison all attachments and responsibilities -- to family, to country, to people, to government and to morality. In other words, only when you become a lone wolf outlaw do you achieve maximum freedom." And true to form, Browne hit a nerve: being true to self is veritable freedom of humanity.

In the three literary pieces presented, Tite Poulette, The Little Convent Girl and Free Joe and the Rest of the World, there is a common theme of what Browne made so clear: being true to self. It is evident, though, that each main character of these short stories was ultimately sacrificing many things in order to achieve that freedom and the happiness that exudes from having that autonomy.

It is clear that Kristian Koppig, the…...

Freedom and Social Justice
Barbour's "Philosophy and Human Values, and Dyson's "Technology and Social Justice"

Barbour and Dyson's ideas about freedom and social justice, how these ideas relate to technology?

Ian Graeme Barbour

Graeme Barbour is a known scholar who relayed the relationship between religion and science. He made cognition that religion is related to science in various ways. In his "critical realism" term, Graeme Barbour exemplified that religion and science shares certain similarities and differences in their basic structures. This is in relation to the subjective and objective features in religion and science. For instance, the two bodies entangle subjective entities like comprehensible theories dealing with falsification, theory, and non-relevance to rules in choosing paradigms. Moreover, religion and science relate on objective features like related data, evidence that support or dispute a theory, and criteria dependent on the paradigms used.

Graeme Barbour's ideas are related to technology. Graeme Barbour considers critical realism in relation…...

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References

Barbour, I. (2008). The Beloved Community: How Faith Shapes Social Justice from the Civil

Rights Movement to Today. New York: Basic Books

Dyson, F.J. (1999). The sun, the genome & the Internet: Tools of scientific revolutions. New York: New York Public Library

Winston, M.E., & Edelbach, R. (2012). Society, ethics, and technology. Boston: Wadsworth

Everyone should be treated as per his/her capabilities not as per hi/her religion. This is what knowledge about the psychology teaches us clearly in all the fields and stages of life.
Education is a wide subject in which so many fields are included. The government of any country should try to plan education curriculum in such a way that the modern requirements are properly met. Education is always an independent source and freedom is highly dependent on education. Education always helps people, give proper knowledge about the way of living a healthy life. Education supports people to understand their rights and responsibilities as a civilized, independent and thoughtful citizen of the country. People get the confidence and ask about their benefits in case they are harmed or going to be harmed anytime (Newman).

The freedom of mind and questioning can only be developed if people know about the laws and regulations…...

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Bibliography

Austin, Michael. Reading the World, Ideas that Matter W.W. Norton & Company, 2006.

Burnside, John, Iain Crichton Smith and Pier Paolo Pasolini. Edinburgh Review (Edinburgh Review S.) (v. 99). Edinburgh U.P., 1996.

Church, R.W. The Oxford Movement . Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2004.

Douglass, Frederick. American Slave. Washington: Prestwick House Inc.; 2004 edition, 2004.

After chronic stomach trouble in 1799, the composer became progressively hard of hearing, and finally completely deaf by 1816. Despite this, he continued enjoying and composing music, enjoying great success until his death in 1827. In contrast to Mozart, he not only had a longer and more successful career than his former mentor, but also a much better funeral. Despite being practically friendless when he died, Beethoven had many fans, of whom 20,000 lined the streets on the way to his final resting place.
In conclusion, the types of freedom experienced by the four persons mentioned above are divergent, but also compare in terms of their effect on the souls involved. Marx experienced satisfaction by achieving freedom for the social collective, while Luther experienced the same for his flock. Mozart and Beethoven still influence millions today with the sense of freedom inspired by their music.

eferences

Island of Freedom (2010). Wolfgang Amadeus…...

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References

Island of Freedom (2010). Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791). Retrieved from  http://home.comcast.net/~rsarkiss/iof/MOZART.htm 

Luther, Martin. (1520) on the Freedom of a Christian Retrieved from  http://www.sjsu.edu/upload/course/course_3435/Martin_Luther_On_the_Freedon_of_a_Christian.pdf 

Marx, Karl. A Critique of the German Ideology. Retrieved from http://www.marxistsfr.org/archive/marx/works/download/Marx_The_German_Ideology.pdf

Powell, Jim. (1995, Dec.) Ludwig van Beethoven's Joyous Affirmation of Human Freedom. The Freeman, Vol. 45, Iss. 12. Retrieved from  http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/ludwig-van-beethovens-joyous-affirmation-of-human-freedom/#

Science has become a dominant facet of modern society and has to a large extent replaced the guiding role of religion. Therefore, science has a great responsibility to ensure that research freedom is not irresponsibly applied. This has resulted in numerous debates on subjects such as science and the environment and modern cloning. This in turn has raised the question whether scientific freedom is always ethical. There is a view from many quarters that science is in fact an ethically neutral and that scientific freedom does not come with social or ethical responsibilities. (Tielman)
This aspect is also discussed in an article by Fenstad, entitled, Science between freedom and responsibility (2003) in this article the author argues against the view of scientific neutrality and asserts that modern science cannot avoid its ethical responsibilities. "Previously, science was the problem solver. Now science came to be seen as a major source of…...

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Works Cited

An ethical analysis of fisheries. October 19, 2008. http://www.fao.org/docrep/008/y6634e/y6634e06.htm

Bok, Hilary. Freedom and Responsibility. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998. Questia. 20 Oct. 2008.  http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=102968480 .

Context of the Ethics Framework. 20 Oct. 2008.   www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5008280386http://www.ncehr-cnerh.org/english/code_2/intro03.html 

Drazenovich, George. "Towards a Levinasian Understanding of Christian Ethics: Emmanuel Levinas and the Phenomenology of the Other." Cross Currents Wntr 2005: 37+. Questia. 21 Oct. 2008  http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5008280386 .

Freedom of information is needed to ensure that government and business is transparent and accountable. However, the mass proliferation of computer and communication technologies has created a unique vulnerability that makes it difficult for agencies to effective protect security and privacy without reducing overall access to information. With this in mind, efforts to resolve this dichotomy must be considered.
3.1 Building Better it Infrastructure

Critically reviewing what scholars have noted about balancing freedom of information with privacy and security, the development and implementation of secure information technology infrastructure has been noted as a principle issue for improving outcomes in this area [6]. Scholars argue that with the right it infrastructure in place, agencies will be able to effectively review and evaluate data to determine its relevance in terms of compromising personal information or security. In short, an additional layer of it infrastructure is needed to ensure that agencies are able to…...

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References

1] Holsen, S. (2007). Freedom of information in the UK, U.S. And Canada. Information Management Journal, 41(3), 50-55.

2] Kirtley, J.E. (2006). Transparency and accountability in a time of terror: The Bush Administration's assault on freedom of information. Communication Law & Policy, 11(4), 479-509.

3] Swartz, N. (2004). The world moves toward freedom of information. Information Management Journal, 28(6), 20-23.

4] Halstuk, M.E., & Chamberlin, B.F. (2006). The Freedom of Information Act 1966-2006: A retrospective on the rise of privacy protection over the public interest in knowing what the government's up to. Communication Law & Policy, 11(4), 511-564.

That does not mean that a person who supports the right to burn the flag supports the burning of the flag. As an American, I think the idea of someone desecrating a flag, and, by extension, desecrating America, would be a very disturbing one. However, political speech is going to deserve to at least a portion of the audience.
5. Most laws prevent employers from refusing to hire people because of their race, but employers can take race into account in more subtle ways. Have you ever encountered any serious forms of discrimination that were not illegal?

I have not personally encountered any serious forms of discrimination that were not illegal. I can imagine how that discrimination might occur. For example, I have heard stories of people having their resumes ignored because they have ethnic-sounding names. It would be difficult to prove discrimination in such a case, but that discrimination would…...

Freedom, Politics, Economics
Politics and Economics from the eyes of Henry David Thoreau

To begin, Henry David Thoreau was very unique during his era, primarily due to his forward thinking style and rationality. In regards to economics, Thoreau would not favor the expanded powers of government currently prevailing in America. In fact, Thoreau often advocated for limited government with powers only responsible for the protection of society from foreign competitors. Thoreau is often quoted for saying, "I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government." In this quote he often refers to a limited government as best for the constituents of the country as a whole. As such, Thoreau would not be supportive of many of the progressive laws expanding government control and influence. Aspects such as universal healthcare and disaster relief funding, Thoreau would be against on a federal level. However, if individuals as a collective…...

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References:

1) Benson, Jackson. (1989). "Ernest Hemingway: The Life as Fiction and the Fiction as Life." American Literature. Volume 61, issue 3. 354 -- 358

2) Bosco, Ronald a. And Joel Myerson (2003). Emerson in His Own Time. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press. ISBN 0-87745-842-1.

3) Howarth, William. The Book of Concord: Thoreau's Life as a Writer. Viking Press, 1982

4) Gura, Philip F (2007). American Transcendentalism: A History. New York: Hill and Wang. ISBN 978-0-8090-3477-2.

The American and French Revolutions occurred within decades of each other, influenced by similar changes taking place in European society. Concepts of freedom and liberty therefore evolved concurrently within these two societies, in part due to the vibrant interchange of ideas and philosophies. French philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville epitomized the bilateral ideological communications that flowed between France and the United States. In a general sense, French and American concepts of freedom and liberty are similar, deriving from Enlightenment humanism and the concept of a universal moral order divorced from overarching church authority. Concepts like freedom of speech and religion are embedded into the constitutions of these two countries and cultures. French and American republican values also influenced how these two nations would structure their governments in the era of the modern nation-state. As their nations evolved throughout the modern era, though, it became apparent that France and the United States…...

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Works Cited

Eskow, Richard. “Ten Ways Americans Have Lost Their Freedom.” Salon. 2012.

Foner, Eric. “The Contested History of American Freedom.” Historical Society of Pennsylvania. https://digitalhistory.hsp.org/pafrm/essay/contested-history-american-freedom

Freedom House. https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2016/france

Goldhammer, Arthur. “What Would Alexis de Tocqueville Have Made of the 2016 US Presidential Election?” The Nation. 28 Sept, 2016. https://www.thenation.com/article/what-would-have-alexis-de-tocqueville-have-made-of-the-2016-us-presidential-election/

Haefeli, Evan. “Liberty, Diversity, and Slavery: The Beginnings of American Freedom.” Historical Society of Pennsylvania. https://digitalhistory.hsp.org/pafrm/essay/liberty-diversity-and-slavery-beginnings-american-freedom

“The Ideas of the French Revolution.” Alpha History. http://alphahistory.com/frenchrevolution/revolutionary-ideas/

Naylor, Thomas N. “Freedom, Equality, Justice, and Liberty Forever.” Second Vermont Republic. http://vermontrepublic.org/freedom-equality-justice-and-liberty-forever/

Williamson, Lucy. “What do liberty, equality, fraternity mean to France now?” BBC. 14 July 2016. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36775634https://www.salon.com/2012/08/31/ten_ways_americans_have_lost_their_freedom/

One of the cornerstones of the idea of liberty and freedom, especially when viewed from a religious perspective like Thomas Merton’s, is the idea of free will.  Whether human beings truly have free will is a surprisingly divisive philosophical question that, by design, must consider questions like natural versus nurture, motivation, the influence of society on people, and even the nature of good and evil (O’Connor).  However, the idea of free will is central to Christianity and also to Merton’s explorations of liberty and freedom in a Christian context.

Using the concept of free will to explore the....

While it is impossible to escape the similarities between the French Revolution and American Revolution and there is no question that the American Revolution helped inspire the French Revolution, there are a number of important differences between the French and American revolution.

Location was an important difference.  America was a colony that was revolting against a ruling government that was separated from it by a large distance, while the French Revolution occurred in France and was aimed at the monarchy in that country.

Social class played a much more important role in the French Revolution than the American Revolution. ....

There are a number of fantastic slave narratives that really describe the experiences of people in slavery.  However, there is a problem with most of these narratives.  Written by former slaves, these narratives are going to represent a rarity among slaves because their authors could read and write, while teaching a slave to read or write was punishable under many slave codes.  Therefore, we strongly suggest looking at a more comprehensive collection of slave narratives.  Fortunately, the Works Progress Administration compiled slave narratives under a few different programs, most notably the Federal Writer’s Project. ....

To tackle a three-page essay on the meaning of freedom for enslaved people in the United States, it is very important to keep in mind that there was no single idea of freedom.  The condition of slaves varied tremendously throughout the United States.  Some slaves lived near urban areas and had relatively high amounts of personal autonomy as well as exposure to free people of color, while other slaves were in isolation on plantations and may not ever encounter free people or color or even regularly encounter slaves held captive on other plantations.  In addition, men, women,....