Let’s imagine this situation. If you need to close your eye feel free to do so. You wake up Saturday morning, at your usual time of 6:00am. You take a quick shower, eat a very fast breakfast, and head to work. Your job is one of hard physical labor, and honestly, it sucks. At about noon, you take a 30 minutes break to eat lunch, and are working again in no time. Yeah, good luck eating in that time. You’ll have no more breaks till your job is over with. Its 1:30pm now, and your back is really hurting, if you take a break, you’ll work better. The security guards shouldn’t do anything if you only take a minute. Well you’re about to find out, because one of your coworkers stopped for a break. What they did makes you wish u went back to work five minutes earlier. They dragged the guy across the jagged floor and his arm got caught between two rocks. They kept pulling until it snapped in two. They then proceeded to break his legs because he sat down and didn’t want to use his legs just a minute ago. See the irony? Now he can’t work, provide for his family, and they will surely starve, because you barely can feed your family with the salary. Luckily tomorrow is your only day off the entire week. You can rest, or can you? You want to stand up, for freedom, for your family, but you can’t. The government will kill you, your family, even your friends, but if you don’t, they’ll probably die from disease, or will keep on living in oppression. They don’t want people to get revolution ideas, which could tear down their pretty little system. The soldiers are guarding you, but not from attackers, or other harmful things. They’re guarding you so you can’t do anything. So you can’t make things better. Well Sunday comes around, and you go shopping... ... middle of paper ... ...y scary option, it means giving up forever. Is that really the way you want to go. I think I’d like to take a stand. Fight everyone I have left. The problem is when your family and friends are threatened. Your decisions will affect them in a big way. What is the best way to get to someone, take away the people they love! If my loved ones were killed, I could stand up for anything. The more people taken away from me, the easier it is to stand up for what I believe. At the same time though, giving up becomes all the more tempting because of the sadness of being alone. I believe I would fight till there was justice for the ones I had lost. I wouldn’t stop until the wrongdoers were dead, or I was. After justice was given, I can’t say what I would do. I can’t make promises saying that I will keep on living, because I don’t know if they’d be true. What would you do?
Not all rules are always agreed on by every individual. Oftentimes people tend to keep to themselves about their differentiating views, but others fight for what they believe in. In order to make any type of progress for a specific cause, effort and determination needs to be put into a person’s every attempt towards a positive development. Individuals who rebel against an authoritarian society are often faced with the challenges to fight for what they believe in in order to make a change.
How are the people, oppressed by others and by the government, supposed to react? Certainly, they do not enjoy being treated unjustly, however, they should still obey the laws. Is it to the laws of the land that command total submission or to his convictions by which he is convinced that the system is totally unjust? Therefore, how should citizens defend their liberties, without using violence or disobeying the law, if they think it’s unjust? If an individual obeys the law, he would automatically be thought of supporting the unjust system but in case he does not, he would be accused of disobeying the law. There are various controversies about whether violence is justified when liberty is threatened. Throughout history, people have had numbers of arguments on this topic.
The citizens have no freedom. They are restrained by the Handicap General and do as they are commanded. They can do nothing for themselves, but the worst part is that they don’t even want to. They are convinced that everything is perfect, and they want it to stay that
Zero awoke to find himself standing, it was not something he was familiar with and he searched his memory for any recollection of it happening before. Quickly he discovered that large parts of his memory were missing, gone were the seemingly endless data bases of information. Quickly he sent out feelers trying for a connection of some sort but he drew a blank. It seemed that where ever he was now, had limited connection capacity. Instead he used his visual feed to survey his surrounding, it appeared he was in some kind of desert of discarded parts.
Throughout time, various groups of people have been subject to some form of tyranny; forced into lives that are not their own. They have been and are stripped of basic rights and the unique qualities that they may possess. One will do just about anything to acquire freedom, once they have become the victim of this type of control. They will fight a higher authority; they will find an escape from themselves and social criticism. Whatever it may be that holds them back, they will resist.
We, as the people must learn to stand up for ourselves, like the many who have came before us. We cannot be overruled by the government. They are too involved in our personal daily lives. They also discriminate against many people, and they are always searching for more power and money. We cannot let them take our humanity and not allow us to use our conscience. We must not allow the wrong men to be in charge. Know the true facts before judging. Do not believe everything they say, it may not be the truth. The government has ceased to work ‘for the people,’. And with that I leave you with the following question, will you stand up for what you believe in?
The representative population of a community is not comfortable when confronted by an individual who defies the laws that bind them. Whether or not the laws or the powers behind them are just, the populace must deal with any challenge to their authority. In some cases, the community, fearful of a powerful regime, will side with that power and avoid the risks associated with rebellion. Others find the tyranny too unjust to stand idly by and, risking their lives, join with other defiant individuals against it.
The Creature That Opened My Eyes Sympathy, anger, hate, and empathy, these are just a few of the emotions that came over me while getting to know and trying to understand the creature created by victor frankenstein in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. For the first time I became completely enthralled in a novel and learned to appreciate literature not only for the great stories they tell but also for the affect it could have on someones life as cliché as that might sound, if that weren’t enough it also gave me a greater appreciation and understanding of the idiom “never judge a book by its cover.” As a pimply faced, insecure, loner, and at most times self absorbed sophomore in high school I was never one to put anytime or focus when it came time
Or rather, the citizens do not want these freedoms. The topic of individual rights is a hot issue in contemporary society but in this timeline, any basic rights - or lack thereof - are for the collective. Any outliers are to be handicapped or jailed. Any protests are stopped before they begin. The people are not allowed to know what existentialism is, let alone believe in it. The police are sent to stop threats that would ruin this controlled society and the citizens police themselves to defend the same system. They can sit around watching the same TV shows like zombies, wearing their bag of birdshot and hearing an ear-splitting noise every twenty seconds for the rest of their lives. But everyone does the same thing, so at least they can all be equal while they do it. In this radical version of equality exemplified in “Harrison Bergeron”, Harrison is freedom and the Handicapper General is the government. One shot is all it takes to neutralize him. Freedom is now dead. Then, the H-G men simply sweep it under the rug and move on with their lives. Since the competitive “dark ages,” no social progress has been made. And as much as Freedom can progress, it can be stopped with a single bullet. How will change ever happen if the people are sheeps and left at the whims of wolves who wear their
A thick plume of black smoke and ash hung in the air in a heavy haze, almost completely obscuring the lurid red glow of the waning sun. Below, a cloud of grey plaster dust twisted and writhed amid the sea of debris as intermittent eddies of wind gusted by.
Rebelling against your oppressor is right, it is only necessary because of accusations made without evidence. If there was no unfair blame, one could avoid ample bloodshed. “Ballad of Birmingham” highlighted this point. Within stanza one a child asks her mother “‘Mother dear, may I go downtown Instead of out to play, And march the streets of Birmingham In a Freedom March today?’”
she always used to wish for a way to escape her life. She saw memories
What is courage? Courage is the spirit that enables a person to face difficulty, danger, pain, and bravery. Courage to me is bravery, heroic acts, and people that put their life in danger. Many people show acts of courage everyday in the world. You might not know if you are showing courage, unless it is a big act.
People do have the right to protest their government and should use that right. However, there are limitations to that right and certain ways to go about promoting justification; people first should use peaceful methods and should try to avoid being violent at all times when protesting. In some cases, people need to get permits and follow regulations or accept the consequences; others promote violence to get attention from the media and make news headlines in order to make their cause more prominent. Nevertheless, it’s a simple fact, violence can put many people in danger and should only be used when a large group feel like there needs to be an immediate change in the government. If the people feel like the government doesn’t need to make a drastic change in a short amount of time, they should hold a peaceful protest and inform other people about the issue through canvassing.
In the twelve years I was in school, I learn three forms of writing, essay, letters, and stories. My favorite form of writing is creative writing. My least favorite is writing a letter. The reason I prefer creative writing over the other, form is because I have the freedom to make up anything. The reason I dislike writing letter is because many letters have different formats. For example, I can’t uses the friendly letter format on a business letter; I would have to use block format. Even though I prefer creative writing, my most commonly used skill is to write essays. Though, I may find essay writing a chore, I still prefer it over letter writing. Among these books I still read The Odyssey and Macbeth, for inspiration.