Liberty
Liberty is a very big and important concept of our country as a whole and a big topic that we discussed in our class for a few weeks. When asked what is liberty, you cannot give a straight definition because it's a very loaded question, the appropriate way would be to ask; what is liberty to you? Nowadays our society has progressively gotten better from that it was many decades and even centuries ago, there's more equality in the world and more availability to state opinions without being discriminated against. Women finally have a voice and are capable of standing up for what's right, having many options to strive for goals, living up to dreams and just being able to do as we please. Inequality was also raised against the African Americans, for centuries they have been discriminated against, made slaves, treated with disrespect, etc. So when the Declaration of Independence was signed into law how did they react? Were they happy? Were they free? Those are the questions people don't really think about and don't question. They didn't get their liberty when the rest of the white people did, they were still enslaved and treated poorly, they were discriminated against and not seen with respect. Just recently people started standing up for rights and started properly showing what liberty really meant and how people should be treated. This topic was discussed for awhile between everyone in the class and we really went in depth with it, understanding what each person thought liberty was, how they viewed it, the rights and wrongs and how liberty really impacts a person.
Something I enjoyed about your piece is that your argument and ideas were put at the beginning and you included many real life examples to support it. I agree with your opinion that liberty has not been equal to all people and that it is important many people have started to stand up for their liberty.
ReplyDeleteI really like how from the beginning of your blog you define what liberty is and how we shouldn't look at its definition but rather by asking people what it means to them because liberty varies from person to person. I also like how you included many rhetorical questions in your piece as a form of persuading the audience to you claim.
ReplyDeleteI like how you mentioned not only the 3 documents, but argued from their standpoint on how those documents affected the people surrounding them through the use of rhetorical questions. I agree that liberty has no one true set moral definition for everyone, and that it's up to the person to decide what they want to do with their liberty.
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