Blog Assignment #10

What would I ban?????

If I could ban anything it would suffering. Suffering is the worse feeling anyone can feel or live. It hurts so much that one cannot think. My grandfather passed away last week. He was like a father and the pain that I felt was beyond my control. There was nothing that I could do to control myself. Why do we have to suffer? Why can it just vanish with the wind? It feels horrible and unfortunally every human being experiences it, I guess that’s what makes us stronger in a way. But at the moment one is feeling it; you just want to BAN it FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!

Blog Assignment #6

Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart said that "“Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.” Do you agree or disagree with his opinion? Why?

I agree with Supreme Court Justice Stewart because the majority of people are afraid or don’t want to hear the truth about what is really going on in the world. They prefer to stay in a box in this way they don’t have to think critically. It is also a hallmark on an authoritarian regime because it is only a few people who control everything that we can and cannot read, listen to, or watch. We don’t ask questions anymore and unfortunaly that is the way we are raising children to be. Some of those children will be the next leaders but if they are not open minded then what kind of leaders are we raising. We don’t accomplish anything with censoring books and mostly when it is a reality that we need to face in one way or another. We need to keep in mind that we are all different and our views change and we have to keep in mind all those views in order for us to understand others who don’t view the world how we do!!!!!!!!!!