Ethan Parker
9/6/21
Throughout these eight Free Expressions, there are a few that stand out to me honestly and it may have a slight bit to do with what all we go over in the classroom but, they still stand out and are very interesting topics to discuss and go over.
Individual Self-Fulfillment (aka Self-Actualization) immediately caught my attention as I was reading through the Free Expression Values. This expression is very important to me actually because in class we discuss the first amendment a good amount and the Freedom of Speech falls under amendment one which has got me thinking. After many different in-class discussions, I have learned that the first amendment is very vital to citizens and without it, we would not live the free life we live today. The first amendment helps citizens more than many can actually imagine and it provides us with that individual self-fulfillment, that freedom to express ourselves through discussion and comments, the ability to build a name for ourselves through our Free Speech. Freedom of Speech does allow one to pretty much build themselves a narrative and helps one to express themselves as an individual. This one certainly feels the most important to me, while in class there are a select amount of words that is often stated and those words are "We the people" and I am all for "We the people" as we do live in a democracy and the people have their own say and should be able to build their own identity. If Free Speech does not help one to express themselves, then what does it actually do? We live in a democracy where we are allowed to have say, have thought, and think a free mind. Therefore, we can successfully build our own identity with the 
Free Speech that is given to us. In order to bring change and actually live a life that we would like to live, Free Speech is key to that lifestyle. Through free speech, we are able to express opinions we'd like to express as well as pour change into our own society, this is why the Freedom of Speech is so important! It does in fact become an aspect of human dignity due to the recognition of a special value in humans and that special value is our free speech. Oftentimes people can get human dignity confused and human dignity states that us humans deserve the respect for being humans and the recognition of our special qualities and values in humanity. Therefore, no matter the difference in the human, they ought to be treated with respect. Human agency also blossoms from this Free Expression Value, not only being able to pretty much build your own identity out of the Freedom of Speech but defending yourself, engaging in community discussion, or speaking up when you feel the need for change, you are also converting the Freedom of Speech to human agency and to human autonomy. You are converting it to human agency because human agency states that humans do in fact make their own decisions (just like in free speech, where humans make their own decisions to speak or state an opinion). So yes, eventually when one fully engages in Free Speech, they will soon connect it to human agency. Human autonomy is also in close connection to the free use of speech as human autonomy states that one should live their own life and be their own person which directly correlates to Free Speech because if you express yourself through Free Speech as well as begin creating your own identity through the Freedom of Speech and your mind also, you then are participating in human autonomy due to the fact that are you are living your own life and you are being your own person. In general, Individual Self-Fulfillment is very important to me as everyone should be able to build themselves up and express how they feel through opinion and speech and it is vital that we use all the perks that come with the first amendment, especially the Freedom of Speech.
Promote Innovation feels very personal to me as I strongly agree. If there were no valued free speech, then the community would be very boring and they'd be one sided and everyone would be very similar in many different ways. When free speech is valued, everyone can speak their own mind as well as all of these creative new ideas form which make the community a much more interesting society as everyone brings something different to the table and the community will have many different important aspects revolving around them. Promote Innovation is very important to me because I feel like all communities must engage in free speech and use it to their advantages. We must value the importance of free speech and treat it with much care because we'd be in a very dark place without it. Promote Innovation is the most personal one to me because throughout my 4 years of High School, I had a very strong voice inside of the school as well as some parts of the community. During school, I'd spread Important information that needed to be known, I spoke up for the student body when we felt there was needed change, and my friends and I successfully influenced the staff to put out surveys of what the students would like to see more in the classroom (for specific classes) at the ending of each semester. With that being said, some changes did occur and some changes did not occur, but that is fine. What matters most is that the community inside the school building valued free speech and when something felt incomplete students or staff would be creative and brainstorm ideas to help the situation at hand. It made the school much more interesting and it felt very energized to be in the building everyday (pre-pandemic). What I am getting at is that, if free speech is actually used and taken in as importance, "We the people" can make change and that change will positively help the community in the long run making it more fun to be around and very diverse in ideas and activities. Since our student body and staff were sort of on the same page, we all got to work together on interesting activities and events to make the school building a more interesting place to be around that didn't feel like you were just going to classes and that's it. Many movies and TV shows show the community engaging themselves to hopefully do whats right and make things more interesting rather than plain and straightforward. After watching specific movies that sort of show the first amendment at use, you realize that a community that engages in free speech and values it even, succeeds and are energized to see what's next or exited for the next big interesting moment because they spoke out, they used their voices and helped lead themselves and their communities to a better society as a whole with citizens that engage in interesting, creative, and exiting community discussion and community action.
I feel as though Protect Dissent is one of the Free Expression Values that occurs the most in the world today. When watching the big news sites such as CNN or Fox News, you see people that are featured that may be somewhat criticizing the government in a way. It is sort of the job of the people to add in criticism to the government and it almost makes the government stay in line because they do not want a excruciating bad name on themselves. I certainly see the Protect Dissent occurring the most often in the world today as many people do dislike the government and certainly criticize them often. I'm sure everyone has once had even the slightest disagreement with the government and that is why this Free Expression is the most occurring one in todays society. Many schools hold discussions on what may be going on within the government and everyone discusses or talks about it and not many agree with what the government may be doing. Many teachers and professors discuss the flaws of the government and sometimes that is their job nd what they are required to do. Many people that have big groups of politically interested friends engage in conversation about the government all the time and many times majority disagree with what the government is doing and this just goes to show how often we have our own views against the government. A lot of people peacefully (not all the time) protest
against the government and based on the First Amendment, our system cannot stop us from disagreeing with the government and we have a right to criticize the government actually. In a sense, the government sort of needs us to criticize them or let them know when we are upset or feel as though they are doing something wrong. I state that because if we never speak up towards the government, they will never believe they're doing anything wrong, which results to no change and a stagnant government which is not what we want. We want a government in which we have say and we can change it in ways through the use of the first amendment. Since we are always questioning the government and showing concern, there are changes that occur due to the speaking out of the people. I strongly believe the Protect Dissent expression is certainly used and seen the most in the world today, there are many (people from all different states) that disagree or even criticize the government daily, just look at Twitter, there is always someone who posts or announces (weather publicly or privately) about hating the government, it is something that will continually happen no matter what with no slowed pace, this is why it is the most used Free Expression on the list.
against the government and based on the First Amendment, our system cannot stop us from disagreeing with the government and we have a right to criticize the government actually. In a sense, the government sort of needs us to criticize them or let them know when we are upset or feel as though they are doing something wrong. I state that because if we never speak up towards the government, they will never believe they're doing anything wrong, which results to no change and a stagnant government which is not what we want. We want a government in which we have say and we can change it in ways through the use of the first amendment. Since we are always questioning the government and showing concern, there are changes that occur due to the speaking out of the people. I strongly believe the Protect Dissent expression is certainly used and seen the most in the world today, there are many (people from all different states) that disagree or even criticize the government daily, just look at Twitter, there is always someone who posts or announces (weather publicly or privately) about hating the government, it is something that will continually happen no matter what with no slowed pace, this is why it is the most used Free Expression on the list. I watch a show called Shannon and Skip Undisputed where Skip Bayless
and Shannon Sharpe discuss sports topics for a long period of time per show. I can directly relate this show to the Free Expression of Stable Change. Yes, I understand that stable change suggests that if the people were not able to speak their minds or "vent" then it may lead to more violent actions. On the show, one of the hosts, being Skip Bayless, does not favor the great athlete Lebron James. Skip Bayless has a long history in not really liking Lebron James as a athlete to much and he is not a big fan. Due to the many followers and fans Skip Bayless possess, if the fans were not able to freely speak or maybe listen to he discussion and arguments Skip makes on the topic of Lebron James, dangerous actions could occur. We live in a world today where you can speak the mind freely and that is what Skip does. Oftentimes, Skip Bayless and Shannon Sharpe discuss topics suggested by their fans. Say some of the fans that share that hatred of Lebron James did not get to suggest specific topics or listen to Skip Bayless speak his mind freely on national TV, it could resort to violence. Yes, this is probably the worst case but it is still possible and still could be something someone my due if we as people were not able to speak our minds all the time wherever we'd like. Skip is a huge influencer and many look up to him and value his information that he puts out, especially the followers he has that share the same dislike in Lebron James, therefore you can never quite put it past that if there was no way to speak our minds freely or gets these fans comments involved (which is also speaking freely) then an act could resort to violence and that is what the Stable Change expression is all about, speaking your mind. This specific expression says that if we allow those to speak their mind, less violence would occur and the statement is not wrong as many clear their minds through speaking freely and it generates a more stable community that throws in their two cents or how they feel rather than resorting to violence. It'd be difficult if we couldn't speak our minds or "vent" at all, then it could get dangerous quickly. Theories ultimately can help explain things going on in the real world today because they allow us to look at the situation a bit more clearly and thoroughly. We are able to see many sides with theories, ultimately helping us to find the solution. Theories help tremendously when it comes to dealing with things going on in the real world today as we are able see situations from different angles and could maybe even figure out multiple answers. They help us so much because not only might we find multiple solutions but we could also use our solution gathered from a theory to figure something else out or help out some other situation because we have gained that much more knowledge stemmed from a theory. At the end of the day, theories can help tremendously as they could help lead us to solutions as well as new theories and more knowledge and due to us having the right to speak, everything is much more civilized and nothing really requires anyone to resort to violence because everything can be fixed or cleaned up through discussion or the use of speaking our minds clearly.
and Shannon Sharpe discuss sports topics for a long period of time per show. I can directly relate this show to the Free Expression of Stable Change. Yes, I understand that stable change suggests that if the people were not able to speak their minds or "vent" then it may lead to more violent actions. On the show, one of the hosts, being Skip Bayless, does not favor the great athlete Lebron James. Skip Bayless has a long history in not really liking Lebron James as a athlete to much and he is not a big fan. Due to the many followers and fans Skip Bayless possess, if the fans were not able to freely speak or maybe listen to he discussion and arguments Skip makes on the topic of Lebron James, dangerous actions could occur. We live in a world today where you can speak the mind freely and that is what Skip does. Oftentimes, Skip Bayless and Shannon Sharpe discuss topics suggested by their fans. Say some of the fans that share that hatred of Lebron James did not get to suggest specific topics or listen to Skip Bayless speak his mind freely on national TV, it could resort to violence. Yes, this is probably the worst case but it is still possible and still could be something someone my due if we as people were not able to speak our minds all the time wherever we'd like. Skip is a huge influencer and many look up to him and value his information that he puts out, especially the followers he has that share the same dislike in Lebron James, therefore you can never quite put it past that if there was no way to speak our minds freely or gets these fans comments involved (which is also speaking freely) then an act could resort to violence and that is what the Stable Change expression is all about, speaking your mind. This specific expression says that if we allow those to speak their mind, less violence would occur and the statement is not wrong as many clear their minds through speaking freely and it generates a more stable community that throws in their two cents or how they feel rather than resorting to violence. It'd be difficult if we couldn't speak our minds or "vent" at all, then it could get dangerous quickly. Theories ultimately can help explain things going on in the real world today because they allow us to look at the situation a bit more clearly and thoroughly. We are able to see many sides with theories, ultimately helping us to find the solution. Theories help tremendously when it comes to dealing with things going on in the real world today as we are able see situations from different angles and could maybe even figure out multiple answers. They help us so much because not only might we find multiple solutions but we could also use our solution gathered from a theory to figure something else out or help out some other situation because we have gained that much more knowledge stemmed from a theory. At the end of the day, theories can help tremendously as they could help lead us to solutions as well as new theories and more knowledge and due to us having the right to speak, everything is much more civilized and nothing really requires anyone to resort to violence because everything can be fixed or cleaned up through discussion or the use of speaking our minds clearly. In conclusion, theories are very important as they can certainly lead to many different discoveries. Amendment number one is vital to our communities across the world as they unlock power that we've been destined to tame. We must act as the people in an orderly fashion and use the rights we possess to our advantage.
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