following: * Analyze Garcetti v. Ceballos, to determine whether or not the Pickering balancing test is applicable to this case and state why or why not. In the case of Garcetti v. Ceballos, the issue is, “whether job-related speech of public employees should have First Amendment protection” (AAUP, 2014). Richard Ceballos, an employee at the LA County district attorney’s office, suspected that a deputy sheriff included false statements in a search warrant affidavit. Ceballos informed his supervisors
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limited, psychological, maturity, and economic issues are all acceptable reasons for women to be able to choose whether or not they want to carry a child for nine months. In April 2009, 2008 Republican Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin gave a speech at Evansville, Indiana, where she argues against abortion. She fights for her beliefs, claiming that “life is ordained, life is precious” and no selfish decisions should stand in the way of a life from living. Her ethos and utilization of pathos are
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would be in it which some of the things were not put in it and the articles. There were 55 Framers of the constitution. Among them some familiar names as George Washington, James Madison, Benjamin franklin, alexander Hamilton which he invented the first national bank for the United States as well plus there were many more who made up this law for our nations present and future people to live by. Of course there were many arguments, speeches as well as debates were held to decide what was going to
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When Boudicca’s husband died, he made the emperor of Rome and his daughters his heirs in the hopes of keeping his family and kingdom out of the reach of wrong. But the absolute opposite happened. Tacitus, a roman historian, accounts that, “... his kingdom was plundered by centurions, his house by slaves, as if they were the spoils of war.” He also states that Boudicca was scourged and her two daughters were raped. While Cassius Dio writes that the cause of the uprising was a dispute over a loan
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were of such little value that the phrase "not worth a Continental" entered popular speech. The states that had approved the issuance of the notes began to refuse to accept them for tax payment. In rustic Massachusetts, the veterans were struggling remarkably. They had not been compensated, their crops brought grim prices in a postwar depressed economy, and they were heavily taxed which was authorized by state governor, James Bowdoin. The situation was most critical in western Massachusetts, where many
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president to a Luncheon speech at the Trade Mart that was when the shot was fired. One shot was fired and that bullet did a lot of damage, it hit the president and the Governor of Texas. The bullet entered into President Kennedy’s head, and the same bullet hit the governors lower back, damaged the vertebrae, and the right lung. After the shooting they fled the president and the governor to the Parkland Memorial Hospital, which the staff pronounced Kennedy dead and the governor was in critical care.
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politics. He had been a Democrat but changed his opinion on issues throughout the 50s before registering as a Republican in 1962. In 1964, Ronald Reagan gave a powerful speech in support of Republican Presidential candidate Barry Goldwater. His political acuity garnered a lot of attention and he was persuaded to run for Governor of California and won twice. He ran in the Republican Presidential primaries, losing twice before winning the nomination in 1980. He defeated incumbent Jimmy Carter in a
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as a burgess, Henry offered his now famous resolutions in opposition to the British Stamp Act. Through roars of objection and cries of “treason” from the Speaker of the House of Burgesses, he defiantly declared, “Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell and George the Third may profit by their example! If this be treason, make the most of it!” (Unger 39). Due to some of the staunchest supporters of Britain having already left for summer recess, Henry’s resolutions passed by a small
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Rhetorical analysis of Mitt Romney´s republican victory speech On the 7th November 2012 the presidential in America ended. Two candidates, one from each party, the Republican and the Democratic Party participated in the race. The results were as followed; Obama was re-elected for another 4 years in the White House. The participant from the Republican Party was the former governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney. Even though he didn´t win the election as he had hoped, his road to the top of the Republican
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constitutional arrangement of Hong Kong, to what extent is this statement valid? In the 25th anniversary of the promulgation of the Basic Law on September 12, the director of the central government’s liaison office in Hong Kong, Zhang Xiaoming gave a speech entitled “A Correct Understanding of the Characteristics of the Political System of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region”. He said that the separation of power will not implement in Hong Kong. He also stated that the Chief Executive has “a
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