The Free Because Of The Brave: A Personal Analysis

The Gateway to Freedom is an enticing novel that gives further knowledge of racial discrimination and the social inequality of blacks at the time of slavery and how the Underground Railroad combatted this through the different committees and activists of the time. This essay will focus on how the Underground Railroad affected family, economy and religion- the social institutions, those who operated the Underground Railroad were diverse and have different reason for following the abolitionist movement, and not all the committees are made equally.

    A main idea in the first chapter is about the history of slavery and freedom in the U.S. Firstly slavery had existed during the American Revolution. Despite the fact that the founding fathers wanted freedom as a right to all men, then African Americans should also rightfully be allowed freedom. Foner quotes Lemuel Haynes, “ If liberty were truly ‘an innate principle” for all mankind’ Haynes wrote, ‘ even an African [had] as equally good a right to his liberty in common with Englishmen.’(Foner 9). Slavery was a problem in the United States history from the beginning.

“I am an expert and a professional, I stand ready to deploy, engage, and destroy the enemies of the Untied States of America in close combat,” One of the most important lines in the whole creed. It defines what a soldier is. As an expert we know everything we need to know about our job and more, as a professional, we do it better than anyone one else. When I graduated from basic training my mom herd us recite the soldiers creed and when she greeted me at the end, she asked me if I was ready to deploy, engage, and destroy the enemies of America, without hesitation I replied, “Of course, I have to keep you’ll safe don’t I?” Right there she knew I was where I was supposed to be, in the army.

With detailed reference to the novel, how do you view this in relation to individual freedom?

“The secret to happiness is freedom...” (Thucydides). Now imagine being robbed of that freedom, can happiness still exist? The novel The Brave New World written by Aldous Huxley develops a plot that examines the role of freedom in association with fabricated happiness. The author highlights an image of what a “perfect society” should look like in order to govern what is believed to be conformity, and peace at the expense of an individual’s freedom.

Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, is a compelling story about a futuristic world called the World State, where humans are manufactured and conditioned to behave in the way the World Leaders want them to. Bernard Marx is an outcast of the society because he does not agree with the teachings of the State. So, when he visits the savage reservation and meets John, they connect over what their thoughts of what a society should look like. Conditioning the society to believe what the leaders want them to believe, keeps the civilization free of anger and violence, but is a peaceful society worth the sacrifice of individuality and free will? The World State society’s deepest flaw is how it deprives its population of any emotional or personal freedom in an attempt to keep peace and control. Ridding its people of all personal emotions and beliefs means taking away love, in both a familial and relationship way, new ideas and ambition being forbidden, and free speech being completely non-existent. These are some of the most important qualities of life that make it so impactful, and by taking these things away, the World State is depriving its people of the most raw and meaningful parts of life.

Opinions that differ on the level of order and freedom can create civil wars. The United States had undergone a civil war a few centuries ago mainly due to the disagreement on the rights over slaves and how much freedom they possessed and how much control the landowners had. Civil wars continue in main countries in order to change the restrictions from the government or lack of. In the 20th century dystopian novels, Lord of the Flies by William Golding and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, both express the dangers of societies based off of extreme order and freedom. Huxley warns the reader of a society that limits all freedoms; whereas, Golding shows the abundance of freedom forces man into a primal disposition that develops a savage nature. Both authors contrast freedoms and restrictions to make the reader question the balance and how it affects society. THESIS

There are different sorts of shades of "black". Some are light cleaned, caramel, milk chocolate, or even an extremely dim cocoa. These are all delightful shades that numerous appear to neglect to acknowledge as assorted qualities. It appears that being "black" goes past your delightful shade or "races" to the cliché American culture. As though being black "decides" your experience, your identity, your capacity to prevail in life. Given that "race" is a thought made to independent and name each other by skin, it is as though being "dark" is included more than skin. Freedom is not given. It is our comfortable. Be that as it may, there are a few minutes when it must be taken. The individuals who are curbed look for expression; the individuals who are caught… freedom. We are born to end up free. Opportunity is characterized from various viewpoints, and as per distinctive cultures, freedom changes from culture to another. Some characterize flexibility as a characteristic right, the individual is conceived with. Everyone needs to be free and autonomous from others. Freedom is the privilege to do what one wants, live where he wants, eat what he wants, learns what he wants, and picks the religion in which he believes, without disregarding or hurting different rights. By what means would we be able to live free? From my perspective, we can live free by regarding others rights to live free too. We cannot disregard the privileges of individuals with whom we live in the society. We cannot just do what we need and overlook others. We must contemplate other individuals’ rights. The human soul defies strength, impelling those affected without hesitation.

Many ideas are important within the American culture, but to the American sense of patriotism, freedom is most fundamental. The idea of freedom is central to the American politics – which is at times referred to as liberty. Since the birth of the nation, freedom has been the vocabulary of the American language and its importance cannot be underestimated. The Declaration of Independence, for instance, ranks liberty as an inalienable right. On the other hand, the Constitution reckons that it purposes to protect civilians’ liberty. The importance of freedom has even stretched further than the political arena and has prompted the birth of civil rights movements and other activist protests. The Cold War and the Civil War were all for the cause of freedom. The importance that Americans attach to freedom can also be demonstrated from the erection of statues, banishment of slavery, use of liberty poles and a right to vote for adults. For many years, women and the African Americans have for a long time fought against denial and infringement of their freedom . However, given the importance that Americans affiliate to freedom in the conceptualization of their country, it has been the subject of modifications over the course of years especially before the Revolutionary War.

Freedom, and our strengths is the manner of life and it’s important to have belief in something and want to fight for it. it keeps our country fighting. Honestly the manner of life would be our people, or community, and our home. I decided this because if we love where we are and if we are happy with the people who surround us then we will fight harder to keep that and not ever left it

To cognize what impacts a free society at all, we need to know the definition of the word(s). I believe that Eamonn Butler describes free society perfectly in his writing "IEA Foundations of a Free Society." Butler writes, "Freedom...means more than simply not being imprisoned or enslaved. It

of us fail to cherish and value our granted freedom. Many of us do not

The man stood there in remorse, silently he thought about everything he has the potential to do, for a moment the thoughts inside him froze, and disappeared into uncharted space. His world was being torn away from him, and the worst part was he wasn’t able to experience what, not only himself but of human beings are capable of. He had a sudden longing to overcome his society 's wrongs, a new person was beginning to emerge from the lifeless body that has been encasing his competence. The one that wanted comfort, music, dance and love. The one that wanted sin. Dystopias imitate a utopia, or balanced society they dangle the idea of perfection but never

Eric Foner, the author of Gateway to freedom, is a history professor from Colombia University and is one of the most famous historians in the United States. Gateway to Freedom is about the history of the underground railroad and the stories of slaves struggling to seek freedom in the United States. As stated by Foner, “the underground railroad by definition can only be understood as an intercity, interregional enterprise” (Foner, 2015, pg.7).

Within the texts we have discussed thus far, control and freedom have been central themes. It seems as though the two are innately connected. Where there is control, freedom is affected. An online dictionary defines freedom to be “the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint” (Dictionary.com). This definition of freedom is something that has been contradicted during the development of civilization. Everywhere there is freedom, there is restraint. A person is “free” to do whatever he pleases as long as it does not go against any of the judicial laws and restrictions that society imposes on its civilization. Whether it be in the context of civilization as a whole, as Sigmund Freud discusses is Civilization and Its Discontents, in The Doctrine of Fascism, which explains Benito Moussoli’s Fascist regime, or in Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Letters from Prison, freedom is continuously restricted in order for the civilization to progress. Civilization ultimately benefits from this restraint as long as the civilization is not controlled in a way that reaches an extreme: when the individual’s freedom is taken away from him.