Essays on Free Speech

The recognized and acclaimed American journalist and politician, Clare Boothe Luce, gave a speech to the Women’s National Press Club in 1960 criticiziThe recognized and acclaimed American journalist and politician, Clare Boothe Luce, gave a speech to the Women’s National Press Club in 1960 criticizing...

In the 1800’s and early 1900’s many people started to realize the horrible ideas of child labor throughout America. Florence Kelley was one of the major reformers who started fighting for child labor laws and better working conditions. Her work eventually took off on a...

Ellen opens her speech using humor by poking fun at both the students and the staff of the school. She moves on to a serious note saying that she was completely confused on what she should do with her life. “When I finished school I...

I do not entirely agree with the opening line of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. “Conceived in liberty” is a debatable phrase; although our forefathers held liberty to the highest priority in the conception of the United States, they did not intend for liberty to be enjoyed...

Way back when society was fully accepted by everyone of color and hundreds and thousands were facing discrimination on a daily, American activist and leader in the Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luther King Jr, saw this injustice and felt the need to change our influence...

In Steve Jobs’s famous commencement speech, he inspires the graduating students of Stanford University in preparation for successful futures. Although what Jobs states is motivating and captures life experiences, I believe this speech is not appropriate for the specific audience. I perceive his story as...

Since ASR system is able to recognize only the words that are in the recognition vocabulary, coverage is a critical point in language modeling. Amharic suffers from data sparseness and out of vocabulary words problems as it is a morphologically rich language. In Amharic, it...