Personal Freedom and a Flag

The confederate flag has been the subject of controversy ever since it was taken down by the state of South Carolina. On July 10th of 2015, the state of South Carolina took down the flag after a mass of various protests. The protests were surrounding what the flag stood for. Some people believed that the flag was nothing more than their heritage. It represented their heritage by showing how far America has come since the civil war. It was put up in 1860 as a reminder of the confederate. After the war years went by and the flag was picked up by neo-Nazi groups. Those group initially were not connected to the civil war or confederates. Now they use the flag to represent themselves just like other evil dictators have used symbols of history as their flag / representation. That is sad, but that is the way it has to be.
Now since people see it on or associated with neo-Nazi groups, some people in South Carolina wanted the flag taken down. The people who wanted the flag taken down saw the flag as a form of racism in the past. It was seen as the state supporting the racism in the past and boasting about it. The flag was spoken about through personal freedom, the freedom to speak.
Through personal freedom people were able to see to it that the symbol of hate in their eyes was taken down. This was a good lesson in reminding the modern generation what using their freedom can do for themselves.

Personal Freedom

Personal freedom comes in many forms. Here in America specifically, there are many forms. Some forms are the freedom to individuality, the freedom of speech, the freedom of religion, etc. America is very different from other countries. In the case of the fact that there are so many freedoms and those freedoms built America.
 People of this modern generation often forget how special it is to have such a choice and freedom in their everyday life. Not everyone can say that they are allowed to walk outside freely. Not everyone in the world can come before a court in their own personal freedom as an equal.
The freedom in which people in America have today are forgotten and lost. Lost back in time with the struggle generations back fought for and through. Today people forget what it is like to have to go to war and fight to be free or be a woman confided to stereotypes such as staying in the kitchen. People have forgotten the hardship back then and there for have forgotten their freedom.
It is a sad and long chain for events that have lead American's to forget the right to their freedom. They have forgotten what an exercised right can do through the power of freedom, free speech. That was not until people in South Carolina wanted the confederate flag taken down under the pretenses that it stood from racial misfortune. People spoke and people fought for the flag to be taken down There was a division in the country that had the country caught in controversy. That was that the flag was also heritage. that got people talking and the state to listen. Eventually the flag was taken down and the people were heard.
That is the simple example of freedom, Personal freedom.

#likeagirl 2

This is commercial is set in place to represent what it is like to be a women in society. It is set in place to highlight what is wrong with society and why women are stereotyped as such. It is a shame that companies have come down to this. Having to show the public what it is like to be a girl and how hard it is. That is how society is set up though. Society will not realize what has gone wrong until it is too late.
A girl has always been on the punch line side of the joke. To be a women was seen as being weak and wearing dresses while looking for their knight in shinning armor. The truth through this commercial is showing what it is like to be a girl. That the stereotypes come from a place of hate and mockery lost in time. People did it innocently, but that only goes so far until that person becomes ignorant.
The commercial has both men and women in it. To show that it is not only men who see women as weak growing up, but women from a young age are taught how to be a woman.
The commercial is the sad reality of what society has become and probably will remain as for a while. This was a viral effort to effectively show how everyone can change how they initially think of a certain sex. They had each person act how what it like to be a girl, act like a girl, to show people's first train of thought. Then when they went through a variation of what women act like during sports, shopping, etc. When they were done they asked why those people had acted so sexist. The actors were shocked and then as they were asked, acted like a girl again. They acted like normal people.
This was almost a form of a wake up call, shock to regular people who were trying to make a good impression on strangers.