English 103 Critical Thinking and Writing

Ahmed M. Salem

English 103 Critical thinking and writing

November 8, 2011

Essay #1

Having your freedom taken away in any society is a negative. We all cherish our freedom but not many of us understand it till its taken away from us. Everyone enjoys the fact that they can wake up in the morning and have the choice of putting on whatever color underwear or favorite pair of socks. Freedom can also mean that we have another person in our live that lets our minds and soul float soar like a bird. Freedom for a person granted by a higher power is the best possession.

Some people feel that they are not free because of their job or things they must do to be free. What many people don't understand is that there are certain responsibility one must take up on before being free. Certain things could be school, work or anything within those boundaries. When one realizes that to obtain freedom they must work for it, a person then might see the virtue in working harder to gain more of the goal. Freedom has free in it, however it isn't free.

Within moments, our freedom can be taken away any minute. Depending on the government body that forms your society, your freedom can easily be taken away just because the government decides to draft all male college students between the ages of 21-25. People cannot deny this command because if they do they will receive a punishment that will definitely hinder their freedom. Another example would be purchasing certain dairy products that are almost a necessity to survive that don't allow any substitutes. Lets say that there has been an inflation of income in a certain area of the countries economics and the government realizes that there is a high demand for whole milk. What the government can do is raise the taxes of that product to however much they want. Now this doesn't