Stanley Fish

the author’s opinion moot outweighs the reward of carefully finding the flaws in the text and learning more about reading critically. The reader of Stanley Fish’s “There’s No Such Thing as Free Speech, and It’s a Good Thing, Too” may experience a similar feeling. In his essay, Fish frames his claims with “we”, thereby trapping his reader into the confines of his beliefs, and dedicates a scathing two pages to scrutinizing…

The psychoanalytical lens is a way of understanding the human mind and the characters within a story. Many different theories have contributed to psychology, but “most psychological criticism of the last century lands at the doorstep of Sigmund Freud” (Gillespie 1). Freud was the father of a psychoanalysis, helped explain human behavior, and came up with a way to treat mental illnesses. Freud focused much of his ideas on psychic forces having an influence on human behavior (Gillespie 2). He had…

their emotions about a certain situation knowing that the first amendment protects them. Therefore, they take less responsibility for their actions and blame the constitution for their slip-ups. In Free-Speech Follies by Stanley Fish, Fish addresses the First Amendment issue. Fish states that people use the First Amendment to excuse themselves from the criticism that their actions have cause. He further emphasizes the need for people to assume full responsibility for their actions and building a…

rivals despise. In his article, “When ‘Identity Politics’ is Rational,” Stanley Fish addresses the ethics of using identity politics and argues that voting for someone simply due to their identity, for example because of race, gender, or religion, is perfectly acceptable. However, Fish’s argument is based of of faulty logic made evident when he contradicts himself. Moreover, because this contradiction undermines the examples he provides, and because he…

defines the overall meaning of a text? In this article Stanley Fish the author of “Say it ain't so”states that the ultimate purpose of writing is to communicate or persuade an audience. Additionally, Fish also firmly believes that language in not mainly about self expression and that the belief in self-expression hinders us from progressing grammatically. In relation to this, Fish claims that rather than self-expression, a lack of proper grammar impedes our ability to fully show and explain our…

risen constantly as it became more popular in China and other asian countries. It wasn’t until recently that people started to protest against the massive slaughtering of sharks within the last 4 years shark sales began to decline. So the citizens of China have made it their responsibility to limit the amount of shark sales since the government won’t. There are reasons governments don’t want make the shark fin trade illegal .If the WWF is actually able to persuade governments to change their…

age impairs, but does not extinguish one's ability to be participants in their own lives. After going through such a struggle, Santiago realizes that all of his glories were in his youth, and strongly relates the power that the lions in his dreams have to his youth. It symbolizes his freedom in his youth as a link to his past but also his ultimate goal before he dies. The lions on the beach represent a place where he wants to escape, and explore once more. Dreaming about the lions each night…

On a cold and windy day Robert James an Oysterman and resident of lower Terrebonne Parish, was devastated when he arrived at his workplace. He went to dredge the oyster beds to make some money for upcoming bills and came to a conclusion that someone had illegally fished his beds. Many people in lower Terrebonne Parish depend on commercial fishing to make a living. Robert paid for his lease to fish the oyster beds and someone else basically took his paycheck from him. When people commit illegal…

Aside from the sheer admiration, humans have figured out just how valuable the Ocean is to our well-being and survival. Humans rely on the Ocean for transportation of international goods and services, food like fish and shellfish, mining minerals such as salt, recreational transportation…

we were doing a fishing contest. There were 4 awards: Biggest fish, smallest fish, most fish, and 1 other. I was going to try to catch the biggest fish, and not give up. I cast my line out into the lake. I stared at the bobber, not taking my eye off of it. “ZIP!” The bobber went under the water. I jerked the pole up and started reeling the fish in as quickly as I could. “SPLASH!” The little fish I had caught popped out of the water like a cork. I took the fish off the hook and I…