Civil Liberties Research Paper In this project you will write 2 papers that will be roughly 4 pages in length each in APA or MLA format (size 12 font, Times New Roman, double spaced). To complete these papers, you will choose a topic and write a paper in FAVOR OF and IN OPPOSITION to, that topic. You must use 6 total sources with 1 court case reference (Either Supreme or State Court). It is suggested that if you feel very strongly about a topic and either cannot or will not write a paper giving the opposing point of view, THEN CHOOSE A DIFFERENT TOPIC! Take time to carefully consider which topic you wish to choose and feel free to ask any questions regarding the topics. Remember, you must write a paper presenting both sides of the argument. The topics are the following: 1. Prayer in Public School 2. Capital Punishment 3. Euthanasia 4. Abortion 5. Individual Gun Ownership 6. Media Censorship (Print, Music, Film, & Television) 7. Affirmative Action 8. Hate Crimes 9. Is America in Moral Decline? 10. Same Sex Marriage 11. Is government dominated by big business? 12. Should drug use be decriminalized 13. Patriot Act 14. Search of personal places and items 15. Access by girls to sports “Title IX” 16. Student Rights vs. Citizen Rights 17. National Religion 18. National Language 19. Selective Service (Draft) 20. Corporal Punishment in Schools 21. Animal Rights 22. Freedom of the Internet 23. Right to be unhealthy 24. Cloning/ Genetic Engineering 25. Prisoner Rights 26. Rights of the Poor (Social Welfare programs) 27. Rights of illegal immigrants 28. Public option Healthcare 29. Gambling

with mrs. linde, nora reveals her insensitivity and lack of shame about the forgery she committed. she implies that mrs. linde has obviously aged since they last met 10 years earlier, which accounts for nora’s inability to recognize her old friend. although nora seems sympathetic to mrs. linde’s plight, she can’t seem to control herself from boasting about her three children, her husband’s recent promotion, and how good she feels to finally have some money to spend. in a way, she seems to be flaunting her good fortune in front of mrs. linde who, deprived of all these benefits, has come to ask nora for . it is also through her interactions with mrs. linde that we realize something deeper lies under nora’s seemingly childish exterior. she reveals the secret of her forgery to mrs. linde and seems to see herself as quite resourceful for having done it.

in the company of dr. rank, nora is freer than she is with her own husband. she openly laughs with joy at knowing that all the other bank employees will be under her husband’s control. she offers dr. rank a macaroon, apparently forgetting that he knows she is forbidden to eat them. she then quickly covers for herself by claiming that mrs. linde brought them. nora seems much more assertive and free with these other characters, as well as unabashedly willing to scheme, lie, and justify her transgressions as altruistic.  

krogstad provides an interesting parallel to nora. like nora, he too is guilty of committing forgery, for which torvald condemns him and decides to fire him. although krogstad is a man and nora a woman, their crimes of forgery unite them. in fact, krogstad might represent what nora would be like if she were a man and were not strictly scrupulous like her husband is. for example, she tells mrs. linde that "a barrister's profession is such an uncertain thing, especially if he won't undertake unsavoury cases; and naturally torvald has never been willing to do that." perhaps nora would have delved into the unsavory, given how opposite she is to her husband. krogstad's is also the only harsh voice of reality that nora is forced to hear, and that is because he blackmails her for her regaining his job at the bank. finally, torvald’s reaction to krogstad’s forgery seems to foreshadow his harsh and cold reaction to nora’s forgery.

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