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“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”

George Orwell

Adopted in 1791, the First Amendment, states that “Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” (Pilon, p. 13) The freedom of speech documented in the First Amendment is not only a constitutional protection, but also an inevitable part of democratic government and independence, which are essential values in our society. “Censorship,” according to Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, “is an almost irresistible impulse when you know you are right” (Sunstein, p. 25). That is why the American citizen’s right to free speech is should be held as the highest virtue and any censorship of freedom of speech should not be allowed, but only respected.

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The origins of music like of anything eternal and saint are not exactly defined as it spreads all around the lands of the world. Like religion it searches the areas of every tiny corner of our planet touching the hearts, strengthening the feelings, bursting emotions. It is easily spread by the people travelling around the countries who bring their music to a new undiscovered areas, just as they bring with them their own faith or rituals.

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“One of the hardest choices any young person has to make is ‘What am I going to do with my life?’ and history is like a great buffet lunch of all kinds of choices that people have made with what they did with their lives…”

David McCullough

The history of XX century has proved that education is not only a right choice for a young person, but also it is an essential part of success in life and career. Every field of modern life demands the educated specialists to solve different problems facing our society. Democracy itself is based on educational values and proves the old statement “knowledge is power”. People need this power in order to decide what values are true for them and what are false, rather than blindly follow social convictions or someone else’s believes.

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Medea is a drama/tragedy play about one unhappiness love written by Euripides who lived in fifth century BC. As we know, most myths showing us aspects of human nature. The entire play takes place on the island of Corinth in present day Greece.

In the beginning of the book, the main heroine, Medea, starts to threaten revenge on her husband, Jason. She states “If I can find the means or devise any scheme to pay my husband back for what he has done to me”. Through this she is just touching on her anger that she has built up within her for her husband. The main theme of the play is: “What goes around comes around.” The theme of revenge in the sense of Medea’s strong desire to seek revenge on Jason.

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Almost two hundred years ago, world literature was swarming. At this period of time the publishing business began to be profitable. People had more free time and that let them spend their pastime as they liked. The best entertainment of that time may be called reading. But it was quite different reading in comparison with previous epochs because if earlier people mainly created books which could be read only by few and the topics were not very interesting for an average person. The cause of such situation is evident, it was a very expensive thing to buy and read books but the changes in the society and the development of technologies gave people a chance to change their traditional way of life. A very quick spread of printing and, consequently, the appearance of great reading audience, due to the growth of number of educated people led to the appearance of new trends and genres in literature.

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