Final Connections

We can take what has happened over these four major events in time, WWII, civil rights and womens rights movements, and the presidency of Ronald Regan, and come to a general yet personal view on whether there was a positive growth or negative decline in personal freedom, individual responsibility, and respect for human dignity. After a close inspection through this time line I actually see a strong positive growth in all three areas. First, there is the strong growth of personal freedom. When the county is in a state of war, it is a time that usually has many people losing some freedoms and rights as the government sees this is fit for the crisis at hand. Then as war ends and time goes we see people especially woman and African Americans fighting for there rights and actually gaining them. Though the fight was slow and spanned many centuries when you look at it as a whole you defently can see the positive side of it. Then there is the conservative movement that shows up even later. Though this might be viewed as a decline in personal freedom, the positive still outweighs the negative in this situation. Next, there is individual responsibility. This is the one that I though demonstrated the most positive growth. As stated in my first introduction paragraph, the growth of these three values(IR, PF, HD) really have a lot to do with a constantly struggling balance between government power and individual power. At first the country is in WWII and there is an unfair balance of power for the government as people are being drafted and losing there personal responsibility. As time goes by we see people really taking on the government, expressing there views, standing up for there beliefs, and protesting for rights and what they think is best for the country. We see a surge in individual responsibility that is fueled by personal and passionate beliefs. When people feel strongly about things ranging from woman and African American civil rights to traditional views, this is when we see the biggest growth in responsibility and taking on the government. We see it when people are passionate and truly involved in what they believe in. Lastly, there is the respect for human dignity. Though there are some truly negative points show in this subject in the end there was a stronger positive growth. I have made this generalization because I see respect for human dignity as a product of the first two points. Because there was so many positive individuals standing up for personal freedom we finely saw the government taking action and truly trying to have a great respect for humans dignity even when many have been mistreated for so long. No kind of growth or change in time can be considered absolutely perfect and through these four time periods we defently encounter a lot of negative set backs. In the end I see the majority as being a positive growth which allows me to make an overall generalization that the county has been taking a slow but positive path in peoples expanding freedoms, responsibility, and Respect for human dignity.