Read this excerpt from “schenck v. u. s., 249 u. s. 47 (1919)" and answer the question that follows: this is an indictment in three counts. the first charges a conspiracy to violate the espionage act of june 15, 1917, by causing and attempting to cause insubordination, in the military and naval forces of the united states, and to obstruct the recruiting and enlistment service of the united states, when the united states was at war with the german empire, to-wit, that the defendant willfully conspired to have printed and circulated to men who had been called and accepted for military service under the act of may 18, 1917, a document set forth and alleged to be calculated to cause such insubordination and obstruction. the count alleges overt acts in pursuance of the conspiracy, ending in the distribution of the document set forth. the second count alleges a conspiracy to commit an offense against the united states, to-wit, to use the mails for the transmission of matter declared to be non-mailable by title 12, 2, of the act of june 15, 1917, to-wit, the above mentioned document, with an averment of the same overt acts. the third count charges an unlawful use of the mails for the transmission of the same matter and otherwise as above. the defendants were found guilty on all the counts. they set up the first amendment to the constitution forbidding congress to make any law abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, and bringing the case here on that ground have argued some other points also of which we must dispose. according to the bolded lines, what is one reason for schenck’s indictment?

Charles Shenk was the general secretary of the Committee of the Socialist party, which approved and printed a lot of pamphlets that were delivered to men called by the army to fight in the World War I, insisting to defend their rights without undergoing to the army. This fact obstructed the recruiting and enlistment service of the United States. Additionally, the socialist committee rejected the First Amendment, the reason why he and Elizabeth Bear were convicted to violate the preset laws and go against the recruiting justly during the war.

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assignment

analyzing characters

respond to the following questions in one paragraph for each. use specific examples from the text to support your responses.

1. there is a set of twins on the island named sam and eric. however, when describing them, golding regularly refers to them as samneric. how does this way of describing the twins relate to their behavior and the way that readers understand their characters? what examples of their behavior readers see that samneric is really the appropriate way to refer to them?

2. as the boys set out to search for the beast, ralph allows jack to lead the way, and he sinks to the back of the pack, " to have escaped responsibility for a time." what does this moment lead you to infer about ralph and about his feelings about being the group’s leader? what does this moment foreshadow?

3. while part of the party searching for the beast, simon realizes that the notion of the beast that the other boys have does not make sense. a beast sitting atop a mountain with claws, a beast who did not leave tracks, could have easily caught the twins. simon has a different picture of the beast: "there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick." how does this picture relate to the beast that samneric saw? how does it relate to what simon said earlier about the beast being "only us"?

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