In the Supreme Court case Whitney v. People of State of California

(1927), the Supreme Court judges upheld Charlotte Whitney’s case under the grounds of freedom of speech. The Supreme Court stated that “If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.” This quote brings me to the topic of my project: the erosion of free speech on college campuses. My general goals are to interview college students in University City about their thoughts on free speech, hate speech, and dissenting views on college campuses.

I am interested in this topic because I, like most anyone in the world, have some unpopular opinions. It is concerning, to say the least, that colleges and college students are so intolerant to those views that there are riots and cancellations when people come to speak. I want to spread the message that words are not violence, therefore should not be retaliated with violence.

The Brookings Institute gathered data from college campuses and it isn’t surprising what they found, but it was still disturbing. According to the Brookings Institute, 41% of Democrats thought that hate speech was NOT protected by the 1st Amendment, even though it is. Another 15% of Democrats don’t know whether it is or whether it isn’t. That 56% of Democrats being misinformed is what I want to help change. I want to inform people on what their rights are and what is and what isn’t protected speech.

A story I would like to share exposes how far this has gone. At Evergreen State College in Washington last year, the administration asked white people to leave the campus. Biology Professor Bret Weinstein objected to an involuntary “Day of Absence” because he felt it was racist and inflicted on his freedom of speech. He said, “On a college campus, one’s right to speak - or to be - must never be based on skin color.” Professor Weinstein was met with 50 students yelling over him, asking him to resign, calling him racist, and even a Nazi. The students blocked him when he tried to leave and blocked the entrances to the college president’s office with furniture. This story and Professor Weinstein’s interviews led me to look into the statistics and other research about student intolerance.

My research has quantified what I already knew. I knew people were uninformed about the 1st Amendment, but the research has made it evident. I hope to learn more about ways to increase tolerance and nonviolence.

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The unofficial but official board game known as “To the Death” is based on Shakespeare’s play Macbeth. There are a lot of references to the play as well as third-party references that aren’t.There are four playable characters in the play, them being Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, King Duncan, and Banquo. They all die in the end, but the objective of the game is to be the last one standing. All four characters have their own unique path to take around the game board, and the game will be finished by the first two players to enter the center of the board (the other two are just out). While in the Battle Zone, the two players fight with different kinds of cards they collected on their way to the center.

In our board game, there are three (motif) kinds of cards to select, the first type being the attack cards. They will be used once two players enter the Battle Zone, which is in the middle of the field. Every attack card represents a weapon, and weapons include Swords, Axes, Bows/Arrows, and Spears, which were all used in the 1500s, if not specifically in the Shakespeare’s play Macbeth. There are two one of a kind cards, one that says ‘Skin them from the Nave to the Chops’, which is a reference to Act 1, Scene 2 of the play. The other card is like the opposite, and it says ‘SUICIDE’ in big letters. This is a reference to Lady Macbeth’s demise in Act 5. It is exactly what it sounds like; whoever picks up the card has to use it right away, and once they do, they’re out the game.  

There are also some health cards in the game that increase players’ defense. Health cards include (but aren’t limited to) horses, wine, and Chain Armor. Chain Armor was worn by Macbeth and Malcolm during the final few scenes of the play, because of the war between Scotland and England. Horses were occasionally ridden in the film. There is no direct reference to wine in the play, but it’s been around since 1500 BC and has some health benefits to it as well. The last type of cards are called movement cards, which are used before two players enter the Battle Zone. The cards don’t just say ‘move x spaces forward’ or ‘move y spaces back’. There are references to major or minor situations from the actual play, like how Macbeth became mentally unstable etc. The cards also include certain motifs from the play like death and sleep.

Instructions:

Winning the Game

The winner will be whoever beats their opponent in the Battle Zone, after the first two players get there.  

Losing the game

There is more than one way to lose. The first way is picking up the SUICIDE card in the health card deck. You’ll have to use it instantly.

The second way is when someone uses the ‘Skin Them From the Nave to the Chops’ card on you in the Battle Zone. That card causes instant death on the one it was used on.

The third way is to lose the race to the Battle Zone, finishing in third or fourth. You then won’t play anymore.

Playing the game

1. Race to the Battle Zone

The game starts with all four players at the beginning of their labeled paths to the Battle Zone. Every character has their own path to follow, and they’re all designed differently. The players take turns picking up movement cards from the deck, following whatever the card says, and picking up attack and health cards on the way.  If you’ve picked up a card that says to move back when you’re at the start, then just put it at the bottom of the deck and pick up another one. The first player to enter the Battle Zone will have to wait for the second player, and the game will continue with those two players.

2. Battle in the Battle Zone

   The two remaining players use the attack and health cards they have collected to fight each other (if you have somehow managed not to take any card at all, just take five of both kinds of cards). Both start with 30 health, and every card says weather it reduces or increases it. Attack cards reduce your opponents health, while health cards increase your own, and also have a ‘tag’ in the corner that says ‘health’ so you’ll know which  ones are which. You can only choose one card to put down every turn, so choose wisely. If the card allows more than one use (it will say so in the bottom right corner if it does), then you can take it back after you put it down and it goes into effect. The game ends once someone’s health goes down to 0.  

Our Macbeth Creative Project was a playbill. Jakob and I decided on a playbill because we felt that we could operate most effectively with a project that had writing and visual aspects. We knew we wanted to have the most significant image in the play be our cover art, so we chose the crown. We also wanted to signify the violence in the play so we added a sword going through the crown with blood dripping off of it. We decided to create our own cover art because we wanted to have an original project.

An important part of our playbill is the color scheme. We decided to make the background red because of the bloody themes that are in Macbeth. The red also matches our cover art. We also thought that the linear style of coloring the background was very appealing and added a little variety.We also decided to do an act-by-act summary to inform the audience about the play they are about to watch.

We chose Kevin Hart to act Macbeth because we thought that he would be good actor for the hallucination scenes and would be somebody funny to watch when sad and going crazy. Chris Rock in our version is the Porter. This decision was made because the porter's role in the play is for comic relief. After a heavy death scene, Chris Rock is a funny person that could bring the audience back to relief with his funny humor and personality.

In this project I worked with Karima  and we decided to make the cover the way it looks because we wanted to symbolize important parts of the play. We were inspired at the fact that the best playbills always have one of the important parts of the play as a cover page.We put a bloody sword through a crown and that symbolizes one of the most important parts of the play which is when Macbeth killed King Duncan and took over the kingdom. We also chose to put a crown because the crown symbolized  Macbeth's goal in doing all the crimes he did. Our rough draft had too much design (even though it was great) but we thought about it and came to understand that too much design, although it symbolizes a lot of stuff, it should be basic enough to tell a big part without giving too much infor of the play. The purpose of this project was to chose what project you wanted to do and we chose to do a playbill because me and Karima decided that a playbill would suit us perfectly. We chose to have play be performed at the Globe Theater because it's Shakespeare's theater and since Macbeth was written by Shakespeare's then we might as well have it be performed in his theater.

Summary

The play Macbeth is about,  A loyal man who fought under the king of Scotland named King Duncan, life turned around. This man was known as Macbeth. He became the opposite of what he was after 3 witches had given him and his friend Banquo prophecies that fortelled their future. Hearing that Macbeth would be king gave Macbeth a greed for power. After telling his wife the prophecies given to him, they decide to kill the king to have the power for their own. They take over the kingdom but, can they maintain it for long?

Characters Costumes

In the play Macbeth we will have characters wear amazing costumes that will make them look like the character they are meant to be. Macbeth at the start as a warrior will have a cape and grey armour with some leather boats. He will have his sword on the side. When he becomes the king Macbeth will wear a crown and long heavy clothing with the color of black because the black represents the bad king he is because of the way he achieved his position. Lady Macbeth will wear a dark color grown, since growns we're common use for the queens. The color of the grown would be black as well because she was the reason Macbeth did what he did. Since Banquo is a soldier he will wear grey armour and some leather boots, black pants, and will have his sword at the side of him. King Duncan will wear a crown, armour, and a cape of the color bright red. His cape will be bright red because the bright red will represent King Duncan's death. MacDuff will wear gey armour, black pants, leather boots, and will have his sword on the side. Macduff will wear this because since he's one of the thanes, he is like Macbeth right man and is a soldier. The three witches will wear black robes and will be bare foot because since they are witches they have to be spooky and scary looking. Malcolm and Donalbain will wear green robes and will have a sword on the side of them. The reason I say that they will wear green robes is because since they are princes they have to look fancy but not too fancy to which they look scary, they have to look nice.

Casting

Jason Statham will play Macbeth because Jason Statham is known for playing as the bad guy.

Dwayne Johnson will play as Macduff because he is always the hero who creates justice.

Paul Walker will play Banquo because he is a good friend and died.

Beyonce will play as Lady Macduff because she’s a lady and she is liked by everyone.

Kevin Hart will play as King Duncan because he is a likeable guy and everyone thinks he's great.

Vin Diesel will play as Fleance because he skilled and he escapes from places all the time and doesn’t get caught.

Adam Sandler will play as Malcolm because he acts like a coward but at the end he redeems himself.

Steve Carell, Will Ferrell, and Ben Stiller will play as the three witches because they are weird.

Will Smith is Young Siward because he is a character who has to build up their life again.

Tom Hanks will play as Donalbain because he has a good voice for someone who seems afraid.

Mark Strong will play as the Third Murder because he is an evil guy.

Jennifer Lawrence is Lady Macduff because she is nice and likable.

Driven to Death

  Answer Key

Duncan “Dismayed not this our captains, Macbeth and Banquo

Macbeth “From this moment the very firstlings of my heart shall be the firstlings of my hand.”

Malcolm “Let us seek out some desolate shade and there weep our sad bosoms empty”

Donalbain “What should be spoken here, where our fate, hid in an auger-hole, may rush and seize us?

Lady Macbeth “They met me in the day of success, and I have learned by the perfect’st report they have more in them than mortal knowledge.”

Banquo “If you can look into the seeds of time and say which grain will grow and which will not.”

Fleance “The moon is down. I have not heard the clock.”

Macduff “What concern they? The general cause, or is it a fee-grief due to some single breast”?

Lady Macduff “He had none; his flight was madness. When our actions do not, Our fears do make us traitors.”

Lennox The night has been unruly. Where we lay, Our chimneys were blown down.”

Ross “Your castle is surprised, your wife and babes savagely slaughtered.”

Mentith “The English power is near, led on by Malcolm, his uncle Siward, and the good Macduff.”

Angus “Near Birnam Wood shall we well meet them”

Caithness “Great Dunsinane he strongly fortifies. Some say he’s mad”

Siward “This way, my lord. The castle’s gently ‘rendered. The tyrant’s people on both sides do fight,”

Young Siward “No, though thou call’st thyself a hotter name than any is in Hell”

Rules:

1. Nobody is allowed to reveal their character until the time of that characters departure from the game announced by the moderator.

2. The players have to tell the Moderator their character based on their quote and if they guess wrong they are out of the game.

3. Everyone in the game has to follow the timeline read by the moderator.

4. The goal of the game is to guess who Macbeth is. If you guess wrong you will die. If you guess right the game is over. You report your guess to the moderator. If Macbeth guesses wrong the game is over and the other players win.

5. Once a person is out the game they will announce their character.

6. Minimum players is 10 in addition to the moderator. Maximum players is 17 moderator.

7. Ages 12-99

8. Reading or watching the play is heavily advised.

9. Macbeth, Siward and Macduff will carry a sword at all times during the game.  

10. The dots on the cards mean how hard the quote is.