Acceptance is the act of being accepted or acceptable. Acceptance plays important roles in determining friendships between individuals who are different from each other. People have to understand that not everyone is the same as them and they have the differences from each other. Once you accept someone for who they are, despite the differences, as the girls did in “My So-Called Enemy”, the law and defendant in “Texas v. Johnson” and “American Flag Stands for Tolerance,” and “The Wife’s Story," you can create strong friendships or prove points. The trailer for “My So-Called Enemy” shows that two very different people can overcome their differences and become friends. There are Israeli girls and Palestinian girls that are put together. In the beginning of their stay together, the two different types of girls blamed each other for what happened to their families and the war that is occurring in their homelands. They would get into major arguments and say harsh words towards each other. With the power of acceptance, they understand that they are going through the same struggle, their homeland being bombed, and replaced yelling with laughter. In the two passages “Texas v. Johnson” and “American Flag Stands for Tolerance," the struggle of Gregory Lee Johnson is explained. He burned an American Flag as a way of expressing his opinion. The First Amendment protects the people’s freedom of speech, expression, religion, press, and the right to assemble peacefully. At Texas’s first level of court system, he was found guilty of violating a Texas law, which prohibits vandalizing respected objects and was sentenced to prison time. His case appealed to the highest level of criminal courts in Texas and the court corrected his conviction saying that the State could not punish him for burning the flag because the First Amendment protects expression. The court accepted his ways of expressing his views even though they we