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Prince William Sound Christian Science Monitor
1,783 wordsOn March 24, 1989 at 4 minutes past midnight, the oil tanker Exxon Valdez struck a reef in Alaska's breath-taking Prince William Sound. Instantaneously, the quiet waters of the sound became a sea of black. "We " ve fetched up - ah - hard aground north of Goose Island off Bligh Reef, and - ah - evidently leaking some oil, " Joseph Hazelwood, captain of the ship, radioed the Coast Guard Marine Safety Office back in Valdez. That "some oil" turned out to be a total of 11, 000, 000 gallons of crude o...
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Tinker V Des Moines Hazelwood
1,027 wordsScott Nasa 3 / 10 / 97 Period 7 About 32 years ago, in December of 1965, a group of adults and students from Des Moines, Iowa gathered to show their dislike towards American involvement in the Vietnam War. They decided to wear black armbands and fast on December 16 and 31 to express there point. When the principals of the Des Moines School System found out their plans, they decided to suspend anyone who took part in this type of protest. On December 16 - 17 three Tinker siblings and several of t...
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School District School Board
458 wordsStudents may be allowed to dig up as much information as they? d like for an article, but that doesn? t mean that it will be allowed to print it. Schools all over the world are cutting out articles, words, names and just not allowing the paper to be circulated around the school, for the reason that they are scared. Schools believe that by allowing students complete freedom of press, will result in a lawsuit. In Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier the principal was unhappy with two articles wr...
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Supreme Court Ruled Freedom Of Speech
1,125 wordsDestruction of 1 st Amendment Rights In Our Schools In 1787 our forefathers ratified the constitution of the United States of America, which contains the most important document than American citizen, the Bill of Rights. The first amendment of the Bill of Rights states: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the establishment thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech; or of the press; or the right ofthe people peaceably to assemble, and to petition t...
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Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
840 wordsThe Exxon Valdez oil tanker left the Trans Alaska Pipeline terminal at 9: 12 PM March 23, 1989. The Exxon Valdez was the companies second newest tanker, it was 987 feet long and was carrying 53, 094, 510 gallons of crude oil. Its destination, Long Beach California. William Murphy, an expert ships pilot had been hired to steer the ship through the Valdez Narrows. Joe Hazelwood, the captain, and helmsman Harry Clear were also in the wheel house. Clear was steering. After successfully guiding the s...
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Kansas City Star First Amendment Rights
3,121 wordsHazelwood: History of Censorship in Education Imagine for a moment that everyone in America who favors censorship of one kind or another suddenly got their wish. Imagine they could clap their hands and cause any material that they objected to, for whatever reasons, to disappear... Virtually every film and television show would vanish... School textbooks would be so watered-down as to be meaningless. Newspapers would be forbidden to run controversial stories... (American Voices 117) The basis of ...
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Des Moines School District
503 wordsThe articles that were written in the high school newspaper, Spectrum, were blatant stories of misconduct amongst the students. When a student walks on the school ground their parents place the responsibility of what they see and hear in the hands of the principal. In this case, Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier what the students wrote in his newspaper was what he thought was inappropriate for the eyes of his students. The principal did the right thing because he is liable for what is writt...
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Prince William Sound Exxon Valdez
1,369 wordsOil Spills: It will happen again Imagine that you are a just a small, ordinary seabird. It is March 24, 1987 and far away from you is an enormous tanker called the Exxon Valdez, coming at an astonishing speed. You do not worry, for these huge ships come along very occasionally in the Alaskan waters. The next thing you know when you turn around is that something wrong. The tanker is heading towards Bligh Reef, which is a mass of granite pinnacles. It crashes into the reef and something black, thi...
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Husband And Wife Home Burial
1,360 wordsHazelwood 1 Robert Frost s Home Burial is a narrative poem that speaks of life s tragedies. Frost s writings style is very straightforward and direct. In Home Burial the setting appears to be the background of a tragedy that centers around the death of a child. It is important for the reader to recognize that Home Burial was written in the early 1900 hundreds. This gives the reader a better insight to understanding the husband s reaction to the death of the child. During this time period Society...
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