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Credit Card Numbers Prevent Misuse
2,273 wordsThesis: Government Censorship would damage the atmosphere of the freedom to express ideas on the Internet; therefore, government should not encourage censorship. I. In the Internet community, there is a large volume of technical terms. For this reason, it is first necessary to examine the terminology specific to Internet. 1. The internet is a world wide computer network. 1. Electronic mail (email), which is one component of the Internet, approximates person to person letters, memoranda, notes an...
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18 Th Century Word Censored Meaning
589 wordsFuck! Is that offensive to you? Why is the word censored such a taboo word in the English language as opposed to its definition of copulation? It would seem to make sense that if a word is offensive its meaning would be twice that. Strangely, sex is not an offensive word at all, and is used frequently in formal conversations and writings. Upon questioning, not one person could give a concrete answer on why the word offended them, they would simply say oh, just because, and dont use that kind of ...
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British And Americans British And French
1,303 wordsEven as Pershing had been preparing and launching this first big American attack, Foch's original plan had been growing by bounds. No longer was the offensive to be confined to a British strike along the Somme and an American drive on Mzires. The new plan also included a Belgian-British-French attack along the Lys and French attacks in between British and Americans. It was to be a grand assault all along the front said Foch: "Tout le monde la bataille!" . The aim was to cut the enemy's rail line...
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Seven Dirty Words Power To Regulate
1,211 words... f the dominant culture's inevitable efforts to force those groups who do not share its mores to conform to it's way of thinking, acting, and speaking. " (Gunther, 1991) Therefore, the Supreme Court looked upon Carlin's monologue as indecent but not obscene. The FCC was given the power to regulate the airwaves and prohibit broadcasters from promoting "indecent" material over the radio. After the Pacifica case the FCC has also extended the ban of indecent as well as obscene materials to 24 hou...
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Censorship Of Pornography A Moral Issue
1,292 wordsImagine The New York Times headline reading "Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition Banned! !" If the pro-censorship / anti -porn sector of our society has its way, this headline may come true. Some of the pro-censorship supporters believe that women posing provocatively in bathing suits should be considered pornography and that this and all other forms of pornography should be made illegal. There is and has been a moral debate over whether or not pornography should be censored. Many individuals be...
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United States Constitution Hate Speech
860 wordsIn recent years, in attempt to reduce hate crimes and to protect the minorities, many colleges have adopted codes and policies prohibiting offensive speech based on race, gender, religion and sexual orientation. While college administrators may find speech regulations as an attractive solution to all of these problems, experience has showed us that restrictions of free speech on campus create even more complications and confrontations between students. By adopting speech codes universities would...
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Material On The Internet Difficult To Find
1,172 wordsIntroduction With more and more frequency the newspapers are reporting instances of school children distributing disks of pornographic images which they have downloaded from the net and recently a university student was found to be operating such a site for material. On November 11, an Associated Press release (Phillips, 1994) reported that Carnegie Mellon University had decided to block its users from accessing sexually explicit materials through the Internet: the university's president feared ...
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Communications Decency Act Corn Revere
2,215 words... rom viewing unsuitable material on the Net. In addition, Meleedy, a computer science graduate student at Harvard University, questions that if "the Internet makes democracy this accessible to the average citizen, is it any wonder Congress wants to censor it?" (Meleedy 1) Allison and Baxter assert that, "the most significant new properties of the Internet media are the diversity of information sources and their ability to reach almost anywhere in the world. Authors range from major corporatio...
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Horrors Of War Wilfred Owen
984 wordsDoes Owens poetry do more than offer the reader an insight into the horrors of war? Discuss with reference to at least two poems. Wilfred Owen is arguable the greatest of the world war one poets. This is a man who through personal experience offers us not only insight into the astro cities of war but also illustrates the struggle of nature and the mental state these men cross into on the battle field. In Spring Offensive, Owen mixes the ideas of war and nature in a conversational tone unlike Fut...
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Score Points Opposing Team
535 wordsFootball is a team sport mostly played in the US and Canada by high school, college, and professional players. It is a dangerous sport because there is a lot of physical contact. While millions of people watch the sport, not all of them understand how the game works because it is a difficult game to understand right away. It gets easier to understand the game after you have played it. The object of the game is to score points by carrying the ball across the goal line of your opponent, or by kick...
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American Involvement In The Vietnam War
2,018 words... ops had gone home on leave, and U. S. troops were on stand-down in many areas. Over 85, 000 NLF soldiers simultaneously struck at almost every Major City and provincial capital across South Vietnam, sending their defenders reeling. The U. S. Embassy in Saigon, previously thought to be invulnerable, was taken over by the NLF, and held for eight hours before U. S. forces could retake the complex. It took three weeks for U. S. troops to dislodge 1000 NLF fighters from Saigon. During the Tet Off...
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Means Of Communication Regular Army
2,758 words... s direction some reorganization is required which will energetically combine the forces of the nation and create a real army, such as we have not at the present time. Unless we satisfy this demand, we shall not long be able to hold our own against the hostile Powers... We must not, therefore, be content merely to strengthen our army; we must devise other means of gaining the upper hand of our enemies. These means can only be found in the spiritual domain. History teaches us by countless exam...
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A War America Could Have Won
1,727 wordsThe First American combat troops in Vietnam landed at Da Nang in 8 March 1965 to defend the air base. With the exception of the nuclear weapon, every piece of equipment in America's mighty arsenal was used in the war. The USA President Lyndon Johnson said "Our goal was to deter and diminish the strength of the North Vietnamese aggressors and try to convince them to leave South Vietnam alone"#. Johnson limited the conflict to an air war at first, hoping to pound away and push the Viet Cong into g...
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Middle East Human Geography Part 1
2,115 wordsMiddle East Human Geography Focus Introduction: With the Cold War having ended, there is a real possibility that countries such as El Salvador that served as Cold War battlegrounds will again be relegated to the back burner of American political scholarship. The central argument of this report is that marginalizing El Salvador's recent political history would be a mistake because this history contains a large number of important lessons for ongoing U. S. peacemaking efforts in conflicts such as ...
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Cuban Missile Crisis Bay Of Pigs Invasion
2,780 wordsWorld War II forced two giants, United States and the Soviet Union, to put their differences aside in the name of conquering a more threatening force, Hitler and his Nazi armies. Yet, already in the three conferences, starting with meeting in Teheran in 1943, the Yalta talks in February 1945, and the Berlin (Potsdam) Conference in August 1945, it was obvious that the alliance would not last in peacetime. Although the American President Roosevelt recognized Soviet Unions Communist government, his...
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United States Offensive Persons
476 wordsIn a society where the media creates stereotypes, showcases imperfect celebrities as role models, and often hurts more than helps the public with its mad rush for ratings, musical expression is an indicator of the times, not a cause of crimes. If Ice-Ts violent and degrading song is offensive, it is because the listeners ask for offensive. They want to rebel, to shock the world, and musical artists are more than willing to help them out. The problems of broken homes, misled teens, and a culture ...
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Human Rights Act Person Or Group
3,629 wordsI disapprove of what you say and Ill do my best to see that saying it is made a criminal offence. (John Mortimer, English playwright, commentator and creator of the Rumpole series on TV) If we dont believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we dont believe in it at all. (Noam Chomsky) Freedom Bound The boundaries of hate and freedom are a contested terrain. When we negotiate the boundary of hate we are not only threading our way through a maze of malaise and venom, we are weaving th...
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Dien Bien Phu Ho Chi Minh
4,876 wordsHome is Where You Dig It: A Study of Siege Warfare Eric Dahlquist The forward French Base at Dien Bien Phu was a bold venture by the French forces to infiltrate Northern Vietnam in 1954, however they underestimated their enemy and were decidedly defeated and forced out of Vietnam forever. Fourteen years later in an effort to turn the tide in the Vietnam Conflict, the US Marines were ordered to take up a position just outside the city of Khe San, along the DMZ. They too were attacked fiercely, bu...
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Allied Forces German Soldiers
999 wordsWhen Meuse-Argonne Offensive Meuse-Argonne Offensive When the Allied Supreme Commander, Ferdinand Foch, originally planned the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. It was to be a isolated attack by British troops along the Somme River followed by an American push on Mezieres; however, over time Foch? s plan to capture a German stronghold turned into a plan for a massive attack by the Allied forces. The objective of the attack was to capture the railroad hub at Sudan in order to break the rail net supporting...
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Owens Poem Spring Offensive War
324 words(Wilfred Spring Offensive SPRING OFFENSIVE (Wilfred Owen) Wilfred Owens poem Spring Offensive explores the unnatural offensive of war against spring or nature. Opening with Halted against the shade of the last hill Owen suggests both the calmness of the shade and the deadly implication of last. Written in a conversational tone, Spring Offensive illustrates the physical horrors that the men experienced in war as they leapt to swift unseen bullets. Or plunged and fell away past the world verge. Th...
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