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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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Board Of Education Science And Religion
1,494 wordsWith each new development in science comes conflict, mostly from those who don't believe that science follows the teachings of their religion or allies with their beliefs in an almighty power or God. Looking back in history at some of the great names in human scientific achievement, such as Copernicus, Galileo, and Darwin, we see that with each genius discovery came some outcry from religious groups. Nikolaus Copernicus was one of the first pioneers of science. Until 1540 science had long been a...
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Sacco And Vanzetti Man Named
1,281 wordsIn May of 1920, Italian anarchists- Sacco and Vanzetti, were charged and tried for the murders of a paymaster and guard at a South Braintree shoe factory. After being found guilty and put to death, questions quickly erupted from the public. It is the belief of many, including myself, is that one or neither of these men were guilty. The trial was unjust and the judge was bias and lead the jury toward a conviction! These men were prosecuted without a proper chance to prove their innocence and were...
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American Medical Association Violence On Television
1,317 wordsTelevision is a pervasive and complex part of childrens lives, there are many factors that affect how much and what they view. Television is more and more becoming a curriculum. Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) pools evidence from over 2, 500 studies within the last decade on over 100, 000 subjects from several nations to show that the compiled evidence of television's influence on behavior is so "overwhelming" that there is a consensus in the research community that "violence on television doe...
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U S Political Bill Of Rights
762 wordsThe ideas that form the basis of the American governmental tradition have come from a number of different sources including Voltaire, John Locke, John Locke, was from England. He believed in the Natural Rights of Life, Liberty and Property for the people. Locke's ideas of Natural Rights was adapted into the U. S. Political Structure through the Bill of Rights (a formal list of citizens rights and freedoms). It says in the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights, Congress shall make no law respecti...
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U S Constitution Church And State
642 wordsOur constitutional rights and civil liberties come into conflict with each other periodically because of certain disagreements and new issues that arise. This week a new conflict has come into play between the U. S. Constitution and voluntary school prayer. This week the House Speaker-elect, Newt Gingrich, announced his intention to immediately push for the adoption of his proposal to amend the U. S. Constitution relating to voluntary school prayer. His proposal states: Nothing in the Constituti...
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2 Live Crew Rage Against The Machine
1,466 wordsCensorship in music has been a major problem plaguing America since the early nineteen forties. It came to a head during the nineteen sixties with the Vietnam War and the hippie movement. During the nineteen seventies and eighties heavy metal and hard rock were getting the brunt of the censorship heat. Now in the nineteen nineties the major focus of censorship is rap; primarily gangster rap. Some of the main factors of music in general that cause legal ramifications are sexual content, suggestiv...
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First Amendment Rights Aggressive Behavior
343 wordsOn one hand parents argue that violence on television causes aggression in their children, on the other hand, media figures, professionals, and figures of authority say that there is no proof that television influences children. There have been more than a thousand papers published on the effects of media on behavior. There have been studies in many countries of the world. Generally, the evidence converges to the conclusion that there is a consistent relationship between television violence view...
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Supreme Court Ruled Supreme Court Cases
761 wordsThe Constitution Protects the Civil Rights of Americans The Constitution does protect the civil rights of Americans. Even though some laws are passed that violate the civil rights of people in the United States, the Supreme Court corrects these errors. The cases reviewed here ask if it is okay to compose and mandate prayer in schools, whether the death penalty is Constitutional, and how much privacy is given to the American people. In the following Supreme Court cases, the reader will find that ...
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Religious And Political Bill Of Rights
671 wordsColonial And Revolutionary Religious And Political Experiences Colonial And Revolutionary Religious And Political Experiences History essay No title got an A on it! A case for the connection of America? s colonial and revolutionary religious and political experiences to the basic principles of the Constitution can be readily made. One point in favor of this conclusion is the fact that most Americans at that time had little beside their experiences on which to base their political ideas. This is ...
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Criminal Court First Amendment
385 wordsIn Common Law Communications Law In San Francisco, two of Alameda County's six municipal courts have limited public access to criminal court records after a Legal Aid Society lawyer requested it; others are waiting an opinion from the county counsel about its constitutionality. The question is, can the courts in Alameda County withhold criminal records from the public? Does this violate the constitution? The article says that the courts did this to protect the witnesses and the victims. However,...
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Communications Decency Act Patently Offensive
581 wordsDuring the past decade, society has become increasingly dependent upon computers, which have the ability to move large amounts of information across large distances quickly. Computerization has influenced everyones life. The forced evolution of computers, and the need for ultra-fast communications, has caused a global network of interconnected computers to develop. The problem with so much information being accessible to the public is that some of it is deemed inappropriate for minors. The gover...
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Law Abiding Citizens U S Government
3,106 wordsDuring the past decade, our society has become based solely on the ability to move large amounts of information across large distances quickly. Computerization has influenced everyones life. The natural evolution of computers and this need for ultra-fast communications has caused a global network of interconnected computers to develop. This global net allows a person to send E-mail across the world in mere fractions of a second, and enables even the common person to access information world-wide...
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U S Constitution U S Government
1,888 wordsThe Constitutional Democracy Constitutional Democracy The basic premise of a constitutional democracy is that government has rules and all of the people have voices. Through free and fair elections we elect candidates to represent us. The Constitution of the United States guarantees us the right to do this, and to live democratically. The framers attacked tyrannical government and advanced the following ideas: that government comes from below, not from above, and that it derives its powers from ...
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First Amendment Shirt Quot
216 wordsJohn Schroeder, an 18 -year-old Marilyn Manson fan, was walking with his mother in a grocery store in New Braunfels, Texas, when he was arrested by an off-duty police officer for wearing a Manson T-shirt. The shirt bore a lyric from Manson's song " Cake And Sodomy" which read " I am the god of f ck" . The officer, who was working security, said that some shoppers had complained about it. Schroeder was walked outside, where the officer asked passersby if they found the shirt o...
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Freedom Of Speech Museum Of Art
1,520 wordsFreedom Is it really attainable? Here we are. The end of another century is upon us. It is a time of reflection for most. A time to review our achievements and create new goals to attain. We can individualize these ideas and expand them out to incorporate our society as a whole. If we look at them both we will find a correlation between them. Our country has grown and multiplied in every sense. We have taken the original constitution our forefathers wrote and expanded on it to fit society s ever...
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Freedom Of Religion United States Of America
559 wordsThe freedom of expressing oneself seems to be extremely important for us Americans. Yet, because I have not had to fight for my freedom as the generations before me, I often take my freedoms for granted. Now as I think of how a democracy is so open and accepting of a person s right to expression, I realize how thankful I am for all of my freedoms, especially for my freedom of religion. Freedom of religion is the right to believe in and to practice the faith of ones choice. It also includes the r...
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Material On The Internet Difficult To Find
2,323 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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Material On The Internet Difficult To Find
2,215 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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Freedom Of Speech Material On The Internet
419 wordsChild pornography, hackers reading how to hack into your web site or personal computer and children reading explicit details in the Starr Report; these are all examples of harmful information available on the Internet that should be regulated by the government. Government should regulate information on the Internet. Obscene and harmful material on the Internet, such as child pornography should be obliterated. Other questionable material, such as the Starr Report, should be published on the Inter...
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