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Uncle Tom Cabin Miles Per Hour
2,709 wordsFrom the moment she stepped foot outside, Princess Diana of Whales had camera lenses and microphones pushed in her face. She was constantly pursued and for this reason she sometimes had to hide or disguise herself in order to avoid the unyielding persistence and constant harassment of the press. Eugene Robinson, a journalist in England said, "For the tabloids, day in and day out, no story is bigger than the royal family. All the tabloids employ royal-watching reporters, some of whom have become ...
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Sex And Violence Violence In The Media
1,337 words... u order. Like Playboy, it is an added extra and there should be no monitoring what so ever. Hence restrictions would violate the first amendment. Another way the First Amendment is violated is when the government tells broadcasters how much educational television programs they should produce and what time slots they should use for such programs. Jeff Baumann, the general counsel for the National Association of Broadcasters that, "It takes away the discretion of the broadcasters. " Another re...
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Cyber Patrol Internet Censorship
1,610 wordsThere is nothing more frightening than active ignorance, the German poet Goethe stated. Ignorance is alarming, no matter what good intentions it is hidden behind. Today, an ignorance of the issue of Internet censorship has left a threat to free speech, our constitutional right. Even worse, many of our lawmakers are the ones feeding this fire. The first major law concerning the matter was the Communications Decency Act (CDA) of 1996. The CDA made it a crime to transmit indecent material over the ...
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Freedom Of Expression First Amendment
704 wordsCensorship by definition is the suppression of words, images or ideas that are offensive. It occurs when certain people succeed in imposing their personal or moral values on others. The debate over censorship deals mainly with the first amendment and whether it is constitutional for a group of people to decide what is right for other people. It has exploded within recent years with the advent of the Internet. Many different kinds of people can and are considered censors. Parents, teachers, admin...
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Sexual Aggression Sexual Violence
1,027 words... e Court judge is quoted as saying, "I can't define pornography, but I know it when I see it" (Itzin 20). This statement can be heard at community meetings in every state, city, and county across the nation. Community standards are hazy due to the fact that when asked what pornography is to them, most individuals cannot express or explain in words what pornography is, therefore creating confusion among themselves. Communities are left somewhat helpless in this matter since the federal courts ...
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Perfect Example First Amendment
996 wordsCensorship of Pornography Introduction: I would like to apologize ahead of time, for what Im about to say may offend some of you in the audience. Wild sex, naked bodies, these are just a few things that deal with pornography and our government sensors it every day. Now that I have your attention I would like to ask you to take a different look at pornography. Look at it as many peoples lifes, look at it as many peoples occupations, but dont look at it as disgusting displays of obscene actions. I...
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Censorship Of The Internet Child Pornography
2,014 wordsCensorship of the Internet The Internet s free speech rights are currently a hot topic in the news for a wide variety of reasons. People are abusing the Internet and putting things that have no business being on there, for example such things as child pornography, bestiality, and S &# 038; M photos and videos. Complete CD and software packages ranging from $ 60 -$ 1000 can be found for free on any random page if you look hard enough. Countless people have been harassed and stalked in a number of...
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United States Of America Bill Of Rights
2,482 wordsProposed Changes in the Constitution The Constitution is one of the greatest documents ever written in American history. Rights for all people are included, and everyone is considered to be equal. This took many years to accomplish, and the United States of America are obviously proud of the way they brought everyone together. However, as great of a document that the Constitution is, there are many aspects about it that are outdated or dont give rights to people that deserve them. In all great p...
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Internet Censorship Doesn T
815 wordsThe First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America states that congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free practice thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peacefully to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. However, in the 1990 s, many books, music, and online services have been under attack. The banning of literature, music, and other forms of ex...
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Theory Of Evolution Teach Children
705 wordsCreationism Has No Place In Public Schools In society there are many diverse issues that raise intense controversy. An ongoing conflict has been on what to tech the children in public schools about human creation. Many religious leaders and churchgoers would like to have the biblical theory of creation taught to the children in place of the scientific theory of evolution. This idea violates the first amendment, would be almost impossible to implement, and will inhibit any further expansion of ch...
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Teaching Of Evolution Church And State
1,448 wordsCreation: Where do We Come From? The issue of teaching creationism in the public schools has long been debated. Over the years many different arguments have been made. First creationists tried to have the teaching of evolution outlawed. This issue went to the Supreme Court in 1968, where in Epperson v. Arkansas the high court ruled against banning the teaching of evolution. Soon after this decision creationists began to call for equal time, or the equal treatment of creation theory and evolution...
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Freedom Of Expression Bill Of Rights
655 wordsDesecrating the Flag Throughout history, Americans have fought hard to gain independence and the freedoms that come with it. However, some choose to test the limitations of those freedoms. For some time, Americans have shown their disgust of the American government by burning flags, and even cutting them up to use as clothing. Although mocking the American government and the flag is disrespectful, revoking the right to do so would be a violation of freedom of expression, which is guaranteed by t...
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Freedom Of Speech Bill Of Rights
1,205 wordsFreedom of Speech: My Version and Theirs The First Amendment has led Americans to believe in a hallowed sense of freedom that does not exist; freedom of speech. Freedom of speech in this country has never been absolute. You can? t yell fire in a crowded theater, solicit bribes, make terrorist threats, slander another, intentionally inflict emotional distress or be obscene in public (Dickerson). What Americans do have a right to is their opinion and the means by which to express it, no matter if ...
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Child Pornography First Amendment
471 wordsFREE SPEECH AND THE INTERNET In December of 1997, the FBI learned from a confidential source that a Maryland, male resident possessed child pornography. FBI agents obtained a search warrant and found that he had more than 100 pictures of naked children engaged in sexually explicit activity that he downloaded from the Internet. Just earlier in June (same year), the Supreme Court ruled in Reno v. ACLU that the Communications Decency Act, which basically made it a crime to broadcast anything indece...
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First Amendment Rights Censoring The Internet
1,370 words12 - 9 - 01 5 th Internet Censorship Luis Barahona 12 - 9 - 01 5 th period Internet censorship Censorship is a big issue, which we seem to be confronted a lot with, especially in the school environment. We have tried to determine if certain books such as I know why the caged bird sings and the chocolate factory are appropriate for students to read. The challenge of deciding what we see has also gone to other mediums such as television, and music. But as we enter the new millennium, the new, and ...
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Jenny Jones Television Violence
1,274 wordsTelevision Violence Society was changed forever through the invention of the television. We now have access to information across the globe and entertainment around the clock. At what point has the industry crossed the line in television entertainment? Mentally or physically we all at some point or another want to be like the television personalities we see on a daily basis. No one is more influenced than the impressionable youths who are raised by the television rather than their parents. After...
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Obscene Materials First Amendment
877 wordsCensorship should be censored In 443 BC the comitia center of the ancient Roman State began the fight over censorship, or withholding lawful information from the public to protect the public from violence, pornography, etc This committee felt there was a need for the office of censor who decided what were correct manners and morals. This Roman Empire was the beginning of the war over censorship. Still we feel the need to tighten censorship from the public for various reasons. One argument is tha...
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Mumia Abu Jamal Write A Poem
1,693 wordsAll Things Censored: The Poem NPR Doesnt Want You to Hear by Mart? n Espana Source: web I was an NPR poet. In particular, I was an All Things Considered poet. All Things Considered would occasionally broadcast my poems in conjunction with news stories. One producer even commissioned a New Years poem from me. " Imagine the Angels of Bread" aired on January 2, 1994, in the same broadcast as the news of the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas. But now Ive been censored by All Things Considered ...
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Los Angeles Times Soft Money
1,556 wordsThere are four important parts to a campaign: the candidate, the issue, the campaign organization and the money to run it. Without the last one the other three will not exist (Janda/Berry/Goldman pg. 164). Politicians need money to keep their careers going. Political money is divided between dollars that are regulated called hard money and money that has no restrictions called soft money. Soft money is money which, by definition and law, is not supposed to be part of our federal campaign finance...
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Supreme Court Ruling Majority Opinion
2,934 wordsThe justices determine which cases to take. They never explain the reason for their choices. Whether or not a case is accepted " strikes me as a rather subjective decision, made up in part of intuition and in part of legal judgment, " Rehnquist wrote in " The Supreme Court: How It Was, How It Is, " his 1987 book about the court. Important factors, he said, are whether the legal question has been decided differently by two lower courts and needs resolution by the high court, w...
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