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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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Freedom Of Speech Violence In The Media
1,253 wordsCensorship should be Censored by our Society In todays society there is an issue of whether or not certain topics that arent fully accepted by our culture should have set restrictions on them to prevent any individuals from being offended. This ideal concept of conforming everyone in a given group to accept and hold the same views has come about as a process known as censorship. Censorship is defined as The change in the access status of material, made by a governing authority or its representat...
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Hard Core Pornography Violence Against Women
974 wordsThe freedom to read is essential to the democratic way of life. But today, that freedom is under attack. Private groups and public authorities everywhere are working to remove both books and periodicals from sale, to exclude certain books from public schools, to censor and silence magazines and newspapers, and to limit "controversial" books and periodicals to the general public. The suppression of reading materials is suppression of creative thought. Books and periodicals are not the only ones b...
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Obscenity Blasphemy And Freedom Of Expression
1,949 words... Therefore this provision offers justification for the publication of articles that are obscene and thus allows more scope for expression. There has consequently been a fall in prosecutions, with pornographic production becoming increasingly productive and their products ever more odious. Similarly, by contrast to the prosecution initiated against the novel Last exit to Brooklyn, now books such as American Psycho, which depicts explicit sexual violence, are being published without risk of leg...
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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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Bill Of Rights Marilyn Manson
1,432 wordsby Q. T. M. McConnell Are you in the mood for some good reading? The other day I was in the Guidance Office looking for guidance when I saw an unassuming three page packet. Having nothing else to do, I picked one up and began reading. I learned that the name of this little manual is the Student's Rights and Responsibilities Bill. I thought to myself, 'my, what a great place is La Follette, that I can simply walk into my guidance office and learn my rights as a student. But wait, why must I pursu...
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1 St Amendment Freedom Of Speech
710 wordsCommunication Lesson I a) New York Times Company vs. Sullivan On March 29, 1960 the newspaper published a full-page ad Heed Their Rising Voices. This advertisement claimed that arrest of Martin Luther King, Jr. for perjury in Alabama was made in order to destroy Luther Kings attempts to allow blacks to vote. Sullivan (the commissioner from Montgomery), filed a libel action and claimed that allegations against the police of Montgomery were libelous and false, and, in such a way, these allegations...
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England And Wales Local Authorities
1,588 wordsFilm Censorship Movies are one of the biggest conveyors of morals and ideas to people in todays world. The movie Money Train portrayed a criminally insane man that would like subway ticket booths on fire with gasoline. A few weeks after the movie was in theaters, someone started setting ticket booths on fire. When the perpetrator was caught, he blamed his actions on the movie. He said that the movie influenced him into doing what he did. In an online forum it was determined that, Censorship prov...
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Good Or Bad Pornographic Material
708 wordsWhat Happened To Our Rights? Censorship in America today has gotten way out of hand. There always seems to be some holier than thou group speaking out as if they were representing the majority of Americans. These groups want to censor just about anything and everything we do. When it comes to watching television, reading a book or magazine, listening to music, or buying products, people should be able to make these decisions for themselves. Where do we draw the line with censorship? After all we...
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Men And Women Draw The Line
1,881 wordsJ. M Coetzee's The Harms of Pornography As the debate over pornography and its place in society grows hotter every day, several authors in particular shed a new light on the subject. Both their intuition and insight involving their beliefs can help the reader a great deal in seeing aspects of this debate that might have otherwise gone without the consideration that they so deserve. I believe that pornography is not only okay, but is allowing our country to take a step back and ask ourselves how ...
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Hard Core Pornography Violence Against Women
812 wordsThe freedom to read is essential to the democratic way of life. But today, that freedom is under attack. Private groups and public authorities everywhere are working to remove both books and periodicals from sale, to exclude certain books from public schools, to censor and silence magazines and newspapers, and to limit controversial books and periodicals to the general public. The suppression of reading materials is suppression of creative thought. Books and periodicals are not the only ones bei...
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Freedom Of Speech Draw The Line
1,048 wordsCensorship From Obscene Material Today, in the 1990 s, citizens in our society are being bombarded with obscene material from every direction. From the hate lyrics of Guns N Roses to the satanic lyrics of Money Crue and Marilyn Manson to the sexually explicit graphical content of todays movies, the issue is how much society is going to permit and where we, as a society, should we draw the line. The freedom of speech has always been considered a right, but that doesnt mean that you can shout, Fir...
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Freedom Of Speech Law Of The Land
1,572 wordsThe Constitution: Law of the Land or Outdated News? Our constitution was written over a century ago, by our forefathers who had themes intentions. But what they did not have was a way to predict how our society has evolved, and how the Supreme Law of the Land would come under question. Many parts the Constitution have been left open to interpretation due to the changing times andstagnance of the Constitution itself. How would our forefathers feel about new issues arising? Their original intent i...
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Freedom Of Speech Freedom Of Expression
478 wordsApplying contemporary community standards as to material being termed obscene is not enough. The Supreme Court should narrow their decision beyond the 1987 Miller Vs. California re-hearing so as to protect society. The First Amendment protects American s freedom of speech. To what extent does this Amendment protect individuals? I feel that the protection should be unconditional according to the ruling of Justice Wendell Holmes. His ruling states that freedom of speech is protected unless it caus...
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Years Of Age Supreme Court
3,217 wordsImagine a place where you have access to anything and everything one could want. Some would say that is only existent in a utopia, and some would say that describes the Internet. Many adults go on to the net and access pornographic material that would be unsuitable for children. This is called cyber porn. The controversy lies in the fact that children are accessing these materials also. Government, activist groups, and concerned parents are fighting to regulate obscene material found over the In...
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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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Freedom Of Expression Rights And Freedoms
1,243 words&# 65279; The freedoms of the Canadian people, as guaranteed in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms states in section 1 that? ... guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits... ? This means that specific freedoms, though guaranteed in section two of the Charter as? fundamental freedoms? are subordinate to limitations as the government sees fit, unlike the freedoms of the United States constitutional freedoms, which have no limits put on them, and are oc...
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Hard Core Pornography Age Of 21
2,527 wordsPornography &# 038; Ethics Pornography is a social problem and is a commodity brought into existence by certain characteristics of a highly developed civilization. The problem with pornography is that any form of censorship or suppression cannot solve it. These aggressive methods would merely aggravate the disease and create other deplorable consequences. Prevention is better than cure, and by diagnosing the psychological motives of those who consume pornography, we may be able to change the ins...
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Bill Of Rights Marilyn Manson
1,423 wordsStudents Rights by Q. T. M. McConnell Are you in the mood for some good reading? The other day I was in the Guidance Office looking for guidance when I saw an unassuming three page packet. Having nothing else to do, I picked one up and began reading. I learned that the name of this little manual is the Students Rights and Responsibilities Bill. I thought to myself, my, what a great place is La Follette, that I can simply walk into my guidance office and learn my rights as a student. But wait, wh...
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Equal Protection Clause Due Process Clause
845 wordsOver the past 100 years rights of U. S citizens have evolved. In particular the rights of woman and men have changed a great deal, also freedom of expression has changed a lot. Each one of the above rights have foot holds in several different amendments, specifically the First, Fifth, and Fourteenth for gender discrimination, and for freedom of expression the First mainly. The following cases are cases which I think represent the evolution of gender discrimination and freedom of expression best....
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