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Cell Phones Ban The Bans
974 wordsA young girl riding in her mothers car is killed when a driver, talking on his cell phone, runs a stop sign in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Further south in a suburb of Camden, New Jersey, a driver ploughs through a group of pedestrians. An elderly couple dies as a result of his efforts to retrieve a dropped cigarette. In western Ohio, a driver causes serious injury to a father and son on their way home from a fishing expedition. The offending driver was changing stations on his radio and unkno...
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Natural Rights Common Good
586 wordsThe Founding Father's views on government were influenced by both the classical republican and the natural rights philosophers. The two groups of philosophers held very different views on how a government should run. The classical republicans believed that the individual should sacrifice his or her personal freedoms in order to gain the greater good. The natural rights philosophers, on the other hand, held that a person's individual freedoms out to be preserved at all costs. The two greatest exa...
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Sexually Explicit Material Langston Hughes
3,344 wordsCensorship of American Media and Music The first amendment to the Constitution contends that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of the press. In the past ten years especially, music has been under assault by lawmakers, prosecutors and critics of morality and taste. One attack on this freedom comes from parental advisory stickers. These stickers are used as a form of censorship against an artist an...
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York Ballantine Books Bradbury Fahrenheit
2,707 wordsPersonal Freedom In the United States of America No other democratic society in the world permits personal freedoms to the degree of the United States of America. Within the last sixty years, American courts, especially the Supreme Court, have developed a set of legal doctrines that thoroughly protect all forms of the freedom of expression. When it comes to evaluating the degree to which we take advantage of the opportunity to express our opinions, some members of society may be guilty of violat...
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Science Fiction Short Stories
1,281 wordsIn Illinois, on August 22, 1920, Ray Bradbury was born. Ray showed promise as a writer from and early age, when he began writing short stories. As a child, he was fascinated by magic and fantasy and spent many days dreaming that he would grow to be some sort of magician or something along those lines. Bradbury first wrote, Holler Bochens Dilemma, which was printed in 1938 in an amateur fan magazine. He went on to publish his own magazine, called Future Fantasia. He published a short story called...
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First Amendment Rights Freedom Of Speech
2,296 wordsFreedom in America No other democratic society in the world permits personal freedoms to the degree of the United States of America. Within the last sixty years, American courts, especially the Supreme Court, have developed a set of legal doctrines that thoroughly protect all forms of the freedom of expression. When it comes to evaluating the degree to which we take advantage of the opportunity to express our opinions, some members of society may be guilty of violating the bounds of the First Am...
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Second World War Communist Threat
1,723 wordsOne Red Scare RED SCARE One evening in 1950 a Houston couple entered a Chinese restaurant. The woman, a radio writer, wanted the proprietor? s help in producing a program on recent Chinese history. Overhearing their conversation, a nearby man rushed out, phoned the police, and informed them that people were talking Communism. The couple was immediately arrested and jailed for 14 hours before the police concluded they had no case. At about the same time a policeman in Wheeling, West Virginia, dis...
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Personal Freedoms American Culture
868 wordsThe communitarian movement is a movement that advocates a balance between individual rights and public responsibilities. They have four basic proposals that they advocate to achieve this balance. The first is to stop the expanding culture of rights by which people put there own interest ahead of social involvement. I think first off, I get involved in society sometimes. But to have some one else decide when I should put the public interest ahead of my own is unacceptable. This country is made up...
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