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United States V Rights Of Women
1,411 wordsSupreme Court Decisions That Greatly Impacted The Reproduction Rights Of Women When talking about Supreme Court decisions that have greatly impacted the lives of women it is very hard to settle on just five of the many cases that have been ruled in favor of the rights of women. When discussing the topic of reproductive freedom and The Supreme Courts rulings on these matters ten cases can and must be discussed in order to provide a total overview and timeline of these historic rulings. The Americ...
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Whats Happening Daily Lives
1,561 words... get all the time. " Not only was radio initially disapproved of, the vaudeville community actually ordered its acts to stay off the air under penalty of contract cancellation. Musical, concert, and operatic managers also shunned radio fearing that "songs plugged too strongly over the air would lose their sales value, " Billboard reported on March 1, 1930. Eventually, however, both vaudeville and the rest of the industry came to recognize radio as a way of stimulating sales. By 1930, Billboar...
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Juvenile Justice System Committed By Juveniles
807 wordsOn March 7, 2000, Californians voted in favor of Proposition 21 - The Juvenile Justice Initiative... The number of crimes committed by juveniles has risen dramatically, and it will continue to rise unless some action is taken. Thus, juvenile offenders should be punished more severely to deter other teenagers from committing crimes and for the safety of all citizens. I am in favor of the requirement that juvenile offenders, age 14 or older, be tried as adults for serious crimes, such as murder or...
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Drunk Driving Accidents Legal Drinking Age
1,193 wordsWhy would people who are under age want to drink? Well under age drinking isn't to uncommon. (1) Studies say that approximately 6 % of 10 - 11 year old children use alcohol. 25 % by the age of 14 and 55 % by the age of 17. Approximately 92 percent of high school kids have used alcohol, of the 92 percent 64 percent use alcohol on a regular basis. Sometimes teenage kids drink under stress. Stress can be overwhelming and kids don't know how to deel with it. Drinking is a way for them to forget abou...
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U S Armed Forces Drinking Alcohol
661 wordsWhen one turns eighteen in the U. S, they can drive cars, fly planes, marry, vote, pay taxes, take out loans and risk their life as a member of the U. S. Armed forces, but it is illegal for them to drink. Why do young adults have the liberty to do everything else besides drink at the age of eighteen? Turning eighteen comes with adult responsibilities as well as privileges. The drinking age should be lowered to eighteen. It is necessary to educate teens about drinking alcohol if the drinking age ...
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United States Government First Amendment
1,458 words... l harmful to minors (ACLU v. Reno II). The Child Online Protection Act is considered, a broad censorship law that severely restricts any speech on the Web that is harmful to minors, and imposes steep fines and prison terms for violators (ACLU v. Reno II). Both Congress and the President approved COPA. COPA is almost as constricting a law on the first amendment as the Communications Decency Act (ACLU v. Reno II). This unjust law was immediately subjected to a First Amendment challenge by the ...
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Communications Decency Act Act Of 1996
1,739 wordsThe Internet is a method of communication and a source of information that is becoming popular among those who are interested in the information superhighway. The problem with this world we know as Cyberspace, the 'Net, or the Web is that some of this information, including pornographic al material and hate literature, is being accessible to minors. Did you know that 83. 5 % of the images available on the Internet are pornographic al? Did you know that the Internet's pornography and hate literat...
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Civil Liberties Union American Civil Liberties
1,664 words... t started to grow into wide use, the Government began to become concerned about what children were being exposed to online. Until the Government began to interfere, most libraries did not use Internet filtering. Many cases of minors being exposed to pornography began to appear. In the year 2000, Bill Clinton signed the Childrens Internet Protection Act (CIPA) as part of Federal Bill HR 4577. The CIPA required schools and libraries that had federal funding designated for Internet use to insta...
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U S Schools Ethical Issues
1,597 wordsThe Use of Internet Filters Introduction The use of internet filters as a method to block offensive internet content in schools and universities is very delicate question, especially because it involves ethical issues. Any free access to information cuts both ways, so no wonder that internet is no exception to the rule. On the one hand the arguments of those, who support use of browsers for filtering sensible data in schools and universities, sound quite convincing; however, on the other hand, t...
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Act Of 1996 Information On The Internet
1,658 wordsPrivacy in the Information Age We live in a time where information is only a mouse-click away for a large portion of the country and the world. Up until ten years ago, people had to go to their local library or purchase an expensive encyclopedia set for their home just to obtain information. Now, information is free and easily accessible from the home. Why pay five hundred dollars for an encyclopedia set when you can get on the Internet and obtain even more information for free? Also, within the...
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Does Sentencing Minors As Adults Work
1,658 wordsDoes Sentencing Minors as Adults Work? In 1990 s American society got fed up with juvenile thugs. People complained that juvenile justice system failed to reform young criminals and what is more, it became a revolving door where young criminals thumbed their noses at discipline, kept right on committing crimes and avoided consequences because of their age. The decision was made to toughen punishment for adolescents and to allow their trying in adult courts. As a consequence of it, in 1996 many s...
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Age Of Fourteen Criminal Liability
660 wordsAt what Age Should A Minor Be Tried For a Crime? One of the most disturbing problems to the legal systems of many developed counties is the question of the minimum criminal liability age. In other words, at what age should the person be responsible for any criminal consequences of his or her deeds? The issue is rather complicated, having many social and ethical concerns. We are aware of the criminal behavior among our minors because we read, hear and see it. The television, magazines, radio, and...
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Public School System Invasion Of Privacy
2,393 wordsA little over two years ago, one of the worst tragedies concerning our nation? s children was playing out in a small rural town in Colorado. The date was April 20, 1999; the anniversary of Adolf Hitler? s Birthday, for any history buffs. But for everyone else the day started out like any other. In Jefferson County (often mistakenly reported as being in Littleton), Colorado, children went to school and parents went off to work. Neither was overly concerned about the other, or about how the day wo...
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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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Communications Decency Act Act Of 1996
1,884 wordsSubject: Computer Science Title: Does The Government Have The Right To Censor The Internet? The Internet is a method of communication and a source of information that is becoming popular among those who are interested in the information superhighway. The problem with this world we know as Cyberspace, the Net, or the Web is that some of this information, including pornographic al material and hate literature, is being accessible to minors. Did you know that 83. 5 % of the images available on the ...
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Communications Decency Act First Amendment Rights
1,687 wordsPornography on the Internet Pornography is an age-old phenomenon that has been under much modern-day scrutiny. With the recent proliferation of online pornography, possible social ramifications of sexually explicit material on uncontrolled mediums have become the subjects of intense debate. Proponents of a liberal approach toward pornography argue that access to online smut is a constitutionally protected freedom and a harmless diversion that serves to satisfy curiosity and relieve sexual tensio...
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Communications Decency Act United States Supreme Court
1,364 words? Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances? . (United States Constitution) So reads the first amendment. Does this apply to the Internet? Why should it not? In February of 1996, congress did indeed test this over 200 year-old document in passing the Communications Dece...
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Civil Liberties Union American Civil Liberties
1,055 wordsThe United States of America was founded over two hundred years ago on the basis of freedom. Freedoms, which were wrote into, and are yet a part of the Constitution of the United States. Under the First Amendment of the Constitution, many freedoms are granted to the citizens of this great nation. Such freedoms as those of speech, religion, press, petition, and assembly are granted to all free citizens. But, where do our freedoms begin and end when it comes to the Internet? How can a small group ...
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Van Den Haag Death Penalty Cases
2,518 wordsThe death penalty is utilized as an optimistic view to alleviate much of what is morally, and criminally wrong with our society. Yet in reality, capital punishment does nothing to improve America? s justice system by allegedly acting as a deterrent to the criminals. Nevertheless, Americans continue to execute adults and children on dubious principles. The execution of children is particularly outrageous. International and Federal standards sanction that children are exempt from the death penalty...
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Paul Laurence Dunbar Charles Scribner Sons
1,359 wordsPAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Renowned African-American poet, Paul Laurence Dunbar rose from a poor childhood in Dayton, Ohio to international acclaim as a writer and as an effective voice for equality and justice for African-Americans (Howard, Revell). He met and associated with other historical men such as Fredrick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and his Dayton neighbors Orville and Wilbur Wright (Harvard, Columbus). Dunbar's personal story, as well as his writings, are still an inspiration to all Amer...
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