for all women and know exactly what is good and what is not for them. Feminists believe themselves to be an unfairly treated minority in society. They have banned together to defend other women across the nation from becoming victims of sexual obscenities and foul vulgarity. It is more important that the freedom of speech granted to pornography be censored more than the freedom of speech granted to other ideas such as lesbianism or abortion. Truly‚ it is amusing to see how feminists have assigned
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Many people may not know their rights as they are set forth in the Constitution. For those who do know all of their rights‚ many have not experienced the feeling of the government telling them that they cannot speak their mind. This is covered by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. It is the freedom of speech. There has been at least one major case where a rap group was ultimately censored by the federal government. Henry Louis Gates Jr. depicts a few aspects of this case with
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Distractors There are many good things on the internet but there are also as many bad. Search engines‚ such as Google and Bing‚ are often used to find information from sites like CNN. However‚ search engines are prone to many distractors such as video games or viral videos. The internet isn’t a bad place for learning‚ but if the internet is not used properly it can prevent someone from learning what they need to. The internet is home to many things that can cause the mind to move away from learning
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Although is clearly states in the first amendment that "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 to peaceably assemble‚ and to petition the government for a redress of grievances‚" censorship in America still exists in a big way. "Music censorship is the term used to describe the act of editing‚ altering‚ or preventing the listener from hearing the music
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claiming that radio frequencies are a limited resource‚ the government tells broadcasters what to say and what not to say. The FCC (Federal Communications Commission) carefully monitors news‚ public‚ and local programming for what they consider obscenity (Hyland). As in speech‚ technology has provided another excuse for government intrusion in the press. The Secret Service can confiscate computers‚ printers‚ hard disks‚ and mail from electronic services they do not consider a press. Entire stores
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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 that the university
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Language censorship in English movies and television Lam Pui Ling UCSI University Kuala Lumpur‚ Malaysia Lim Woei Hoa UCSI University Kuala Lumpur‚ Malaysia Ooi Chee Ling UCSI University Kuala Lumpur‚ Malaysia Abstract This paper examines the issue of censorship in English movies and television programs mostly in the Malaysian context‚ specifically from the language aspect. A simple introduction is given in defining language and censorship. The procedure used to conduct the
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Gina Moreno October 2‚ 2012 English composition I Nat Hentoff‚ the author of “Should This Student Have Been Expelled” argues that no matter how offensive words go‚ that everyone has a right to say whatever as far as freedom of speech goes. In this article Nat Hentoff supports his claim along with the decision making by Gregorian‚ president of Brown University‚ whether not to or to expel Hann for his inappropriate language being held towards others at the University. Hann’s words that included
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The subject of censorship is a very controversial one‚ especially the banning of books. Many people believe they must protect themselves and others from the "evils" of many classic books and works of art because they can be deemed "indecent" in one way or another. Many believe that this is absurd and censorship in its current form is a violation of our First Amendment right to free speech. Personally‚ I align myself with the latter‚ however I do feel there are occasions where censorship is justifiable
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Ariel Okech Diana D’India ENGL 101 055 31 October 2014 In "A First Amendment Junkie" Susan Jacoby argues that censoring pornography goes against the First Amendment. She believes that the First Amendment should be absolutely interpreted. She states that people will never be able to agree on what should be censored. She points out that censoring pornography will lead to censorship of other topics that need to be discussed and brought to attention in American society. She believes that pornography
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