The main idea of “The Puritans and Sex” article is to explain how the Puritans were a religious group, who created sex laws based on their views of marriage and human behavior. It explains in depth how the Puritans seek out different attempts to prevent the people of New World from committing adultery, fornication, and/or rape. The author Edmund S. Morgan uses a few facts to support the main idea of the article. He uses stories written by ministers to inform the reader of sexual events that took place at the time.…
4. Rule (Statement of the Law) • Newspapers are held to certain standards and laws. Therefore by Montandon v. Triangle Publications, Inc., 45 Cal. App.3d 938, 953 (1975), "The question of the newspaper or magazine status of The National Enquirer under Civil Code § 48(a) is decided by the court. (Later was decide that the National Enquirer should not be characterized as a newspaper because of lack of preferred status)…
Case Summary #1: Ashcroft V. American Civil Rights Union. This was a case in 2004 where the American Civil Rights Union in collaboration with online publishers went to court to protest against the Child Online Protection Act (COPA) which barred publishers from posting pornographic material in the internet, with an aim of protecting the minors. The accuser argued that such a law violated. After hearing the case, the Supreme Court referred it to the Third Circuit citing that “community standards” were alone not enough to warrant the Act unconstitutional.…
In Reno v. ACLU, the 1996 Communication Decency Act was challenged for its constitutionality. The Act criminalized the conscious transmission of “obscene or indecent” information, in order to protect minors from unsuitable internet content. While the purpose of this act had good merit, the Court held a unanimous decision that the Act infringed the First Amendment. The Act had a content-based restriction and failed to define “indecent communications.” The Court also added that the First Amendment provides a distinguishment between “indecent” and “obscene” communications, but only protects obscene…
Keeping in mind the end goal to completely comprehend the present influx of sex guilty party enactment in the United States, it is essential we investigate the inception and advancement of these laws and inspect the impacts that made the present structure of sex wrongdoer enactment. The impacts and powers driving current sex wrongdoer enactment is not only a result of any single occasion in history or any single compel in our way of life. The present significance of sex guilty party laws in our nation is a Aftereffect of various impacts, both later and antiquated, and on occasion, of apparently opposing sources, for example, religious and nonreligious impacts like social Darwinism. Sex wrongdoing laws have existed as far back as scriptural…
What is the ethical dilemma here? The ethical dilemma here is the mother’s religious beliefs versus medical beliefs. A child’s life is currently in danger and requires immediate medical treatments; however, the child may not be treated due to religious beliefs of the mother. The mother is a religious scientist, who does not accept any medical treatments.…
Their responsibility is to not prevent the expression of any ideas, as is protected by the first amendment, but to restrict “indecent material” so as to prevent children from exposure to it. The FCC is a force to protect the freedom of speech and ensure that ideas can be shared. This government commission is what can exist in peacetime, unlike the wartime government suppression of the Fu-Go bombings. Limited censorship can be crucial for the protection of the population in times of war, but anything but the most limited form of censorship, such as a ban on indecent material from being broadcasted between six am and 10 pm so as to prevent its exposure to children, is fundamentally un-American.…
Monserrat, I loved what you have talked on your QD. It is really great that you mentioned how the government need to have a certain type of process to help and train the parents to create a good living condition for the new boring kids. i think you are right, kids need a better environment and loving parents and society. As a single mom and a teen mother, mostly it is hard for the mothers how to take care of the kids. If the government has a support to help and teach them how, the kids can get better environment.…
The rules were down in December 2010. In April 2011, House Republicans passed a bill to cancel the rules, and federal courts are hearing several legal challenges. In July 2010, a federal appeals court struck down the FCC’s “indecency policy” that led to fines against TV networks whose programs including inappropriate content. The ruling stated that the FCC rule decided it had “a chilling effect” on broadcast…
Censorship, defined as the “suppression of ideas and information that certain persons— individuals, groups or government officials—find objectionable or dangerous,” by the American Library Association, occurs every day. Many people think of censorship as a tool utilized by governments to control their citizens, but it occurs much more frequently than that. What people never realize is that the everyday scrutiny and judgement that we place on each other and our ideas is just as if not more harmful than government censorship. We do not suppress these behaviors out of malice, but out of true concern for the wellbeing of our society. We worry that exposure to adult topics will tarnish the purity of our children, or that the freedom to proclaim our beliefs will somehow affect the rights of others.…
In “Teens, Nude Photos and the Law”, published February 2009, Dahlia Lithwick, a law graduate from Stanford University addresses law enforcers, members of the justice system and parents on the court cases about teenagers prosecuted for sending and receiving nudes. Because of the new trend of “sexting”, teenagers send each other nudes. Since the teens in the nudes are underage, the nudes categorize as child pornography. Therefore, teens caught sending and in possession of nudes are punished for the distribution and possession of child pornography and labeled as sex offenders. Lithwick disagrees with the verdicts and argues that child pornography laws should not be used against the people they were made to protect.…
Obscenity is a more intense depiction of offensive material, that is not protected by the first amendment and this was seen happening throughout the Roth and Miller case. I think that the only cases that’s does not have much obscenity is memoirs case. I believe that the Miller case questions the definition of what obscenity really is, when it comes to making decisions. However, it states that the work, taken as a whole or political value that is known as obscenity. Also with the miller test is can be a bit of confusing when trying to convict a person on obscenity.…
A complicated word isn't it, ‘censorship’. It comes from the Latin word ‘censere’ which means to give as one's opinion, something nonexistent in an Anthem society. Like many things, a world without censorship can be scary, but a world with too much of it, is a world with no meaning. Look at Anthem, the people who live in that society have no meaning, no life, no importance. Although many people can't imagine comparing the United States to an Anthem society, I believe the United States is an Anthem society because America has huge amounts of censorship when it comes to the press.…
Case study 5-D presented by Patterson & Wilkins (2014, p.129) is concerned with the use of children’s images in a political anti-same-sex-marriage advertisement and the privacy concerns the usage brought up. The case study raises various questions surrounding framing images or video to support an agenda and how the privacy of children is affected by political advertisements. Many people could view the use of children to support a political agenda, with out of context imagery, is emotionally manipulative. The images of these children should not have been used in an anti-same-sex-marriage advertisement since the children are a vulnerable audience and the advertisement purposely used and edited images that fit their propaganda. Micro Issues…
Every teacher has their own philosophy on teaching whether it’s recorded or not, their philosophy is reflected every day in the classroom (Arthur, 2012). By creating your own philosophy that focuses on your beliefs and values the opportunity to adjust and improve your teaching methods becomes achievable and easier because there is a clear vision on what you think is important. In order for early childhood educators to create a reasonable philosophy, knowledge about effective pedagogies and the responsibilities of a professional educator, is a must. It is also important to be aware and understand how young children learn and behave. Early childhood centres are the first schooling environment for young children.…