Degrees of freedom

Censorship: The Dark Side Censorship was created to protect people from things we don’t want them to see. It was probably created with the best intentions. Clearly, it didn’t work out that way. Many people think censorship protects humans from things they are not prepared or ready to see. The details of that will be explained later. Other people think censorship blocks out the truths of what is happening in our world. Those people think that censorship doesn’t ready humans, and especially…

censoring were the president’s wife and her higher up friends (Prabhakar). If it was that much of a problem, why didn’t they control what their own children were listening too. People of the United States suffered as a whole because of this attempt on freedom of speech. However, they have not won this battle. Throughout history, censoring has been taken advantage of and now people, especially teenagers, are rising up to challenge…

When people hear the word freedom, all kinds of definitions and perceptions come to mind. The most common definition is the given right to say and do anything. This definition is too vague and can be interpreted the wrong way, so there should be some restrictions on what people say and do. Any act that is illegal or life-threatening should never be justified when someone uses their right to freedom. However, restrictions such as censorship, political correctness, and behavioral advertising all…

When someone limits freedom speech, it creates fear among people. In line 399-404 of Antigone, she mentions how “ all these men here would praise me were their lips not frozen shut with fear of you,” and how “they keep their tongues on leash.” She recognizes how the people there…

"You 're either an idiot or you 're purposely choosing to use the law to punish people because you 've already assumed that the person is guilty" (Killer Mike). People today are becoming prejudice against the genre, rap. They don 't understand it. The earliest type of music classified as rap began many years ago in Africa, with the griots, storytellers who tell tales of their experiences or those of the village. It started when one of these griots started telling his story with music playing;…

Provisional Title “In God We Trust: Freedom Religion in Public Schools” This title was chosen to examine and understand the extent in which teachers and students can express their beliefs, and the extent to which schools allow religion to be tolerated. I chose the title “In God We Trust” because it is the official motto of the United States, yet it directly correlate’s with the controversy of separation of church and state. As an American citizen we have the right to freedom of religion, but…

“Should national security override free speech?” Freedom of speech was first established in the First Amendment of the United States Constitution in 1791, and almost two centuries later, in the International Declaration of Human Rights, the UN recognised freedom of speech as a human right (reference). The question of whether or not national security should override the freedom of speech has been, and continues to be a controversial subject, particularly among governments and law-abiding…

From the ancient time, developing new ways to share information was one of the priorities. Even today, we spend a lot of time on the modern ways to get news, such as social networks and internet magazines. In fact, in the past 10 years, as one of the largest social networks, Facebook members have increased from 1 million in 2004 to 1.15 billion today. The average American spends 16 minutes of every hour on a social media networks. All of the old technologies to spread mass media are under the…

According to Warnick (2010), schools serve three interests: (1) to legitimately develop future democratic citizens; (2) to act on behalf of parents, and respond to parental preference; and (3) to act on behalf of the students, themselves (p. 205). All of the interests presented provide a legitimate argument for modifying student speech rights, but does little to clarify in which direction it should lean. Since Tinker, subsequent First Amendment cases have been heard, but none have produced…

My father, Doug Hibbs recently lost his job for complaining about the health care system. He was also put on probation. This is despite the fact that he worked for a private company. Here in Canada, we do have freedom of speech. But it’s only during election time when people can speak their minds without the fear of being arrested and losing their jobs. This what we call the Free Speech Period. I remember a conversation I had with my parents one evening as all of us sat at the dinner table.…