First Lady of the United States

were many different outlooks on the situation. Karen Albright states that, “We have been through a terrible civil war, two world wars, depressions, and riots without having to compromise the fundamental principles of…

Boy Scouts of America v. Dale is a Supreme Court case that occurred in 2000. The question of the case was whether or not the application of New Jersey’s public accommodations law violated the Boy Scouts’ First Amendment right of expressive association to bar homosexuals from serving as troop leaders. Prior to the case, James Dale was the assistant scoutmaster of Troop 73. He had been an Eagle Scout, and after reaching the age limit at which he could be a member of the Boy Scouts, joined the…

In order to regulate hate speech you first have to decide what qualifies as hate speech. If colleges were to have speech codes then it would be them choosing what does or does not fall under the term hate speech. One philosopher who would disagree with programs such as these is Donald Allen. Allen warned about what happens when a state, or in this case colleges, try to decide what is moral. He said that an overbearing state would lead to a state of paternalism, taking away people's ability to…

Banning Books: Barbaric or Brilliant? Books are our insight into other cultures, worlds, and ideas, but sometimes those very things can cause parents and officials to question the nature and appropriateness of specific books for children. In books like The Glass Castle and To Kill a Mockingbird, parents give the argument that the language and ideas portrayed are inappropriate. In contrast, the American Library Association and the Library of Congress argue that all books have something that can…

Freedom of Speech has been a dispute for many decades. Freedom of speech is an individual’s right guaranteed by the first amendment to communicate different opinions and beliefs without censorship and constraint. The restrainment of speech has raised many issues of the right to free speech since this constitutional freedom has been characterized with contention subsequent to its entrenchment. Many medias are used to draw the attention of citizens and viewers to issues hindering freedom of speech…

II. Mullen’s Speech Was Inherently Likely To Provoke Violent Reaction The fundamental right of free speech on matters of public interest does not come at the expense of leaving individuals exposed to fighting words. Fighting words must: (1) have an addressee; (2) be personally abusive language, inherently likely to provoke a violent reaction when addressed to ordinary individuals; and (3) be likely to incite a violent reaction in the addressee, given the context.” Nickolas S., 245 P.3d at 446.…

A renowned symbol all over the world notorious for the representation of anti-semitic sentiment and mass-genocide during WWII, the swastika. The mere mention of this hate symbol seems to be taboo in many schools in California, simply due to how educational system intentionally defines it. However, if schools were not to assume the malicious connotation of this symbol, what would it symbolize? UCSC, like many other colleges seem to forget the true meaning behind this once genial symbol, or are…

Today a great many people have put a lot of emphasis on what freedoms they have in face of those who have more power. How important are these freedoms to us and what if they were taken away? In Margaret Atwood's ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ a cautionary tale; It comes to show that when pressure groups gain power. People lose their essential freedoms, and it shows that when these freedoms are taken away. We are quick to realize what it means to have those freedoms. The way ‘The Handmaid’s tale’…

1. Did the Department of Justice make the right decision when it blocked the merger of T-Mobile and AT&T? Why or why not? Yes, the Department of Justice made the right decision when they blocked the merger of T-Mobile and AT&T Wireless i. If these two companies merged, there would be less competition in the mobile service market. ii. Less competition would cause the economy to suffer because less revenue would be generated. iii. Customers would have to be faced with higher prices for mobile…

feel the same way. “I owe nothing to my brothers, nor do I gather debts from them. I ask none to live for me, nor do I live for any others.” (106) Equality has an epiphany where he realizes that he answers to no one, save himself. His discovery of first person pronouns, primarily I, is a great awakening for him. It’s here in the novel, where Equality is truly let go of everything that tied him down, and he’s free to…