Flag Desecration Amendment

Alex Galbreath Professor Breslin MCO 300A November 21, 2016 Internet Censorship The Constitution’s First Amendment protects five fundamental freedoms under its application: Freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom to peacefully assemble, freedom of the press, and freedom to petition the government. With this being known, freedom of speech is arguably the most commonly practiced openly among the aforementioned five. Speech is a broad term, though. In our modern era, speech is equivalent…

Racism is a popular theme in Southern Fiction. One can not think of the American South without thinking of slavery, Jim Crow Laws, or the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960’s. The South had created its own social hierarchy, one that it had fought for in the Civil War and one that it would claim to for nearly a hundred years after the war was over. Two authors that explore this idea of the social hierarchy of the south are Flannery O’Connor in her short story, “The Displaced Person”, and Harper…

Liberty means that everyone has his own choice. Personally, enslaving means taking people, groups, or countries’ choices. Poverty and war were and still the main factors behind slavery; people or countries, who cannot pay their debts or defend themselves have no choice but being properties controlled by others. In most cultures, slavery never rapidly abolished; it always required time for the adjustment of the society’s ideology. A good example is the slavery that black people in America…

United States of America Or The USA: Land of the Free and the Home of the Shackled On October 7th 2016, African American female director Ava Duvernay released her new documentary “13th” on Netflix, which discusses the American Constitution’s 13th amendment and its ill-spoken caveat: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their…

In any school you have attended, in pretty much every grade, plagiarism is something a writer should never do under any circumstances. When reading the essay “Something Borrowed,” Malcolm Gladwell gave insight into the flaws of plagiarism that writers may not have thought about before. The first being that plagiarism is never acceptable (927). The second issue with plagiarism is recognizing the differences that can or cannot “inhibit creativity” (931). Being inspired by another person work can…

According to Islamic perspective, freedom of expression is allowed and permissible to everyone in this world regardless of their status, gender and belief as there is no Quranic verses that prohibit it. In Islam, freedom of expression can be in terms of criticism,thought,consultation speech and others. However there is some point where Islam restricted the freedom of expression when it refrain any truth from being revealed or the speech might be offensive in a way that caused hurtful. This is…

Throughout history, people with disabilities have been victims of discrimination and other injustices. There are numerous laws and acts that have been passed in an attempt to prevent the continuation of discrimination and unequal rights. As time progressed, the laws became more progressive, and have expanded to include more groups of people. A majority of the laws that have been enacted have been built upon foundations that were previously set by preceding laws. The first monumental court…

The court recognized in Buckley v. Valeo that the First Amendment protects political speech. Since that decision, limitations have been put on political speech to prevent corruption into our democratic processes that were previously considered to be legal. The court ultimately decided that a dialogue is needed…

Judges Leslie Tiller and Simon Skinner serve on the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, respectively. Each has an involved history with Minnesota’s governor, Joyce Cooper. In this paper, I will argue that the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause bars Skinner, but not Tiller, from hearing two cases to which Cooper is a party: the Sierra Club case and the Cooper Corruption case. I address each of the two cases in parts I and…

1. Should cameras be allowed in the courtroom? Why or why not? What are the advantages and disadvantages? What are the laws or policies covering this issue? How much transparency is too much? At what point does transparency begin to have a negative effect on the criminal justice system? From social media to network news, most people in America get their news and information from this form of media. However, it is important to examine if the people's right to know has a negative effect on due…