Four Freedoms

education they need to succeed in the world. According to People for the American Way “Between 1990 and 2000, there were 6,364 challenges reported to or recorded by the Office for Intellectual Freedom. Seventy-one percent of the challenges were to materials in schools or school libraries. Another twenty-four percent were to material in public libraries. Sixty percent of the challenges were brought by parents, fifteen percent by patrons, and nine percent by administrators.” These people are…

The definition of freedom of speech under the First Amendment is the ability for people to express their opinion freely without any consequences. It is supported by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The amendment provides that Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech or the press. The free speech controversy that this paper will be about is the National Basketball Association vs Donald Sterling. Sterling said some racist remarks in the phone conversation with his…

Censorship of Black like Me Roman, Y, Shemakov McClintock High School Abstract This report goes on to examine if the banning of the book "Black Like Me" was based on a reasonable grounds, and how censorship should be approached in the modern day and age. The paper concludes that the banning of the book was merely arbitrary, and the idea of censorship is an unnecessary evil that should be avoided at all costs, no matter how pejorative or invidious the language is, it has the right to exist and…

birthday party or at a club. Why? Because people are capable of choosing whether they want to listen to it or not. It’s something that we call freedom, which goes along with our first amendment. The Bill of Rights states, “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 peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”…

America was found on circumstance of religion. The founding members of the early colonies retreated to the new world to flee religious persecution and to find freedom. Christianity affected the individual lives of colonist as well as their society. Christianity was religion of answers in the Northern Colonies. In the Northern Colonies Christianity was freely practiced. The newly formed colonies were focused around religion. Each colony was settled central to a church. This helped the colonist…

that if the play is taken seriously and the focus is put on Hamlet and Ophelia’s grief rather than their acting, the play could serve as excellent way to open people’s eyes to the reality of mental health. The fact that a work Shakespeare wrote over four hundred years ago can still be used to show how devastating mental issues can be shows that literature has the power to transcend time and affect the world long after it…

Guy realizes that the reason books are not allowed is because of the slow shift from intelligence and books to living a life with four TV’s on your walls and never having the urge to learn: “Ladies, once a year every fireman’s allowed to bring one book home, from the old days, to show his family how silly it all was, how nervous that sort of thing can make you, how crazy. Guy’s surprise…

Many American Indian nations had been affected by cultural differences from surrounding groups of people. However, the Haudenosaunee people generally remained unaffected and their governing system unchanged. The Haudenosaunee, or the Iroquois, consist of six nations: Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora. These six nations formed a peaceful and stable group of people. American colonists came in contact with many American Indian nations and learned a lot about their…

like this really show a movements true colors and these type of actions show that this movement is led by a group of uneducated, narcissistic, hypocrites. These people care only about themselves. They couldn’t care less if they take away someone’s freedom of speech or their pursuit of happiness because they disagreed with something someone said and because of that, that person must be punished which is the…

by media sector is to protect and preserve the journalistic and democratic ideals such as conducting truthful, trustworthy, comprehensive, safeguarding individual privacy and distinguishing between ideals and commercial objectives (Commission on Freedom of the Press, 1947;Peterson, 1956). Nowadays the public is more aware and monitors the transparency and criticizes the journalistic content when requires or even sometimes participates in the process as well (Deuze, 2005; Hayes, Singer, & Ceppos,…