Four Freedoms

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…

An Ancient Evil Since the beginning of time, censorship has harvested controversy. Leaders made laws that required the government to review all artwork and literature before releasing it to the public. During World War I, Congress passed the Espionage and Sedition Acts which implemented penalties for publishing or saying anything that may discourage our participation in the war and for criticizing the government. Another big example of censorship happened in Nazi Germany where they made efforts…

audiences and big revenue. Remaining ethical is key to running a station of a large following, as such, it is my duty remain unbiased. Essential to the responsibility the station programming and providing quality news and entertainment is upholding freedom of expression. By standing on the first amendment, one can uphold both duty to the station and duty to the audience. As such the station manager has to approach the issue carefully and has to follow their own ethical principles. With…

It makes us blind when we need sight” (Stephen Chbosky). The First Amendment guarantees Americans the freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition. Freedom of the press means the government can not restrict television, radio, internet, or what is printed in newspapers and books. It also allows the dissemination of literature and the right to receive it. Without this freedom, the public would be less informed. Despite this bill being passed in 1789, it is still debated today.…

These rights and privileges include academic freedom and tenure, compensation and other economic benefits as liberal as the resources of the University will allow, a viable faculty organization, and responsible faculty participation in the development of academic programs and policies. With respect…

peace that he had wanted for his colony. If the king was never in debt with his father, there would have never been Pennsylvania or a colony of brotherly love. William Penn had said some time with in his life “Men being born with a title to perfect freedom and uncontrolled enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of nature... No one can be put out of his estate and subjected to the political view of another, without his consent.” He couldn’t have had his colony of greatness without…

of North Americans’ lives during colonial times. Many different groups moved to North America to escape religious persecution in their home countries. However, “freedom of religion” did not always exist in the present-day United States. While many groups came to North America to escape religious persecution, they only wanted the freedom to practice their own religion and did not necessarily want everyone to be able to practice their own religion. Until the Bill of Rights was introduced, people…

Woodrow Wilson faces problems of the United States Wilson thought that the government was having privacy problems, that there was too much government involved in big businesses, that the tariff was too high and was causing Americans to lose money, and that the United States was stuck in a cycle when it came to government. To fix these problems he wanted to bring the government back to the people of the United States, he wanted to bring back competition to solve government involvement and…

“self-censorship [is] people consciously restricting their own expression out of fear of possible punishment” (Fieser). While teaching students to watch what they say, it breeds fear that anything said could be taken the wrong way. This could even impede on a freedom of speech, as some topics are made to gone around entirely. Students could become afraid to ask questions on certain topics because of its possibility to be taken the wrong way. There is fear in t-shirts even. A student may love a…

culture references,and allusions to other books. The one thing in Speak that is most often shown is the symbols that repeatedly show up in the book. Four symbols are hidden in the book such as trees, mirrors, lips, and closets.But lips in Speak have the greatest impact to the story. Melinda's lips represent her emotions, communication,and expressing freedom of speech throughout the story and melinda's life. Laurie Halse Anderson uses lips in the book Speak to portray emotions in the main…