Obscenity law

The Act of Book Banning Should be Banned Have you ever wondered why books suddenly disappear from library shelves? The concept of libraries and school’s banning books is being openly opposed by Banned Books Week, a corporation that encourages the banning of books to be banned. Words have power and meaning and shouldn’t be tossed away or removed from shelves despite how mature or explicit they can be. According to Banned Books Week, “Banned Books Week was launched in 1982 in response to a sudden…

Nudity and Naked, Where is the Art? My Disclaimer: This article contains images of the human form that some consider graphic and may be inappropriate viewing for a workplace setting. If a piece of art is displayed that contain nudity, then what is that thin line between the types of arts where nudity is allowed, and the one where it is censored. To answer this question, we need to understand the difference between art and pornography. The differences Nudity, or nakedness, is the state of…

The book The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger, was a very controversial book when it was first released and even after. Even to this day some schools still do not allow the book to be read in classrooms. This book is known for having profanity, vulgarity, and suggestive sexual behavior. Therefore this book raises attention, usually in a negative way. This novel was censored due to the fact that it had many inappropriate words and phrases, scenes of sexual happenings, and also moral…

Censorship is considered the “suppression or prohibitions” of any visual or multi-media, such as books, movies, and news sources. The primary use of censorship is to ban what is thought to be obscene or unwanted materials from the public eye in order to keep some sort of security within society. For instance, it is believed that the idea of having a politically correct culture prohibits us from offending those around us. Being politically correct or imposing the idea of political correctness is,…

Censorship in the English language has become a controversial discussion regarding whether some language should actually be censored or not. Censorship is in language is the suppression of any words or phrases that seem offensive, offensive meaning anything that seems controversial, harmful or vulgar. Everything from art, television, music, media, books, and movies can be censored, where either certain words or phrases or cut out, or entirely replaced with new ones by similar but clean words.…

Controlled Chaos The internet has a dominating influence over todays world, because it acts as a central source of information, entertainment, and communication. Essentially the internet is vital for performing everyday tasks, but there are also negative sides to the internet. On a good note, almost anything can be researched on the web because it stores ample amounts of data. For example, students prefer to search the internet over searching through library books to find data while conducting…

“I got my 12-gauge sawed off, I got my headlights turned off, I’m ‘bout to bust some shots off, I’m ‘bout to dust some cops off, Die, Die, Die Pig, Die!,” a quote from Ice-T most controversial song “Cop Killer” had everyone in rage. With words like these being said and being published without modifying the lyrics should say something about the artist and producer. From the society point of view, they would see this as hatred words being said as literal words towards cops and the artist intending…

Midterm Essay Looking back when we were in high school they always said how we are being censored. Sure they put censorship on computers but that is for good reasons because we don’t need teens being distracted by Facebook and Youtube. But some of the things they do censor is history and we find that it is not right to do so. Some books are banned in schools or have been revised to take out bad language or things they don’t want our minds to see how we were back in the day when no one cared if…

The extent to which freedom of expression is applied in America is an essential question that has been debated since the freedom was first established in the constitution. One medium of expression, musical theatre, demonstrates the potential consequences of this freedom’s restriction through the attempted censorship during the 1930s of (insert the number of plays that were censored). A popular producer in that time, John Huston, commented on this issue when he stated, “I don't approve of…

Accomplished authors everywhere are weeping as their award winning books get the evil red stamp with six letters ”BANNED”. Recently, several school districts have banned “offensive” or “inappropriate” books, such as To Kill A Mockingbird. Banning Books is the worst act imaginable, equivalent to that of treason. The banning of books is unfit for a classroom setting in which students are taught to be creative and show their imagination. The book To Kill A Mockingbird was banned for the use of…