Obscenity

Holly Brunner Comp Two Carl Battaglia 8 May 2018 Censorship in High Schools Merriam-Webster defines censorship as “the system or practice of examining writings or movies and taking out things considered offensive or immoral” (“Censorship," def. 1a&b). In today’s society, anything can offend anyone. Who gets to decided what should/should not be censored? With growing political correctness, there has been a constant battle between parents and teachers on what books are school appropriate. Books…

Censorship is a word that arises many feelings and interpretations for everyone. Each individual has witnessed or experienced some type of censorship in their lives where it is the suppression or prohibition of certain things such as books, media, and news. Having things censored is taking away the freedom of an individual it’s like enclosing an individual in a box without letting the person see, listen, smell, touch, and taste the reality. There are different thoughts on things being censored…

According to an article in The Columbus Dispatch, in late September, Ohio’s 10th District Court of Appeals decided to uphold the conviction and jail sentencing of Sheila Kearns (Bush, p.1). Kearns was a former substitute teacher at East High School in Columbus, Ohio who was “found guilty of disseminating material harmful to juveniles” (Bush, p.1). This conviction was due to Kearns showing the original “ABCs of Death” to the Spanish classes she was substituting in for that day (Bush, p.1). In the…

pornography and obscenity laws. First, explain how the free speech protections in the First Amendment relate to pornography and obscenity. Then, explain the three rules set out by Chief Justice Warren Burger for determining whether something is pornographic. Last, give your opinion on this three part test and whether you think it adequately balances the need for the protection of free speech with the need to regulate obscenity. Why do you think this? The topics of obscenity and…

from online consists of obscene events? Obscenity comes in many different forms. It can be from something “relating to sex in an indecent or offensive way” to cruelty, violence, crime and murder. I believe that obscenity is something perverse and most of the time it is something out of the ordinary that evokes a certain unpleasant feeling. Now the question is why are we unconsciously attracted to obscenity. I believe that our underlying fascination with obscenity is because of our nature to be…

Obscenity is considered one of the most debated and confusing area of the First Amendment (Hudson). As a result, a new form of guidelines were needed to overcome the obscenity issue. During the 1950s and 1960s, the Supreme Court created guidelines that could be used in an obscenity case and these guidelines were put in effect during the Miller v. California case (Hudson). These guidelines deal with the average person in regard to applying standards of the community and how the work is viewed; is…

the midst of developing a country for a rag-tag team of British outcasts, the founding fathers did not take much interest in how to regulate obscenity and pornography. The first amendment protected the freedom of speech, but the fathers were more interested in expanding their vocabulary to anything past “God save the queen,” rather than limiting the obscenities in their very puritanical culture. Today’s interpretation of the first amendment allows anything that passes the three standards set by…

Obscenity is an important topic in the Courts because of its impact on people or places. Many people frown upon obscenity because it’s immoral. What is obscenity? Obscenity could have different meanings but the most general definition is anything that deals with sexual matters as languages or images for example. There are multiple cases in the Courts that deals with obscenity. This paper will focus one particular obscenity case known as Barnes v. Glen Theatre Inc. and will provide a brief…

In cyber crime for police to enter and search a computer they may issue a search warrant or media object if the object of search is located in a specific place. However, there must be probable cause that the computer contains evidence of a crime (Roberson 2015). Even though a search warrant can be of great benefit, there are times in which computer search warrants can be a little tricky than a physical warrant. In regards to the Fourth Amendment there are sensitive issues that involves an…

Baudrillard, Jean, and Sylvère Lotringer. The Ecstasy of Communication. Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia, 1988. Print. Baudrillard's essay, ‘The Ecstasy of Communication’, provides a comprehensive analysis of the communication as a kind of ‘screen’, and develops a wide range of related analogies that take place in the contemporary culture, where sexuality has been replaced by pornography, knowledge by information, saturation by simulation, hysteria by schizophrenia, and subject replaced by object.…