Obscenity

profane words and accusations, and it is still unclear what caused the fall in the first place. Books like The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A Separate Peace and even The Bible have been removed from school curriculums due to their profane language, obscenity, and violence. In particular, A Separate Peace was banned because of its use of profane language. Although A Separate Peace by John Knowles may be seen as too rough and inappropriate for school curriculum, it should not be banned from…

Coleton Clifft History Since 1876 Sarah Wilkerson Reconstruction Reconstruction after the Civil War was definitely not the prettiest fix! The indications of significant differences in the lives of colored people were the different rules passed towards them and some of the freedoms they were given. The indications that little had changed were the way the colored people were still treated and how they still constantly struggled. Slavery was an insanely tough process for any slave. In the novel,…

Have you ever felt like the more you try to persuade someone of something, the more they disagree with you? Distortion could be considered the last, frustrated attempt to get someone to understand your point of view. Like Flannery O'Connor said, "I am pleased to make a good case for distortion because I am coming to believe that it is the only way to make people see." In the book Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, the author uses distortion to exaggerate some of humanity’s problems so that we…

In the novel, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, the theme is the monster within. In her novel, Mary Shelley introduces the creature and how he is created. She reveals the background and past of both Victor Frankenstein and the monster. As the novel, progresses the question emerges as to who is the real monster. Victor Frankenstein, the oldest son of Alphonse and Caroline Beaufort Frankenstein and husband of Elizabeth Lavenza, was born in Geneva, Switzerland. When Victor was young, his family went…

Even more extremely, the mere words of mother and father were considered obscenities. The term mother, “with its connotation and moral obliquity of child bearing [was] merely gross, a scatological rather than a pornographic impropriety.” This word was made highly explicit because pregnancy and childbearing was associated with animals…

I walked through the hallways of my middle school, listening to the garbled conversations around me. I wondered why people were only “together” one day, what this new term, gay, meant, and why OneDirection was so important. Awkward silences, gasps of disbelief, and grudging explanations often followed my inevitable queries of “What does that mean?” I had difficulty understanding how people interacted at first, and found myself listening from the outside to learn different things for later use. I…

Private employers also have an absolute right to regulate or prohibit any category of “unprotected” speech such as obscenity or “fighting words.” Further, all employers must take action against employees that create a hostile work environment including engaging in speech that would constitute harassment. What private employers cannot prohibit is speaking on behalf of…

and are very vulnerable. To prove this cruelty, when Louis entered Fisk University, he joined the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an African-American organization, and the group went to the diners and sat peacefully while people shout obscenities at them,…

Have you ever felt you have been treated unfairly at work or even in school? Did you feel this unfairness was because of the color of your skin or with whom you were associated? Oftentimes, one can feel they are being discriminated against because of the way they look or the group of people they choose to call their “friends.” Around the time of the 1960’s Civil Right Movement, the government decided they needed to come up with a plan to provide equal access to all people, primarily when it came…

The Effects of Censorship in America Freedom of expression and the struggle it has brought along is as ancient as the history of censorship. The power of voice that it brought to the individual was held in high regards to the moral and political life of the population in the past. The playwright Euripides (480-406 B.C.) defended the true liberty of freed born men-- the right to speak freely. Nevertheless, he was careful to point out that free speak was a choice (Newth). Today, the acquisition of…