...both America and Mexico. NAFTA removes the trade barriers between the U.S., Mexico, and Canada. I will be looking specifically at the impacts that the removal of these barriers has had socially and economically, especially on American manufacturing and agriculture. 2. Government Censorship: Censorship is speech or other public communication that may be harmful, sensitive, or inconvenient. It is usually done by governments and private organizations or individuals who engage in self-censorship. My paper will show what, how, and why the government has so many different types of censorship in our society to regulate the citizens. 3. Capital Punishment: Capital punishment is a legal process where a person is put to death, as a state punishment for a crime. Capital Punishment has an extremly long history and a bunch of reasons why this was considered to be a legal process. My paper will discuss how this punishment is enforced? Why it should be enforced, and how it should be up to a government? 1. The topic of NAFTA that we brought up in class and how it has a variety of impacts on both America and Mexico. NAFTA removes the trade barriers between the U.S., Mexico, and Canada. I will be looking specifically at the impacts that the removal of these barriers has had socially and economically, especially on American manufacturing and agriculture. 2. Government Censorship: Censorship is speech or other public communication that may be harmful, sensitive, or inconvenient...
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...Saturday, February 16th- 2013 Topic: Porn Regulation in Canada BY: MUZZAMIL HUSSAIN I. Introduction: Pornography has been defined as any material that is sexually explicit but does not appear to be obscene and, which can be displayed through the Internet, adult movies, magazines and adult stores. Obscenity laws in Canada use the community standards models to determine which pornographic material are in accordance with societal morals, and which should be categorized as obscene. John Stuart Mill and the Harms of Pornography is an article written by David Dyzenhaus in 1992, professor of Law and Philosophy at the University of Toronto. In his article, he raises an interesting idea that liberalists and feminists would support the censorship of pornography (Dyzenhaus, 1992). The feminist viewpoint argues that pornography shows men forcing women into sex; therefore it should be censored because of the harm it causes against women. Dyzenhaus then hypothesizes that because pornography is portrayed as violent material, the classical liberalists such as John Stuart Mill would defend the feminists in censoring such behavior based on his harm principle. The article also raises gender inequality issues of contemporary society, one being the subordination of men to women. Three political philosophies are concerned with the law of obscenity: liberalism, conservatism and feminism. Conservative morality takes into consideration the elements of virtue or...
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...During the 1950's there was a social movement against the pornography industry in Canada. Religious and Feminist groups were concerned about the harmful effects regarding the danger and degradation of women. The opposition to this movement was that pornography was a freedom of expression and sexual orientation. This brought about many political debates and controversies about what is ethically right and what is a personal freedom. This created many problems for the Canadian government on how to legislate pornography and up hold the Common Rights of Canada. First Legislation on Obscenity and Criminal Law In 1959 the Canadian government passed the first law regarding obscenity after a social movement by feminist groups. The Canadian law stated "For the purpose of the Act, any publication of a dominant characteristic of which is the undue exploitation of sex, and any one or more of the following subjects, namely, crime, horror, cruelty and violence shall be deemed obscene." The addition of this law did not settle the conflict between Liberals and Conservatives over the value of pornography and sex itself. Everything was based around one question: Were representations of sex socially and morally dangerous or sexually liberating? Feminist Movement During the 1980's another Feminist movement began because they felt the current law didn't do anything to protect women and it didn't criminalize pornography in any way. Feminist groups argued that pornography oppressed women and...
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...World State’s use of censorship. For instance, one of the world controllers, Mustapha Mond is revealed to be monitoring scientific papers before allowing it to be published. Through further discussion between John the savage and Mustapha, the true goal of censorship is exposed as a ploy to protect the public’s happiness by keeping them ignorant of the truth. To keep the equilibrium of society, there are two types of truths that Mustapha and the government censor. One of the truths is the human truth, which is expressed through emotions such as love, sadness and friendship. The other truth is the scientific truth that can be expressed through the beauty of logical conclusions and the passion of scientists....
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...Lyric Censorship: Language is Power Words create powerful emotions in all of us. They are used to express our feelings, thoughts and ideas, as well as communicate with one another. There are countless examples in history where we see language equating power. Within those examples we see people in the position of power, using this power of language to degrade their enemies and those they consider beneath them, and shape language in their favor. Music ties into language completely. The words of song lyrics convey powerful messages. As language is power, those in control seek to repress the power of this language in music, attempting to keep the power in their favor. But this attempt at censorship only gives those words even more influence and any attempt to infringe our right to free speech should be fought for to prevent its loss. The censorship of lyrics has occurred globally and can be dated back as far as music and poetry can be traced. Let’s take Asia as an example. Under the ruling of the Taliban in Afghanistan, music became a crime (Korpe, 2004). Instruments were burned, and people were severely punished for singing or creating any kind of music that was not deemed acceptable by the government. In Kabal, President Rabbani went as far as to create an Office for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, which was used to regulate the lyric of song in the favor of the government, and punish those who spoke ill towards those in power. In Pakistan...
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...The Culture of Terrorism The thesis of this paper is that the attacks of 9/11 were the catalysts of a world culture of terrorism that is used by propaganda and censorship to blur the politics of globalization and technology, and restructure a totalitarian society. This paper will argue that the businesses of “the U.S. media shill factory” (Borjesson, 2004, p.165), the plottings of the “brand based” (Klein, 2000, P.421) corporations, and the multi-national oil giants influence sectors of government by using deliberate strategies of censorship and propaganda to discredit government effectiveness, alienate populations, and seize control. What is the correlation between censorship and propaganda? “Intelligent men must realize that propaganda is the modern instrument by which they can fight for productive ends and bring order out of chaos” (Bernays, 1928, p.168). Censorship is the “suppression of information, whether purposeful or not, by any method-including bias, omission, underreporting or censorship-that prevents the public from understanding what is happening in society” (Borjesson, 2004, p.419). Since there are different kinds of information or knowledge in society that need to be forbidden because they are harmful to certain groups or to the moral understanding of ethics (i.e. the use of drugs, pornography, assault weapons), what rationale legitimizes suppressed information as forbidden? The principle is “to bring order out of chaos” by using propaganda, “the conscious...
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...The Second Prime Minister that has changed Canada is Pierre Elliot-Trudeau. Now we know him as our current Prime Minister’s father, Justin Trudeau. This is very important because it shows the hard work and dedication Pierre has set for his son. Both very inspiring to Canadians each has done their fair share to shape Canada and make it a country everyone would love. Pierre was born on October 19, 1919 in Outremont, Montreal to Charles-Emile Trudeau and Grace Elliot. He started his life as a journalist and lawyer and later went on to become the 15th different Prime Minister of Canada in 1968–79 and 1980–84. Trudeau was arguably Canada’s best-known politician, both at home and abroad. He was instrumental in negotiating Canada’s constitutional...
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...presenting sponsor of the concert series, denied viewers the complete exclusive coverage they were promised. Although Vedder’s words contained no profanity, an AT&T spokesperson claimed that the words were censored to prevent youth visiting the website from being exposed to “excessive profanity.” AT&T then blamed the censorship on an external website contractor hired to screen the performance, calling it a mistake and pledging to restore the unedited version of Vedder’s appearance online. (Stanley, 2010). So far, in this country there has only been incidents like this. This kind of censoring behavior has not become the normal mode of operation for the internet in the United States, but around the globe censorship takes many forms. The internet in this country is open and free due to net neutrality. Not every country around the world is as luck as the U.S., but how long will the luck hold out. There are those, here and abroad, that are trying to control the flow of the internet. Net neutrality needs to be maintained so that corporations and governments worldwide can’t slow or hinder the flow of information on the internet, which can lead to censorship and the loss of free speech, through the reclassification of broadband services and placing limits on the large ISPs. With the United States being the hub of the internet for the whole world and with court rulings in other countries it is...
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...Fahrenheit 451-“ The temperature at which book paper catches fire, and burns” (title page). In Fahrenheit 451, science fiction author Ray Bradbury wrote a novel about censorship and about governments taking away the rights of citizens. In several ways, Bradbury’s theme seems to describe the circumstances Americans have been living in since the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. In the novel, as well as in the film, Bradbury presents the reader with his viewpoints on censorship which provide a parallel perspective comparing how American citizens have lived prior to and after the 9/11 attacks. Bradbury’s novel begins with explicit details describing the burning of books. The opening is somewhat alarming because burning books is not what a normal person would consider to be the duty of a firefighter. The government has made it forbidden and unlawful to read books. As a reader, I could not help myself from thinking back to the times of Communism in the Soviet Union and Nazism in Hitler’s Germany. During the 1950s, in protest to Communism and Nazism, many of the same token books were being burned here in the US. In the film a symbolic relationship between black, evil, Communism, and death is painted by the firefighters jet-black hardened helmets and their jet black flameproof jackets. The color black seems to symbolize the coming of death. The firefighters wore all black uniforms and they rode on a very red box-like shaped vehicle filled with petrol. The red could symbolize...
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...further disclosed that Google was no longer willing to censor its search results on Google.cn and it would exit China if its conditions on non-censorship were not met. The problem faced by Google is that, the Chinese government has been determined to control the flow of information on the Internet and insists on removing certain information that it considered politically objectionable from search results. Google’s mission as a company is “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. However, China’s policies on censorship seemed to conflict with several of Google’s core principles. There is also the question; did Google do its homework to thoroughly analyze the Chinese operating environment as it relates to censorship? By 2005, Chinese search engine company, Baidu, emerged as the leading internet search engine in China. A very important piece of information to consider is that, freedom of speech and freedom of the press are not considered inherent rights in the People’s Republic of China. Therefore, to compete with Baidu, Google decided to launch Google.cn in 2006 and agreed to censor its search results to meet the Chinese government censorship standards. It therefore appears Google was very much aware of China’s political, regulatory, technological and cultural environment on internet censorship prior to entering, all in the name of exploring the rapidly growing economy due to its population size and...
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...CMNS 445- CHINA Marta Gallegos: marta.gallegos90@gmail.com 778 875 8564 Contents WEEK 1- Introduction 2 Themes in the Course 2 Week 2- Theoretical Approaches to Media, Culture and Chinese Society 3 Outline of Class 3 State and Market Framework 4 Negotiable State market Framework 4 Political Economy Approach 5 Presentation 5 WEEK 3- Media Systems and the Party State (Mao-Reform Era) 6 Anti-capitalistic and anti-imperialistic revolution (1921-1949) 6 Legitimacy 7 Maoist Socialist Practice (1949-1976) 7 Deng (1978-1992) 8 Jiang Zemin’s era- 1992-2002 10 Market Economy and Scientific Outlook on Development (2002-2012) 11 The 5th Generation 2012-2022 11 WEEK 4 11 The Shifting Role of the media: Between the party line and the bottom line 11 Focus on the Bottom line 12 State Control 12 “Popular Culture” in the context of China in post-Mao market reform era 13 The Chinese state (The Party-state) 14 The media-government/state relationship 14 The Media System and Media-State Relationship 15 Maoism/Mao Zedong Thoughts 16 Week 4- Commercial Media and Reconfigured Power Relations 16 The Party/State Structures 16 Different Party Committees 17 Ministries (under the state council) 17 Media System: 18 Central Media Outlets 18 Provincial Media Outlets 18 Universal Values: Two views 18 Week 5- Popular Culture and Cultural Industry 19 Mass Media and Popular Culture in Mao Era 19 Popular Culture 20 Popular Culture in the Mao...
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...providers (ISP’s) must treat all data sources equally. In other words it means that the users of the internet must have the freedom to access the internet without any restrictions put upon them by the ISP’s. The term ‘net neutrality’ is defined in a number of ways by different communities, companies and individuals. Barratt and Shade stressed upon another condition that; there are no means by which centralized mechanisms can be used to control the Internet. Moreover Moll and Shade argued that the corporations that own networks have no control of the information that runs through them (Moll & Shade, 2008: VIII). Many organizations and companies try to use it in various forms. There are several examples on net neutrality with respect to Canada with one of them being the Telus issue. Based on research it was found out that Telus blocked access to a pro-union site by blocking its main server which in turn blocked another 766 unrelated sites for subscribers. Later on Telus defended its decision as it said due to the access of some confidential information famous example is of a cable internet company named Shaw. Shaw had charged a $10 quality of service fee from its customers...
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...The main theme in the movie was based on the dangers of censorship. I think that the movie is honest in a very crude way. I think that the film is extremely honest because the film invades your mind with ideas and opinions that are not normally spoken about in society. The film leaves open the opinion that parents are not taking the responsibility for the actions of their children and trying to find blame in things such as the media. This was shown in the musical number Blame Canada, “We must blame them and cause a fuss/ before somebody thinks of blaming us” (Shaiman, Parker). Another theme throughout the movie was the ability to use scapegoats in everyday life. Much of the film's satire and many of the songs are concentrated with the refusal...
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...They sought to retain the most qualified people to make this entrance into this foreign market successful. They undoubtedly had very little experience in this part of the world and would need the personnel resources that would afford them the knowledge that they would require to be successful in achieving globalization for their search engine business. They exercised their might and aggressively hired a young Kai-Fu Lee, celebrated computer scientist. He would assist in the responsibilities of a smooth transition into the search engine business in China. His experience while working at Microsoft would almost certainly prove invaluable. Google has branched out to the four corners of the world with offices in the United Kingdom, India, Canada, Ireland, Egypt and Brazil. This many locations requires the company to be diverse. Google has created programs like The 6th Sense –to increase employee sensitivity and awareness of differences across genders, cultures, and sexual orientation. They even have a program for women called “Yes, We Can” workshop for a select group of women who had been nominated by their managers to participate. These participants brainstormed and shared ideas on...
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...the country. * Events such as the 1837 Rebellion, the Quiet Revolution and the late 20th century referendums all prove the negative tension between the 2 dominant cultures of Canada. * Point #2: the multiculturalism Canada is known for turns out to be one of the primary reasons why Canada hasn’t yet developed a strong national identity. * Thesis Statement: The combination of Canada’s cultural roots failing to coexist through its history and the significant amount of multiculturalism this country possesses makes it impossible for Canada to have one true national identity. * Closing sentence: the effects of these factors shows today, as the majority of people both inside and outside of Canada fail to recognize a consensual concept within the country, that could be concretely characterized as Canada’s national identity. Body Paragraph #1: * Topic Sentence: Perhaps one of the most critical reasons why Canada’s national identity has struggled to develop is due the considerable amount of tension between the two founding cultures of the country. * Throughout the history of Canada, the English and the French have faced off in a conflict against one another. * This relationship dates back to the start of the French-Indian War * Even though France had to hand over Canada to the British, most...
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