...In Victor Lombardi’s essay “Music And Censorship” he states his study that “using the value of art and the artist as a starting point, Lombardi shows how censorship is an attack against our right to pleasure-it is even an attack against truth: “a censored opinion, whether true or false, sidesteps conflicts and secures our distance in the truth” (201) My position is does the censorship to affect the art of musical artist and does it make it better than the mainstream music that isn’t? And what makes music so great? I interviewed an Alternative Rock fan named Samantha and asked what she thought made music good and her thoughts on music censorship. I interviewed Aaron who is a tremendous fan of hip-hop and his input as on why he thought censorship...
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...legislated just the same (McCormick). This case is the most recent of many that censorship has become a major battleground. Since first the shootings of April 1999 in Columbine Colorado, and most recently, the 2004 Super Bowl Halftime show in which singer Justin Timberlake exposed the breast of fellow singer Janet Jackson, the government has made it its priority to influence the entertainment industry to put into place new rules, such as the one in NASCAR, to regulate “inappropriate” material, therefore increasing censorship. On top of this, the industry itself has begun to attempt a type of self-censorship. Although censorship has been around for ages, what is it and why does it exist? Censorship in today’s era is a higher power attempting to prevent disturbing or painful sights, sounds, or any other information form from reaching the public in order to keep a feeling of well moral being. However, the main question in today’s times is whether or not censorship is necessary in today’s world, and if the government should be able to force censorship on the entertainment industry. Though the case involving the NASCAR driver is the most recent ridiculous form of censorship, it has taken place throughout the history of entertainment itself. However, in the past ten years, after censorship laws had begun to loosen, the media and the government has once again begun to pull tighter on the censorship blindfold, covering...
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...information is commonly referred to as censorship. Censorship comes in a great amount of forms and can be enforced in various ways. Moral censorship has been rather accepted as its primary purpose is to hide the obscene or morally questionable, however, political censorship is often frowned upon as large numbers of the population deem governments have no right to hide information from the population. While military censorship is a necessity due to tactics and sensitive issues. From the forms of censorship arises the concern of when is censorship ethical and acceptable. Therefore, from an ethical standpoint, censorship is right if it is used to protect morals, which includes opinions, rights, justness, to protect...
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...Should music be censored? Censorship affects us in many different ways, it affects everything around us. For Instance, it affects the movie we watch, the music we listen. In one word it is restrictions on what people of art create and limits artists opportunity to fully express themselves. Of course, one of the way express your feelings and emotions is the music, which become controversial form of censorship.There have been many different arguments on the topic, however the question still remains as if it should be censored r it should not be censored. I think that music should be censored because it clashes with moral values, negative stereotypes and with generational value gaps. In all types of music artists are expressing their views, opinions and feeling in their songs about what they see and what they know. This is one of the great thing that you have freedom to express yourself. Nevertheless, music is censored because it changes moral expression, as outreach of wrong values as drugs and values, ideas, and beliefs for the worse. As people of different ages use music as a tool of self violence through music could lead to loosening of moral values. They believe that music pertaining profanity is one of the main factors for the problems that occur in our society. Such problems consist of an increase in violence and drug use amongst adolescents. An example was the incident that occurred at, where the media and others looked towards music as one...
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...Searching for Internet Freedom in China_GALLEYED (Do Not Delete) 3/18/2013 9:19 PM SEARCHING FOR INTERNET FREEDOM IN CHINA: A CASE STUDY ON GOOGLE’S CHINA EXPERIENCE JYH-AN LEE,* CHING-YI LIU,** AND WEIPING LI*** ABSTRACT ........................................................................................ 406 INTRODUCTION ................................................................................. 406 I. THE NATURE OF THE INTERNET AND GOOGLE’S BUSINESS ............ 408 A. The Evolving Nature of the Internet................................. 408 B. The Study of Google and its China Experience................ 409 II. GOOGLE.CN AND CHINA’S INTERNET POLICY ............................... 412 A. The Story of Google.cn .................................................... 413 B. China’s Internet Policy in the Case of Google.cn............. 419 1. Technological Control of Search Engines .................. 419 2. Legal Control of Search Engines................................ 421 III. POLICY IMPLICATIONS FROM THE CASE OF GOOGLE.CN .............. 423 A. Global Network, Local Internet........................................ 424 B. Leveraging Commercial Power to Regulate the Internet . 426 IV. THE ACCOUNTABILITY CRISIS IN INTERNET GOVERNANCE ......... 428 A. The Problem of Internet Accountability ........................... 428 B. Solutions to the Digital-Accountability Problem ............. 431 CONCLUSION.......................................................................
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...China today, the general public have no political influence” is complicated by a focus on everyday politics. Chinese citizens do participate in everyday politics, although not in the direct way found in democratic nations. The power of social media in China is allowing internet users to express dissatisfaction with the government, even in the face of censorship. The power of social media and its political influence is illustrated through the 2011 Wenzhou train collision case, which ignited outrage from online communities and led to the exposure of corruption amongst government officials. Typically, when a person thinks about the western concept of political influence, voting in a democratic election comes to mind. For the average citizen, their vote represents their voice in politics. If a person is not satisfied with the government or want to voice their concerns, they are able to freely criticize the state or engage in peaceful protests. They may also participate in politics by joining a political party or even forming a new party. The western concept of political influence centers on free speech and acting directly to affect politics. The concept of political influence by the general public in China is vastly different from western norms. The political system in China is not a liberal democracy, thus many foreigners believe that regular citizens have no influence in politics. Although the expression of political dissent in China is not a right of freedom like in democratic...
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...To critique Plato’s proposals for censorship, first we must outline his plans for education and analyze his proposal for education in his emulation of the “perfect city”. The basic guidelines Socrates provides for governing the education of children and adults are mostly all encompassing. Such rules include the redacted mythology and epics, studying mathematics, geometry, philosophical literature, partaking...
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...culture needs to have unrestricted freedom to speak in relation to whichever and all that alarms us in array to constantly develop our culture. Individual free speech inconsistency would be words that create a constructive, and not pessimistic, picture in mutually long-terms and short-terms. Dictionary.com classifies Freedom of Speech as, “the right of people to express their opinions publicly without governmental interference, subject to the laws against libel, incitement to violence or rebellion, etc.” Freedom of speech is also known as free speech or freedom of expression. Freedom of speech is also known as freedom of expression because a person’s beliefs and thoughts can also be expressed in other ways other than speech. These ways could be art, writings, songs, and other forms of expression. If speaking freely and expressing ourselves freely is supposed to be without any consequence, then why are there constant law suits and consequences for people who do. Freedom of speech and freedom of expression should be exactly what they mean. Although most people believe that they can speak about anything without there being consequences, this is very untrue. One of those spoken things that have consequences is speaking about the president in such a negative way that it sends red flags about your intentions. Because of the high terrorist alerts, people have to limit what they say about bombs, 9/11, and anything they may say out of anger about our government or country. In the documentary...
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...Body by Body When people view art of course nudity is going to appear somewhere along the way. Many paintings and sculptures from Greek and Roman times almost always depict nude people or gods. But what are the artist's doing today? Some choose to recreate these ancient versions, others take a modern approach. Some of the things to consider when looking back at this art are the form, meaning, and the values. When looking at sculpture such as Antonio Canova's Three Muses or Daniel Edwards’s celebrity sculptures you can see the similarities and differences in their work. There are many different forms of art. Sculpture is one of the many forms and in the fifth century nude statues were seen as the perfect form of representation of the human body. Usually it was normal to see nudity in everyday life and represented a form of ideal, innocence, desire, or purity. In the sculptures Nymph and a Scorpion by Bartolini and Amanda Hall's Modern Sculpture of a Nude Woman show both movement and emotion. Both smooth sculptures have similar poses, hair pulled back and show subtle movement. Nymph is carved from white marble while the nude woman is sculpted out of metal or maybe a dark marble. Hall's sculpture fits in perfectly with the backdrop of the green trees and flowers along with the pond. I can imagine Bartolini’s sculpture placed in a grassy field as well. Even though one is modern and the other antique they are not so different. All works of art have different meanings; while some...
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...Internet Pornography: Freedom of Press or Dangerous Influence? The topic of pornography is controversial many times because of the various definitions which each have different contexts. Is it nudity, sexual intercourse, art, or all of these? Is it magazines, videos, or pictures? For the purposes of this paper, pornography will be defined as any material that depicts erotic behavior and is intended to cause sexual excitement. With all of the arguments presented in this paper, it seems only a vague definition of this type can be applicable to all views on the subject. Pornography on the Internet has brought about difficulties pertaining to censorship. All of the arguments in this paper can be divided into one of two categories: those whose aim is to allow for an uncensored Internet, and those who wish to completely eliminate pornography from the Internet all together. All arguments for an uncensored Internet all cite the basic rights offree speech and press. While arguments in this paper are international, almost everyone of them cites the First Amendment of the United States. In many of the papers it is implied that the United States sets precedent for the rest of the world as far as laws governing the global world of the Internet. Paul F. Burton, an Information Science professor and researcher, gives many statistics showing that presence of pornography on the Internet is not necessarily a bad thing. He gives one example that shows that "47% of the 11,000" most...
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...importantly safe to say. Hitler was able to gain more and more followers and appeal to the people due to the severe state of the German economy and the critical state of the people that had no savings, no assets and practically no food. The Versailles treaty had simply been a recipe for destruction for the Weimar Republic and the crisis was the last straw leading to its demise. Hitler was the only one that was offering immediate solutions, not future ones such as his opponents did, and used large scale propaganda to make the people truly believe in his new ideology that was in a sense, a new way of life. He could not have chosen a more competent propaganda minister to accomplish this than Joseph Goebbels, who took full control of the media, arts and information influx in Germany. Hitler...
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...THE COST OF ARTISTIC FREEDOM: CENSORSHIP vs. LIBERALISM IN HOLLYWOOD, 1940 – 1960 Destiny Adams History 734 – Seminar in American History Dr. Wintz – Texas Southern University Spring 2009 Table of Contents Part One 1.1 – Introduction – p. 3 1.2 – Social and Political Climate pp. 3-11 1.3 – Production Code Resolutions pp.11-15 Part Two 2.1- Production Codes – I, II, III and IV pp.16 2.2 – Production Codes V, VI, VII and VIII pp.17-18 2.3 - Production Codes IX, X, XI and XII pp.18 Part Three 3.1- Hollywood and Film making – 1940-1949 pp.18-21 3.2- Movies – Awarded, Nominated, Not Nominated pp.21 Part Four 4.1- Hollywood and Film making – 1950-1959 pp.22-26 4.2- Movies – Awarded, Nominated, Not Nominated pp.26 Part Five 5.1- Synopsis of Film making in the 1960’s – New Era pp. 27-28 5.2- Conclusion pp.28-29 The Red Scare of 1917-1920, was the primary influence for the emergence of censorship through McCarthyism and Anti- Socialist sentiments in filmmaking during 1940-1960. McCarthyism and three international wars enhanced Anti – Communist resentments within the United States. A brief emergence of Socialist organizations in America heightened the fervor of conservative versus liberal views within cinematography. Motion Movie producers and Distributors, in Hollywood, California were heavily encouraged to influence film directors, screenwriters and actors by incorporating strict codes within their artistic expression...
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...CONTEMPORARY SOUTH AFRICAN POETRY A CRITICAL SURVEY OF CONTEMPORARY SOUTH AFRICAN POETRY: THE LANGUAGE OF CONFLICT AND COMMITMENT By Laura Holland, B.A. A Thesis Submitted to the School of Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts McMaster University September 1987 MASTER OF Arts (1987) (English) McMASTER UNIVERSITY Hamilton, Ontario TITLE: A Critical Survey of Contemporary South African Poetry: The Language of Conflict and Commitment AUTHOR: Laura Linda Holland, B.A. (University of Alberta) SUPERVISOR: Dr. Alan Bishop NUMBER OF PAGES: v, 134 ii ABSTRACT The thes is concentrates on South African poetry from 1960 to the present. It closely examines a selection of poems by Breyten Breytenbach, Dennis Brutus, Pascal Gwala, Wopko Jensma, Oswald Mtshali, Arthur Nortje, Cosmo Pieterse, Sipho Sepamla, and Wally Serote, among others. The body of the thesis discusses these poets' contributions to poetry about prison, exile, and township life. The thesis focuses on the struggle between various polical, racial, and cultural groups for hegemony over South Africa's poetic development. Such issues as language, ideology, and censorship are explored insofar as they in! .luence t:ne content and structure of the poetry. This body of poems, sadly, is little studied in North America. The thesis presents an introduction to and a survey of the major tendencies in South African poetry and, in part, attempts to relate...
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...being alone at their own place. The business plan includes a training staff to assist new internet users in learning the basics of the internet as well as providing friendly service and a calm atmosphere. The goal of this plan is to provide an upscale social and educational environment for those who desire internet access as well as social interaction and technical assistance for those who are new to the internet, new technology, or new program. Strengths Strength is greatly dependent on what you and your group can do to the company. You and your staff need to be knowledgeable and have a clear planned out vision for the company. To obtain strength in Internet Café business you must have knowledgeable and friendly staff, state of the art equipment, upscale ambiance, and a clear vision of the market need. Knowledgeable and friendly staff, or as an owner you must have these qualities especially if you are doing some part of the operation. Why? Not all of your customers are geek some are novice. In my experience there are still a lot of customers who does not know how to type even to open a document. This is one of your greatest strength; it will give your customers the reason to keep coming back. Customers are becoming more sophisticated. They are not the same as 10 years ago. Before, you can feel their excitement every time they strike the keyboard on old PC's. They are more willing to wait your dial up modem internet connection and pay P60 per hour. But gone are those days...
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...political economy. This essay will briefly discuss specifics features of Creative and Cultural industries and moves to political economy approach itself with the final observation of advantages and disadvantages. “Culture is our business and business is our culture” [1] Definitions The term political economy addresses to relationship between politics and economy, how political power cooperate with economics, so politics responsible for the society and economy, in other words in charge of wealth of the society. Hence it is possible to declare that political economy examines the production and distribution of wealth in society. But there are also combination of such factors as political, economic and as well as cultural that actually affects the production and distribution of wealth. Political economy approach is employed by many academics to study different industries or social science, media and communication and cultural industries. The political economy approach can be defined in a more...
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