...The limitation of free speech on college campuses Many people believe in freedom of speech. Freedom of speech usually exist in democratic countries including the United States of America. Furthermore, The U.S, also known as “Free country” have legalized the freedom of speech in every institution such as school, college, or church. There are many people including myself who are against freedom of speech in specific sectors such as school and college. On the other hand, the University of Missouri believe in the power of free speech even though in some cases it can be offensive. Why should free speech be limited on campuses? When should free speech be limited on campuses? Who should take responsibility of free speech on campuses? Erika Christakis, the the Yale Associate House Matter states, “Free speech and the ability to tolerate offense are the hallmarks of a free and open society” (“Campus adults: protect free speech” 1) and the authorities of the university of Missouri adopted that slogan. I believe that free speech should be limited in the university of Missouri in order to reduce the effects of creating an offensive, demeaning, intimidating, and hostile environment for other students on campus. First, I am against the total freedom of speech in the university of Missouri because it can create an offensive environment on campus. The offense can be directed against other students because of their race, color, religion, sex orientation, age, or disability. The recent events...
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...The limitation of free speech on college campuses Many people believe in freedom of speech. Freedom of speech usually exist in democratic countries including the United States of America. Furthermore, The U.S, also known as “Free country” have legalized the freedom of speech in every institution such as school, college, or church. There are many people including myself who are against freedom of speech in specific sectors such as school and college. On the other hand, the University of Missouri believe in the power of free speech even though in some cases it can be offensive. Why should free speech be limited on campuses? When should free speech be limited on campuses? Who should take responsibility of free speech on campuses? Erika Christakis, the the Yale Associate House Matter states, “Free speech and the ability to tolerate offense are the hallmarks of a free and open society” (“Campus adults: protect free speech” 1) and the authorities of the university of Missouri adopted that slogan. I believe that free speech should be limited in the university of Missouri in order to reduce the effects of creating an offensive, demeaning, intimidating, and hostile environment for other students on campus. First, I am against the total freedom of speech in the university of Missouri because it can create an offensive environment on campus. The offense can be directed against other students because of their race, color, religion, sex orientation, age, or disability. The recent events...
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...chool administrators are worried about cyberspace usage especially when they visually see on the computer hit lists, bomb threats, character assassinations and defamations. Some school officials have took matters in their own hands by suspending, expelling or even banning students from use of computers. Do school administrators have the right to forbid free expression when the online communication posts are created from a home PC and not school regulated computer equipment? Social-networking websites (MySpace, Facebook, Xanga and Friendster) are extremely popular for instance, "more than 90 million people of all ages are registered users of MySpace good portion of them teenagers. Now granted, majority of online communications is of clean material of favorite things and dislikes but occasionally there will be damaging statements about teachers or a list of classmates to which they want to hurt. Example, five students in Kansas were arrested in April 2006 for a plot to engage in a murderous spree on the seven-years anniversary of the infamous Columbine shootings. The United States House of Representatives passed The Deleting Online Predators Act of 2006 which consists of public schools and libraries to block student access to commercial social-networking sites such as MySpace.com Some individuals do not favor this bill because it unfairly blocs learning applications and websites necessary for the students to learn and communicate. In addition, there is already an act that...
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...It is timely to consider the benefits and abuses of adolescent's free speech in school in this era when false news stories, that are nothing more than opinion have escalated and the freedom of the press is so often under attack. The freedom of speech is a core principle and right given to the American people under the Constitution. This freedom ensures the continuing development of democracy, as well as many other freedoms that our nation can easily take for granted. Institutions of free speech and freedom of press ensure that the truth is exposed and that ideas improve (Stark & Soltis, 2015). However, John Mill in his essay, “On Liberty,” points out that these same freedoms are cut back for minors still in the care of their parents (as...
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...Freedom of Speech, Hate Speech, & Talk Radio Brice Hinchman Freedom of Speech, Hate Speech, & Talk Radio What is Freedom of speech? Well, the definition for freedom of speech is the ability to speak freely without being subject to censorship or without fear of retaliation from a governing body. There are at least two documents, the US Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, that acknowledge that free speech is an unalienable right and protect it for all. There is another form of speech that may or may not be protected, depending on the circumstances, under the same documents and that is hate speech. Some of the limitations that are put in place by Government, employers, and educational facilities are a violation of what freedom of speech is really about, being able to freely speak your mind, but are necessary to protect the rights and liberties of other individuals. The freedom of speech is a very powerful right that is protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. Our Founding Fathers set the stage when they wrote the Declaration of Independence by stating that “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness” (Choices, 81). One of these liberties and unalienable rights was the Freedom of speech. The First Amendment to the United States Constitution, which was ratified...
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...information below. Basic Information Title of landmark case (including case number): Morse v. Frederick No. 06-278 Plaintiff: Joseph Fedrick Defendant: Deborah Morse, Juneau School Board Date case argued and decided: Argued March 19 2007, Decision date: June 25, 2007 Judgment Affirmed or Reversed: Reversed Case Evaluation Write three to five complete sentences to respond to each of the following items. Issue/charges being discussed: The issue/ charges that were discussed was that whether a principal/ teacher violates the Free Speech of the First Amendment by limiting speech at a school supervised event when the speech is reasonably being viewed as promoting illegal drug use. Evidence presented during the arguments: Conclusions of the judge/judges: The conclusion of the judges the court recognized that the banner’s message was puzzling. But Morse had believed that the banner could be interpreted as promoting illegal drug use.The court did explain that the phrase on the banner could be viewed as imperative to use or celebrate illegal drug use.But under the Federal law and with the providing of the federal funds school need to educate the students on the dangers of using drugs or abusing it.The first amendment does not require schools to tolerate the students at school events that expresses to contribute to the drugs. Connection with amendment/personal freedom topic for your informative/explanatory article: Joseph Fredrick was expressing...
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...establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.” The bill of rights was submitted to the states for ratification on September 25, 1789 and adopted on December 15, 1791. The first amendment was one of those amendments within the bill of rights to be adopted by the American culture. The first amendment was made as an act to guarantee our civil liberties rights. What people don’t really know is that the 1st amendment had to undergo many changes to be really effective. In the beginning the 1st amendment wasn’t as powerful it is now. Many cases had to happen for the first amendment to be really effective. Before these cases, people still weren’t really able to express themselves freely without any repercussions. For example, people weren’t able to freely write they wanted in the paper; as in talk bad about the government. The state government was no longer able to impose censorship and restrict speech, which is guaranteed by the First amendment. In 1798, the Sedition Act violated the first amendment by making it a crime to speak or write maliciously of the president or of Congress. President John Adams justified it by defining it as “intent to defame” or to bring either “into contempt or disrepute.” This act restricted the first amendment by limiting freedom of speech and of the press. This act stifled...
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...of Rights are not now covered by the 14th Amendment’s due process clause? The incorporation process is a legal act of creating a corporation. The only amendment in the Bill of Rights NOT covered by the 14th amendment's Due Process clause is the 2nd amendment. Most rights and limitations relating to guns are covered by state law. You will find very few laws limiting the sales and ownership of firearms 6. How do you think the United States might be different today if the Supreme Court had not applied the process of incorporation to the due process clause? Due process is the principle that the government must respect all of the legal rights that are owed to a person according to the law. If that did not exist, we would not have rights, such as illegal search and seizure. Section 2: 2. Why does aid to parochial schools often pose a constitutional problem? As parochial schools are religious in nature, aid to them can be considered support of a religion, which is generally unconstitutional. 4. Explain the free exercise clause. Give one example of a Supreme Court ruling that limits free exercise of religion. The free exercise clause guarantees to each person the right to believe whatever he or...
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...29 January 2013 Group 3D Duane de Freitas Academic year 2012/2013 Academic English and Skills Semester 1, period 3 Regulations on food and beverage marketing to children Ieva Margevica 10360956 During the last twenty years marketing to children has become a vigorous tendency. As claimed by Schor (2004, p. 21), in 1980s companies used to spend 100 millions of dollars on marketing to kids. Whereas today, according to Eggerton (2007) in Linn’s and Novosat’s (2008, p. 134) research, this number has reached 15 billions of dollars, expended only on food and beverage marketing directed at youth. Additionally, in the last decades, as stated by de Onis, Blossni and Blogher (as cited in Carter, Petterson, Donovan, Ewing & Roberts, 2011), obesity and other health problem rates among kids have been rising along with the marketers’ attention to children. These simultaneously growing processes have led to the debates of marketers’ responsibility related to increasing rates of childhood obesity, diabetes and food preference distortion (Linn & Novosat, 2008, p. 134; Carter et al., 2011, p. 962; Boyland & Halford, in press, p. 1). As acknowledged by Carter’s et al. (2011, pp. 962-968) research, children are a vulnerable and easily persuadable group of society, which should be protected from marketing’s aspirations. In accordance with Boyland and Haford (in press, p. 2), the adopted regulations deviate between countries. With regard to previous studies about...
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...the usage of American Indian mascots and insignia in American schools. There is debate about whether or not utilizing American Indian mascots and emblems is protected under the First Amendment. Several representations may be used as mascots and logos without disrespecting Indigenous people's culture. While the argument that banning American Indian mascots violates free speech is one viewpoint, it is important to note that these mascots and logos spread false information about American Indian culture, harm young American Indian people's sense of social belonging and self-esteem, and destroy the tendency to convey correct...
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...parts deemed objectionable on moral, political, military or other grounds’. Censorship has been around since the beginning of time. It has been used as a tool to control what others have access to. In Australia today, we are supposedly guaranteed the rights of freedom of speech and freedom of the press by our constitution. Yet censorship still exists. We are told censorship is necessary, but at what cost? National security and public interest, are these valid reasons? Why must the government decide what is best for me to read or watch in a cinema or in the privacy of my own home? Sure, we must protect our youth, but that is a parent's responsibility, not the government's. I can understand censorship based upon national security; we can't go around selling all of our secrets without a major threat to our government and our way of life. Censorship is a way of controlling the population. This is exactly why we have laws that forbid random censorship. Some censorship is necessary in every culture, but only a minimal amount is required. Australians love freedom. The rest of the world regards us as one of the most liberal nations, which is why restrictive censorship is so out of place here. Censorship is a way of limiting the freedom we so love. Censorship affects everybody on...
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...| Individual Project Phase 4CTU Online: ENGL101-1303A-22Composition and Critical Thinking Professor: Catherine FullerMelvin BernardAugust 5, 2013 | | | | | | Freedom is what makes our country so unique and great. Yet President Obama is in favor of limiting the number of guns a person can buy, and stopping the sales of semi-automatic weapons. He is also trying to enact laws limiting the amount of ammunition any one person is allowed to have, and has also supported the all-out ban of handguns, which is a clear violation of the right to bear arms as protected by the 2nd Amendment. The president and other politicians are trying to limit everyone’s access to guns in an effort to control us even more. The bottom line is we have a constitutionally given right to bear arms. There is no reason that it should be completely revoked from law abiding citizens who are not the ones performing the gun crimes that most anti-gun organization are angry about. Limiting the access of weapons to people who are at a high risk of using a gun to commit a crime is obviously a good idea, but the problem with these laws are that anyone willing to perform a gun crime is obviously willing to break the laws to obtain these guns. The use of a gun is probably the most effective and universal way you can possibly defend yourself from literally any attack, robbery, or intrusion. If every woman that has ever been raped or mugged carried a firearm, there wouldn’t even be rapists; or...
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...making us have vaccines is limiting our free choice for our own bodies and I thought this was America! We don’t think the government should be able to force people to have their children vaccinated we think that it should be the people's choice and if their children get sick that's their fault and if the vaccines do work then the people should not worried to get sick. People who are not vaccinated should not be excluded from school or other public places just because they...
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...Although this was the reality for many families, it is important to know that the family in this story is fictional and that the story was published for an audience of school children to show the ideal child they should strive to become. Therefore, the story may be exaggerated or embellished in different areas. Other advocates such as Horace Mann also advocated alongside McGuffey to provide equal education for children of all economic backgrounds, no matter who they are or what their experiences are. This opportunity for economic equality shows how the reforms of the time were largely democratic. Another democratic reform was the push for a more educated voting population. The temperance movement was the movement to stop alcoholism and encourage people to drink less. Women mainly led the movement, because they saw that men turned into violent versions of themselves when they got drunk and lost their intelligence...
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...bullying” by Tara Parker-pope “Research indicates that as many as 75 percent of teens have been bullied online, but only one in 10 have reported the problem to parents or other adults…” This is true about many people because they are afraid if they report the bullying parents will limit their internet use and social activities. A similar fear can cause a child to not report being bullied in school. This research indicates that Gillespie’s research is incomplete because he is disregarding cyberbullying and the people who are afraid to report...
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