I feel that the First Amendment is the most important Amendment to the Constitution. I feel this way because of the freedoms it gives us as citizens. Firstly, I’m going to start with the freedom of assembly. The freedom to assemble and protest has become more and more relevant since the results of the 2016 election. The most recent example, of course, was on Saturday, with The Women’s March on Washington. The protest was widely recognized not only nationally, but worldwide as well as other people
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“We have freedom of speech, but you have to watch what you say.” ~ Tracy Morgan. Over the last couple months, more than 1000 people have been arrested or injured when participating in controversial protests across the nation. However, the majority of those arrests were due to violent outbursts as a response to invidious utterances made by people in an opposing crowd. Amanda Hess’s article “Battle Cry” demonstrates how people’s inadequate communication skills can turn their speech into acts of violence
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Background/history: Jason is a 47 year old man who lives in Shelburne Falls Massachusetts. Jason suffers from major depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder and has suffered multiple concussions, which impacts his memory, organization, attention, focus, mood and social interactions. Jason reports of a secondary condition of nerve damage in his right arm and suffered a traumatic brain injury while serving in the military. This past fall Jason was attending Greenfield Community College
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‘goodbye’ to speaking one’s mind. There is a division forming in the United States of America. This division is between those who believe hate speech should be regulated and cannot differentiate between a word and an action; As opposed to those who simply and wholeheartedly believe that a word is just a word and not an action. They appreciate the right to free speech and do not wish to compromise it. In the article “Protecting Freedom of Expression on the Campus” by Derek Bok, he clearly demonstrates
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feeling of not being able to show other people your art, and what you have worked so hard on for countless hours. The first amendment of the U.S constitution states that “The First Amendment guarantees freedoms concerning religion, expression, speech, assembly, and the right to petition”. When art is censored the artist’s freedom of expression is taken away and deprived from their own work. Making it so that nobody will see the artists ideas and thoughts on a specific topic. And even though taking
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freedom of speech legally in a school And this is a problem. The subject of freedom of speech is timely because it has affected me as well as others.Despite some critics us minors deserve to exercise our freedom of speech protected under our first amendment. Freedom of speech is a very touchy subject through the different forms a lot can be said i believe that us as minors do not have a solid way to express our opinion in public schools the laws regarding limitation of freedom of speech should be
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In Iranian jails, artists, musicians and filmmakers are held as prisoners on charges of “insulting Islamic sanctities” through their work. Coordinated by Amnesty International, the #FreeArtists social media campaign recently launched to secure artists’ release. Considered the “nail in the coffin for freedom of expression in Iran,” the imprisonment of these artists was an attempt by Iranian authorities to silence what was considered sacrilegious rhetoric in their works. For most Americans, the ability
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English words have been traditionally classified into eight lexical categories, or parts of speech (and are still done so in most dictionaries): Noun any abstract or concrete entity; a person (police officer, Michael), place (coastline, London), thing (necktie, television), idea (happiness), or quality (bravery) Pronoun any substitute for a noun or noun phrase Adjective any qualifier of a noun Verb any action (walk), occurrence (happen), or state of being (be) Adverb any qualifier of an
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Music censorship began its journey in the early 1950’s with the “controversial” music of Blacks during the time period. It has then evolved from a form of racism to a method of suppression. It touches all major genres, but is most commonly issues with both rap and rock music. Major groups such as the Record Industry Association of America (RIAA) have been formed to try and monitor the lyrical messages that are expressed in songs. The RIAA is not out to completely censor music, but to advise buyers
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Henry Aaron Lightenburger October 22, 12 Semantics-E265 Take-home Quiz Hate speech is one of the most powerful and hurtful speech there is today. Its power grows from the pure frustration and hatred towards another group. Hate speech perpetuates hate and violence and should never be allowed anywhere. Richard Delgado in Hate Cannot Be Tolerated states, “With anonymous hate speech such as a flier or graffiti, the victim cannot talk back, for the hate speaker delivers his message in a cowardly
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