America. I have the right to write whatever I want. And it's equaled by another right just as powerful: the right not to read it. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people." Among other, cherished values, the First Amendment protects freedom of speech. The U.S. Supreme Court often has struggled to determine what exactly constitutes protected speech. Examples are of students to wear black armbands to school to protest a war or To use certain offensive words and phrases to convey political
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Parents Need More Access Imagine this, a parent calls their child to see how they are doing at college. The child does not answer the call. 10 calls later, the parent panics and calls the college. The college says they cannot inform the parent about anything and sends the parent into extreme fear. The parent assumes the worst and has no idea what has happened to their child, and where the child could be. This example may be extreme, but has been a risk factor that comes with the FERPA law. FERPA
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find something offensive, but the person who said it doesn’t, they shouldn’t be punished for it just because you don’t like it. Freedom of speech should be respectful as well as free. People take advantage of free speech, it shouldn’t cause a huge argument. If someone came up and said something but told you that you can’t tell anyone would you? Freedom of speech is being taken away. You should be able to speak out about something you don’t like and we should be able to say what we want. We should
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Those who have the opinion of not teaching this book and banning it from everywhere have their own position from where they come from. Either huck represents something the world does not want to know or there have been many cooperative censors in the schools and libraries who find it easier to go along or who have not read the story and therefore cannot defend it. It was Twain himself who perhaps prophetically, said a classic is something everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. To
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on September 25, 1789, in efforts to protect our religious freedoms and rights. The First Amendment states, Congress shall make no law respecting an 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. (US Constitution) This freedom established by our fore fathers continues to be important not only to me but to everyone
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a graduating college class in 2005. In this text, Wallace uses water as a symbol for life. As a result of water referring to life, the theme of “This is Water” is the fluidity of life. He shows this to his audience through short stories within his speech. Wallace begins his address with a story about fish. It is mainly about three fish, two young and one old. The two younger ones do not realize they are swimming in water when the older fish asks them “how’s the water” (Wallace X)? They do not know
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Censorship is a major topic in schools today whether it is of books, movies, or another source. These works that are being written may be very provocative or have violence in them. People often pose the question: Should we have these writings in schools, or are they unacceptable for the school environment? This question can be interpreted in two very opposite ways. The question can either be taken from the perspective that parents have the final say in what their kids learn or it can be taken from
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The first recent legal case challenging American civil liberties concerns Neo-Nazis assembling to speak publicly. One way in which the Neo-Nazis’ civil liberties were challenged was because of how offended people responded by attempting to take legal action. Nazism practically anywhere today is a sensitive topic, but even they, the Nazis, deserve their American rights to speak freely in the United States so long as they do not disturb the peace. News of the gathering quickly spread and was soon given
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freedom? America has lost it’s purpose to protect the people from being suppressed. If freedom is what America is all about then why do schools insist on restricting our free speech? The value I will be upholding is freedom. I believe that public colleges and universities ought not restrict any constitutionally protected speech, because we are speaking for the publicity of our school, and because everyone has their 1st amendment rights. Contention 1: Censorship and limitations take away the meaning
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Imagine if we lived in a world where it was horrible to have creativity. Not so great right? Well, that world is called censorship. Censorship is basically a suppression of an individual's creativity. Many books by certain authors with strong themes and ideas are often censored. So are articles with strong opinions. Censorship doesn’t suppress anyone's creativity. It actually does. Many books written by authors like Judy Blume are often censored. Nowadays authors can’t really pour all of their
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