In her article, "Banning Books From the Classroom: How To Handle Cries For Censorship," Sharon Cromwell uses a format that is easily understood to explain the issues involved with the challenging and banning of books. ... Those against the banning of books from public schools argue that censorship itself is inappropriate and a violation of the U.S. ... This has led to many popular books being banned from schools in the past and continuing to be excluded from schools and public libraries today. ... This supports the argument that books such as these should not be banned but should, instead, be...

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Remember the days when doing research meant going to the library and poring through a stack of books to find the information you needed? ... In an effort to help alleviate that problem, teachers at schools across the country have started to ban the use of some online sources. ... Wikipedia, an online, reader-generated encyclopedia, is one of the most popular go-to sources for students. ... The college did not specifically ban the use of Wikipedia (they understand that the site does have a wealth of valuable - and accurate - information) but that if a student repeatedly relied upon Wikipedia...

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You can do anything from chat with friends to research a history project to buy airline tickets online. ... The second is to put time restrictions on when a child can get online. ... In previous attempts by the government to ban explicit material the effort was deemed unconstitutional. ... In the latest attempt to ban the internet the Supreme Court sent a case referring to COPA, the Child Online Protection Act, to lower court to decide on a "wider range of First Amendment Issues" (Ban on COPA). ... The only question is who should control what these children see online. ...

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Ban Public Smoking? ... More and more bans on public smoking are being passed, taking away the First Amendment rights of many Americans. ... New York: Avon Books, 1977: 44-45. ... New York Times Online. 6 Oct. 2002. ...

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Two years later, on September 17 2003, the legislature made a permanent ban on taxing Internet connections (mostly concerning the Internet commerce). ... But Congress intends to permanently ban an Internet sales tax. ... The U.S. government, of course, would not like to do anything of no benefits and they decided to make a permanent ban on taxing Internet commerce. ... However, I will not buy items like food or shoes online, although their prices maybe lower than the retail stores. ... However, luxuries like computers and books are different, as they are just exactly the things you expect. ...

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You can do anything from chat with friends to research a history project to buy airline tickets online. ... In previous attempts by the government to ban explicit material the effort was deemed unconstitutional. ... In the latest attempt to ban the internet the Supreme Court sent a case referring to COPA to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals to decide on a "wider range of First Amendment Issues" (Ban on COPA). ... The second is to put time restrictions on when a child can get online. ... The only question is who should control what these children see online. ...

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Books are a form of expression and not necessarily self-expression. ... " (Banned Books Week: Lolita). ... This is why it is so important not to ban books because there is no point in having freedom of expression if there is a greater power at work censoring what we are exposed to. This "greater power" would have to be online censoring social media or porn websites for example, but they are not. Instead this power is trying to censor our books, an actual sophisticated art form. ...

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The government even goes as far as burning books and killing innocent people. ... (Questia-the online library) Anyone who had a book was thought to be a criminal. ... Once Montag starts reading his collection of books, the reason why people believe books are so horrible is shown. ... For example, "Little Red Riding Hood" was the 24th most banned book in the 1990's mostly because she had a bottle of wine in her basket. ... (Questia-the online library) Beatty is saying that people needed this because they are weak-minded; they don't want to think for themselves and have to solve the...

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In an online article by Radley Balko (2008), he states that the trend of teenagers using PED mirrors the trend of the use of other banned substances and illicit drugs. However, in Greg Schwab's (2002) online document he adumbrates that sports stars are huge role models and idols to the public and a large percentage of steroid using teenagers use them because they aspire to be "as big" as some of their heroes and mimic their actions. ... Lincoln Allison (2004) in his article found online he comments on a study carried out to comprehend to relationship between the amount of drug u...

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Since the arrival of the Internet as a popular medium to exchange information, concerns have been expressed about access to online content deemed offensive or dangerous. ... The debate about online content is still very much alive, and none of the available solutions to protect against offensive content is completely satisfactory. ... From cyber media of the Internet, to the print media of the classroom - strict judgment must be maintained on the types of books students read. ... Many school systems are teaching from books that are considered "banned" or distasteful, or not in the children...

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Nearly every single site made on the Internet (except for those protected by "Net Nanny" or some other net ban program) can be accessible to just about any age, resulting in some of the youngest minds being infiltrated by information that makes some youths turn out the way they do in today's society. ... Some even find that new relationships are made online, often resulting in their meeting each other. ... It has been said by authors John M Carroll and Mary Beth Rosson, that those who read books are prone to be the most likely people to use the Internet than those who sit in front of the ...

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"Nevada's legal sports books bring in about $2.3 billion in bets each year estimated to be a mere 1% of the total organized gambling on sports nationwide," (Hamburger, A1). ... History demonstrates that a ban on legal betting will not reduce the threat of point-shaving schemes. ... Analysts predict online bettors will lose $3 billion a year by 2002," (Schouten, 14B). ... When they tried to outlaw online gambling they found out that many of the online firms are outside the U.S.A. and therefore the U.S.A. government has no control over that (Schouten, 14B). Online gambling is affecting y...

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Many laws ban the sale or distribution of indecent material to minors. ... His business publicized and sold books, photographs and magazines and he used circulars and advertising matter to solicit sales. ... Alberts was charged with keeping for sale obscene and indecent books, and with writing, composing and publishing an obscene advertisement of them. ... The brochures advertised four books entitled "Intercourse," "Man-Woman," "Sex Orgies Illustrated," and "An Illustrated History of Pornography," and a film entitled "Marital Intercourse." ... Unlike other media sources like print news and...

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The Camp Harmony Exhibit page in the online archive of the University of Washington gives insight into how demeaning the camps were to the incarcerated internees during this time and how such civil rights were denied. ... Also evacuees were requested to voluntarily hand in Japanese books, pamphlets, literature, and other records deemed suspicious by Americans. Religious freedom was also denied: Shinto, a major religion for the Japanese, was banned from many of the camps (1-4). ... Low salaries were justified by the US government because the camps offered shelter, food and medical care fre...

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The Camp Harmony Exhibit page in the online archive of the University of Washington gives insight into how demeaning the camps were to the incarcerated internees during this time and how such civil rights were denied. ... Also evacuees were requested to voluntarily hand in Japanese books, pamphlets, literature, and other records deemed suspicious by Americans. Religious freedom was also denied: Shinto, a major religion for the Japanese, was banned from many of the camps (1-4). ... Low salaries were justified by the US government because the camps offered shelter, food and medical care fre...

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Abstract The study explored the hypothesis that a major proportion of overseas students at Navitas English have little knowledge about censorship and they have strong opinions on which types of online content should or should not be censored. ... In modern times, one of the well-known historical events on censorship might be Chinese Cultural Revolution, which led to many different-idea holding politicians' death and destroyed a massive number of books considered to include reactionary contents (Wang, 1997). ... It is hypothesized that most international students know little about internet...

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Name: Anonymous Submitted: 08.29.01 Word Count: 4987 "This site kicks-ass!!" The Ozone a Hole in the Theory The protective ozone layer around our world undergoes much thought and debate. The "Hole", however, only exists in the minds of environmental, self-serving scientists and politic...

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Since cigarette advertising was banned on radio and TV in 1970, most of this money has been spent on expensive ads in the print media. ... The censorship of media is helping to sterilize music, television, and books. ... As citizens in a nation, and inhabitants of a global megalopolis, there are questions which the control of content on the Internet forces us to confront regarding the issue of how far we are willing to have freedom of expression and communication in an adult world governed by a standard designed to protect the possible, but apparently indemonstrable harm that might be don...

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Abstract This article looks at how citizen journalism can have a positive effect towards combating government oppression and the means utilised to do so. I first created a picture of the communication system with our government by looking at a well-known example. This fictional example, George Orwells 1984, describes the relationship between citizens and their totalitarian government in a dystopian setting. My research shows how close this actually comes to our reality. Next I looked at the differences between pure citizen journalism and media lead citizen journalism. ...

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December 7, 1941 is a day that will forever live in infamy. The brutal, horrific attack on Pearl Harbor came as a complete surprise. Or did it? The truth is that United States government knew that the Japanese would strike Pearl Harbor. No one could have anticipated what tragedy was to come. ...

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I will use the law, books, the Internet, Journals, Academic essays and my surveys of students and parents to prove to my audience that the senders of television and the Internet are intentionally destroying the minds of young people in order to gain recognition, popularity, high ratings, and money. ...

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Many kids in the United States grow up playing some form of organized sports. Whether an individual or team sport, sports are purest at this young age. There is an emphasis in the United States to be successful in sports. Success is defined as a degree of measure (Webster's Dictionary). Most athletes measure success in millions of dollars. ...

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When is the Beginning of Personhood? During the past quarter century, abortion has joined race and war as one of the most contentious subjects of controversy in the United States. It discusses human interaction where ethics, emotions, and law collaborate. Many have contemplated upon the meaning of ...

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Russell, The Secret Trauma: Incest in the Lives of Girls and Women (New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1986)],5, i [though] fewer than 10 percent of child sexual abuse cases are reported to authorities.6 [A 2001 University of Pennsylvania] study estimated that in the United States, 325,000 children a year were subjected to sexual exploitation, including prostitution, use in pornography and molestation.7 "According to Unicef, a million children are forced each year into pornographic productions that generate $20 billion in sales,"" [Swiss Justice Minister Ruth Metzler] said.8 In 90% of the rapes o...

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