V-Chip And Television Censorship
.... private industry),and not the parents, that will determine how programs will be rated. If a parent activates the v-chip, all programs with a "violent" rating will be blocked. What kind of violence will be censored? Football games? War movies? News reports?"
Even though the V-chip legislation has already been signed into law by the President, it remains at the heart of a heated political battle. The strongest objection raised to the V-chip by its opponents is that it violates the First Amendment Rights of the broadcasters. They claim that the government is imposing a system of censorship that will lead to "blander" and "less .....
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Friendships
.... relationships. Some relationships we cannot choose like family ties. These are relationships we are born in, and we cannot break them anymore than we can stop breathing. Even denying their existence does not change the fact that your mother and father, brother and sister, are who they are. “ Other relationships are not forced upon us but we do not have complete control over them, like who we fall in love with. We do not choose who we want to fall in love with even though we do choose the situations that makes it possible for the feelings to appear. The third kind of relationships are friendships. Friendships are, in the olden Gre .....
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Foster Children: Happiness Or Heartbreak?
.... an extremely long process because sometimes it is hard to sever the biological parents’ rights to their children. The people who decide to become foster parents are admired by a lot of people, especially because it is known that foster parents endure extreme emotional turmoil. However, one of the most obvious negative aspects about foster care that surpasses that of what foster parents endure, is the emotional turmoil suffered by a foster child after such extreme changes occur in their environments.
It is especially difficult for foster families not to get attached to the children when they feel as if the children are actual .....
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Violence In Music And The Media
.... just from those few lines you can understand why it was necessary to remove this album from stores. The first amendment right to free speech is crucial but you have to think of the safety of others when doing something like this and that is why the first amendment rights of this band were not damaged.
Another big problem with today’s music is that it seems to be common now to demean women. Kids seem to be learning that demeaning women is not only acceptable, but preferable to treating women with respect. Television also seems to play a role in demeaning women. Movies depict rape, brutality and many other violent acts tha .....
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Violent Crimes By Juveniles
.... TV. For example, children watch Power Rangers and turn around and try to do the Karate they see on anyone they can. They feel they are doing no wrong since the characters on TV are being praised for doing it. The violence on a simple show like Power Rangers can have a great effect on children. When you get into shows with guns and killing, that totally expands a child’s mind to new ways of getting rid of their problems. Television teaches children how to get rid of their problems, but not in the correct manner. Children should go back to communicating their problems to their parents and have their parents teach the resolutio .....
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I Am A Feminist - Hear Me Roar!
.... due to women's past oppression. If you even disagree with only one of these issues, you're considered part of the right-wing backlash against the women's movement.
Feminists that disagree with this description say that all women are accepted in the feminist movement. But when looking at the leading women's movement groups such as National Organization for Women and Feminist Majority Foundation, do we see any anti-abortion activists or women who decided a career-orientated lifestyle wasn't for them? Ironically, the leading women's groups point out Susan B. Anthony, who called abortion child-murder, as one of the greatest Am .....
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Slavery: A Justified Institution
.... the "peculiar institution" as a positive good, supported, in fact, by the sacred words of the Bible and the philosophy of the wise Aristotle. The moral and biblical justification surrounding their belief that the relations between slave and man, however admitting to deplore abuses in it, was compatible with Christianity, and that the presence of Africans on American soil was an occasion of gratitude on the slave's behalf before God – basically, the slaves should have been grateful for their bondage. Plantation owners even stressed religion by teaching the slaves the principles of Christianity and by brainwashing the slaves .....
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The Debate On Gay Rights
.... 18:22) This passage would be stating that men are not to be involved with men the same as they are women. These people believe that homosexuality is a choice for people. That they find people of the same sex know how to please eachother and lose their connection with God. An advertisement campaign was run by Coral Ridge promoting change among homosexuals. It claimed they can change with help from their faith and help from God. Anne Paulk and her husband John Paulk appeared in these ads as Ex-Gays. Anne grew up as a tomboy, never feeling a sexual attraction to men, and began experimenting with women. Paul’s father left at a .....
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Marriage: Try It Before You Chance It
.... in the U.S. today. (Los Angeles Times) The last thing any happily married couple wants is to end up in a divorce court over an issue such as this one. By living together first, is one possible way of avoiding a situation like this.
Another example would be if any young lady were to marry a totally housebroken mama’s boy. Being a mama’s boy is something a guy would not just admit to. That’s usually that is only viewed by other people. But once they are married he’s probably going to expect for her to cook, clean, do the laundry and do all the planning for the both of them. That doesn’t make him a bad husband, it’s just the .....
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Social Norms Are Constantly Changing
.... Swearing in class is usually punished with mild reprimand from the teacher. Fifty years ago, and even only twenty years ago, you didn’t dare say even the mildest swear word in the presence of a teacher.
Another norm that has changed a lot is what teenagers do for entertainment. In the early twenties, teenagers generally didn’t have a lot of free time. What little free time they had was spent ice skating, swimming, and at hot dog roasts. Things got a little more interesting in the late sixties with the advent of the muscle car. One interviewee told me many stories of drag racing in his ’69 Dodge Dart. He bought it .....
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How Society Conforms In “The Lottery”
.... understand the importance of tradition. The people in this village are so scared of change that they will keep allowing a human sacrifice every year for the benefit of the community. No one believes it is wrong or should be changed, and they all hope they don’t draw the wrong card and get chosen.
If you break down the community as a whole and look to see who has conformed the most it is definitely Old Man Warner. He had been in the lottery 77 times and if anyone would realize that it was wrong first you would think that it would be him. It is because of all his experiences that he is the most conformed person. Each time .....
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Television That Kills
.... "Magnum Force" (47). The man was forced to eat Drano and had his mouth duct taped, just like in the movie (47). The perpetrators had watched "Magnum Force" three times the day before (Leland 47). A similar incident occurred concerning the 1995 film "Money Train". A man named Harry Kaufman was killed in a Brooklyn subway tokenbooth (Leland 46). The booth, which he was clerk over, was torched the same way a booth was in "Money Train" (Leland 46). The movie had only opened three days earlier and within the next week two more booths had been attacked (Leland 46). Clearly violence is infecting the minds of the world with suggestive idea .....
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