... an expletive, reflecting his opinion of the military draft. The Supreme Court threw out this conviction as a violation of the First Amendment. Surely the State has no right to cleanse public debate to the point where it is grammatically palatable to the most sensitive among us. Thus, the general rule remains that so long as the means are peaceful, the communication need not meet standards of acceptability. Some advocates of government action to restrict access to music have called certain music obscene and suggested that this might permit federal regulation. Such suggestions cannot be reconciled with First Amendment jurisprudence. Obscenity, which the Court has said ...
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... "social and literary purposes" at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia on December 5th 1776. After half a century of existence, it became and has since remained a scholarship honor society. Throughout the nineteenth century, many new fraternities were founded, but none of these were permanent. Then, in 1825, the Kappa Alpha Fraternity (now Kappa Alpha Society) was born at Union College. Two years later, Sigma Phi and Delta Phi had been founded at the same college, constituting the so-called Union Triad which was, in a large measure, the pattern for the American Fraternity system. By the end of the nineteenth century there were over thirty ge ...
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... done to stop this raping of the human heart. Got a weight problem? Sure, there are a lot of diets you could try, but why not exercise your right as a victim and strike back at discriminatory employers? You might not lose any weight ,but at least you can get the job you deserve. This is possible because of the courts and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission wants to extend protections under the 1973 Rehabilitation Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act to obese people. In December of 1993 a Federal Appeals Court ruled unanimously to uphold an order that required the state of Rhode Island to pay $100,000 in damages to a 320-lb. woman for not hiri ...
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... law a right of is commonly regarded as created by provisions of the Constitution, particularly the First, Fourth, and Fifth amendments. The Fourth Amendment prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures; the First and Fifth include protections in that they focus not on what the government may do but rather on the individual's freedom to be autonomous. The rights of were initially interpreted to include only protection against tangible intrusions resulting in measurable injury. After publication of an influential article by Justice Brandeis and Samuel Warren, "The Right to ," in the Harvard Law Review in 1890, however, the federal courts began to explore various c ...
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... are so many of them. Disability awareness is a very big problem in today’s society. Most of the students who attend Buchanan high school don’t take into consideration that they have feelings too. are real people just like us. They may think and act different that people we are used to being around. However they still need to be treated with kindness and respect. People are disabled in many different ways. They have disabilities that are physical and or mental. Physical disabilities are really sad because others can see that the person is disabled so they automatically treat them bad. I don’t think that we should treat them differently. Mental disabilities are when ...
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... learn how to love from their parents, but if both parents are not there to teach them how to love, their love might be somewhat one-sided (Curtin et al. 371). Yes, single parents can show their love toward their children, but they have no spouse to express love to. Children from single parent families are therefore denied that learning experience of how a husband and a wife should love one another (Curtin et al. 369). Relationships are another thing that everyone needs, especially children. Children need a real strong relationship between themselves and their parents, but children from single parent families are usually denied this privilege because they ar ...
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... stamps program. I will discuss the four programs individually. Medicaid provides free medical care to the poor people. Funds vary from state to state. In some situations, people who may be able to pay daily needs, but can't afford large medical bills may also be able to receive Medicaid. Some services paid for are bills such as doctor's visits and nursing home care. Most Medicaid funding comes from the federal government. The rest is supplied by the state. Each state runs their own Medicaid program. A.F.D.C. provides cash benefits to dependent children and the parents or the guardians taking care of them. Most families that qualify for A.F.D.C. have just one paren ...
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... law have the same rights and freedoms. No one person has more rights than another. No matter what is an individuals color, size, intellect, lifestyle, religion or ethnicity, he or she has the same rights as the next person. Affirmative action was created 30 years ago for the cure of the underuse of minority and female and humane resources in the workplace. Affirmative action refers to active measures and passive non-discrimination as a means of increasing the recruitment of minorities and, ultimately, ensuring equal employment opportunity. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is the most extensive ordinance on civil rights ever enacted in the United States ...
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... intelligence. I agree with the article, the vocabulary is being abused and is being used badly. I can relate to a situation that was explained in the article, the number of hours I spend watching television. I enjoy watching television; it’s an entertainment for me when I’m bored. I spend about five hours watching television, while I’m eating, doing my homework and talking on the phone. This is an example how I rather spend my time watching at a screen with pictures and not paying attention to the language, rather than sitting down and reading a book. By reading a book we learn many things, not only to picture the images in our heads but we also learn how to en ...
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... officers were murdered. The chorus to this song can obviously explain why it was discontinued. The chorus goes as follows, “I’m a….COP KILLER, better you than me. COP KILLER, f**k police brutality! COP KILLER, I know your family’s grievin’ …F**K ‘EM! COP KILLER, but tonight we get even. I think 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 ...
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