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- 4781: Loss of Freedom Through Apathy
- ... for blacks to finally to win this right. It is the highest and purest form of freedom of speech and as Americans it is our single most powerful instrument of self government. It is the American vote and in this Presidential election it is a right 250 million chose to ignore. This year I had the great opportunity to volunteer my services to the Democratic party. I was excited to work for the Democrats because it was my first ever experience involved with the election. For 17 years I stood as a common bystander to this great American tradition. Volunteering my hours made me feel like I was part of something important. Mostly my work consisted of random polling. I would call people up between the hours of 7 and 9 P.M ...
- 4782: Our Living Shield: The First Amendment
- ... meeting to protest the police shooting of striking longshoremen. The Court ruled that "Peaceable assembly for lawful discussion cannot be made a crime." More recently, in 1985, the S upreme Court ruled that burning the American flag is protected by the First Amendment when the Court reversed the conviction of Gregory Lee Johnson, who was arrested for violation of the Flag Protection Act of 1989. The Court then ruled the Flag ... back without looking ahead. The supreme court currently is overwhelmingly conservative. Without the balance of conservatism and liberalism, a deficiency evolves. And this deficiency is human rights. The Supreme Court ruled in 1990 that two American Indians were not protected by the First Amendment when they religiously smoked peyote. This is only a sample of the conservatism which wi ll eventually plague America. The Court's decisions are close to eternal ...
- 4783: The Role of The Emperor in Meiji Japan
- ... system on a moral education from 1882 onward. Previous to 1880 the Japanese education system was modeled on that of the French education system. After 1880 the Japanese briefly modeled their education system on the American system.Footnote18 However, starting with the Yogaku Koyo in 1882 and ending with the 1885 reorganization of the department of Education along Prussian lines the American model was abolished. The new education minister Mori Arinori after returning from Europe in 1885 with Ito was convinced that the Japanese education system had to have a spiritual foundation to it.Footnote19 In Prussia ...
- 4784: A Senator's Pain
- ... people who are, uh, who the law threats in different ways" (Smith: 214). The following statements Bradley makes during his interview shows his anger for racial differences. When Bradley informs the reader about an African- American Harvard Law School student who experienced unjust treatment by the police. Bradley's anger is expressed through his statement, as he says, "He pulls over. Police car pulls in front...behind...beside of him. Police ... guns, pull him out of the car, throw him to the floor, put a handcuff on him...All the while pointing a gun out at him" (Smith: 215). It is not fair that this African-American Law School student has to put up with racism just because his skin color and the "well-to-do" neighborhood he was driving through. Bradley's anger shows the reader that racism should not exist ...
- 4785: The Communications Decency Act
- ... Protest," thousands of home-pages went black as Internet citizens expressed their disapproval of the Communications Decency Act. Presently there are numerous organizations that have formed in protest of the Act. The groups include: the American Civil Liberties Union, the Voters Telecommunications Watch, the Citizens Internet Empowerment Coalition, the Center for Democracy & Technology, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, the Internet Action Group, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The ACLU is not ... hard to surf around on the Net and not see a Blue Ribbon on someone's site. On the day that President Clinton signed the CDA into law, a group of nineteen organizations, from the American Civil Liberties Union to the National Writers Union, filed suit in federal court, arguing that it restricted free speech. At the forefront of the battle against the CDA is Mike Godwin. Mike Godwin is regarded ...
- 4786: The Communications Decency Act
- ... systems was 213 machines. At the time of this writing, twelve years later, the number has jumped to 1,313,000 systems connecting directly to the Internet." (Cavazos 10) "Privacy plays a unique role in American law." (Cavazos 13) Privacy is not explicitly provided for in the Constitution, yet most of the Internet users remain anonymous. Cavazos says, "Computers and digital communication technologies present a serious challenge to legislators and judges ... an Internet user, "[The C.D.A.] attempts to place more restrictive constraints on the conversation in cyberspace than currently exist in the Senate Cafeteria..." (1996). The liability is still with the end-user. The American, or fireigner, who sits in front of their computer everyday to conduct business, chat with friends, or learn about something he didn't know about before. For us to take liability away from the end ...
- 4787: The Environmental Protection Agency
- ... Protection Agency. New York: Oxford University Press. Chapter 1-2,10 Douglas, Carter. (1964) Power in Washington. New York: Random House. Hugh, Heclo. Issue Networks and the Executive Establishment, in Anthony King, ed., the New American Political System (Washington D.C.: The American Enterprise Institute, 1978) 87-124. Epstein, Edward, News From Nowhere: Television, Politics, and the News (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1975).
- 4788: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
- ... s commitment to the advancement of minorities and women within the ranks of the organization, in October, 1993, Freeh appointed the first woman, the first man of Hispanic descent, and the second man of African-American descent to be named Assistant Director. Also in late 1993, Freeh emphasized the importance of international cooperation on organized crime issues. In summer of 1994, Freeh led a delegation of high-level diplomatic and federal ... initiated a comprehensive and integrated FBI response to nuclear, biological, and chemical (NBC) crisis incidents when the FBI was designated lead law enforcement agency in NBC investigations. The FBI's work on behalf of the American people-- the investigation of violations of federal and criminal law, to protect the U.S. from foreign intelligence and terrorist activities, to provide leadership and law enforcement assistance to federal, state, local, and international agencies ...
- 4789: The Infamous Watergate Scandal
- ... votes for the impeachment and only eleven against it. He was accused of misuse of his authority and also violating the constitutional rights of citizens by ordering the FBI and Secret Services to spy on American citizens. The last thing he was charged with was refusing to obey congress's subpoenas. Nixon had broken his oath to up hold the law. (Watergate) With the impeachment vote against him, Nixon would have ... helicopter and began his journey home to San Clemente, California. (Westerfled 57) At noon the Vice-President, Gerald R. Ford, was inaugurated. He became the thirty-seventh President of the United States. He told the American people in his first speech "Our long national nightmare is over." (Westerfled 57) Bibliography Gold, Gerald ed. Watergate hearings. New York: Bantam books, 1978. Westerfled, Scott. Watergate. Englewood Cliffs: Silber Burdett, 1991. "Watergate". Grolier Electronic ...
- 4790: The Infamous Watergate Scandal
- ... votes for the impeachment and only eleven against it. He was accused of misuse of his authority and also violating the constitutional rights of citizens by ordering the FBI and Secret Services to spy on American citizens. The last thing he was charged with was refusing to obey congress's subpoenas. Nixon had broken his oath to up hold the law. (Watergate) With the impeachment vote against him, Nixon would have ... helicopter and began his journey home to San Clemente, California. (Westerfled 57) At noon the Vice President, Gerald R. Ford, was inaugurated. He became the thirty-seventh president of the United States. He told the American people in his first speech "Our long national nightmare is over." (Westerfled 57) Bibliography Gold, Gerald ed. Watergate hearings. New York: Bantam books, 1978. Westerfled, Scott. Watergate. Englewood Cliffs: Silber Burdett, 1991. "Watergate". Grolier Electronic ...
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