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- 2511: Pornography Censorship
- ... is that the term pornography is which a broad word used in many different contexts and is difficult to determine what should be censored. Pornography is defined in Webster's dictionary as pictures, film, or writing which deliberately arouse sexual excitement. Well one thing might sexually excite one person but not another person. So by this definition one can understand why there is a lot of room for discrepancy. Until there ... bill would prohibit Fcc regulations of speech on the Internet. There are many others that please many and outrage many others. If the government is not working fast enough for you, there are, however, alternatives. Personal censors are now available for parents to prevent young one from view pornographic materials. The company Microsystem Software has created Cyber Patrol. What Cyber Patrol and many other sofware filtering systems do is allow parents ...
- 2512: J.M Coetzee's "The Harms of Pornography"
- ... allowing our country to take a step back and ask ourselves how far we are willing to go and what we are willing to sacrifice in order to preserve free speech and our rights to personal choice. The argument over pornography is not merely the debate over right or wrong, but also involves the theory that its existence requires, or possibly even causes, an inequality between men and women. I ask ... gather that he takes a much more liberal stand and yet somehow successfully avoids pressing his opinions. He also does a wonderful job of highlighting some of the more minute intricacies related to MacKinnon's writing which may have otherwise gone unnoticed. If you read Demac's article you may find that "Sex", throughout history has been more than merely a method of procreation. In Demac's article it is also ...
- 2513: Women in Films: User or Victim?
- ... her family were refused entry by his legal wife, were still in Eva=s mind when she left her hometown for the big city to seek a better life. Despite her blighted childhood and early personal loss, AEvita never let herself be a victim, and instead, used her deprivations as a motivating machine. She developed a strong courage, a ruthless ambition, and a hunger for success and power@ (185-186). Armed ... as if it was meant for her to be born to portray the role. Significantly indeed, Madonna=s life is almost a replica of Evita=s life: a rags-to-riches tale in which Aearly personal loss is a motivating factor, and in which, once success is achieved, ruthless will is deployed to sustain it@ (163). Madonna=a childhood background resembles Evita=s in many ways. Both came from a working ... all hurdles, Evita used her early tragic experience as a motivating factor to seek what life has denied her. Madonna, on the other hand, also used her own childhood loss and fears as springboards to personal freedom. Like Evita, Madonna left her hometown to seek a better life. Similarly, Madonna too, was obliged to used men to get what she wanted (185). According to a review by Ken Mandelbaum, Madonna ...
- 2514: Psychological Egoism: Every Person Is Oriented Towards His (or her) Own Welfare, and The Object of Every One of His Voluntary Actions Is Some Good To Himself
- ... egoistic. People are entirely selfish and devoid of any genuine feelings of sympathy, benevolence, or sociability. They are always thinking of themselves in everything they do. Each individual is preoccupied exclusively with the gratification of personal desires (felicity or happiness).Ones success in maintaining a continuous flow of gratification is the means of ones happiness. The object of the voluntary acts of every man is some good to himself. Whenever man ... by nature are motivated only by self-interest . Any act, no matter how altruistic it might seem, is actually motivated by some selfish desire of the agent (e.g., desire for reward, avoidance of guilt, personal happiness). This is a descriptive claim about human nature. Since the claim is universal--all acts are motivated by self interest--it could be proven false by a single counterexample (Weston, rule #11). It will ... struggle to survive, egoism follows naturally. As an ethical theory, egoism holds that the primary beneficiary of an action should be the actor. The primary goal of each individual should be to act to achieve personal happiness. The happiness of family and friends are important to the egoist, but only in so far as it gives pleasure in return. Being around a bunch of happy, mentally healthy people is a ...
- 2515: Reverse Discrimation
- Reverse Discrimation Table of Contents Introduction and Background..............................1 The Issues and Arguments for each side...................2 The Opinions and Decisions of the Supreme Court..........4 My Personal Opinion and Arguments........................5 Relevance to Current Issues..............................6 Conclusion...............................................7 Introduction and Background In 1973 a thirty-three year-old Caucasian male named Allan Bakke applied to and was denied admission to the University ... Constitution was intended to overlook race and ethnicity in public authority and decisions. The fault in special admissions programs is that they will us e skin color as a more important factor than academic and personal merit. Thus, those who deserve advancement may not receive it, due to affirmative action and the associated reverse discrimination. By doing so, the various ethnic groups will be di vided and possibly end up competing ... on the constitutional issue was that a numerical quota was unconstitutional unless it was used to right a previous discrimination. However, using race and religion as a plus in educational admissions was deemed constitutional. My Personal Opinion and Arguments I agree partly with the ruling of the Supreme Court. The decision that Bakke's Constitutional rights were violated I feel is correct. However, if they were, than any quota based ...
- 2516: Is Psychology a Science?
- ... or experience, this can be applied to psychology itself. Psychology lacks one unified paradigm but has four perspectives that search for its understanding; The pyschodynamic perspective believes that behavior is a result of unconscious processes, personal motivation and early childhood experiences. It's most famous advocate was Sigmund Freud. Its method of data collection rely heavily on interpreting discussion, dreams and fantasies, actions, case studies and a limited amount of experimentation ... where the researchers are kept blind too. A scientific subject knows its own limitations. Psychology attempts to study complex phenomena in laboratory and field situations where validity is called into question. Results contrast with differing personal understandings of researchers which will always differ to some extent. In a physical science a variance of error may be intolerable above 2%, in psychology 50% may be an acceptable level. Every psychological experiment and ... If we can define a science using subjective methods then Psychology is definitely a science. Psychology represents an empirical science, its methods demanding empirical testing of hypotheses. Many empirical results of psychology are subject to personal interpretation and intense dispute. This can be seen as a function of the phenomena that is psychology. But the key to resolving these disputes is to turn back to the empirical methods and pit ...
- 2517: Prostitution
- ... it is monitored. Prostitutes are forced to work through established brothels and are forbidden to work out of their homes. All prostitutes and brothels must be licensed and the brothels must provide the prostitutes with personal doctors who test all of the prostitutes for sexually transmitted diseases, and HIV tests are done on a monthly basis and condoms are mandatory. When prostitution is legalized, not only are the pimps, who are ... prostitutes what the American constitution would allow them. In 1973 the case of Roe v. Wade established certain legal precedents concerning a woman's body, the court found that: "a woman has a right of personal privacy, or a guarantee of certain areas or zones of privacy, does exist in the Constitution and that it is founded in the Fourteenth Amendment's concept of personal liberty and restrictions upon state action. This right of privacy is broad enough to encompass a woman's body and her decision of whether or not to terminate her pregnancy."5 Although the courts ...
- 2518: The Statutory Definition of Pornography
- ... redress. The Ontario Human Rights Code provides an example of an attempt to redress quasi-social harms. It may be true that tort law is unable to address the "social injury that occurs at a personal level", but this is exactly the kind of injury the human rights codes of the country have been enacted to redress. While couched in the terminology of individual human rights, the OHRC's categories of ... result of being eg. black, female, Croatian, gay, blind, 25 yr. old, unmarried, etc. The remedies under s.40 of the OHRC are nearly identical to those in the modified ordinance - damages, including those for personal anguish, costs of the action, and injunction. The modified ordinance would thus be quite similar to the existing human rights legislation in Ontario in its recognition of social harm and its suggestion of remedies. Where ... is needed to give women the resources to come forward and challenge those who harm them through trafficking in pornography is needed. The role of support groups, groups to provide legal resources, groups to provide personal support in a situation where one's established values, relationships etc. are shaken apart, is crucial to the success of actions brought under the ordinance. Individual women would be truly exceptional to successfully bring ...
- 2519: Controversial Pornography
- ... equality, partly since no one can define what porn is and because censorship is never a simple matter. First, the offense must be described. "And how does one define something so infinitely variable, so deeply personal, so uniquely individualized as the image, the word, and the fantasy that cause sexual arousal" (Strossen 4)? Pornography cannot be recognized as easily as the Court involved with the Miller Case implied. "Contemporary community standards ... their children from attending sexual education classes in high school. Finding a median between two strongly differing standards similar to these would be rare. Thus, to accept or reject, like or dislike pornography is a personal opinionthat is often too divided to differentiate. Besides the difficulties of definition, there are varying degrees of intensity in the porn images themselves. One of the more prominent arguments against pornography is that "it represents ... is encouraged to believe that sexual masochism is healthy, liberated fun" (663). Women such as Brownmiller who spend most of their time blaming rape on pornography should spend more of that time educating women on personal safety so they can protect and empower themselves. To attribute rape cases to sexual pictures is similar to blaming drunk driving accidents on alcohol. The individual who chose to drink and then drive is ...
- 2520: Constructive Criticism
- ... personality then imparting feedback. Sometimes, a marital relationship exhibits bitterness and nagging, which could be a situation where constructive feedback has deteriorated into a negative and destructive tone. Both partners ordinarily feel nagging is a personal attack rather than a suggestion for a needed personal change, such as the placing of the cap on the toothpaste tube when one is through using it. Commonly, constructive criticism is misinterpreted as a personal attack toward the individual being criticized. Obviously, it is detrimental, rather than helpful, to imply that an individual is incapable or useless instead of presenting one or many options an individual has for his ...
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