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- 12741: Stern V. Fcc
- ... of all Media . In twenty controversial years of radio, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has fined Howard Stern a sum of some 1.7 million dollars. The FCC has been trying to curtail Howard Stern s free speech rights and they should not be. On several events (mostly early in the show s history) Howard Stern has used language that was considered vulgar and inappropriate (FCC). However, Howard Stern uses these vulgarities to make a point and not for show. So Howard Stern should not be banned or ... of speech (essay). Pacifica was a radio station that in 1978 aired a twelve-minute monologue by comedian George Carlin. This twelve-minute monologue called Filthy Words consisted of, according to Carlin, words you couldn t say on the public airwaves (qtd in essay). This caused one of the most controversial cases in the history of broadcasting. It would then set the standard of what could and could not be ...
- 12742: Movie: The Grapes Of Wrath - The people and the Depression
- ... then what they were told. The government tried to start programs to house and employ people like the Joads. Since the people who already lived in the cities in which these developments were put didn't want them there anyway, they tried to start a riot and have the police Arrest them. Although in the movie the plan was foiled, it could have worked in many other places, or the towns ... eventually the people living in the development would leave. I believe that the economic situation of the country has a great effect on the fall, or succession of people like the Joads, but I don't believe government programs will effect them at all. For example, the great depression was a major economical event, and it greatly effected more then just people like the Joads, but programs like the public works administration which employed people for government construction projects. Another program, the Works Progress Administration, later called the Works Projects Administration was created to develop relief programs, and to keep a person's skills. From 1935- 1943, it employed 8 million people, and spent 11 billion dollars. But in 1939, there were still 9.5 million still unemployed. Another program was the Civilian Conservation Corps. Unemployed, unmarried ...
- 12743: The Economics of Federal Defense Policy
- ... continues to absorb twenty percent of the federal budget-over a third of which is spent protecting Europe against an enemy that no longer exists. In fact, that is the most probable source of America's problems: the budget. Forty-seven percent of the national federal budget is spent for a military expense. The National Defense, the topic of this paper, is what is stealing money from the poor in our ... also evident to the politicians in Washington. The Bush Administration and the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1992 invented the new term for the enemy in order to avoid a dramatic change to the country's economics. They created the "threat of the unknown." (2). The military changed its focus to that of maintaining peace and harmony abroad. Sending troops to Bosnia and Somalia are two prime examples of the military's effort to provide humanitarian relief. In a meeting with the House Armed Services Committee, General Colin Powell brought forth a list of the military events that had occurred over the past five years. Events ...
- 12744: Does Romeo Behave Rashly While
- ... without thinking. Juliet behaves in a careful and thoughtful manner in different stages of the play. An example of this is when Lady Capulet talks to her about marrying Paris. She declines the offer, "It's an honour that I dream not of." She does not think that she is ready to marry yet, and has not thought about it. He leaves the option open and tells her mother that she ... is quite rash and acts thoughtlessly and very quickly. One example of this is when she wakes up in the tomb and finds out the Romeo is dead. She refuses to listen to Friar Lawrence's pleas, to leave the tomb and come with him to a nunnery. Instead she tells him "Go, get thee hence, for I will not away." She tries to poison herself but there is none left. When she hears the watch coming she grabs Romeo's dagger and fatally stabs herself. Juliet is so upset she doesn't think and tries to poison herself instead of listening to the Friar, and in desperation of death, kills herself with the dagger. ...
- 12745: Society 2
- ... nature, develops an awareness of the importance of such simple values as courage, honesty, and common sense (World Literature 3714). The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a scathing social satire disguised as a young boy's adventure. During the course of Huck s trip down river with the runaway slave, Jim, Huck encounters the hypocrisy, greed, and cruelty of a civilized society (World Clemens used a variety of ways to get his opinions across to his readers, in ... they may have worked. Not only did Clemens express his feelings about society but he also felt strongly about the government as well. There is a phrase which has grown so common in the world s mouth that it has come to seem to have sense and meaning the sense and meaning implied when it is used: that is a phrase, which refers to this or that or the other ...
- 12746: The First Amendment
- ... the fight to censor what can and cannot be heard, or even bought from the local music stores. One such group, the Parental Music Resource Council, once headed by the Second Lady of the U.S., Tipper Gore, singled out and attacked select music groups, deeming that the music being recorded was unfit for the public to hear. One of the groups many attackies was long time musician, Ozzy Osbourne. Ozzy ... many different attacks for his song, ‘Suicide Solution’, saying that he was in fact, promoting suicide, when in actuality, he was saying that suicide is not a solution. There have even been bans on Osbourne’s music at radio stations. In New Jersey, a 16 year old boy shot himself to death along with his older brother. The boy was discovered to be carrying a tape of Ozzy Osbourne in his ... and one for the album. Sometimes this works, and sometimes it does not. For instance, popular rap artist, Sir-Mix-A Lot told Billboard Magazine, "As long as the uncut version is available, it doesn’t bother me. But if they say it has to be clean, and you cannot have the uncut version, that’s when I get scared. That’s blatant censorship." The main point here is, that ...
- 12747: Sweatshops 2
- Sweatshops in the United States Americans love to shop. With malls everywhere you go, shopping just might be America s favorite past time! When you are out shopping though, do you ever stop to think where all of those clothes and shoes come from? When I was younger, well, actually until recently, I always thought ... firms found that 99% were in violation of wage, health, or safety regulations. Lina, a former employee of Seo Fashions in New York City, said of the conditions there, Everything is dirty, the trash isn t picked up, and the bathrooms aren t fit for pigs to use. So how are manufacturers getting away with this? In some cases, I ve learned, with brute force. On August 2, 1995, the Department of Labor raided a factory in ...
- 12748: Searching For Utopia
- ... society, one which would allow justice and happiness for all who resided there. It was not only a search for these men, but a lifelong goal, for if such a place created many of life's problems would disappear. In order to make this vision come to life, the principles and laws that would create such a society must be understood. It was men such as Saint-Simon, Fourier, Jefferson, Owen ... also influenced many great minds of the nineteenth century, making him an important figure of his time. Another eccentric who was seeking his own type of utopia was Francois Marie Fourier. Although several of Fourier's views were influenced by the same trends as Saint-Simons' his ideas were significantly different, for Fourier saw no use in scientists of progress. Instead, Fourier wanted to liberate human nature. He determined that it was man's passions which made them happy and the inhibition of their passions which had the opposite effect. His answer to this idea was to create a society in which men and women could indulge in ...
- 12749: Sophistic Movement
- The vast majority of today s society isn t the slightest bit aware of the tremendous influence the sophistic period of thought has had and continues to have on modern western politics. But how could a supposedly highly educated and intelligent people be so ... for what other prominent theorists have said about them. At the head of this condescending army was Plato, whose own theories opposed those of the sophists in numerable . Anyone who has read some of Plato s writing can tell you that what he had to say about Protagoras, Gorgias, Prodicus and the other sophists was by no means benevolent, and according to G.B. Kerferd, nor was it a completely ...
- 12750: Willow
- ... death dogs but wile the child is floating down the stream. The child traveled down the stream until it a nelwyn village. Two children "willows children" found her and brought her to Willow. Willow didn't want anything to do with her and wanted to send her back down the stream but Willows wife "Kya" wouldn't let him. The next day Willow and his children went to the carnival in town. Kya stave with the child. Willow was going to see if he could win a apprentice contest to become a apprentice to the High Aldwin. He messes up and and doesn't make it then the a dethdog races through the village and attacks a cradle. Vonhkar kills it with the help of of his worriers. Then the town held a meeting to finger out why ...
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