What Is All The Fuss About? The issue of gay marriage is very confusing to a lot of individuals. No state, as a whole, currently recognizes gay marriages, but the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has said denying marriage ... . They also feel that it would help fill the gap of acceptance in American society today. More so, they don't want to be discriminated against because of their gender. A man can marry a women, but a man born male cannot marry another man because of his gender. Therefore, that is discrimination against gender. I personally tend to agree with homosexuals as they lay o...

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... other, and are legally married. The vast majority of couples form heterosexual families; a minority form homosexual families, but only the former can legally marry in most jurisdictions. Marriage is civil right, and failure to recognize this right violates the fundamental principles of liberty and justice ... state just as long as they are heterosexual. As long as they are heterosexual, pedophiles, transvestites, transsexuals, sadists, sodomites, and hermaphrodites can be married. The state grants couples" marriage licenses regardless if they are good people or will treat one another goo...

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... radio companies wish to present their entire media without any censorship to the viewers so that the entire message would be sent. Even the viewers take violence as entertainment and enjoy it. According to the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution (source #2), it clearly states that "Congress shall make ... in media contributes to crime in America. In response to the question of "should entertainment companies exercise self-restraint", 81% said yes. As you can see, majority of the people in America believe that media violence shall be limited in order prevent youth crime or distributi...

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What happens when the pictures and content you post online for friends to see are also viewed by potential employers or colleges? The question has heightened in importance through recent years, where photos, profiles, and online commentary are being factored into who gets hired or ... claimed that a 'friend' shared his on-line postings with his government agency employer. The plaintiff claimed that the online posting caused his government agency employer to unconstitutionally and illegally fire him. The court ruled that the plaintiff's fourth-amendment right ... route for young adults an...

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... - Unlawful Access to Stored Communications. It makes it a federal offense to hack into a computer system. Actually what it says is that it is not illegal to gain access but once you do gain access, by mistake or intention, it is illegal to continue to access the computer system. This crime is punishable by $5000 or up to six months in jail ... . Probably the biggest battle yet over the first amendment rights so far has been the Communications Decency Act or CDA. In March 1995 Senator Jim Exon introduces legislation to criminalize online publication of any material deemed "obscene, lasciv...

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... - Unlawful Access to Stored Communications; it makes it a federal offense to hack into a computer system. Actually what it says is that it is not illegal to gain access but once you do gain access, by mistake or intention, it is illegal to continue to access the computer system. This crime is punishable by $5000 or up to six months in jail ... . Probably the biggest battle yet over the first amendment rights so far has been the Communications Decency Act or CDA. In March 1995 Senator Jim Exon introduces legislation to criminalize online publication of any material deemed "obscene, lasciv...

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... by lot, and by direct popular election." In the end, during the Constitutional Convention, the Committee of Eleven proposed a College of Electors in which an indirect election would take place. This basic system was accepted and drafted into the Constitution with few changes (The Electoral College). The Electoral College reflects several compromises made by the members of the Constitutional ... no incentive in the States to encourage voter participation so as to enable a minority of citizens to decide the electoral vote for the whole state." This argument does not take into consideration...

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... United States Congress recently reviewed two major pieces of legislation that, if passed, will have monumental effects on the information highway. The bills are Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA). If these bills pass, The United States will emulate the likes of China and Iran ... these bills is drastic. It goes beyond blacking out or blurring content. These bills would remove an entire website. A prime example of this action can be found at www.megaupload.com. Megaupload was a massive content sharing site, much like YouTube. The website contained some copyrighted...

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... cause , supported by oath or affirmation , and particularly describing the place to be searched , the persons and things to be seized. ( US Constitution online) Opponents say that searches are unconstitutional, they think that if the FBI are searching around in their records that it breaks the unreasonable search and seizures ... access to personal records and other belongings .Because of that the ACLU is know filing a lawsuit against Attorney General Ashcroft over Section 215. (Goldstein online) The Department of Justice says that section 215 does not break the 4th Amendment because the...

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... it in the Constitution" (Dumbauld 117). These are rights that we as Americans are born with. They are also rights that no one can take away from us. Some of these rights support democracy, such as freedom of speech and of press. Others, such as the right to ... fourth amendment stands for protecting your house from police searches without proper documentation. It is the same for when a police officer pulls you over: you must give permission for the law enforcer to search your car and personal belongings. Many people get themselves into trouble by giving the police ... . Sometimes the po...

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... cyber stalking is almost always characterized by the stalker relentlessly pursuing hisher victim online and is much more likely to include some form of offline attack. This offline aspect makes it a more serious situation as it can easily lead to dangerous physical contact, if the victim's location is known.2 ... right is to protect the ability of individuals. Every user of the internet needs to be able to determine what sort of information about them has been used. To uphold the right to one's personality, legal remedies have to be developed to enforce definite boundaries between ......

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... but also in psychology. Born in Somerset, England in 1632, Locke received his education at the University of Oxford and later expanded his sphere of influence in philosophy. (Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopedia, 2004) Now known as the founder of Empiricism, he was inspired by the empiricist theories of Francis Bacon and provided a more methodic, accessible expression of his intrinsic ideas. (Encarta ... ...

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... would leave all they know just to come to a place they have never seen or heard of. Of going a direction to a place they know nothing about. Leaving family, friends, church, and jobs to go to an unknown place because they suffered that much. Because of this appreciation for them fighting for ... to retain that freedom. The purpose of the Constitution is to regulate modern laws in every state. To make sure that laws do not take away from peoples rights. The Constitution still to this day carries great significance because it is our basis as citizens, law enforcers and ... . . to be exerc...

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... school, good bye homework. This trip represented getting to hang-out with friends, to eat all the junk food in the world, and to just have fun. The girl had no idea that once in Philadelphia she would enter into a world entirely different, that of post-revolutionary war America. She walked the cobbled ... astonishment, and got to run up the Philadelphia Museum of Arts stairs like Rocky (yes, this had nothing to do with Revolutionary America, it was just fun). She saw the giant crack running up the Bell of Liberty and, the best yet, she got to see the Constitution of the United States of ...

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... circumvented." (AZR) The fact is, the Internet would be nearly impossible to censor. There is no central location where a switch can be flipped to reduce the amount of illegal or immoral activity online today. You could turn it off completely, but not censor it. The Internet has undergone many changes over the years, and grown immensely. This is a direct result of the pornography ... be prosecuted for the services they provide. The fact is, censorship cannot take place without extreme measures. Measures that would surely violate our rights as Americans. It's time to look for censorship ...

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... color, or previous condition of servitude"(Constitutional Amendments). The Constitution is always open for self-interpretation, therefore I will tell you what I see in these amendments. The first amendment states that each U.S. citizen is protected from cruel and unusual punishment. When you look back, slavery was a form of punishment in itself. Slaves were whipped, lynched, beat, and forced to endure ... we are no longer in the dark ages of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement where lunch counters, schools, restaurants, water fountains, and bus seating were segregated by race. But, I can't s...

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... the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances" (The United States Constitution Online, Par. 1). This country was based on the ideas of freedom of thought, speech, and action therefore, the First Amendment allows Americans the right to individuality by ensuring these freedoms. Having ... , author of the web article "Controversial Music: The Beat Goes On" says, Music mirrors the society that creates it. Should we be concerned about our society? Absolutely. Violent and sexual lyrics are in...

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... , governmental organizations such as the Parent's Music Resource Center (PMRC) are trying to censor, and outlaw the music of today. What is music censorship you ask? Music censorship is any discriminatory act that advocates or allows the suppression; control or banning of music or music related works against the wishes of ... that an eleven-year-old should hear and understand the lyrics of Alanis Morisette when she sings, "is she perverted like me, will she go down on you in a theater?" (U.S. Government 7). Absolutely not, but it is not the government's place to say that this album shoul...

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... hands. Yet, an incentive to ban firearms comes from the idea that disavowing all connection with a deadly weapon would in turn bring about a safer community where fatal crimes rarely occur. Gun control entails a topic that goes beyond the two words that the name represents. ... Currently, the United States allows only those 21 years of age and older to purchase a firearm (ATF online). By checking the criminal and mental history of an individual, one can be restricted if their history suggests that they will improperly use of the firearm. A suspicious history includes any ... , stalking,...

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... eye. These five articles all come from different sources and all show how woman's right for equality was a long and hard struggle and how other felt about woman working in a mans world. In article two they state how woman took over jobs in real estate, copywriters, they filled executive offices. They ... in Illinois that where working in factories where being paid less then men. In 1928 woman where earning approximately eighteen dollars a week while men where earning about thirty-two dollars a week. Even though woman would always be put down they knew how to defend themselves. Woman wen...

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... the parts we received. I was able to go to all the practices and tell the actors and actresses what to do to improve their performances. Being a student director was really fun, and it did not require memorizing lines. I was glad we had agreed on a compromise because it definitely worked out for the best. In history, there have been many compromises. A particularly ... important one was called "The Great Compromise, " which occurred at the Constitutional Convention in 1787 when the Constitution was being written. There was a dispute about how the people would be represented in the legis...

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... than phone numbers dialed and the length of telephone calls. Today, they can actually monitor phone calls and read personal mail. In regards to the Internet, they can monitor websites, online purchases and read registration information (ACLU). However, no one is supervising the FBI's actions and this can lead to the FBI using their authority for criminal investigations, not only ... subjects related to terrorism. Additionally, the FBI has the right to demand that third parties provide personal information about the individual. For instance, ... the FBI can receive information that ... ...

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... cannot be public displayed, sold to anyone under the age of 18, or broadcast over the airwaves (2). Hacker declares that, nearly 40 million Americans are online--an estimated 4 million are under 18 years old. According to Hacker, the four most commonly used "Net" functions are e-mail; access to the World ... Wide Web; special interest bulletin boards, and chat rooms. Obscene pornography can be found on all of them (3). Hacker argues how easy it is for a child to come to get these inappropriate materials, and uses this ... every time a four-letter word is used. This is known as the "Hac...

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... from the Comfort of Your Own Computer AND NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW!" For only a small fee, this website allows you to uncover personal information about neighbors, workmates, boss's, run multiple background checks on potential employees or tenants, obtain criminal records, learn what's stored in other ... in my opinion, they are very dangerous. Some detrimental person could want to locate you and do something not just uncanny, but harmful. It makes me nervous just thinking about the fact that anyone can find out where any of my friends, or family lives just by typing in ... their phone num...

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... all of the conceptual projects of the 60's and 70's that were on display. He mentioned a great deal of architects that I've already learned about in class, such as Bucky Fuller, creator of the Dymaxion House and Geodesic Dome, as well as some that are just being revealed to me, such ... as Cedric Price, who envisioned the Fun Palace, a place that had built in cranes that enabled floors and walls to be changed like "tinker toys" as he puts it. After giving these ... that Herbert Muschamp has very influential work, and should be read because of his respect for the old and the new. The se...

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