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The Mass Media And Politics
1723 Words - 7 Pages.... of power and control. Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell stated
in 1974, "An informed public depends upon accurate and effective reporting
by the news media. No individual can obtain for himself the information
needed for the intelligent discharge of his political responsibilities."
Powell is saying that it is the media's responsibility to inform the
citizens of the news, because people cannot get this information by
themselves, and in order for the people to fulfill their responsibilities
as citizens, such as voting, they need to be informed. Lewis Powell goes
on to say,
"For most citizens, the prospect of personal familiarity with
newsworthy ....
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What Wrongs Have White Administrators Done To Aborginal People In The Past? Have All Wrong Been Righted?
1061 Words - 4 Pages.... they have been humiliated. They
have shot down until not one Aborgine was left in Tasmania. Even though all te
worst of it has been over for the Aborigines - but has all wrongs been righted?
One of the most inhumane practices of white settlement in Australia
would be the taking of the Aboriginal children from their families. Some
Aboriginal children were brought up to feel ashamed of their race and heir
colour. "In a deliberate and callous attempt to conceal their cultural
identity," Aboriginal children were taken from the families an forcibly placed
in an institution and were denied further contact with their families.
(Aboriginal legal service, 1995 pp ii)
For w ....
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American Values Of The Freedom Of Speech And The Press
571 Words - 3 Pages.... and had him on probation. He refused to let the
school stop him from telling others what he and his classmates thoughts on
things. In one of his papers he wrote
“WE HAVE TO PREPARE TO FIGHT IN THE HALLS AND IN THE CLASSROOMS,
OUT IN THE STREETS BECUASE THE SCHOOLS BELONG TO THE PEOPLE. IF
WE HAVE TO-WE'LL BURN THE BUILDINGS OF OUR SCHOOLS DOWN TO SHOW
THE PIGS THAT WE WANT AN EDUCATION THAT WON'T BRAINWASH US INTO
BEING RACIST. AND THAT WE WANT AN EDUCATION THAT WILL TEACH US
THE REAL TRUTH ABOUT THINGS WE NEED TO KNOW, SO WE CAN BETTER
SERVE THE PEOPLE!!!!” (Zerman, p.3).
He had challenged the school and the cour ....
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The Context Of The Second Amendment
1031 Words - 4 Pages.... 309). What many people see when they read this is, ‘the right of the
people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed'. One can say that it
clearly states that the people do have a right to have firearms. Who are ‘the
people'? Some argue that the people are just what it says, citizens. “[M]any
legal historians have concluded that the right is corporate rather that
individual”(Hook, 30). Meaning that the right is giving to the state government
not to individual citizens. Others argue that it does give people the right to
bear arms, but only if you belong to a certain group.
This group is defined by the beginning preamble to the Second Amendment,
‘A we ....
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The Line Item Veto Act Of 1995
815 Words - 3 Pages.... Congress may want to give this authority to the
President is because it places ultimate responsibility on the President.
The president would no longer be able to spin responsibility of unnecessary
spending back on Congress. He would now have the ability to cut out
appropriations that would add to the national debt. while still passing the
bill. The President would ultimately be responsible for which bills do and
don't get passed. Lots of Americans today believe that we have a "do
nothing" congress that refuses to address the nations major problems. The
Congress has a hard time getting bills passed through the President unless
he agrees with every line of the bill. If w ....
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The Employment Equity Act: A Short Paper Evaluating The Success Of The Act.
2197 Words - 8 Pages.... there." Today
those designated groups, underrepresented in the labour force include women,
Aboriginal peoples, disabled people, and persons who are, because of their race
or colour, is a visible minority in Canada. In October 1984, Judge Rosalie
Silberman Abella submitted a Royal Commission Report on equality in employment
(the Abella Report) to the federal government. "The Commission was established
in recognition of the fact that women, visible minorities, the handicapped and
native peoples were being denied the full benefits of employment." Based on
the findings of the Abella Commission, the federal government implemented "The
Employment Equity Act" in ....
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Existentialism
407 Words - 2 Pages.... Sartre, a true existentialist believes there is no God and thus man becomes alone with only ourselves as a guide to making the decisions that define our existence. Our existence not only defines, but also must be defined. Subjectivism provides this definition. Subjectivity refers to the radical freedom to choose with or without a God, but also that this radical freedom becomes a responsibility to use or not use.
Another definition, provided by Webster’s dictionary defines as a philosophical movement especially of the 20th century that stresses the individual position as self determining agent responsible for his or her own choices. It becomes very clear through the defini ....
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Juvenile Justice
870 Words - 4 Pages.... would make the Juvenile Justice System nearly a century old. However, the
origins of the various components of the JJS go back much further than that.
The notion of separate treatment for children under criminal law goes back to a
very early English law. Children under seven years of age were legally
incapable of committing a crime, and children between seven and fourteen were
presumed incapable, this concept being based upon a child's inability to have a
guilty mind, or mens rea. Thus, from almost the beginning children have been
treated differently from adults who commit the same acts.
The origin of juvenile corrections in the United States goes, back at
least to t ....
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