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    Evil In Brave New World

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    Awareness, Expression, Freedom: According to the international Google dictionary, one of the many definitions of the word “good” means that which is morally right. Contradictory to the definition of good, The World State, combines a mixture of totalitarian-technologist practices in order to manipulate the Brave New World society without the consent of the people. The World State’s societal manipulation goes so far as to hinder the biological development of lower-caste members of the fictional society

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    Trayvon Martin Case Study

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    Expression, one of the core freedoms expressed in our Bill of Rights, carries many forms. The case of Margery Washington and David Schultz versus the Chicago District 299 school board concerns two high-school students who chose to express their convictions by each wearing a hoodie and button to school in support of Trayvon Martin and in protest of controversy surrounding his death, the two students were asked by the school to remove them, citing a violation of the school dress code. After two days

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    Allen mentions, “...the Supreme Court was not wrong.” It is true that “Any messages that burning the flag might convey easily can be communicated in other ways.” However, the Constitution says that everyone has ‘Freedom of Expression’ which means that “Each individual is to have the freedom, to develop by his or her own lights, and not by the command of officialdom.” Maybe the burning of the flag was not completely morally correct plus “...is such a powerful form of communication.” but it is still

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    linguistic expression, in Orwell’s Nineteen-Eighty-Four’ and Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange used to present freedom in Winston’s and Alex’s characters throughout the novel? § Set in dystopian futures, both novels explore themes of freedom and individuality. Orwell intended Nineteen-Eighty-Four to be ‘a show up of the perversions of which a centralised economy is liable’. He explores the effects of such an oppressive society on the protagonist, Winston, showing the destruction of his freedom and identity

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    congress does not have the right to make laws abridging the freedom of speech along with the freedom of expression. Similarly, the Supreme Court in Texas v. Johnson decides that Texas is not allowed to criminally punish Johnson, although he violated a Texas law banning flag desecration by burning the American flag, because flag burning is a form of expression and speech protected by the First Amendment. Furthermore, the rights and freedoms listed in the First Amendment essentially lets people know

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    notable rights that Americans have. However this right has often been debated in court. The first amendment states that: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging 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.” People all around world were persecuted because they voiced their opinions about their religion and/or politics

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    publish materials about the arrest and proof of guilt of a well-known actor violated Article 10 of the ECHR. The court, in this case, had to find a balance between two fundamental human rights - the right to private life against the right to freedom of expression. On the 29 September 2004 on the first page the applicant company, the Bild, published the following headline in a large font “Cocaine! Superintendent Y caught at the Munich beer festival”, ‘Oktoberfest’. The article gave the details of the

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    In essence, pornification refers to not just the self-expression of sexuality and sexual freedom, but also to the mainstreaming of pornography (Caddick, 2010) and its consequent normalisation within society (Kosut, 2012). Due to pornography’s mainstreaming within society, pornification challenges theories of normalisation

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    When I hear the words “Freedom of Religion” the first thing that comes to my mind is having the freedom to worship in spirit, and in truth the way that I want to. It means not being confine to how I serve God. I am able to choose whatever church I want to go to, believe in whatever God I want to believe in, and express myself the way I want to. I can do this, without the fear of being judged, or told that what I am doing is wrong. I have the right to make all the decisions when It comes to my religious

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    thought that freedom of speech is not the “right to insult a community,” and that idea raised hate crime laws. The author goes on with criticizing this idea of prohibiting “hate mongers”. He claims that criminal prosecution of hate speech rather puts more danger to Jews [oppressed] and “freedom-loving people” than to the people who perform the hatred, whom laws are targeting. Furthermore, these laws are abused and misused to harm the people they are ought to protect. Freedom of expression [speech],

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