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    R Vs Brown

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    In R v Brown all of the defendants participated in consensual sado-masochistic homosexual activities in private, where there were no perpetual injuries. They were convicted at trial of assaults occasioning actual bodily harm contrary to section 47 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861. The judge ruled that consent is immaterial when the unlawful act involves a degree of violence such that the infliction of bodily harm is a probable consequence. The law in the context of harm says that, where

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    What’s Wrong with Fifty Shades? Throughout history, novelists have been writing about romance, from William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” to Margaret Mitchells “Gone with the Wind”. Readers can find a romance novel about any type of love they can possibly imagine. From the perfect romance where a prince sweeps you off your feet or a rough around the edges cowboy that is stubborn but you know he means well. Romance novels are over the top, feel good books, but just recently a new novel came out

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    educated; she was able to learn a few languages such as greek, latin, hungarian, and German. Although she was highly educated, she was also taught false acts by her uncles and aunts. Her uncle taught her acts of satanism and her aunt taught her about sadomasochism, which is giving or receiving pleasure from acts involving infliction of pain. This possibly caused her problems

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    Over the course of decades, thousands of catholic priests and bishops sexually abused thousands of children. The Catholic Church attempted to cover up these incidents by re-positioning church leaders and has spent nearly 4 billion dollars over 65 years to redeem the church's name. For years the catholic church was aware of priests sexualy abusing young, innocent children, and instead of bringing the situation to awareness they shuffled these priests around to keep the good name of the church intact

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    The pornification (or alternatively pornographication) of the social world has created lasting effects in the lives of people that they must deal with every day (Dines 1998, p. 164). Pornification is the process by which the social and cultural world is sexualised. This occurs through the expansion of media technology and the pornography industry, as well as changes in media regulations and restrictions which allow pornographic imagery to intrude into public spaces (Tyler 2011, p. 79). This essay

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    Madonna Research Paper

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    For many, Madonna was the icon of a generation, the woman who changed pop music forever and who demonstrated that women artists do not need to conform to societally determined gender roles. She showed that women could be anything they want, in the process influencing future musicians for decades to come. Although Madonna was born into a religious, Catholic family, it would be only a few years before Madonna would explicitly act against her family’s Catholic beliefs, by using the Church as a centerpiece

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    This statement is very impactful in how he uses the example of painting the American flag, it’s not possible without the color red and for artists to not be able to write songs using their past experiences that isn’t quite possible either. Another limitation of music censorship is that lyrics are poetry and are filled with double meanings so what may be obscene to one person may be perfectly acceptable to another. John Denver testified at the 1985 hearing of the PMRC stating that his song “Rocky

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    The fight for women’s rights in America has been a long one, spanning many generations. It has been a little less than a century since women saw their first significant victory in the 19th Amendment, which acknowledged women’s the right to vote. Of course, women forged on, calling for more recognition and equality in the workplace, the classroom, and the church. Among them stood leading women like Mary Daly, who “trenchantly and thoroughly assailed the deification of maleness in the church” (West

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    In time, thing the spotlight for a temporary amount of time. Whatever it is, it usually will be unpopular, but in time will become popular again. Vampires have always been one of those things along with zombies. Zombies are something that many people believe that can become real one day, but when it comes to vampires they are just fantasy. People have lost history. In many different cultures’ history, vampires were thought of as possible creatures. There were even humans that believe they had become

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    characters Bella Swan and Edward Cullen under “Snowqueen Icedragon”, an international name, she wrote her own narrative of the 2008 motion picture. Titled Masters of the Universe, Leonard’s version went viral. Submission, bondage, and imagery of sadomasochism were the explicit work of Leonard 's which set her work

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