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    happen is preposterous...it’s misguided on every level. Kids will always be interested in all of these things and the only way to make sure they don’t damage themselves is to make sure they’re more informed‚ not less informed.” (“Authors discuss censorship for banned…” 0:40). Through his statement‚ Pavone demonstrates how children are better educated to make choices which are learnt through reading books. This is because children can learn from the mistakes of characters through prompts of the books

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    Fahrenheit 451: Happiness? Fahrenheit 451 is a novel of little happiness. Society as a whole has become content with watching television and wasting away their lives‚ while a few individuals ponder the true meaning of life and happiness. Bradbury throughout the book depicts what our world could become‚ and almost sends a warning to the reader on how to avoid this unfriendly fate. The society that is portrayed during this novel is neither happy nor sad. The citizens are glued to their "walls"

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    Censorship Censorship is an act of changing or suppressing speech or writing that is considered subversive of the common good. In the First Amendment is says we have freedom of speech. But in 1983‚ this amendment was thought to be violated by the principle of Hazelwood East High School for deleting 2 articles from the school newspaper. I think we should have freedom of speech to express are views. In an Article by Jerry Carroll “High school papers grow up” he states‚ how the principle

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    Freedom of Speech With varying opinions and beliefs‚ our society needs to have unlimited freedom to speak about any and everything that concerns us in order to continually improve our society. Those free speech variables would be speech that creates a positive‚ and not negative‚ scenario in both long-terms and short-terms. Dictionary.com defines Freedom of Speech as‚ “the right of people to express their opinions publicly without governmental interference‚ subject to the laws against libel

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    of all‚ let me define the word censor‚ according to Merriam Webster (2014)‚ " a person who examines books‚ movies‚ letters‚ etc.‚ and removes things that are considered to be offensive‚ immoral‚ harmful to society‚ etc". In addition‚ the role of censorship is to block certain materials that the government disagrees with for religious‚ violent and sexual reasons. There are some people who disagree with the idea that the films should be censored‚ they feel they have the freedom

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    everything. They wanted to make sure nothing inappropriate existed within the movies. The Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA) was established in 1922 by major Hollywood production studios in response to increasing government censorship of films… This MPPDA is popularly called the Hays Office because William H. Hays was the first director (Britannica). “Hays served as a U.S. postmaster general and later gave up his political

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    Having regarded itself as a heated topic of debate‚ the censorship of art brings to question whether or not works of art‚ in any form‚ should be on display due to their content. Because the exposure of sexuality and even religion though uncensored art enables most children‚ to establish their own thoughts‚ desires‚ and ideas‚ many believe that art should not be censored. Though art is well-established as a form of free expression‚ it is these unbounded expressions that have the potential to offend

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    wants its citizens to do. The government starts massive book burning so that it’s citizens will only know and believe what they want them to believe. This is depriving the people of their freedom. Montag ends up creating this big plan to overthrow censorship. With the help of Faber‚ he wants to start publishing books again. He does not want the past to go away‚ he does not want the government to control their opinions and thoughts. He ends up being a fugitive from the law and falling victim to the government

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    Callia Kroll Mrs. Rush English 9 Honors 15 November 2012 Research Paper Censorship is diverse for many people. Censorship is a big problem and is known all over the whole world. It all starts with people over the whole world and it hurts people‚ kids‚ and students. Cather in the Rye opened me up to censorship and I think it’s not fair and it should not be allowed. Censorship can be defined as the suppression of speech or other public communication which may be considered

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    Free Speech‚ Spamming and Censorship Spamming Censorship The practice of indiscriminately broadcasting messages over the Internet Electronic Mailbox Protection Act requires those sending spam to indicate the name of the sender prominently and include valid routing information. Comprises 25% to 50% of all emails Done via credit – debit cards details ‚ telephone calls ‚ emails ‚ SMS Solutions :Junk Mail filters ‚ Automatic Junk mail deleters ‚ URL blockers‚ Anti Spam legislation

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