burning the flag has been protected under the First Amendment. Many attempts throughout the years have been made to overrule that decision.(Garbus Martin) In 1968‚ the Federal Flag Desecration Law was enacted. It prohibited any action of “contempt” against the flag. (Flag Burning and Desecration) Many Americans sacrifice their lives to keep our American Flag flying. Although many believe burning the American Flag is okay‚ it should be illegal. Some people believe that burning the flag as protest
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Flags of Our Fathers This story is about six ordinary boys. The boys were known as heroes but that didn’t want to be called heroes. They want to be known as normal people that fought in the war. Their names were Ira Hayes‚ Franklin Sousley‚ Jack Bradley‚ Harlon Block‚ Mike Strank‚ and Rene Gagnon. These men raised the Flag on Mount Suribachi. These men are so famous they wrote a book about them and made a movie about them. The life they lived was like any other person except for the part about
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Amendment’s Free Speech Clause. Thus‚ American citizens can openly discuss political matters; criticize the President and his Cabinet on television‚ radio talk show or in the newspaper; or publicly protest against the government tax policy. However‚ Free Speech protection becomes debatable when some American citizens burn the nation’s flag to express their disagreement to the government. The act of burning the American Flag should be constitutionally protected under the First Amendment’s Free Speech Clause
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down the idea of amending the Constitution to make Hindi the official language for conducting court in higher judiciary‚ and relied upon a report by the law commission in this regard. Now the Issue that arises is that whether it is practical to use any other language as means to conduct business in higher judiciary. In a country which houses 780 language out of which 122 are officially recognised and another 100 are suspected to exist‚ Is Hindi the ideal
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were the delegates‚ of the constitution put together a plan for a stronger federal government that would not only benefit their own time‚ but also benefit the centuries to come. There is a lack of success in passing an amendment; for example‚ banning flag burning. The history of the constitution gives us an idea of why it is relatively difficult to amend the U.S. Constitution. The plan was designed to embrace a federal system of government. Checks and balances were incorporated so that they did not
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citizens of the free world. But with extreme national pride comes occasional radicalism. While this anti-American activity may take on many forms‚ flag burning infuriates other citizens unlike no other. These acts of pure hatred toward this country are controversial in terms of free speech and first amendment rights‚ which is why many Americans see fit to punish these offenders even though they are protected by the constitution. The burning of the American flag is not attributed to a certain group of
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DYNAMO THEORY Chris A. Jones Department of Applied Mathematics‚ University of Leeds‚ Leeds LS2 9JT‚ UK 1 jonesphoto.jpg Contents 1. Kinematic dynamo theory 1.1. Maxwell and Pre-Maxwell equations 1.2. Integral form of the MHD equations 1.2.1. Stokes’ theorem 1.2.2. Potential fields 1.2.3. Faraday’s law 1.3. Electromagnetic theory in a moving frame 1.4. Ohm’s law‚ induction equation and boundary conditions 1.4.1. Lorentz force 1.4.2. Induction equation 1.4.3. Boundary conditions
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Night of the Scorpion Night of the Scorpion is a poem by ‘Nissim Ezekiel’. It tells the story of a rural boy(the poet)‚whose mother was stung by a scorpion .The illiterate village folk try to curse the poison away & are blinded by their superstitions .The boy’s father is a skeptic‚ rationalist who does not share their views & tries to get his wife cured by more logical techniques(which are‚ however‚ eventually abandoned & he‚ in contrast to his character‚ ends up following a more superstitious/unproved
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Game 1: Capture the Flag Venue: Sheltered Netball Court Objective of the game: This game promotes teamwork and communication. Students will learn how to work together especially when under external pressure. Duration of the game: 5 minutes for briefing‚ 20 minutes to play the game. Number of GSMs per rotation of the game: 4 Safety Precautions: 1. Running game; may fall down especially into the drains. a. Game is not played at areas which are very close to drains b. OGMs will be told to brisk walk
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Access Provided by National University of Singapore at 11/02/11 1:28AM GMT SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia Vol. 25‚ No. 2 (2010)‚ pp. 262–80 DOI: 10.1355/sj25-2e © 2010 ISEAS ISSN 0217-9520 print / ISSN 1793-2858 electronic Research Notes and Comments Zee TV and the Creation of Hindi Media Communities in Singapore Arunajeet KAUR and Faizal YAHYA Indian communities in Singapore‚ especially of non-Tamil sub-ethnicity‚ have received renewed impetus to replenish their
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