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    With freedom comes great responsibility. This saying has been heard by generations of kids and has been said by generations of parents. Unfortunately people today don’t seem to be responsible in certain things they do. You see things in media today that make you wonder when you draw the line on things you say and do. William Golding the author of Lord of The Flies conveys this thought in the story of the boys stuck on the island where they have complete freedom to do whatever they want to do. They

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    junior year‚ in 1997‚ the Freedom Writers all went to Washington‚ D.C.‚ where they presented their diary to the United States Secretary of Education Richard Riley. During this trip they also honored the Freedom Riders by holding a peace march and prayer vigil at the Washington Monument for victims of intolerance. The Freedom Writers Diary has photos of this‚ and I can only imagine what a touching site this must have been. In 1998‚ their senior year‚ Erin Gruwell and the Freedom Writers won the Spirit

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    persuades me not to want to live in the United States anymore. His poster depicts our freedoms being taken away from us. The “Freedom of Speech” picture persuades me not to want to protest. It conveys to me that if we go out into the streets and exercise our freedom of speech we will be gagged and hauled off to jail. The Police in the poster look menacing and colossal‚ and the protester looks small and meager. The “Freedom of Worship” poster persuades me not to tell anyone what religion I am for fear

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    On May 4‚ 1961‚ a group of African-American and white civil rights activists launched the Freedom Rides‚ a series of bus trips through the American South to protest segregation among African Americans and whites. The Freedom Riders‚ who were recruited by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)‚ a U.S. civil rights group‚ departed from Washington‚ D.C.‚ and attempted to integrate facilities at bus terminals along the way into the Deep South. But Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. discouraged their action

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    Freedom of Expression

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    FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION ‘Freedom of expression’ is an amalgamation of several concepts and rights that includes freedom of speech and choice of what a person is allowed to say‚ do‚ hear‚ feel or express. If we break down the words and analyse them from their core‚ the simple meaning according to various dictionaries of freedom is ‘the power to determine action without restraint’ or ‘exemption from external control‚ interference‚ regulation‚ etc’ this implies that freedom is liberty without constraints

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    Freedom Summer.

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    Freedom Summer was a highly publicized campaign in the Deep South to register blacks to vote during the summer of 1964. During the summer of 1964‚ thousands of civil rights activists‚ many of them white college students from the North‚ descended on Mississippi and other Southern states to try to end the long-time political disenfranchisement of African Americans in the region. Although black men had won the right to vote in 1870‚ thanks to the Fifteenth Amendment‚ for the next 100 years many were

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    Freedom oMalaysia – Assembling the Peaceful Assembly Act — Amanda Whiting APRIL 4 — The process of enacting the Peaceful Assembly Bill 2011 and the public debate and disappointment this has engendered illustrate some of the worst‚ and yet also some of the most encouraging‚ aspects of the law and legal culture in Malaysia. When Prime Minister Najib Razak announced on Malaysia Day this year his government’s plan to annul three of the four Proclamations of Emergency (those of  1966‚ 1969 and 1977)

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    hear.’ This sentence sums up the very essence of free speech; it is‚ as Orwell believed‚ the mother of all civil rights. Without the unconditional freedom to offend it cannot exist. Ideas are‚ more often than not‚ dangerous things. There is little point in having freedom of speech if it only defends the most popular and innocuous of opinions. The freedom to offend can perpetrate racial‚ social or religious intolerance; however‚ conversely‚ it is also the only means available to fight against such bigotry

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    killer whales in captivity. Although retaining these majestic creatures may provide statistics and data for scientists and present entertainment for the public‚ others have very dissimilar views on this riveting situation. Orcas have been captured and retained in captivity for over fifty years. Whether it be for entertaining the public or allowing scientific studies to be made‚ many people do not agree with this way of treatment to cetaceans. Killer whales have been withheld in captivity since 1961(WDC

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    " 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" -First Amendment‚ U.S. Constitution. According to the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution‚ one of the basic principles our country is based on is the freedom of speech. Because of this‚ as eras and ages have passed in this still young and growing country‚ this amendment has had a greater use then stated‚ as to just insure a

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