Morse vs. Frederick The school suspended Frederick for ten days because he held a banner that read “Bong Hits for Jesus.” He is suing the school under 42 U.S.C. 1983‚ with a violation of his first amendment rights. Did the school error when they took away Joseph Frederick’s banner and suspended him? The District Court held that the student was in the wrong‚ which was proven. They also decided that the school had the right to punish him for his message. Although it was not known if Frederick’s
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The Supreme Court struck the delicate balance between maintaining an ordered school environment and inculcating First Amendment values within students in four cases‚ which together defined the boundaries of student-expression rights. The first of these cases‚ Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District has been called the “magna carta of student’s expression rights.” The events in Tinker occurred in 1965 during the controversy of the Vietnam War. In Des Moines‚ Iowa‚ a group
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Identifying Dependent and Independent Variables Instructions: For each of the following research designs‚ identify the dependent and independent variables. 1. To investigate the effects of exercise on mathematical problem-solving ability‚ a researcher assigned subjects to one of two groups. One group did 50 jumping jacks and the other group did 200. After exercising‚ both groups did a set of math problems. 2. A researcher hypothesized that talking to plants enhances their growth. To test her hypothesis
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Tinker v. Des Moines School District Warren Court‚ 393 U.S. 503 (1969) FACTS John Tinker was 15 years old who grew up with his sister Mary Beth Tinker‚ 13 years old‚ and brother Christopher Echardt‚ 16. They decided to follow their parents who were protesting the Vietnam War by wearing black armbands to their Des Moines schools during the holiday season of Christmas and New Years. Once the word was out about the protests‚ the principals of the Des Moines school district decided that all students
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and was a dispute about wearing armbands to school for a protest against the Vietnam war. The principals did not like the idea of the protest and decided to shut it down by banning all armbands. The students weren’t going to go down without a fight and wore them anyway. This case all started with a meeting at Christopher Echardt’s house to do a silent protest of the Vietnam war. The “Tinker kids” decided the wear two-inch-wide black armbands to school for the protest. Before the students could wear
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Independent women in the media Movies Fatal Attraction (1987) and Devil Wears Prada (2006) are two classical movies that talks about the story of independent women who is in the working force. Even though these movies are released almost 20 years apart‚ they share a lot of similarities with how independent women are being portrayed in the media. Fatal Attraction was released in the 1980s when the third wave feminism movement began. It became an instant classic in the 80s and was nominated
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The pages‚ quite frankly‚ are not pretty. The concept of the independent notebook may be romantic‚ but the content itself lacks conventional aesthetic and beauty. There are countless erase marks‚ scribbles‚ mistakes‚ and errors. Most sketches in the notebook are not attractive‚ but instead fall short in their goal
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speech‚ press‚ petition‚ and assembly; this is usually grouped in Freedom of Expression. The big question is‚ does the First Amendment apply to school-sponsored student publications? This issue was decided in 1988 Supreme Court Case Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier‚ which ruled in favor of the School District‚ stating that school officials can censor school-sponsored student publications when they have legitimate educational concerns (Hazelwood‚ 2006). This does limit the rights of students however;
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father while the wives were seen as the property of their husband. It was irrational for a woman to try to be independent‚ although some did pay the effort to be but end up being a heretic. In Shakespeare’s play “The Tempest”‚ the only female character Miranda‚ appears to be a dependent woman figure because of her interactions with other male characters. Miranda from “The Tempest” is not independent because every decisions she makes are all controlled by her father. She is in the island since she is at
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Facts: Dwight Lopez and eight other students were suspended for 10 days from different public schools in Columbus‚ Ohio. The eight students were suspended due to alleged accusations of misconduct at school. The law of Ohio says that individual that are ages six through twenty-one are allowed to have a free education. This same law has a code 3313.66 that states that administrators of Ohio public schools can suspend students for misbehaving for up to ten consecutive days. However‚ the same code also
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