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September 5, 2012
Michelle Obama DNC Speech
Michelle's speech was a lot about family, mostly her family,
but there were a few times where Barrack was brought up like a subliminal
message. Near the beginning of the speech, he popped up a few times, but it was
for a few seconds only. It felt like she was promoting Barrack, but while
surrounding those moments with the big picture of family and love. It was a
nice speech and she did a pretty phenomenal job of promoting Barrack. It just
seemed strange to me that he was being promoted in that way. I don't know if it
was just me or she was using Barrack in a subliminal message to pop the idea
into our head.
September 8, 2012
Barrack Obama DNC Speech
President Obama brought up his reform ideas for the education
system, but didn't elaborate on most of the specific details involved in the
plans. He did not go into depth about the student loan reform and how he was
supposedly going to be making student loans more affordable and easily
obtainable. He was able to prove a lot of his points very well with the use of
rhetoric. When he spoke about general issues with the country, he used rhetoric
to provide the audience with pride and comfort. He touches on very different
issues in some cases than Mitt Romney. Obama brought up student loan reforms
while Romney spoke about jobs and taxes mostly. I feel like Obama brought more
to the table because he included tax and job reform as well as student loan
reforms. Overall, Obama had a better speech than Romney in the sense that he
provided the audience with more comfort and that he brought up more issues than
Romney.
September 12, 2012
Prompt: “The government should have the right to investigate
to the fullest extent any suspicious person and their activities.”
The government should have absolutely no right to investigate
any “suspicious” person to any extent without reasonable suspicion. The Patriot
act has pursued possible terrorists based more on racial profiling and vague
suspicions. One example is in the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) files
first challenge to the Patriot Act. Mary Lieberman, executive director of
Bridge Refugee and Sponsorship Services, was approached twice by FBI agents
seeking information on Iraqi refugees. These Iraqi refugees fled Iraq during
Saddam Hussein’s reign over Iraq, but they shouldn’t be profiled as terrorists
solely based on the fact that they are Muslim and Arab. It’s violating the First Amendment in the
sense that a lot of Arabs were also being profiled for their religious
affiliations.
Arabs were not the only ones being investigated. People of
all ethnic groups and affiliations were investigated without even knowing half
of the time. When the Patriot Act started, a lot of citizens did not know that
they were being spied on and it was a huge violation of the Fourth Amendment
which states that, “No man shall be subjected to unlawful search and seizure.”
In the ACLU files, it is clearly stated that, “Ordinary Americans should not
have to worry that the FBI is rifling through their medical records, seizing
their personal papers, or forcing charities and advocacy groups to divulge
membership lists.” Americans should not have to worry about these things
day-by-day.
September 17, 2012
I agree with this statement to the extent that students’
rights are somewhat removed from the picture as in most cases today. There’s a
difference between balance and complete obedience. I’m not saying be a rebel,
but there are times where students deserve rights. Everybody has their rights and
usually, those rights are respected. Why is it that children and students can’t
have their own rights and have them respected? Why should children and students
deserve less respect than adults? School is more of an obligation than a
privilege in some cases, but when people are in school, they should have all of
their rights while respecting others’. This statement undermines those rights
in the sense that it’s providing an alternate reason that is supposedly helping
the students.
There are a few reasons why this may be true. One of them is
how students may tend to abuse their rights while ignoring others’. For
example, there needs to be some way to prevent students from disrespecting the
teachers. By taking away some of their free speech while in class, there is a
little more order. There are a few reasons why this may not be true. One of
those reasons is that you are taking away rights to free speech and possibly
other things. This is something that the forefathers thought wouldn’t happen
after they wrote the Bill of Rights.
September 18, 2012
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I don’t think that computers should be programmed to have
personal thought process to the point where they feel emotions. This was
interesting because I never thought of these devices in this way. I don’t think
that they should be protected by the First Amendment because these computers
and programs are programmed to speak and act in a certain way and that is the
complete opposite of what the First Amendment actually stands for.
September 21, 2012
Origin of the Video
This article explains a lot on how there was absolutely no
censorship involved with this movie and how nothing was done about this because
the director was protected under the First Amendment. From what the article
stated, no government or state power intervened or responded to this and it
came as a little bit of a surprise because usually, our government intervenes
with most national issues that might provoke potentially hostile countries or
people. The reason this didn’t happen was because it was part of free speech
and they can’t arrest him for what he said. When it came to censorship of this,
there was absolutely none. I thought that the FCC was supposed to keep an eye
out for these things. It’s ridiculous that they would miss this and allow this
to play in theaters. Youtube should have blocked this video because I have seen
a lot of videos on Youtube that are racially offensive and offensive to
religions and they’ve all been blocked from what I’ve seen. Usually, movies and
videos like this are censored or removed.
September 24, 2012
Jewish protesters vs. Nazi supporters in Skokie, Illinois
I can relate this because I am part of the Jewish culture
(not the Jewish religion) and I find this to be very offensive to the culture
itself, especially when there is a Holocaust survivor in the crowd. This case
was offensive to many Jews in a town populated with Jewish people and the
verdict in the Supreme Court was even more offensive. After the socialist party
was arrested and was tried, the group brought it to the Supreme Court and the
court found the arrest unconstitutional, therefore, allowing the party to march
downtown and have their rally. I found this to be ridiculously offensive and I
disapprove with the verdict.
September 25, 2012
I have already done a blog post on this article, but it was
really something that I wanted to present to the class. It is about the issue
of giving computers the right to protected free speech. I can relate to this
because I use technology a lot more than most people would and I have
encountered this issue myself. I think it is ridiculous to give computers
rights such as free speech, but as fast as technology is growing, it seems like
computers will have emotions and a full human-like thought process. So I stand
by idly on this issue. The issue of First Amendment rights given to computers
has never occurred to me as often as it might be brought up on the internet,
but to actually try and think of this as logical from a governmental standpoint
is a little absurd. There may be valid arguments, but I don’t think it is as
important as the people in this article make it seem.
September 26, 2012
Hazelwood vs Kuhlmeier
This case was about students’ right to free speech and
freedom of the media. The essential question was, “Were the students protected
by the First Amendment when posting it in the school newspaper?” This case is
relevant to a lot of students, including me, especially when it comes to family
problems. Students, and youth in general, should be able to express their
feelings about their families or parents and I would love to express some
problems when it comes to my family, but I’m worried that what I say might not
be thought of as fair towards my parents. I believe that the verdict was unjust
because of the clear fact that students and teenagers receive no respect from
elders especially when it comes to school and rights. Students have never had
the same rights as most of the U.S. and that is dehumanizing to us. We feel
like we’re useless because we have no rights and we get no respect. This will
always be the case in most situations involving students’ freedom of speech and
this case was a clear example of that exact point.
October 9, 2012
Is it the government's job to fix health
care? Why?
I believe that it is the government’s responsibility to fix
the health care in our country, but I feel like the health care system is being
run by the health insurance companies. I don’t know if there are still all of
those deregulations involving the corporations and economic freedoms from
2006-2008, but that might be contributing to the health care system problems
right now. Private health insurance providers charge more than Medicare for
their services, but supposedly provide better services. I think that this is
absurd and that the government should take control of this situation, as people
use private services for health insurance and they’re getting duped. Maybe the
government might be able to change this problem if they intervened.
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