William Hearst and American media history
Shortly after being expelled from Harvard, William Hearst acquired his first newspaper, the San Francisco Examiner, from his father. In 1895, eight years later, Hearst purchased the New York Morning Journal and entered…
Research Paper
High School
Censorship: Is it Ever Permissible to Restrain
This paper focuses on censorship. It begins with an exploration of the First Amendment and what type of speech gets First Amendment protection. Next, it discusses the difference between state action and private action. Then, it talks about speech regulations in other countries, focusing on hate speech restrictions in Germany. Finally, it considers the multi-national environment of the internet and the inevitable conflict between these different laws.
Racism and Nationalism After 9-11
More than a decade after 9/11, a retrospective view of racism and nationalism in America might points to a reverse J-curve—at least in the private realm of most people living in the USA. Governmental and political reactions may still run at fevered pace, and some would say the devastation has been insidious, seeping far beyond the bounds of the attack zones. "Ten years has given us time to see the tidal waves of post-9/11 changes in our society and our world. For all the tragedy of 9/11 with the thousands killed on that day, the after-effects are far more troubling" (Rashid, 2011, 754.) Conventional wisdom has it that racism and nationalism are flip sides of the same coin. If this tack is taken, the simultaneous rise in nationalism and racism following 9/11 makes sense—so too, does the rise of patriotism. Though reactions varied widely, overall, Americans exhibited heightened expressions of national solidarity and racism directed at those who resembled—or could be mistaken for—radical Islamists. The brand of racism that arose after 9/11 can fairly be termed Islamophobia.
Research Paper
Undergraduate
Student freedoms and their institutional contexts
The essay argeus that search and seizure of student and faculty member possession should be scrupulously directed by the Fourth Amendment and the Fifth Amendment and that searches conducted on students should be implemented with the same dignity and in the same manner as they are conducted on faculty members. Research shows that schools are becoming increasingly restrictive in their investigation and that they, frequently, fail to protect even the basic Fourth Amendment privacy rights of the students (Berger, 2003)