... E5X-09 That Flag Should Not Be Protected The United States is known for being ‘land of the free’, a nation with a Declaration of Independence, as well, as a Constitution protecting the rights of it’s citizens. Wars have been fought and many people have died so we could have the rights that present today. The freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly, and most importantly the right to petition our government; all of which fall under the First Amendment in the Bill of Rights. Our nation’s flag is an everlasting symbol of freedom and hope that stands as a testament to our nation’s power. Most importantly our flag represents the freedom of the individual to express his ideals as they see fit. Therefore when the very essence of Americans freedom is challenged by the “flag amendment,” that would forbid the desecration of the American flag, a dilemma forms. While flag burning is highly offensive, it is none the less a means of expression and is protected by the constitution of America. Forbidding an individual from expressing themselves is the opposite of what our flag represents. By protecting the American flag under a constitutional amendment not only conflicts with the First Amendment, but opens a door for the government to take away even more of our rights. The First Amendment to the United States Constitution, states: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging...
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...In the article “Against Headphones” appearing in The New York Times on January 7, 201l, Virginia Heffernan argues her stance on headphones related to hearing loss. Virginia believes headphone use should be reduced because of the potential impacts they have on hearing. She wrote this article to inform parents what their children’s earphones could be doing to their health, stating “And protecting our kids’ hearing is not just as important as protecting their brains; it is protecting their brains.” Her use of the word “our” shows her intended audience as well as why she wrote the article. She wants to inform fellow parents of the dangers of headphones. This argument is successful because of her tailored rhetoric to her indented audience. Parents...
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...they should spend more time communicating with their children to give a better understanding of what their children are actually doing. Restrict the number of pornography websites in our country Pornography is one of the ways which lead to baby dumping. Teenagers could access to pornography in just a few clicks on the internet. The parties who are involved should ban some of the pornographic websites, so that teenagers will not be able to access to pornography. 2.2.3 Moral behavior by the parents Parents play an important role to educate their children about sexual behavior, the way to stay out of sexual relationships and how dangerous is unprotected sex. All these must be explained to the children and they will be able to do things rationally. Parents should teach them the way to prevent pregnancy and what will happen when the children have free sex. 2.2.4. Sex education in school The school should provide proper sex education to the students so that they will know how important is his or her body and relationships. The students have to know more about sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV and AIDS and how it affects human's body. The school counselor should always be ready to guide the students and lead them to the correct way. 2.2.5 Teenagers should learn self control techniques Teenagers nowadays normally will not able to think rationally because they are not mature enough to make decision. They should learn all the techniques of self-control to prevent them from having...
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...every single family on our planet. It’s not just an ordinary member, but a very important one, especially too someone who spends a lot of time using the Internet. The Internet is a very useful tool that is used for everything such as advertisement, communication, shopping, researching and also for educational purpose. On the Internet, there’re some websites that needs to be censored in order to protect our children from viewing inappropriate websites that promote drug usage, violence and pornography. Parents and school officials are the first ones who need to begin the process of censoring out those inappropriate websites. The Internet is an easy way to access all sorts of information. Because the Internet has become so popular in such a short period of time, the opportunity to censor it has passed by almost as quickly as the public discovered its usefulness to our everyday lives. The Internet has some bad source of information that’s not helpful to our kids. Parents and schools officials are the ones who should start the process of censoring those websites that our kids view each and every day of their lives. Because they are ones who know what sorts of information on the Internet that is best for our kids. So that’s why, Internet censorship should be enacted to prevent teenagers from viewing inappropriate websites that promote drug usages, violence and pornography. The first reason as to why Internet censorship should be enacted is that our teenagers use websites that promote...
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...The most explosive information about our society surfaced recently. In answering a question in Parliament, the Education Minister easily pulled statistics revealing that every year in our small population of 1.3 million, over 2,500 teenage girls become pregnant; the majority of these unfortunate girls drop out of school; by age 19, over 1,000 girls in this country already have four children; and 50 per cent of mothers in Trinidad and Tobago are single parents (Maraj 2014). Furthermore, the solutions to decrease the high levels of pregnancy among teenagers still remain a challenge for Trinidad and Tobago. As a result, it has been destroying the lives of young girls for generations and the rate of these incidents has not changed significantly for the past fifteen years. Consequently, pregnant teenagers should be allowed to continue their education because it is their right to receive an education regardless of gender, ethnic, economic, social or religious background. Teenage pregnancy has risen significantly among secondary school girls in Trinidad and Tobago and is spreading rapidly due to, lack of sex education, absence of parental guidance, as well as ill-treatment. Sex Education is the process of acquiring information and knowledge about the human sexual anatomy, sexual reproduction, sexual intercourse, and other aspects of human sexual behaviour. It helps to educate young people about preventing and protecting themselves against abuse, exploitation, unplanned pregnancies...
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...Nowadays, teenagers have changed in comparison with the teens in the past, taking into account eating habits, an active way of life, spending free time and clothes. They are a “technology” generation. For teens in todays’ world mobile phones, internet, music, movies, television and video games are very important. Most teenagers prefer watching TV and playing computer games to reading books. They don’t like reading because watching TV is easier and they don’t have to use their own imagination. Computer games teach but they are also harmful to health. Teenagers prefer to spend free time in front of a computer rather than to walk, play football or go to a swimming pool. Moreover, games transfer them into the world which doesn’t exist. It is very exciting for the youth. They meet with friends in such places as McDonalds. Teens eat there unhealthy food. They eat too much fast food. Every teenager needs a balanced diet, appropriate personal hygiene and physical activities in the fresh air, for example, playing a ball, going running, swimming, driving on the bicycle, playing in tennis or walking. This should be for them more interesting than sitting for hours in front of a computer or TV because such a mode of life leads to the improvement of mood, health and physical shape.. Young people choose less healthy kinds of entertainment than sport, putting away bicycles in the corner. They eat too much fast, unhealthy food, which is very fatty and drink too many sugary drinks. This leads...
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...computers. It seems like no-one does nothing but text, e-mail, and stay in chat rooms on MySpace, Twitter and Facebook cites. It is hardly imaginable to allow children on the computer without filters, monitors, and supervision. But when does it become a privacy issue between children and their parents? Teens are often exposed to potential privacy risks online due to marketing platforms like some of the names mentioned above. Another issue to deal with is on-line sexual predators and pedophiles that are on the loose, targeting children on the computer had and still is an issue in today’s modern society. When does it stop? Will it ever? Where are the moral values? Will parents take a stand for what is right for the children even if a teenager believes that they are being protected because they used false information in their profile? When we define the word intrusion it means: an illegal act of entering, seizing, or taking possession of another's property. I’m sorry, but as a parent I believe my children don’t own anything they don’t have the right to say I can take you to court mom for taking my computer, regardless if you earned it with allowance given by your parents. Some children seem to believe that their privacy is invaded when parents block certain websites from them or if their computer gets taken away from them even if they are on punishment. According to an on-line survey on business weeks website says: Three of four parents don't believe social networks...
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...education should be allowed to be taught in our public-school system. What is sex education you ask? Well sex education is education about sexuality, contraceptive methods, how to prevent sexually transmitted diseases, the values of protection and attitudes and principles about sex. Almost every day you hear about how the numbers of teens and preteens are having sex and the rates of teenage pregnancy is high. Can this somehow be prevented by placing sex education in our the school curriculum? There are two kinds of sex education, one being abstinence-only programs and the second one being comprehensive education. Both of these programs teach about the process of sex education which can lead to children understanding about how to make the right choices for...
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...to another person in a sexual nature; can be considered a form of expression. Most of these pictures taken are for a complete private use. As a person who was deployed I can personally say I engaged in this, but only with my wife where trust was evident and we both knew the pictures we sent would be safe. 2. What can be done to protect people from the dangers of sexting while still protecting our First Amendment rights. - Honestly some of the steps taken in the article above were completely correct. Distribution of pornography is illegal especially when underage. Also laws that protect people over 18 by charging the offender with defamation is great. Sharing these pictures while a lack of judgment is one thing, but for a 17 year old to distribute picture because of a fight is well known within in his/her mind to be wrong. Like in my first answer protecting a person character does not infringe on First amendment right to illegal distribute nude photos. 3. What key points would you make if you had to speak about sexting to a group of parents and teenagers. - Basically I would bring of the point of trust. Whether you feel you can trust that person without a single seed of doubt in your mind. One could speak about length of relationship and respectively the consequences that could happen if thing don’t go...
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...“PROTECTING WHAT’S IMPORTANT: AN HSE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM PRIMER” Abstract Introduction The term Health, Safety and Environmental Management System (HSE-MS) is a much used and indeed a much abused term in today’s oil and gas industry. We hear and see it utilized nonchalantly by HSE professionals the world over but for many people a HSE-MS is somewhat of a unicorn, a mythical beast that they have heard of in folk lore but never actually have seen living and breathing in real life. These people are often the individuals the system was designed to protect creating a serious gap in implementing the HSE-MS. Some 4 years ago the former Shell Deepwater Services (SDS) was facing the roll out of their HSE-MS and the question was asked by the Management Team how do we get our personnel to explicitly understand our HSE-MS so that we can get maximum benefit from it? The result of asking this question has been the development and introduction of a series of critically acclaimed workshops aimed at demonstrating an HSE-MS as simply as possible. “Protecting What’s Important 1” and “Protecting What’s Important 2” workshops have received considerable approval from participants for the manner in which the information is presented and for the awareness the courses bring. Description of Workshops Protecting What’s Important 1 In 2000 a team of SDS employees were organized with the goal of bridging the gap between SDS personnel and the HSE-MS. A series of development meetings...
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...Celebrities are able to enjoy a luxurious lifestyle, but fame comes at a price. Famous people are always being hounded by the paparazzi who invade their private lives in order to satisfy the curiosity of the public. Some people have called for restrictions to be put on the press, while others are against the idea. No one can forget the pain brought by knowing that our beloved Princess Diana was killed in a car accident in Paris when fleeing from paparazzi. Because of this tragedy, people began to consider whether the press has been given too much freedom. Until now, paparazzi are still invading celebrities’ private lives, even more serious than before. Therefore, some are calling for restrictions to be put on the press while some disagree. In order to reach a fair and reasonable conclusion, we must first look at pros and cons of this issue. First of all, some agree with the proposal of putting restrictions on the press because it helps to safeguard our basic human rights, one of which should be privacy. The fact is that no one has the right to exploit one’s privacy. It is even ridiculous and unfair to say that celebrities being the well-known people have to sacrifice their privacy to satisfy the curiosity of the public. We should always remember that privacy is something that every one of us could enjoy, let alone the celebrities. Moreover, these days no one can deny that animals are gaining more and more rights. Even the government has set up laws to protect them from being...
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...Information Technology Acts Paper Advances in technology made it possible to obtain almost any information needed by accessing the World Wide Web. These advances have also paved the way for predators and unwarranted solicitors to retrieve private information. Most homes are either equipped with or have access to a computer and Internet. This technology used to be reserved for the government and businesses but is readily available for the individual consumer. The advances have not only made it possible to access information at home but also encourage teenagers and younger children to participate in gathering information via the Internet. Access to the web by children led to the enactment of laws such as the Children Internet Protection Act (CIPA) and the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). These acts were implemented as a security method to aid in the protection of minors. Some websites containing nudity, online pornography, and other explicit content are banned from exploiting children. Children are viewed as easy victims to trick into providing private information or soliciting monetary compensation for obscene content. Because of this perception, additional laws are necessary to protect children when in comes to information technology. CIPA places restrictions on schools and libraries such as limiting the support of federal funding if certain requirements are not adhered. This act was signed by former President Bill Clinton in December 21, 2000. The design...
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... Now, in the beginning of the twenty-first century, goals are different, but the conflicting opinions on sexual education are still going on strong. Health promotion goals for teenagers include postponement of sexual activity until psycho social maturity and consistent use of condoms by those who do engage in sexual intercourse (Dillion 35). Most people agree with these goals to a certain degree. However, the tension arises when methods of meeting these goals are discussed. The following report explains some of the biggest issues dwelling around how the public schools should teach sexual education. The two ma! in options discussed are teaching abstinence and condom distribution. Throughout the US, school districts and states are basing their policies around these two ideas. The importance of this issue is very significant. Over last century, our statistics for teen health and sexuality problems have been getting worse and worse. The decision that we make now will decide if we: 1.educate and inspire our youth and the sexual health status of our youth improves for generations to come, 2. Overexpose the youth, and they get out of control, or 3. Suppress the youth, denying them knowledge and resources, and our situation continually worsens for the next generation of our youth (Blair 55). Our youth today face horrible odds in the area of health, and almost everyone, regardless of political positions or religious standing, agrees that the problem needs to...
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...October 10th, 2012, almost a month after she released the video, Amanda Todd was found hanged in her home. The online bullying became to be too much that she decided she was better off dead, and she is not the only one. According to stopbullying.gov, 42 percent of teenagers with technology access report being cyberbullied over the past year. Out of all teenagers cyberbullied 20 percent have seriously thought about suicide, and 1 in...
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...Whether you lean toward gun rights or gun restrictions you have some type of feelings toward gun laws and restrictions. Handguns and shotguns can be easily bought legally or illegally, so they are the weapon of choice for people who choose to use them for self-defense and protecting their homes and families. Unfortunately, they are also the weapon of choice for criminals who choose to use them for killing. Since handguns are easy for criminals to steal, handguns are readily available on the black market; this makes handguns an attractive choice for criminals. They are very cheap and untraceable when the fingerprints are wiped clean. The majority of crimes involving firearms are committed with the use of a handgun; this is a serious problem in America today. Which...
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