Wednesday, February 29, 2012

What is Censorship? Citation

Censorship is the usage of words, images, or ideas that are intended to be and are offensive. Peopleuse this technique to pressure their personal view on politics and their values on other people by making the other options look bad with a play of words. Censorship is not just used by the government it can be used by everyday citizens as well. It is just more likely that government officials would use it over the common citizen. But note that the technique when used by the government is consider as unconstitutional. But it is not by the citizens. If citizens in a city deside to boycott a business or organization due to disagreement in beliefs he or she or as a group are protected by the First Amendment. So the first amendment and censorship go hand in hand. The first amendment protects citizens to use the technique censorship and it is simply consider freedom of speech and beliefs.

Citation:

"What is Censorship?" American Civil Liberties Union. ACLU, 30 Aug. 2006. Web. 25 Feb. 2012. 
     <http://www.aclu.org/free-speech/what-censorship>. 

Thursday, February 23, 2012

First Amendment

The 1st Amendment was ratified in 1791 in the month of December. It contains the first 45 words of the Bill of Rights. The 1st Amendment protects the rights of citizens; freedoms of religion, speech, press, assembly and petition are included. This amendment grants citizens the right to freely express themselves in this nation. This amendment states that Congress shall not make laws that interfere with this amendment. Citation Ken, Paulson. "The First Amendment." *1forall.us*. 1ForAll, n.d. Web. 21 Feb 2012. .

Monday, February 20, 2012

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Monday, February 13, 2012

The Freedom Writers Diary

Four sites that have appeared to be quit useful for my research on my book are:

1)http://www.freedomwritersfoundation.org/atf/cf/
This site helped me learn more about the work that the freemdom writers did. It was created by the freedom writers and their teacher, Ms. Gruwell.

2)http://www.enotes.com/the-freedom-writers-diary
This site is help've with note taking on my book. It gives mor einsite of the freedom writers diary. It also gives me choices on what i should read next or look into reading.

3)http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-the-freedom-writers-diary/
This site gives good ways on how i should study my book. It was created by teachers or a group of educators.

4)http://bibliobiography.blogspot.com/2007/05/freedom-writers-diary-book-review.html
This site gives a great review of my book. It also show stories similar to the ones in the diary enteries .