Freedom of thought

violated when her doctor forces her to have the transfusion, against her wishes. By doing so it breaches her right to equality, her fundamental freedom and her legal rights. The doctors infringed her rights to equality by forcing her to have the transfusion. Her rights are restricted due to her age, and this goes against the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The doctors force her to have the transfusion as they believe that her age was not mature enough to make this decision. However, she…

Our first amendment is one of our most widely used amendments throughout the US. It includes the freedom of religion, the freedom of the press, the freedom of assembly, and last but not least, the freedom of speech. While we undoubtedly use the freedom of speech the most among the rest of the freedoms in the first amendment, we sometimes go too far using or saying what we want to. There are a lot of restrictions on the first amendment which some people find to be a good thing and some oppose the…

helping it because the purpose of the song was to raise awareness about the possibility of what had taken place that fateful day. Shutting down the voice of those singers who just wanted to draw attention to a very real problem violated their right to freedom of speech and expression, not just of their views and opinions but about a political topic that could eventually lead to progression in the United…

undergone recent changes since 2015. These changes have resulted in many legal issues that violate the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, namely, those freedoms regarding section 2(b), the freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression. This paper will discuss the background of Bill C-51, its legal issues regarding the violation of section 2(b) of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, as well as applying each issue to the Oakes Test to determine if there are any justifications to the Charter…

Books, films, news and more! So many ways to get the word out there. But if it is politically unacceptable, considered indecent, or even a threat to society it needs to be prohibited. The novel Go Ask Alice by anonymous is an intense book about a fifteen-year-old girl who gets mixed up in the wrong crowd and wants so badly to fit in she does not care that her "friends" take hardcore drugs. She even started taking them herself. This novel without a doubt needs to be banned. It is not only…

Reflection Paper #1 The text that was most impactful for me was Kellie Bancalari’s “Free speech on campus? Not for adjunct faculty, it seems,” on USA Today. Bancalari’s article talks about free speech on campus and how the one group that has to be the most careful about what they say is adjunct professors. Adjunct professors are professors that work part-time and do not have tenure nor are they on track for tenure. She wrote that if adjunct professors say anything controversial or “incendiary”…

have the opportunity to read and be exposed to a variety of writing styles and opinions. Therefore, libraries, the homes of knowledge, should not be censored. Through the first amendment, among other US legislation, Americans have garnered the freedom of speech, including libraries. Although their fundamental purpose is not to promote or spread propaganda, libraries elicit the right to house all pieces of literature, regardless…

Freedom of expression is one of the laws the forefathers of America made to empower its citizens and also enables them to live in peace thinks about the freedom of speech and also recommended some ways to support freedom of speech. The study was done almost to the time of a national election and, during the period of American history when the Country was in a war with the intention of spreading freedom of democracy. Dautrich and Bare utilizes the outcome of the research to appeal to the public…

Finn by Mark Twain. Written materials should not be censored or banned because it takes away the meaning and possible education of the reader. There has been a total of 11,300 books that have been challenged to be banned in the United States. The freedom to read is very important to some people and we shouldn't allow banning books just because some people find it offensive. The banning of books is preventing people from learning about the human nature and about how the…

In the two stories, “The seduction of Safety, on Campus and beyond” by Roxane Gay and “Silly student Protesters Have It Wrong: “Safe Space” are Incompatible with a University” by Charles C.W. Cooke are both different in values and priorities. In Gay’s articles she believes that there is a chance for people to have “safe space” where they are able to be better in their own way. In Cooke article he think the opposite that there should be no change that they need to maintain focused on the real…