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It is February 14, 2018. At Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, three thousand students trudge into the building. They believe it will be just like any other day. It isn’t. At 2:19 p.m., Nikolas Cruz, carrying a rifle case, is dropped off by an Uber driver in front of the school. At 2:22 p.m., gunshots are fired. The Marjory Stoneman Douglas shooting, better known as the Parkland massacre, becomes the deadliest high school shooting in United States history. In the...
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Free speech on college campuses has been a problem that varies around the United States. The problem with the excluding of free speech on campus has resulted in protests, students having to transfer to different colleges, teachers losing their job, and censorship of T-shirts and newspapers. America’s premier editorial cartoonist, Michael Ramirez, effectively uses pathos and ethos to discuss the challenges of free speech on college campuses. Additionally, Michael Ramirez appeals to pathos in his cartoon by graphically showing a...
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The notion that communication and expression through various media, including written and electronic media, especially published information, should be recognized a right to be freely exercised is known as freedom of the press or freedom of the media. The freedom of the press refers to the ability to criticize the government in the absence of fear of obstruction or punishment from the government, either before or after publication. In the United States, the terms 'freedom of the press', 'freedom of...
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Here in Sri Lanka, the response to recent communal riots was to temporarily ban social media. An extra-ordinary move indeed. We should ask ourselves whether it was Facebook that caused the riots in 1915, the 1970s, the 1980s. Or is it a convenient excuse to stifle criticism of the Government’s handling of the crisis and to ignore the root causes of these issues? The question of hate speech legislation has been revived in Sri Lanka following recent communal tensions in...
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