Censorship Essay - Dont Censor Child Pornography -- Argumentative Per

Dont Censor Child Pornography In November of 1997 a Williamson County, Tenn. grand jury indicted Barnes & Noble booksellers for violating state obscenity laws prohibiting the display of material noxious to minors. The materials in question were two books that featured photographs of nude children Jock Sturges Radiant Identities and David Hamiltons The Age of Innocence. Since then, Radical Right activist Randall Terry has launched a rouse aimed at forcing bookstores to remove the criminal garbage of Sturges, Hamilton and (recently added to his list of demons) Sally Mann from their bookshelves (bookweb). To implement his program Terry issued a call to Right sympathizers, urging them to march into bookstores and pull in offensive pages from the targeted books. Several bookstores around the country fell prey to Terrys vandals. In response to these incidents and the threat of future public vandalism, Barnes & Noble recently issued a memoranda to each of its 1000+ stores directing the m to place the contested materials under lock and key, and to allow customers to view them only in the presence of a store film director (apocalypse 9709). This response is upsetting. It is upsetting because it means that, in several significant ways, Terry has won. True, no one (as of yet) has put Sturges or the others in jail (as Terry has called for), and the publics right to view the supposed pornographic content of their work has been significantly diminished by Barnes & Nobles action. By ac go to bedledging the threat of Terry and his small group of supporters, B&N has reified their claim that the work of the named photographers needs to be segregated from the decent publics reach. It installs a technology of surveillance that in... ...ms to me that it would be rather unlikely for a unsalted child to stumble onto the work of a contemporary professional photographer. S/he would have to know something about that photographer, know what his or her work is about, and know how to get to it. This means that, in the case of these photographers, the child would have to know something about nudity, art and photography to want to seek them out. If s/he already knows something about these subjects, then what harm is viewing nude bodies going to have? Works Cited Foucault, Michel, History of Sexuality, Vol I An Introduction, New York Pantheon, 1978. www.bookweb.org/news/btw/905.html http//apocalypse.berkshire.net/ifas/fw/9709/terry.html http//apocalypse.berkshire.net/ifas/fw/9509/terry.html www.villagevoice.com/pride/10goldstein.shtml

The Wedding Planner Essay -- Literary Analysis

Chaucers tale of courtly love may confuse been written in the fourteenth century, but the growth of love that occurs in the story is still a concept that force out be seen in the twenty-first century. The script for The Wedding Planner, a 2001 romantic comedy, contains the following lines, said by father to daughter about the development of love in his arranged spousals I appreciated her. Then the appreciation grew to respect. Respect grew to like. Then like grew to love. While Troilus fell head-over-heels in love with Criseyde, his beloved needed some while and persuasion to warm up to his affection. The processing of his wooing, her dancing around the potential for a relationship, and each of them coming to terms with his or her own feelings is exemplary of the go from complete strangers to lovers in heavens grace. For Criseyde, appreciation really did grow to respect and then to like and, finally, to love.The full impact of the emotion that the lovers share is matt-up in Book III. By that point, Troilus has successfully wooed his sweetheart, and she has realized, wisely according to Chaucer, that though he was not self-confident or tough,/ Nor tried to fool her with some handsome address, she loved him (Book III, stanza 13). Troilus spent two books playing a game with Criseyde and her uncle, Pandarus. He has written her letters and showed off in armor and paraded like a peacock all while being terrified that he was going to be unsuccessful in gaining Criseydes attention. In Book I, the reader is granted an appreciation into Troilus later fear of rejection, an insight that Criseyde is never privy to. Troilus has never been in love. In fact, he has scorned love, denied its worth in front of all his soldiers. When a man under his ... ...ore afraid and Troilus seems inspired (Book III, stanza 69). This is the true manifestation of courtly love the man, the lover, motivated by a beloved, doting cleaning woman. On this journey from uncertainty to trust and from cynicism to confidence, both Troilus and Criseyde reach an ultimate bliss in one another. For a man who did not believe in love and for a woman who did not need a man, the journey was challenging and filled with resistance. The remarkable aspect of courtly love is that it defies expectations. With proper, unrelenting, and sincere wooing, as Troilus demonstrates, a champion can be won. Criseyde grew to love and lean on Troilus, and Troilus grew to believe in love. And all it took was 127 pages and two books to get there. Chaucer never said the journey would be short or easy just that it would bring them to the heaven of grace (Book I, stanza 6).