subscribe to this page
<!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} -->
This document includes Clause 8 as it exists in the U.S. Constitution along with a discussion. It states that “Congress shall have power to promote the progress of sciences and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.” The document goes on to discuss the scope of Congress’ power as well as the power held in the courts, between which an interesting balance is formed.
This Clause and document are clearly connected to the thesis as they form and discuss the entire basis of copyright law and who has the power to enforce it. It is important to remember and realize that much power does lie in the hands of the government as opposed to the view that the power rests in the gatekeepers, copyright owners and infringers. In a sense, this document complicates my thesis in that much of my thesis is focused on the idea that most copyright law is handled below the government.
tagged congress copyright power supreme-court by rebecl ...on 25-NOV-08
The essay states, “violence is the key to the rule of power” (708) and shows how mostly men and white characters use violence to capture their dominance. The research in the essay shows that heavy television viewing results in a fear of violence along with a misjudgment of the amount of violence around us. The essay concludes by saying that violence has become the easiest way for television creators to create drama due to censorship laws.
Although this essay has nothing to do with Bonnie and Clyde, the study on the consequences of violence through 1960s television is important in understanding the films plentiful use of violence. There was no doubt that violence was prominent in the 1960s with images of the Vietnam War and civil rights movements dominating the screens of the American people. Bonnie and Clyde took advantage of the American obsession with visual violence, but did so in a way that justified and glamorized violence. Although the effects that the essay claims appear from watching excessive television, Bonnie and Clyde appealed to an audience that was already overwhelmed with violence, and was eager to welcome the camp portrayal of murder and death. And the essay’s assertion that power arises from violence, Bonnie and Clyde is the supreme example because of the overwhelming pop culture influence that the original pair and film had on the cinema as a whole as well as the public’s expectations of violence and censorship.
tagged 60s communications entertainment media power research study violence by mrsilva ...on 10-APR-08
tagged critical_infrastructure electrical_utilities power by winkler4 ...on 15-NOV-07
tagged critical_infrastructure electrical_utilities power by vtisbvg ...on 15-NOV-07
The American Mafia has most certainly declined in power and size over the past half century. Where years ago they controlled numerous rackets including prostitution, labor unions, and most importantly gambling, the mafia now holds little muscle in any of these areas. This is mainly due to three reasons, as Peter Reuter would describe; federal involvement in organized crime, ethnic change within cities, and failure to control the lucrative trade and trafficking of drugs. The last of these catalysts for downfall is clearly shown in the film The Godfather and throughout the famed trilogy.
In the movie, the boss of the Corleone family, Don Vito Corleone, holds a meeting with an up-and-coming drug lord known as The Turk. He listens to his proposition of controlling the drug trade in New York, but ultimately declines, because, as he states, “…drugs are a dirty business.” This refusal of the Turk’s deal, in the end, causes an entire war between the families, and the near killing of the Don.
It was strictly forbidden by members of La Cosa Nostra, the Sicilian-based fraternal mafia organization, to take part in drugs, but it was a market which they should have taken hold of. Drug trafficking today accounts for almost half of illegal markets in cities and throughout the country. It has become the modern version of bootleg liquor during Prohibition. The failure of Italian Mafiosi to control the drug market has had an enormous impact on the power structure of the mob. They were left helpless as numerous other ethnicities, such as the Black Mafia, Asian gangs, and the Russian mob took control of this highly profitable racket. As the character Tom Hagen stated ever so prudently in the film, “drugs are the future, and if we don’t get into it now…it will hurt us, maybe not now, but ten years from now.”
tagged decline mafia power by pra ...on 07-APR-06
tagged communication conversation feminism gender grammar linguistics postmodernism power silence speech women by belfiore ...on 29-NOV-05