Although we have the freedom to make choices on a daily basis, I don't think people realize how much the media influences those choices. Can we really call it a "personal freedom" when so many of our choices are based on what we see on tv or the internet? This article touches on how the media, from commercials to porn, influence the decisions we make day to day. We can learn a lot from what we see, hear or read from the media but when is it too much?
Article concerning the rights of parents to have influence over their children's moral and religious upbringing. The issue specifically covered is a parents right to restrict a child's participation in school activities based on freedom of religious practice.
This is an argument that my partner and I are constantly having, whether or not a parent should apply heavy influence to their child's moral and religious beliefs. I have always felt that a child should be able to be exposed to as many religions as possible, but he feels as though his beliefs should be pressed upon our child. It's a good debate.
The US military is developing software that will let it secretly manipulate social media sites by using fake online personas to influence internet conversations and spread pro-American propaganda.
A Californian corporation has been awarded a contract with United States Central Command (Centcom), which oversees US armed operations in the Middle East and Central Asia, to develop what is described as an "online persona management service" that will allow one US serviceman or woman to control up to 10 separate identities based all over the world.
The project has been likened by web experts to China's attempts to control and restrict free speech on the internet. Critics are likely to complain that it will allow the US military to create a false consensus in online conversations, crowd out unwelcome opinions and smother commentaries or reports that do not correspond with its own objectives
Online exhibition of religious peoples and how they influnced government and its policies. It talks about people of all faiths who were divided on the amount of influence that religion would have on government.
DNews.com, writer Scott Sonner states that the forest Service needs to change how it does business with the outside interst groups. The influence of the special interest groups is in violation of law, favoring one group over another and the influence of these groups is having an impace of the national forest.
Great! I feel as if dress code policy for teachers is too lax. I know some girls who wear flip flops to class! Being professional goes a long way, especially when influencing the nation's youth.
This is explaining that children of LGBT parents don't have any kind of influence on being bisexual or not. It also explains how children should handle questions when they are asked how they are being raised
The values and opintions of the public are being heard because of the bublic's understanding of the process deeded to form and evolve rules and regulation for the forest protection and management. The values of the special interest groups are not the same and the interest of the public with goods and serviced that are provided by forestland.
There is a union called UNOS and it is actively functioning on the state level and health community (hospitals and stuff). They hold exhibits and fairs and expos to influence thousands of individuals. Their staff and volunteer personal inform people by having speeches and handing out brochures.
This study details the Medically Assisted Procreation regulations in thirty-five nation-states, and explores the influence of national identity, social cultural and demographic differences on these regulations. Detailed data were gathered from ministries of health, offices of prime ministers, embassy staff, and others on regulations for each nation.
This site gives many various models on how firearms have influenced violence. There are other models including gun ownership being compared to crime. Has specifics.