I believe that there are reasons for the decisions made in the case of “Controversy over a concert”. To get to point, it is not fair to restrict reporters or any other employees in the media from attending events that may have a political purpose. Employees in the media may be fans of bands and others forms of entertainment, but are unable to be a part of the event due to being part of the media. A reason for this restriction may be to avoid bias and other publicity scandals, but it does not make it right for the employees. In some cases, certain employees may be allowed to attend these event, but with alternative motives. Some media outlets may use these events to “expose” certain people, or bring hidden facts to the light. A single question
Grade B+ Evaluation Essay Ruff Ryders and Cash Money Millionaires This concert was held on Thursday March 2, 2000. Some of the hottest rap and r&b artists included in this mix were DMX, Juvenile, Ruff Ryders, Drag On, Hot Boyz, Eve, The Lox, Lil Wayne, Big Tymers, and B.G. It was hosted at the Marine Midland Arena in Downtown Buffalo.
In the landmark case Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (1969), John Tinker and his siblings decided to openly protest the Vietnam War by wearing black armbands to school (Goldman 1). The school felt that their efforts to protest the war disrupted the school environment. “The Supreme Court said that ‘in our system, undifferentiated fear or apprehension of disturbance is not enough to overcome the right to freedom of expression.’ School officials cannot silence student speech simply because they dislike it or it is controversial or unpopular” (FAQs 2). What about theatrical performance? Should certain plays not be performed at school because of inflammatory content? Theatrical performance plays a significant role during various years of a child’s youth, but, alone, has one central aim that allows for tolerance and multifariousness within the “salad bowl” United States. High school theatre arts curriculum’s purpose is to develop appreciation of the doctrines, perspectives, principles, and consciousness of diversified individuals in distinctive epochs throughout history as conveyed through literary works and theatre. If theatre has this sort of impact, why does the school administration, teachers, parents, even the state government, infringe upon the student body’s First Amendment rights? Schools should make no policy that would chastise a student for speaking their mind or expressing oneself, unless the process by which they are expressing themselves meddles with the educational methods and the claims of others. If a student threatens another student under “the right” of being able to speak freely, one would hope a school would take immediate action before potential harm occurs. The First Amendment clearly states that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.” In reference to students and a school environment, the definition of freedom of speech and expression becomes very unclear as to what they can and cannot say.
This can be explained through a variety of reasons such as bad publicity, high imprisoning rates and criminalization of protesters, propaganda demonizing protesters and glorifying the 'victims' of the protests, and so on. The explanation of why there has been so much of a stigma placed on protesting is important, but not the topic of the documentary. The documentary can be seen as more of a solution to the problem. Pete Seeger held political festivals, and musical rallies, and brought media attention to social problems, which in turn encouraged people to become involved and be politically active in their community and to fight for social change. Political expression and revolution via music makes it harder to stigmatize a social revolution or protest. If your protest consists of people coming together and singing topical songs and collectively opposing something your movement is much harder to stigmatize than a movement whose rallies consist of marching on the streets yelling your ideals and demanding justice. Pete Seeger created festivals in the name of political revolution while activists in contemporary society create Facebook groups that turn into events and protests there is a much more negative tone. Another advantage of musical protest is the legal standing of it. It is much harder to find reasons to arrest someone for attending a music festival than it is to arrest someone protesting, holding picket signs and disturbing the peace and vandalizing government property with sidewalk chalk (this is in reference to the occupy Orlando movement where protesters were arrested for drawing on the sidewalk with sidewalk chalk). Another advantage of musical based protest is that with media attention it is easy to demonize protesters holding picket signs than it is to demonize protesters attending a music festival.
There were many ethical dilemmas in “The Band Played On”, many of which had to do with money. One of these ethical dilemmas was connected to the owners of the blood banks. They didn’t want to test all their blood for HIV/AIDS because it would cost a lot. Dr. Don Francis then stated “How many people have to die to make it cost efficient for you people to do something about it.” This also came up when the characters started talking about when doctors become businessmen. In the beginning of the movie, a French doctor was threatened to stop treating HIV/AIDS patients because it was scaring other “customers” away. Although not stated in the movie, I also believe that the situation President Reagan was in was an ethical dilemma. If Reagan actually did help fund AIDS research in his first term, his party would see him negatively because he was helping the gay community, which was not something his party supported. If he did this, he would be seen as a hypocrite and probably wouldn’t have been re elected.
One common ground all parties involved, and all Americans, share is the First Amendment. Under the First Amendment Yiannopolous is entitled to speak his mind, those who attended the event to peaceably assemble and the Black Lives Matter protesters are allowed to assemble and protest, peacefully. However their demonstration was anything but. And DePaul being a private university is not obligated honor the First Amendment. This incident is in some ways analogous to an event Stuart Taylor Jr. recounts in his essay “How Campus Censors Squelch Freedom of
The Woodstock Music Festival was a music event in Bethel, New York that changed the way people live. During August of 1969, many large crowds of American music lovers all came together to listen to the music of their favorite musicians for this huge music event. Woodstock swept the nation with not only talented musicians, but also many new thoughts and opinions on the world. This popular concert event introduced the ideas of peace, unity, kindness, and togetherness. The Woodstock Festival made a major impact on the United States. It helped people overcome prejudices, informed people about the danger of drugs, led to safer and better prepared concerts, and started a chain of music events all around the world. On August 15 through 18 of 1969
The mass media has been involved has been involved in the many so-called problems that music causes in society today. The attempted censorship of music is not just because people need a cause to fight. In today's society there are many problems that experts feel are directly related to music. Some of these problems are suicide, murder and sexual assault. Many people argue that it is not only music made for entertainment purposes. Many parents and experts argue that rappers and musicians use vulgar, profane, sexually explicit lyrics to target the teenage market because money is a major issue and this kind of media is a hot commodity. Another popular subject that has taken heat and was attempted to be censored is politically charged music. During the Vietnam War many songs blasted the government. "For what it's worth" by Buffalo Springfield is a song documenting the actions by San Francisco police taken against members of the band at a peaceful protest. This song is not the first and was definitely not the...
Music censorship has been a major problem plaguing America for over fifty years. In 1957, Elvis Pressley was only allowed to be filmed from the waist up on the Ed Sullivan show (Nuzum 1). Plenty of controversy has taken places between then and now, but more recently it has become much more prominent in the media, and people and organizations are beginning to actually take a stand. For example, Island Records (owned by Disney) dropped the Insane Clown Posse just after their release of The Great Milenko and MTV actually refused to play Madonna's video for Justify My Love because it was considered too sexually explicit (Nuzum 1).
The specific issue are the important of how this was handle on the internet, it state that they know about the storm. However, not the severity of this storm that was approaching the fair around. there was text-message that were sent out to warn them. Here, here was no respond from any of the member over the state fair ground. This information reach him about 8:45 and they still could not cancel the concert. Now, about 8:50 the band started to warm up so the concert could start. Furthermore, by this time the Captain Weaver the state police finally persuade Hoye to cancel the concert, be for they could announce that the concert cancel it was to late. The stage collapse at 8:46, Weaver even talk with Hoye about a evacuation plan before this incident occur. Nevertheless, Hoye
Protest is not always in the form of picketing outside a private property. There can be many forms of protest. Some include picketing, rioting, mass gatherings, strikes, and petitions. The difference between this and using music as a form of protest, aside from violence, is that music can be done in a way that almost everyone can appreciate. Music does not hurt anybody. In fact, music is something that almost every human being in the world likes. The style of music changes throughout each person but the core of music is similar in everybody. Music is something that brings everybody together and using it as a way of protest, for necessary reasons, is a great idea compared to the other forms of protest such as picketing, rioting, etc.
Physical setting; built in 1932 and was originally owned by Union Pacific Railroad and later occupied by Yellow Freight Distribution, whose sign still hangs next to the female restrooms. From the exterior of the building I, noticed the long wooden open deck area that leads into the event stage area, full of neon lights. Inside the famous ice house, a big wooden square bar full of various kinds of liquor and a blue sign that read independent ice company as I passed through the two glass doors and took several steps, I noticed the ordering area for the amazing food it serves and the square style indoor full of sports memorabilia next to the booth. The long narrow hall way that lead to the boy’s restroom was full of autographed pictures from groups that had
the publicity these students get from the daily news. I understand that they are there to
Throughout their career, Coldplay have continued to develop their sound whilst staying grounded and in touch with the world around them. Over almost the past two decades Coldplay has been taking the world by storm with their music reaching all corners of the world, Coldplay have a very diverse range of fans and followers aiding in their ever-increasing involvement in issues affecting a broad majority of the world. Though their journey to fame was a relatively slow burn, Coldplays flare for entertaining, passion for performance, ongoing release of music and constant charity work has kept them in the publics’ line of sight for over 18 years. Coldplay have been nominated for and won a multitude of awards during their career and have been and still
“Look to these fields and you’ll see then thousand little fires burning through the alfalfa. Fires burning in the hearts and minds coming together. The children of the stars come here to drink from the wisdom that grows here, grows from the gathering of souls.” -Terry Maness
Days after the concert was over, new about the concert hit mainstream media hard. It was on the radio, in the paper, on television. Everyone around the globe was hearing about the concert and its efforts. One of the main focuses of the media on this concert was how peaceful it had been. A lot of concerts have violence due to drug and or alcohol use. When you combine that with political differences and possible arrogance, trouble is easily foreseen. To everyone’s surprise the Concert for Bangladesh was very peaceful. There had been on issue, a group of people who did not have tickets, charged the fences and broke them down. Ironically Harrison and Shankar did not allow any police to work their show. So, when the people tore down the fence and it was handled peacefully, this was shocking to the world. Farida Majid, a historian for Bangladesh had mentioned that the concert was so warm felt, that the issues in Bangladesh echoed around the world. Everyone knew about Bangladesh and the ones who knew already knew, now had a deeper understanding. Due to the awareness that the concert had brought to the world, it then led to people volunteering to help the effort. It had also led to multiple private donations around the world. Something else that had happened after the concert is, the creation of the live album of the concert. The album was created and sold multiple copies world-wide and a piece of the profit was donated to the effort. Another thing that had been made was a film about the concert and live video feed. Again, like the album, many of these were sold and a piece of the profit was donated to the effort. What had started out as just a conversation between two friends had ended up becoming a world-wide effort to support the refuges of Bangladesh. The aftermath was not something that anyone could have ever