In the United States, television censorship excludes certain topics and language from airing (Pearson). Television networks have to appeal to all types of viewers with different backgrounds and beliefs in order to make profits and increase their ratings. In order to achieve this, the network has to be very careful not to offend a group of people. For example in 1959, “Playhouse 90” had to cut out all references of gas chambers from it’s episode “Judgment Nuremberg” which reenacted the Nazi trials because it may be offensive or hard to watch for some people (Lendler). Anything that may challenge the moral, political, or military views of the audience must be banned
Author of “Aids, Opium, Diamonds and Empire” to speak on the evolution of the FDA depicted in this documentary, “ Titans of industry really wanted to control the world finance system as a whole”. Null goes on to say that there were many types of medical education across the United States. When the Rockefellers took over the medical industry they closed down those schools and only promoted sales of their drugs, surgery and radiation. The Rockefellers had an alliance with I.G. Farben whom is known as the largest chemical and pharmaceutical company in the world.
The company had already gotten the other 100 families to accept the offer to buy their property. The city claimed their right of eminent domain on the remaining 15 families and ceased their properties. This action was the beginning of the court battles which eventually lead all the way up to the Supreme court hearing the case and deciding in favor of the City of New London, Connecticut. The main reason Pfizer was behind the whole issue was because “In 1998, the drug company Pfizer built a new plant in New London, Connecticut.” (Head) The pharmaceutical company thought with the additional business their plant might bring to the city that they'd be able to take the housing land and turn it into a commercial development property and sell it to other commercial developers to bring about more jobs, tax revenues, and businesses to the community in hopes of reviving the struggling city. Susette Kelo is the main proponent of the supreme court case, arguing on behalf of the home owners.
Banning political parties helped Hitler establish a dictatorship because he had no opponents and it would be easier to take total control. This happened because he passed the ‘Enabling Law’ which made it so he could do what he wanted. The banning of all other political parties made Germany a one party state; this enabled him to take control of the administrative, legal and political systems, which gave him total control. He banned the communists after the Reichstag Fire on 27th February 1933. He also banned the Social Democrat Party in June 1933, and then all other parties soon followed.
Prohibition in the 1920’s What was Prohibition Introduced? In the 1920's American politics was dominated by democracy and the idea of isolationism to keep America prosperous was incredibly apparent. However in 1919, President Wilson passed the 18th Amendment to the American Constitution prohibiting the manufacture, distribution and consumption of alcoholic drinks (any drink containing over 0.5% alcohol). Prohibition was not just a novel American idea, at the turn of the Twentieth Century, other countries were also experimenting with limiting or totally banning the production, distribution and consumption of alcoholic drinks the primary origins can be found all over the world. However, to find the origins for the American Prohibition we must look back to rural America in the Nineteenth Century.
On top of this, vertical integration put all the money and power into the hands of a few people that controlled whole industries and there was no attempt to regulate or try to monitor the system (Vries, 03 25 2003). The government needed to regulate businesses. and TR tried to fix it but was demonized and called “un-American”. He didn't want to restore competition at a lower level but wanted to show JP Morgan and Carnegie that they also had to feel democracy and follow the rules, no matter how wealthy they were they weren't an exception to equality (Vries, 03 25 2003). Roosevelt believed that the government had the right and the responsibility to regulate big business so that its actions did not
Prohibition was a national ban on the sale, production, and transportation of alcohol. Their goal was basically achieved when the 18th amendment and the Volstead act went into effect. These two things set down the rules for enforcing the ban and defined the types of alcoholic beverages that were prohibited. “Once the laws were passed they did little to help enforce them,” (“Prohibition”). Countless stores began selling liquor as a sideline to get an additional income.
All the treaty established was that the British were to remove their troops and strongholds on northern American territory, already had been stated at the convention of Paris ending the War for Independence; the Treaty gave that the English would redeem the American for any losses but did not mention whether they would seize to do so in the future and no declaration of the impressments at all; also it allowed for the right of England’s ability to place tariffs on American exports while giving them a more favorable import status in the Unites states. All Americans despised Jay after this failure of an attempt at trying to improve our relation with Great
Due to Japans global power and presence, the US did not want to harshly enforce an exclusion act; rather both sides signed a Gentleman’s Agreement that terminated the flow of Japanese laborers, but allowed for the immigration of Japanese woman. South Asian Indians were excluded in 1917 with the passage of an immigration act which established the Asian barred zone, a geographical region, mainly comprising East, South, Southeast Asia, the Asian part of Russia and parts of Persia, from which immigration was no longer allowed. (Walter 2007). In the famous case of Ozawa v. U.S. (1922), Takao Ozawa argues that not only has he lived in the US his whole life, but he also sent his children to American schools and taught them only English, and was not familiar (or familiarized his children) with Japanese customs or language. The Supreme Court ultimately held that Ozawa was not eligible because [T]he intention [of the naturalization acts from 1790 on] was to confer the privilege of citizenship upon that class of persons whom the fathers knew as white, and to deny it to all who could not be so
Skyy Spirits, in which scenes à faire was maintained as a certifiable barrier by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The case included a business photographic artist, Joshua Ets-Hokin, who sued Skyy vodka when another photographer made commercials with a considerably comparable appearance to the work he had done for them previously. It was held that the closeness between his work and the later works of the photographer was mainly because of the constrained scope of articulation conceivable of the subject matter. Inside the limitations of a photograph shoot for a saleable business item there are only so many ways one may photograph a vodka bottle. In light of this, to constitute copyright infringement, the two photographs would have to be essentially compulsorily