Thursday, April 10, 2008
Masslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Q2) Can you obtain it by buying a product?
Q3) Should you try to sell a product by implying that you can obtain this?
1) I think they are very similiar, mainly in one aspect. They both have at the end two forms of the pyramid and his discussion - happiness - In Masslow this is Self Actulization and Aristotle is Achieving Happiness. They both feel happiness is the end result, so I do think they are similair.
2) No, you can't. I know some very rich people, and they have anything they could ever want, they claim they are happy, but deep down I don't really think they are. This goes for stars, actors, athletes, anything...sometime this fame dies down, they retire or fizzle out...then what? You can buy anything, however, that doesn't mean you are going to be happy in the end. No one product is going to make someone truly happy. This is something I believe. Yes, I want to work has hard as I can to make as much money as I can, so I can buy myself "toys" and provide for my future family and to spoil them, but I also want to become truly happy with where I am at, who I am with, and what I do...and I do not think one or multiple products is going to do this for me.
3) Yes and no. Yes, for the reasons of making money, making yourself look better (if you are a sales person or trying to get a promotion, etc), landing a client. No, if you are a moral person or group of people, you shouldn't play on people's emotions at this level by saying, "hey, this product will give you true happiness, you won't need anything else other than this," because no one product or group of products can do this. However, people probably think the products can, espcially if they have money. However, it all comes down to the end of the day if you can ask yourself if you are truly happy or not.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Obama Plagerism Thoughts
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
3 Question Survey
What’s the most confusing point? Sometimes finding the heart of the subject in a case, just kind of hard because there is so much legal wording in a document or brief.
Anything three things that I want to learn in this semester.
1) More about basic law when it comes to the media – can and can’t do.
2) Theories behind law
3) Maybe some more history on how we got to were we are at.
Monday, February 11, 2008
Two Other Cases
Facts of the case - "decision upholding the conviction of an individual who had engaged in speech that raised a threat to society...Anita Whitney, a member of a distinguished California family, was convicted under the state's 1919 Criminal Syndicalism Act for allegedly helping to establish the Communist Labor Party, a group the state charged was devoted to teaching the violent overthrow of government. Whitney claimed that it had not been her intention, nor that of other organizers, that the party become an instrument of violence." (Wikipedia).
Issue of Law - The conviction was upheld.
Quote - "Men feared witches and burnt women." p86
c. Near v. Minnesota.
Facts of the case -"was a United States Supreme Court decision that recognized the freedom of the press from prior restraints on publication, a principle that was applied to free speech generally in subsequent jurisprudence. The Court ruled that a Minnesota law that targeted publishers of "malicious" or "scandalous" newspapers violated the First Amendment to the United States Constitution (as applied through the Fourteenth Amendment)." (Wikipedia).
Issue of Law - The court decided censorship is unconstitutional.
Quote - "Some degree of abuse is inseparable from the proper use of everything...and in no instance is this more true than in that of the press." p 93.
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Seditious Libel comments.
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Skiming and ? Answering
1) 1) What all these have in common is some form of patriotism, protection, and staying true to your country. They also almost have a paranoia feel tied in with some Xenophobia, which is fear of foreigners. All these are meant to umbrella us with a sense of protection, some being a false since like the fries and cabbage, because honestly that was just used to make us supposedly feel better at the time. With freedom fries, people (mainly on the east coast) renamed French Fries to Freedom Fries because of France not supporting the war and such. Liberty Cabbage was sauerkraut back in WWI, and people called it Liberty Cabbage because they didn’t want to talk about or acknowledge Germans. The PATRIOT Act was all about terrorism and ,” the Act increased the ability of law enforcement agencies to search telephone and e-mail communications and medical, financial and other records; eased restrictions on foreign intelligence gathering within the United States; expanded the Secretary of the Treasury’s authority to regulate financial transactions, particularly those involving foreign individuals and entities; and enhanced the discretion of law enforcement and immigration authorities in detaining and deporting immigrants suspected of terrorism-related acts.” (according to Wikipedia.com). The Espionage Act of 1917, “which made it a crime for a person to convey information with intent to interfere with the operation or success of the armed forces of the United States or to promote the success of its enemies.” (according to Wikipedia.com). Finally, the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, “claimed the acts were designed to protect the United States from alien citizens of enemy powers and to stop seditious attacks from weakening the government.” (Wikipedia.com).
2) 2)Today, and in the past 50 and even 100 years, that act could have gotten just about anyone into trouble. If you think about it, people bash leaders, politicians, presidents, candidates, and just about anything in this area in everyday conversation and with pamplets, in magazines, newspapers (back then and even today) and today on television and the internet. A die hard, right winged conservative is probably not going to have much, if anything, nice to say about a die hard, left winged liberal. Also, people of foreign decent would be targeted. To your American with Middle-Eastern decent. Even if they moved here from that country, like Iraq, they are still a citizen of “over there” and part of the “enemy power.” If one of those people where to speak out against what the U.S. (their own country now), is doing, then they would be in violation of the act. So would anyone who helped them. So today, those people would have to keep quiet and make sure not to throw any leaflets bashing the U.S. in the early hours of the morning...
3) 3) Abrams v. U.S. is the one I picked.
facts of the case – Espionage Act case. Four refugees from the Czarist Russia. 3 = anarchist 1 = socialist. All outraged at Pres. Wilson’s decision to send troops to Russia after Bolshevik Revolution. They through leaflettes in NY at night, urging a general strike to protest what was going on in Russia. Charged with an attempt to harm American prosecution of the war against Germany. P 76.
issue of law – According to the Act, it is breaking that law/act. Clearly with what was written about the Act above, what the four men did was wrong. However, looking at it today, all they really did was yes they did denounce what was going on, but they dropped leaflets and didn’t really harm people. The language of the leaflets, according to the book, is got the crime label. P76.
Quote – Justice Holmes, “I never have seen any reason to doubt…that the questions of law that alone were before this court…were rightfully decided.” p 77.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Due Process and Other Questions
Walter Burgwyn Jones - He was an Alabama court judge and later on a politician. Since he was a judge, I am guessing he was an honest, thinking man. Back then, since he was from the south, he was probably a "southern gentelman" as well. Looking at a few websites about the man, he ran in 1956 for president and receieved only one electorial vote, getting destroyed in the race. He wrote "Citizenship and Voting in Alabama," "Confederate War Poems," "Alabama...Practice of Law." He was the judge in the in the below case. Jones did everything in his power to not allow the African Americans to not have any rights in the case. Jones apparently overruled his own book, which is ironic.
T. Eric Embry - He was a defense lawyer, and a member of the Alabama Supreme court as a judge (justice). Embry, "who as a trial lawyer represented The New York Times in what became the landmark libel case New York Times Company v. Sullivan." (according to query.nytimes.com)
King John would not have approved because the due process system all comes down to fairness, and in this case there was no fairness going on. The climate in Alabama at the time was ignorance and blatant racism, as well as complete unfairness as to how the case was handled.