Part one of term paper
The Honorable Claudine Schneider, a Republican, United States Representative from Rhode Island, argues in favor of the National Endowment for the Arts(NEA) program. The NEA is controversial because of the artists it chooses to fund. While others feel that it needs to end, Schneider states how it has helped society. Some want the NEA to st ...

Part two of term paper
... that Art shouldn’t be censored because of the First Amendment. She also provides many facts to support her side. Schneider states that in 25 years of the NEA, that only 25 out of 85,000 grants have caused controversy. She also presents that only 68 cents from each taxpayer funds the NEA. She provides evidence that since 1965, the number of Orchestras had doubled, dance companies have grown seven times, theater eight times and State Art agencies ten times. These are the benefits from t ...