authority‚ usually on the grounds of religion‚ politics or public morality. My book Go Ask Alice‚ is one of the books that still remains on the banned book list. When looking into censorship and banned books‚ my book Go Ask Alice is one that is still fought about today. I am going to go into detail about why my book is about‚ why my book is banned‚ and what I think should happen with my book. To begin‚ Go Ask Alice is about a young girl who gets very much involved with sex and drugs. It’s an actual diary
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use. Over the past decade‚ drug use among teenagers has been increasing dramatically. In the book‚ Go Ask Alice by Anonymous‚ readers are introduced into the life of Alice as she goes through her rollercoaster life‚ faced with abuse‚ drugs‚ and alcohol and how much those substances affected her life. The story opens with Alice dealing with somewhat relevant issues as some of us do today. Alice is considered herself as a "typical" teenager. For example‚ she worries about boys‚ acceptance from her
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today which keeps people reading this novel and is the one of the things that inspired Alice Walker to write this novel. One example of racism is during the beginning of the novel. The mayor’s wife rudely spoke racist words to Sofia‚ one of the main characters. She tells Sofia‚ "All your children so clean‚ would you like to work for me‚ be my maid?" When Sofia defended herself‚ she was put in jail and beaten. Alice amazingly expressed a lot of racism in this part of the book. To add on‚ Mary Agnes felt
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Alice Walker is a dedicated activist and she stands for causes that she has experienced directly. In turn‚ those experiences and personal situations have impacted her writing topics and style. In her writings‚ past and current‚ the conflicts that she writes about are a direct reflection of her life. Alice Walker grew up in the south‚ in poverty and during a period of time that saw the ‘legal’ end of racism but the spirit of racism continued to live on. The struggle to overcome the obstacles she grew
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The author’s main purpose The subject is interesting to the audience because Alice is an important person in the writer’s life‚ and she describes how Alice has changed her life. This essay makes the reader‚ think about a person that has positively changed their life. The writer should add more description about the senses is highlighted in the essay. The writer should describe what the chocolate dipped pretzels taste like‚ smell‚ and feel like. Describe Alice’s appearance‚ and describe what she
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“Everyday Use” is a short story in which Alice Walker‚ the author‚ presents irony that comes from the sisters differing intended use for quilts. In Alice Walker’s short story‚ “Everyday Use”‚ the Johnson family lives in a poor‚ rural section of Georgia in the early 1970’s. Mama‚ the narrator‚ is a husky self-sufficient woman who is not afraid of doing a man’s work. She lives with her youngest daughter‚ Maggie‚ who has a stammer and scars from a house fire. At the beginning of story‚ they wait in
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According to Alice M Young‚ addiction has a tremendous effect on the brain‚ both psychological and biological. Jeffrey A. Schaler‚ on the other hand‚ is trying to convince us that addiction is a disease. One author speaks of brain processes and the other on predispositions. This is what I came up with. In Alice M. Young’s article‚ Addictive Drugs and the Brain‚ she suggests that an addiction to drugs may effect brain processes‚ such as learning and emotion. (1) (Young‚ Alice M. 1999. “Addictive
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hired as a police woman. Alice Stebbins Wells was born in Manhattan Kansas on June 13‚ 1873. Mrs. Well’s was the first American born female to be hired as a police woman with arrest powers. Before being hired by the LAPD as the first women officer Alice was a social worker. It was in 1909 when she petitioned Mayor George Alexander and city council‚ requesting that an ordinance providing for Los Angeles police women be adopted. It was passed an on September 12‚ 1910 Alice Stebbins Well’s was appointed
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treated differently. The movie‚ Alice Through the Looking Glass is based on the book written by Lewis Carroll in 1871‚ and takes place in male dominated England. This story follows a young woman‚ Alice‚ who wants to be a strong captain like her father before her. Unfortunately‚ her society attempts to force her into the image they have for women: pretty and complacent. This is not the image for a captain. In order to escape the oppression of the real world‚ Alice enters a fantasy world in which she
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begins‚ an abrupt turn takes place; the reader learns that young Susie Salmon was murdered and raped by a man. The rest of the book focuses on the family of Susie Salmon and how the death of their daughter drives them to the brink of insanity. While Alice Sebold explains what’s going on in reality‚ she also has another part of the story that takes place in Heaven with Susie. Why would one want to read a book that focuses on grief and depression in the present and after life? The overall story
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