The Great Gatsby Books are banned or challenged because they have capacity to “corrupt” a reader’s mind or influence. Banning a novel is actually one of the greatest things that can happen or be “awarded” to a book. The Great Gatsby is an example of one of these great books that was banned. The book was banned in 1987 by a Baptist college in Charleston‚ yet it is considered of one the “Great American Novels” and a literary classic. The book was banned for language and some sexual content. By examining
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Sheila Sim Mrs. Virginia Link-Pease English 122 02 October 2010 Steroid Use in Sports Should Be Banned Day by day professional athletes are being praised for their ability and accomplishments in their respective sports. The professional athletes that are succeeding the most are generally using performance enhancing drugs‚ other known as anabolic steroids (Mayo Clinic). Anabolic steroids are drugs which imitate the effect of the male sex hormone‚ Testosterone. The cells producing protein increase
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Should Animal Testing be Banned? Throughout history‚ animal experimentation has played an important role in leading to new discoveries and human benefits. However‚ what many people tend to forget are the great numbers of animal subjects that have suffered serious harm during the process of experimentation. Many people are believed to be ignorant or misunderstand the nature of the lives that animals actually live‚ and are unable to understand the actual laboratory procedures and techniques. Other
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Child Labour Should Be Banned By fiona_jones Jan. 2007 790 Words 70 Views Page 1 of 3 For many of us it is hard to imagine what it would be like growing up‚ having to work from the age of five and not being able to go to school. ’Child Labour’ is defined by the United States Department of Labour (DOL) as ’the employment of boys and girls when they are too young to work for hire; or when they are employed at jobs unsuitable or unsafe for children of their ages’ It is not something we are too familiar
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CELL PHONE SHOULD BE BANNED Cell phone is the most effective device around the world.Not only the people who work somewhere but also adolescents use it.Using a cell phone causes some problems among youth.My opinion is that cell phones should be banned at high schools. To begin with‚as the whole researchers have mentioned‚cell phones are bad for health‚especially the young ones.The most bad effect of using cell phone is that cell phones affect on human brain‚such as headache.However
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America is seeing an increase in crime and school shootings. Now there has been talk of gun control and banning the sale of “assault weapons” and high capacity magazines. Recently there was a school shooting on an Oregon college campus making this the 45th school shooting in Oregon this year. President Barack Obama addressed the issue and described how gun control is one of the most frustrating issues he has faced during his time in office. Is gun control really the answer or will the ban of high
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Should peanuts be banned? Peanuts should be banned at schools that kids may have allergies because they can get really sick and maybe even die. There are a lot of foods that have peanuts in them.They can also get sick by eating in the cafeteria people can bring something that has peanuts in it and the cafeteria can make food that has peanuts in it. “As you read‚ think about how schools can help protect students who have this allergy." But schools wouldn’t ban them because‚ they think they can prevent
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ENN103F Cigarette Smoking Should Be Banned Introduction It has become fashionable in the world today to condemn smoking. Smoking should be banned because it destroys people’s health‚ finances and families. Smoking has been shown to be dangerous to health of the people. Heart disease‚ bronchitis and lung cancer have all been linked. A further issue is that smoking costs governments millions of rands because of the large number of people who need treatment in hospitals for smoking related
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Centre for Science and Environment‚ an NGO‚ has claimed that bottled soft drinks contain deadly pesticides. Soft drink giants Coca-Cola and PepsiCo have‚ however‚ refuted the findings and are contemplating legal action against the NGO. They should be banned! Soft drinks are just like candies but liquid candies. They are unhealthy especially for children. Not only because the regular ones are loaded with sugar‚ but because of the other adverse effects all these soft drinks have on people’s health
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much more. If it was not for the ALA we would not have the entire subject of a banned book‚ but it is so I am here. The book that I am doing is the art of racing in the rain. This book doesn’t have much in it to get it banned but for the little that is in it got it banned. But this has been the loom on what I think about this book getting banned. There are a bunch of little reasons for this book getting banned such as cussing or alcohol using but there are many more reasons for the books
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