Shawnn Wills English 101 Argument Essay March 4‚ 2011 Smoking in public places has been a controversial topic for many years now. Some agree and some just disagree. A separate smoking section in restaurants just is not enough. Smoking in public places should be banned and illegal because it’s bad for the environment‚ it has a dangerous effect on people’s health‚ and it has a bad influence on children. Firstly‚ smokers think that smoking just affects their
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Books are an extraordinary thing. They are one of the closest things to a time machine as they can take you essentially anywhere in your mind. For many people‚ books are like a friend. Someone to comfort them when they are down and discouraged. Books are someone to teach you things you’ve always wanted to learn. Lately‚ however‚ schools have begun to ban many books making them unavailable for their students to read. This limits what students are allowed to read and essentially learn. Books have many
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looking for one of your favorite books. You look around and it´s not there. You ask the librarian they say that the took out the book because it was difficult subject for some kids. How would you feel? Schools have been banning books for many years. Schools should not be banning books because books help kids learn about very important subjects. Furthermore‚ books teach kids about the world around them. Lastly‚ books help kids open up their viewpoint.The first reason schools shouldn’t ban books is
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We exaggerate the differences‚ ignoring what we share as human beings and become prejudiced. Prejudice is nourished by fear as it grows out of exaggeration. It is a profoundly negative emotion bearing the fruit of hatred. Racism is a form of extreme prejudice that leads to physical and psychological violence. Racists can be any color: white‚ black‚ brown‚ red or yellow. A white racist thinks all blacks are alike‚ while a black racist thinks all Hispanics are alike. In addition‚ a Hispanic
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The Effect of banning the automobile in the United States Shemisha Riggins 12 October 2013 Sociology (SOCI 1301) In today’s modern society‚ we are very dependent of the automobile. It is a means of life and it is how we get from one place to another. A lot of U.S. Citizens depend on their cars as way to provide for their families. If there were no cars what would this do to our society? Would it make it better or worse for an individual? In this paper‚ I will view the aspects on how
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Chapter Three: Socialization In the first reading‚ “Extreme Isolation” by Kingsley Davis‚ the author discusses the findings of the research performed on the infant Anna. Anna was unlike any other child at her age. During the first few months of her life‚ she was passed around from home to home‚ unable to return to her mother. She had caught many diseases along the way‚ which allowed her chances for a home to become slim. She was taken back to her mother and grandfather and was kept in isolation
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and aware because the law enforcement is very inadequate. In Honduras‚ being held at gunpoint is practically the norm. The U.S. Law enforcement encourages an environment for ordinary citizens to roam freely without having to carry weapons. The banning of assault weapons would benefit society. It would decrease the possibilities of large massacres from occurring and the total death toll as well. Mass shootings like the one in columbine high school‚ Colorado and Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown
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In the article “Extreme Altruism: Should You Care For Strangers at The Expense of Your Family” by Larissa MacFarquhar‚ the concept introduced is donating all of the money you do not need to charity because everyone is equal and someone needs it more than you do. The character Julia Wise practices living by the standard of treating everyone as equal has led her to spiral into the deep obis we know as depression. The reason why she has all of this depression is because she has an overwhelming amount
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Banning The Catcher in the Rye The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger should not be banned in schools based solely on the fact that it is a controversial book that uses harsh language and sexual references. This book is J.D. Salinger’s freedom of speech‚ and it is a violation of the first amendment for schools to ban this book. This book is only offering an inside look into what teenagers go through in some point of their lives. According to the Los Angeles Times‚ The Catcher in the Rye’s‚ “…
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Books have a numerous amount of ways to get banned. Book banning can cause the books not to be presented in certain places. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini‚ was banned and challenged due to inappropriate language‚ rape‚ sexually explicit‚ racism‚ and not appropriate for certain age groups. Banning the books means to remove the books from libraries or take them away from the readers (Cho‚ 1). Challenging the books means that someone is attempting to remove the books from shelves or the readers
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