Dear Jay Asher (author)‚ In the United States today‚ more than 11‚000 books have been challenged or banned. Many people disagree with how authors write about graphic topics like sex‚ drugs‚ partying‚ abuse‚ religion and much more. Although‚ what they fail to realize is how accurate these topics written about are to the everyday events in our lives. The banning of your book‚ Thirteen Reasons Why‚ is unreasonable and unfair because it focuses on suicide which is a growing issue today‚ emphasizes
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many different situations in which books have been banned and or challenged. The Great Gatsby‚ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn‚ and Gone with the Wind all history changing books which has frequently been banned or challenged‚ this collection of raw American Literature have been attacked for numerous of reasons. Sexual content‚ profanity‚ and explicit scenes. All of these are among the most common reason these classics have been either banned or challenged. Many of these book serve educational
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Should dangerous sports be banned? Yes! Millions of people play sport every day‚ and‚ inevitably‚ some suffer injury or pain. Most players and spectators accept this risk. However‚ some people would like to see dangerous sports such as boxing banned. This essay will examine some of the reasons for banning certain sports. Some sports are nothing but an excuse for violence. Boxing is a perfect example. The last thing an increasingly violent world needs is more violence on our television. The sight
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English 3 Honors 29 March 2018 Should Bump Stocks be Banned? A bump stock is a device that is attached to a semi-automatic weapon and enables this weapon to mimic the fire of a machine gun. It does this by allowing the shooter to hold the butt of the gun in their shoulder and push the gun towards them‚ this makes the gun fire and the recoil “bumps” the gun back into a firing position.(New York Times) The use of bump stocks allows many school shooters and mass shooters to fire at a rapid rate which
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A banned or challenged book tends to be disputed and unwanted in public places. When a book is banned from schools or even a whole state it means that it contains things such as sexual explicitness‚ offensive language‚ political incorrectness‚ violence‚ views contrary to the state or are seen threatening in some way (Gale 1).The book Lolita written by Vladimir Nabokov was banned in 1955 in France and Australia for its controversial content (Amy 4). Lolita should be banned or challenged because of
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opponents.” (Lawrence Taylor.) Steroids are a family of hormones related to testosterone that have a number of beneficial medical indications. They are also used for the purpose of building up muscles and cellular tissue. The use of steroids should be banned in the United States because over time‚ athletes began abusing the prescribed dosages and ignoring the health risks of prolonged steroid use‚ it establishes unrealistic achievement levels‚ and it is a violation of good sportsmanship. First
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“The Catcher in the Rye” was first banned around 1961-1982 for reasons such as; profanity‚ sexual references‚ and degrading others. The main character‚ Holden Caulfield‚ is viewed as a defiant teenager‚ but in reality he’s just going through some problems and acting how any boy his age would. Holden‚ being a teenager and not regarding anyone else’s feelings‚ has strange ways of conversing and communicating. This book is filled with profanity‚ references to premarital sex and prostitution‚ statements
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of sheer terror for everyone. Many countries are now considering banning the use of nuclear weapons. In this essay I will take a look at the advantages and disadvantages of nuclear weapons and come to a final conclusion on whether they should be banned or not. On one hand‚ nuclear weapons indicate how strong and powerful a country is. The first and foremost criterion for other countries to consider you a strong and developed country is to have a good defence system‚ and nuclear weapons provide
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Smoking brings with it much harm‚ regardless whether it is with respect to health‚ finance‚ environmental or social issues. The World Health Organization (“WHO”) estimates that tobacco kills one person every 10 seconds (WHO‚ 2005). Smoking causes cancer‚ and is a major risk for illnesses such as coronary heart disease‚ stroke and chronic obstructive lung disease. These account for close to two-thirds of all deaths in Singapore in the year 2000 (Health Promotion Board (“HPB”)‚ n.d.). Tobacco is the
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in some cases also argue that the texts are “unsuited for any age group” ("About Banned & Challenged Books"). Many parents have these exact issues with Hopkins’ novel‚ proving that this controversy is not unique to Crank‚ but spans the entire spectrum of YA literature. Parents want to protect their kids from sexually explicit content in literature‚ yet their daughters are giving blowjobs under the bleachers after school‚ and their sons are doing more than just making out in the back seats of cars (Saletan)
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