group‚ censoring children from difficult subject matter is not always the solution. There is always controversy when difficult issues arise in adolescent geared novels. Even though there are many concerns with Lois Lowry’s The Giver‚ this book should not be banned from the Coopertown Middle Library. The Giver is about an eleven-year-old boy named Jonas is a light-eyed boy who lives in a Utopian society. Within his society‚ there is no suffering‚ no hunger‚ no war‚ no color‚ and no love. There is
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Music censorship has been around since the inception of mass media. By definition‚ censorship of music is the act of restricting musical works through its availability and access. Music censorship can result from various different reasons including moral‚ political or religious reasons. This kind of censorship can range from legally enforced prohibition of a musical work‚ to voluntary removal of content where a musical work appears in a certain context. A popular example of musical censorship
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sweatshop when they were under developing countries. The histories of sweatshop is likely bad‚ but after sweatshop got more popular in the third world countries sweatshop get better year after year. Although some researchers claim that sweatshop should be banned because of the low wages and they didn’t respect the workers because they are poor
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there where the economy and living conditions are so bad that children have to work in unsuitable and unsafe situations. There are certain charities that help‚ but that it is. Not enough is being done to stop child labour. It is very wrong and should be banned thought out the world and looked at as a disgrace. Figures from the International Labour Organisation (ILO) show that 218 million children aged between five and seventeen are involved in child labour worldwide. That means globally one in six
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texts‚ and most often claim that the works they challenge contain certain scenes that are “sexually explicit‚” or include dialogue that uses “offensive language‚” and 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
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Should animal testing be banned? For many centuries people have experimented on animals. The two main reasons for doing this is first‚ to find out more about the animals themselves‚ and‚ secondly‚ to test out substances and procedures to see if they are harmful and decide whether it can be used on human beings or not. In the second category fall cosmetic products as well as medicines and surgical techniques. There is a growing consensus that it is not acceptable to test cosmetic products on animals
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I say it’s time that all deliberate cruel killing of animals for "sport" be banned by law. There is no excuse for causing immense pain and suffering to these creatures just for the sheer heck of it...for fun and games. Okay‚ I know animals are killed for meat...but there’s a difference: the animals in that situation CAN be treated humanely right up to the moment they are killed instantly. I’m not saying that’s an ideal situation. There are other objections to killing for meat but what concerns
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Should Abortions be Legal? Regina Corroa PH103 Informal Logic Barri Mallin June 20‚ 2010 Should Abortions be Legal? Thesis Abortion is defined as intentional termination of a pregnancy after conception (O’Brien). Abortion is a very touchy subject that has been around for thousands of years. When emotions are used for reasoning this is called a fallacy. With this particular issue the fallacy “slippery slope” is very common in the persuasion of arguments (Moore‚ p 182). Slippery slope is when one
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Is it okay for women to breastfeed their baby in public? Should breastfeeding be banned completely? Some seem to think this issue is entirely misunderstood and disrespectful to women and is an act of indecent exposure‚ unknowingly realizing that it is the most natural thing in the world. Breastfeeding is an intimate bond between a mother and her child and it is a private issue that should be handled as such. Nonetheless‚ all women should have the right to legally breastfeed their babies in public
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Why Should Abortion Be Legal? Carlos Walcott PHI 103: Informal Logic Barri Mallin September 10‚ 2012 Why Should Abortion Be Legal? In 1971 a young mother challenged Taxes and their abortion laws. By 1973 abortion was legal. There are several ways to extract an unborn human child from the womb. What does life mean to those who have an abortion and those who have not had an abortion? There are several advocates that are pro-live and pro-abortion some are groups‚ individuals‚ authority figures
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