have caused many school districts to remove Looking for Alaska‚ and meet to decide if it should be allowed in school libraries. However‚ Coles has questioned that by removing the access of the book to students‚ is freedom of choice and speech being violated. The author gives an example about how a school district in Kentucky is going through the process of deciding whether or not Looking for Alaska should be banned or not. The situation began when a teacher wanted to teach the book in an English class
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Did you know that 11‚300 books have been banned for their content? The Pigman is a book that is banned in some schools because of the inappropriate content within it. The characters use drugs and alcohol‚ are dishonest‚ and they display violent actions ‚ therefore The Pigman should be banned due to this immature content. One of the biggest reasons The Pigman should be banned because it has a lot of drug and alcohol use. On page 45 it says “John jumped at my outburst and then slowly sipped his
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Why year round schooling should be banned As grades go down teachers‚ parents and educators are wondering how to solve this problem. One answer they have come up with much research is year around school. However‚ the potential benefits of year-round school are very little and are outnumbered by the cons. The raising utility bill‚ scheduling complications and ironically no academic improvement are some of the many negative outcomes of year round school. True‚ year around school has a lot of benefits
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were approved for human use1 and eventually mass produced to the public as FLAVR SAVR Tomato in the late 1990s.2 Many may think that GMOs will end world hunger‚ but it is killing us rather than saving us. If food companies continue to advertise GMOs as the savior of America’s hunger problems‚ the country is in for a surprise. Any food product being sold to the general public should be removed and banned because GMOs contribute to the rise of illness‚ contaminate the plants in our organic farms‚ and
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It is not for the government or any third party to dictate whether or not a person should be allowed to smoke. However‚ smoking does not only affect the smoker negatively. It also affects all the people around those who smoke because when people smoke in pubic the smoke travels everywhere through the air‚ and the negative effects of this smoke affects all living‚ breathing creatures. Therefore smoking should be banned in all public places. People who smoke in public portray a bad example. Children
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even been banned from schools due to the foul language‚ sexual scenes‚ and excessive violence depicted within it. Some have even gone so far that they deemed this novel as an “antisocial Bible that deserves to be exterminated from school curriculum” (GradeSaver.com). As seen in this quote‚ many tend to dislike this book and want to exclude it from all schools’ curriculum. Since this is such a controversial novel‚ it is very difficult to come to the conclusion of whether or not this should be read in
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benefits Uber give to the society‚ it stills have opposite opinions to it‚ but it should not be ban. Uber has been cheaper than a cab. By their reasonable price‚ it is the highlight to attracts people and become popular. For example‚ normal cab price will be 30$‚ on other hands Uber cab will only about 16$ to 17$. It also gives the customers many options to select
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smoking. Banning smoking on college campuses can decrease these risks and resolve many health issues which are directly caused by smoking. According to The American Nonsmokers Rights Foundation‚ there are at least 1‚620 campuses which have already banned the use of tobacco(10). Smoking
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‘The school day should start late’ Almost every weekday‚ high school students are waking up around six o’clock in the morning to get ready for school‚ some even earlier. It’s not practical for high school classes to start at 8.30 or earlier. It’s just too early for teenage minds to function properly. Our school should start at least an hour later than that. With the extra hour‚ our attendance would improve‚ as well as our grades and attitudes. The facts are all there‚ so why shouldn’t the hours
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views often create a debate over whether the book should be banned or not leading to a very radical history. The first reason many people believe Oliver Twist should be banned can be explained by Joseph Goldstein who stated‚ “It is calculated to‚ and does inculcate bitter hatred and malice in the hearts and minds of many students and pupils attending our public schools and secondary schools against American
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