INTRODUCTION The question I ask is‚ would the banning of smoking increase the overall health of Americans? HYPOTHESIS I believe at the end of this study I will find that smoking is the root of many of America ’s greatest health issues. As well the fact that limiting or completely eliminating exposure of Americans to second hand smoke would greatly increase the health of all Americans. I believe this change would happen very rapidly following the ban of smoking in public areas. METHODOLOGY
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Some people are in favor of banning books and some people are against it. Although some feel it is appropriate to ban books containing inappropriate material for certain age groups books should not be able to be banned because reading increases awareness and literacy‚ it is against freedom of speech‚ and reading is a more educational source of entertainment than television. Some books are banned because they have been deemed age inappropriate. Certain people feel banning these types books protects
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hundreds of challenges. The leading causes for contesting a book are sexually explicit content‚ offensive language and inappropriate subjects for minors [source: American Library Association]. Only a minority of the requests actually make it through to banning the book from its respective library. The Catcher in the Rye. The Scarlet Letter. Huckleberry Finn. Harry Potter. The Diary of Anne Frank. Animal Farm. To Kill a Mockingbird. The Da Vinci Code. The Grapes of Wrath. These literary classics have
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triggered the banning of the said materials. Banning pornography is a noble idea‚ however‚ not a very practical one. First of all‚ sex is a part of human nature. Even if pornography no longer abounds‚ fact would remain that humans are sexual beings by nature. They would keep finding ways to satisfy their sexual needs‚ whether directly through intercourse or partially through pornography. For as long as humans have sexual drive‚ sex crimes would never cease. Another thing that makes the banning of pornography
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all over America are in danger. Books‚ objects that allow imagination and the expansion of the mind and the world around one‚ are often times subject to criticism and even bannings when any one person does not like the content. Books bannings should not be done whatsoever‚ let alone become a semi-common practice. Of course‚ bannings only occur after careful consideration. Or do they? Censorship is a growing problem in America‚ as parents and other authority figures ban various types of books in their
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Banning Smoking in Public Places Should the people decide to ban smoking from public places? Today people smoke and don’t realize of their surroundings. People who smoke are inconsiderate of those who don’t smoke. Don’t non-smokers have the right not to be secondhand smokers? Smoking can do lots of harm to the person smoking as well as the nonsmoker. A person inhaling or smelling smoke will have the same effect as if they were smoking; this would be considered as secondhand smoke. Tobacco smoke
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Professor Subhamitra Adhikari Academic Writing B 13 December 2013 Banning whale hunting Whales are the biggest animals that live on this planet‚ in the oceans. Depending on their species they can weigh up to 200 tons‚ the weight of around 12 elephants or 2000 people. It has also been studied that the brains of whales are developed which means they are intelligent creatures. Since centuries whales have been hunted down for their oil and meat. The process of killing whales for their
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Children all across the world read books at high reading levels‚ but some books at higher reading levels have inappropriate stories to tell. I strongly agree that certain books should be banned from schools because of racial themes‚ violence‚ witchcraft‚ negativity‚ profanity‚ and alternative lifestyles. Switching to a parent’s point of view I could guess that I wouldn’t want my child to be reading about demons or treating African-Americans like slaves and taking advantage of people who don’t look
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Banning Cigarettes Do you smoke cigarettes? Do you know what is inside of those cigarettes that you are smoking? According to an article by Robert Grazian‚ cigarettes have thousands of chemicals in them (1). After witnessing my sister smoke cigarettes‚ I was curious to know why she did it so much. I decided to do an experiment on cigarettes after I made eighteen‚ which is the legal age to smoke cigarettes. I told one of my teachers about the experiment and she offered bonus points if I turned
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On the second of December‚ 2002‚ James Harding‚ 18‚ a student from Sherborne School‚ in Dorset‚ died in hospital on Sunday following the incident. He was injured while playing for his school’s first XV against Blundell’s School from Tiverton‚ Devon. Another case of an incident such as this is Ben Robinson‚ On 29 January 2011‚ 14 year old Ben Robinson played rugby union for his school. After being treated several times for hits to the head and sent back to the pitch on each occasion‚ he collapsed
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