country. The three main reasons that I believe this book is constantly being banned is the description of rape‚ the profanity and racial slurs‚ and the racism that takes place. There are many people that believe that the discussion of rape should not be introduced to students. This could bring up discussions in a classroom that may not be appropriate for some age groups. There is profanity in this book‚ but the way I see it‚ children are being exposed to more than this in real life. The racism is apparent
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Written task 1 Michael: interviewer Big Z: Rapper Michael: Tonight please welcome the king of hip hop‚ the artist to sell over a million copies in 1 week. The one and only Big Z aka slicey dice. Michael: So how you feeling? Big Z: Good. Michael: So Big Z‚ how does it feel when your album climbed up from number 8 to number 1 on billboard. Big Z: well‚ I think I saw it coming cuz all the other albums I feel didn’t have much feeling in em. Michael: what makes you say that? Big Z: Like
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Seventeen-year-old Andrew Conley pleaded guilty on the opening day of his trial for the murder of his ten year old brother; leading to life imprisonment without parole. Conley was wrestling with his little brother when he put him in a choke hold until he eventually passed out. Following the murder‚ Conley stuffed his head into two plastic bags and dumped him in a park to die near their home in Indiana. The teenager previously mentioned to his girlfriend that he identified with Michael Hall from
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are many reasons‚ so please accept my apology if the first sounds shallow. I do not like Hip‚ Hop music. It is my least favorite genres of music with its tendencies of using profanity and its harsh‚ vibrating beats. Especially on the manner of profanity I am avidly against. It was once stated to me that the use of profanity on demonstrates your own ignorance. I have taken that saying to heart‚
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adulthood. When Holden is sitting on the stairs of Phoebe’s school‚ he sees profanity written in the school. He rubs it off to avoid the children seeing it. He encounters more profanity‚ rubs it off‚ but then realizes that even if he rubs off all the profanity he can‚ there will always be more in the world. This shows Holden’s growth into a mature character. He realizes that he cannot protect children from seeing the profanity‚ as he cannot be the catcher in the rye for them. In addition‚ when Holden
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done‚ why it was done‚ the type of graffiti it is can all change how bad it can be seen as. Graffiti is markings on a surface that weren’t meant to be there. Graffiti is art when it is beautiful like a painting. Graffiti is vandalism is usually profanity or a pencil drawing on a desk or marks on a wall. Graffiti can sometimes be art but I think it is vandalism. Here are some reasons why I think graffiti is vandalism There are different types of graffiti. It’s art when it’s like the Mona Lisa
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may want to shield their kids from taking in “explicit” or “dirty” knowledge‚ yet eventually‚ children get older and become much more exposed to the details of the true world‚ not just from books. Books could very well have explicit content or profanity‚ but keeping those away from the younger children shouldn’t be a large deal; there is no need for them to be “banned”. There are several other ways for one’s mind to obtain this kind of knowledge‚ and no one’s lifting a finger to ban
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Code Meshing and Code Switching Code Meshing is a strategy for blending many varieties with privileged standard language‚ it combines the ordinary language with non-formal conversations. Code Switching is the practice of alternating between two or more languages or varieties of language in conversation. When people switch codes they do not have to make the same cognitive effort as when they try to integrate communitive devices for code meshing. Many people use both code switching and code meshing
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contemporary African American identities based on how they represent themselves. This is due to the fact it promotes an unhealthy lifestyle towards attitudes and behaviors of American Youth. In addition‚ it teaches African American youth to use profanity. Furthermore‚ American youth do not have a role model when listening to hip-hop. To began with‚ hip hop promoted an unhealthy lifestyle. African American youth look up to hip-hop
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the major issues that involve censorship within the United States is the question whether or not music should be censored; and how will parents or the government decide at what age it is appropriate to allow children to listen to music pertaining profanity? There are two sides to this issue; there are people who are for and there are those who are against censorship in music. At what point does action transcend from a matter of consumer choice to the matter of censorship? I think that the government
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