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 the importance of one’s actions‚ and addresses relevant topics of our time. One of the reasons your book should not be banned is because of how well it speaks about suicide. Experts say‚ the third leading cause of death for college-age youth (12-18)
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Go Ask Alice Go Ask Alice should be taught in language arts curricula’s. Any piece of literature that pushes boundaries in school systems is then questioned whether or not it should be taught. Without this type of literature students would never be able to truly benefit from the quality of these extraordinary books. Commonly‚ books that have the potential to change student’s perspectives are the ones that are banned; novels such as Go Ask Alice have the ability to benefit students. In today’s
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There are only a few signs before hinting towards Ophelia being insane‚ but he the days following the death she takes the plunge down the rabbit hole. This lead up to when Ophelia finally died and ended her own life. There are two theories as to why Ophelia went insane. One being being she did truly love Hamlet and not being able to be with him affected her. The second theory was that Hamlet killing her father‚ Polonius‚ increase her depression and lead it to kill her. The theory backed up by
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Why Should I Be Moral? The question of morality proves to be a complex interrogatory. Should I be moral? If I should be‚ then why? Why is morality important to society? An assumption can be made that morals derive from a purely religious perspective or the Golden Rule approach. We are told that it is right to be moral. This is an ineffective answer‚ since it does not apply to someone outside the moral circle (Olsen‚ 79). This in mind‚ there is really no way to prove this too a person
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because they were forced to fight and serve in the military. In conclusion‚ I have showed some proof of why being mandatory to join the military should not happen. What the outcome will be would end up with protests and turmoil for the whole country. People think its a honor to serve some don’t like the people with only one kid who died while serving they can’t bring him back. So should we really make it mandatory just to have more
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Why alcohol should not be legal 1 Why alcohol should not be legal Delono Walker Devry University April 10‚ 2011 Why alcohol should not be 2 In the 1920’s during world war one‚ the churches mostly Protestants began to lobby against the sales of alcohol: in order to slow crime and domestic abuse. Furthermore many saloons or bars were selling German
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I want them to feel proud of raising me‚ proud of calling me their daughter‚ and happy for the choice I made. Yes‚ I wanted to go to college for my family‚ but also for myself. I wanted to increase my intellectual and accomplish my goals. I wanted to accomplish goals for myself as well. What inspired me to not give up is the feeling of accomplishment‚ I did not want to feel like
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need sight”‚ said Stephen Chbosky‚ author of The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Censorship isn’t needed because it limits children’s variety of books that they can check out and read. The idea of censoring books is odd to me. I don’t quite understand why people think it’s okay to take a book that was worked on hard by a committed author‚off the bookshelf‚ not allowing people to read it? There is a majority of different opinions on this topic‚ but personally‚ I think that books do not have to be censored
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drug busts‚ criminal charges‚ DEA investigations‚ and jail time all come to my mind. All of these things that help keep marijuana illegal cost the country‚ the government‚ and the taxpayers massive amounts of money every year. The real question is why? Why do we try so hard and spend so much money suppressing a substance that is shown to benefit people for both recreational and medical uses. The negative side effects of marijuana and proven almost insignificant‚ especially when compared next to alcohol
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a detention is because people wouldn’t want to stay longer so it would finally click to students that getting in trouble isn’t fun. I do not think it would be nice to have just because it has more cons than pros. I think they should keep school they usually are they should not add time add longer breaks its already equaled out and if they add things or change it school wouldn’t be fair. I am a person who already hates school and hates attending it but if they added more time I had to be in a classroom
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