The Great Gatsby Books are banned or challenged because they have capacity to “corrupt” a reader’s mind or influence. Banning a novel is actually one of the greatest things that can happen or be “awarded” to a book. The Great Gatsby is an example of one of these great books that was banned. The book was banned in 1987 by a Baptist college in Charleston‚ yet it is considered of one the “Great American Novels” and a literary classic. The book was banned for language and some sexual content. By examining
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A banned or challenged book tends to be disputed and unwanted in public places. When a book is banned from schools or even a whole state it means that it contains things such as sexual explicitness‚ offensive language‚ political incorrectness‚ violence‚ views contrary to the state or are seen threatening in some way (Gale 1).The book Lolita written by Vladimir Nabokov was banned in 1955 in France and Australia for its controversial content (Amy 4). Lolita should be banned or challenged because of
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The book To Kill a Mockingbird and other controversial books should not be taken out of public school curriculum because‚ while they may have offensive language and other uncomfortable scenes in the books‚ the lessons within often teach students about America’s uncomfortable past and current injustices. By taking controversial books‚ like To Kill a Mockingbird or The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn‚ out of curriculum schools are dismissing the fact that uncomfortable issues in these books are still
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The Outsiders By: Alyssa Padewski Do you want your kids to have bad influences from this book? Do you want them to be exposed to this material? The book‚ The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton should be banned from this school for teaching kids bad lessons and it is inappropriate. First of all‚ there is under aged smoking. As well as young kids drinking alcohol. Second of all‚ there is a lot of violence and fighting‚ plus there are weapons being used in a bad way. They show people killing people or they
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disagree. The teachers want them to read this book for the history and lessons it teaches the students. This essay will be explaining why Of Mice and Men should be taught in high schools in the US. Of Mice and Men is banned in many high schools‚ due to its foul language‚ violence and racism‚ it should be allowed in high schools because of its realistic lessons about American history and peer review. This book has multiple lessons about the history
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Book Banning has existed in America since colonial times‚ when legislatures and royal governors enacted laws against blasphemy and seditious libel. Legislatures in the early American republic passed laws against obscenity. Though freedom of the press has grown significantly over the course of the twentieth century‚ book banning and related forms of censorship have persisted due to cyclical concerns about affronts to cultural‚ political‚ moral‚ and religious belief. Drugs‚ sex‚ and profanity are
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This extremely racist slur is often thrown about the dialogues of multiple characters and is‚ in my opinion‚ what normalizes the racism of that time. While Huck did live in the south where the use of that word was accepted‚ Twain’s inclusion of the word proves that his story
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abhorrence. This anger has been brought to them through the protest that they have acted with‚ not standing or kneeling during the national anthem‚ in the past few years. Football players should be protected by the first amendment of the constitution‚ which is for free speech and protest. Football players should not be punished for their action about the issue in which they protest in the United States because it brings awareness to social issues‚ players that have high profile social status; consequently
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nothing short of essential. Their main function is conservation. Without captive breeding‚ many endangered species would now be extinct - for example‚ the golden lion tamarin‚ red wolf and Przewalski’s horse. I am not for a moment suggesting that we should stop trying to protect animals’ natural habitats‚ but if endangered species were to become extinct in the wild (which sadly seems quite likely in the near future)‚ zoos will have preserved them for future generations‚ with enough genetic diversity
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CELL PHONE SHOULD BE BANNED Cell phone is the most effective device around the world.Not only the people who work somewhere but also adolescents use it.Using a cell phone causes some problems among youth.My opinion is that cell phones should be banned at high schools. To begin with‚as the whole researchers have mentioned‚cell phones are bad for health‚especially the young ones.The most bad effect of using cell phone is that cell phones affect on human brain‚such as headache.However
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