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    The community should not have a say in what books are being read in the school. This is because the community already knows about words that are commonly used in books that are banned and they don’t need to learn about it whereas kids need to learn about it because the community hasn’t exposed them to it. Also‚ teachers know the curriculum and know how to turn bad things into learning opportunities. Communities already have knowledge of things that are written in banned books. They have lived longer

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    School Uniforms Schools should be schools and not fashion shows. Students that attend school are mostly worried about what they are going to wear to school and less worried about their homework‚ which is far more important. I believe that we should have school uniforms for multiple reasons. Most students think that school uniforms are dumb because every one of them would be wearing the same exact thing. Did you ever think that you could stand out in your own special way? Not everybody has to wear

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    the United States’ Constitution…” as stated from the text‚ Schools and Censorship: Banned Books. A recent banning of books for having age inappropriate content has been debated‚ but books should not be banned because children will eventually be exposed to the content‚ children need to learn they’re history‚ and children are being deprived the right to representation‚ as stated in the Constitution. Therefore‚ it is illegal to ban books from the people. Children being exposed to what they will eventually

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    Books are selected to be banned or challenged because people believe the book teaches no lessons or gives the reader no educational value. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie is about a 14 year old Indian living on the reservation seeking a better education. This book is consecutively challenged every year by parents concerning this book being inappropriate. In some cases this book has been successfully banned in some school districts. The Absolutely True Diary of a

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    To kill a mockingbird has multiple racial slurs.To Kill A Mockingbird is about a family suffering through the Great Depression.There is also bullying‚justice‚and a lot of things that have to do with gender in the story.This story takes place in Maycomb‚Alabama 1930’s. Bullying In chapter 2 of To Kill A Mockingbird‚bullying occurs.Miss Caroline criticizes Scout for her ability to read. She belittles Atticus’s teaching of Scout at home‚ and instructs Scout to tell her father to no longer teach

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    the sugary drinks in public school areas such as‚ Coke‚ Fanta‚ Pepsi and more. The vending machines that are being put up at the public schools and other workplaces sells all types of high calorie drinks‚ that contains so much sugar that increases weight gain greatly. In addition‚ sugary drinks causes bad effects for the human body. However‚ if we ban sugary drinks from the soda vending machines it may decrease the gain weight of these kids and adults at their schools and workplaces. Many individuals

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    Books that include profanity‚ violence‚ and other topics that could be offensive to other readers should be banned. (Claim) Banned books are a good thing for society; these kinds of books can include hurtful things inside the context. (Counter claim) People may disagree because they have different views than other readers and enjoy reading that kind of stuff. The following paragraphs will explain why banned books are a good thing for society‚ and how the context can be hurtful for some readers. Many

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    century‚ who masterminded the Bolshevik take-over of power in Russia in 1917‚ and was the architect and first head of the USSR. Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov was born in Simbirsk on the Volga River on 22 April 1870 into a well-educated family. He excelled at school and went on to study law. At university‚ he was exposed to radical thinking‚ and his views were also influenced by the execution of his elder brother‚ a member of a revolutionary group. Expelled from university for his radical policies‚ Lenin completed

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    many school systems have banned or want to ban these items from school grounds. Why? The one says it is due to the ‘potential problems’‚ such as texting during class and the use of social media. Others say it is because they interrupt the learning environment. Whatever the reason is the school gives us‚ should mobile phones be banned in schools? In daily life almost everyone now is reliable of their mobile phones. It is the wonderful technology for communication‚ especially for high school students

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    people are attempting to restrict our access to certain books‚ by either challenging them or banning them. The reasons are usually because it has sexual content or witchcraft and the encouragement of violence. Book banning has become so common that the last week of September is known as Banned Books Week. There have also been lists of frequently banned authors‚ as well as banned books. What is interesting about these is that many of the books are classics. The First Amendment of the Constitution

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