Dear Jay Asher (author)‚ In the United States today‚ more than 11‚000 books have been challenged or banned. Many people disagree with how authors write about graphic topics like sex‚ drugs‚ partying‚ abuse‚ religion and much more. Although‚ what they 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
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Smoking is a expensive habit and it should be banned. Although smokers claim that it helps them to relax and release stress‚ the negative aspects outweigh the positive. It is a hazard for both smokers and non - smokers and it is especially harmful to unborn babies. Cigarettes are also addictive because of the nicotine they contain. Smoking should be outlawed due to the hazard it causes to the smokers and non - smokers‚ the negative aspects and dangerous consequences it causes‚ and also the harmful
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book to the point where it offends them on one level or another‚ this is where challenges or bans against a book arise. More times than not‚ a book is banned/ challenged due to religious or spiritual reasons. This is exactly the case of the only reported challenge on The Lord of the Rings‚ the 40th most commonly challenged classic book on the ALA Banned and Challenged Classics list‚ written by J.R.R. Tolkien. Although the reasoning behind reported challenges against The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit
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therefore I have no time to study my material and therefore my test grades suffer as a result. Homework is like slavery. It’s basically forcing students to go home after a stressful day of school and activities and do pointless homework. Teachers should be teaching these things in class‚ not making the students learn it themselves. It’s preventing children from leading balanced lifestyles‚ with a healthy amount of sleep and activities to keep them fit and active. How is a student supposed to do 3
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Child Labour Should Be Banned By fiona_jones Jan. 2007 790 Words 70 Views Page 1 of 3 For many of us it is hard to imagine what it would be like growing up‚ having to work from the age of five and not being able to go to school. ’Child Labour’ is defined by the United States Department of Labour (DOL) as ’the employment of boys and girls when they are too young to work for hire; or when they are employed at jobs unsuitable or unsafe for children of their ages’ It is not something we are too familiar
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controversy when difficult issues arise in adolescent geared novels. Even though there are many concerns with Lois Lowry’s The Giver‚ this book should not be banned from the Coopertown Middle Library. The Giver is about an eleven-year-old boy named Jonas is a light-eyed boy who lives in a Utopian society. Within his society‚ there is no suffering‚ no hunger‚ no war‚ no color‚ and no love. There is no uniqueness and everyone is‚ in essence‚ the same. No one leaves the community unless they are released
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Boxing is Barbaric and Should be Banned Cuts and bruises‚ broken ribs‚ internal bleeding‚ brain damage‚ death. Is the sport of boxing too much of a risk? Although cockfighting and bearbaiting have been banned for several decades in most civilized countries‚ fistfights between people are still allowed. Boxing first started out as a sport in the Olympic Games from as early as 688 BC. Boxing (sometimes also known as pugilism) is a combat sport in which two participants‚ generally of similar weight
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smoking. It was a dreadful scene. Those families were sad‚ because they had went bankrupt because of the great expensive of treating the sick at the hospital but now they were despairing as their sons and daughters were dying. Cigarette smoking should be banned‚ because it’s hazardous for people’s health‚ and it is also very expensive. First of all‚ cigarettes contain four thousand chemicals in it‚ and 69 are known to cause cancer! First-hand smokers get yellow teeth‚ skin‚ and fingernails from smoking
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ENN103F Cigarette Smoking Should Be Banned Introduction It has become fashionable in the world today to condemn smoking. Smoking should be banned because it destroys people’s health‚ finances and families. Smoking has been shown to be dangerous to health of the people. Heart disease‚ bronchitis and lung cancer have all been linked. A further issue is that smoking costs governments millions of rands because of the large number of people who need treatment in hospitals for smoking related
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Biology 101 Should Cigarette Smoking Be Banned? Should there be a ban on cigarette smoking in the United States? Since cigarettes were introduced to Americans‚ questions have been raised concerning the legality of smoking and if it should be allowed everyone‚ in public places‚ or not at all. Recently‚ with the increase knowledge in cost and healthcare‚ the controversy with cigarette smoking has significantly risen. Across the country‚ states have banned smoking in public areas and inside buildings
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