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    Banning Books in School Jasmin X. Hight St. Martin University Banning Books in School School boards, principals, and teachers have a responsibility for protecting the minds of their students by covering grade and age appropriate material in the classroom. However, does this given responsibility cover the act of banning books from their classrooms? As an advocate for each student, does the teacher not have a duty to introduce the students to a these words issues in order to help the student

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    On the topic of banning books, many parents worry about the wellbeing of their kin when placed and introduced into dangerous topics. Often fearing their child is unable to handle the true reality of life 's many undesirable events. Parents will go as far as banning a book about a little yellow bear and his friends living in the woods. As many of us go through hardships it 's just a “roadblock we have to drive or swerve on the road,” to development. Through the strife of concerned parents, many

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    genres of books from sci-fi to non-fiction to documentaries of events. However today is not the day we will be going over the happy side of what books have to offer, we are going to be taking a cover view of books that are not allowed to be in your hands or in that case be legal for you to own in certain counties. Today we are going to be going over banned books and the topics that surround it, also please know that I can’t emphasize enough on how bad it can be to own these kinds of books in certain

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    Banning Fiction Books

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    real. Fiction books can be a good thing and bad thing sometimes. I think they should banned fiction books because it does not teach us anything important we do not learn anything from fiction books. The book I am reading is called Always Running. The author’s name is Luis J. Rodriguez. The book is about Gang violence. The book includes drugs and gang violence and they lived in a bad neighborhood. They lived in the East side of LA. The book I am reading is a nonfiction book is more like what

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    one, especially the banning of books. Many people believe they must protect themselves and others from the "evils" of many classic books and works of art because they can be deemed "indecent" in one way or another. Many believe that this is absurd and censorship in its current form is a violation of our First Amendment right to free speech. Personally, I align myself with the latter, however I do feel there are occasions where censorship is justifiable. The censorship of books is a division of censorship

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    Banning Books in Schools Essay

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    The practice of the censorship of books in schools has been prevalent due to the explicit content of them. Parents have been complaining to schools about books that count as required reading because they disapprove with the points made in the book. If a book consists of offensive or sexually explicit material, then parents would challenge the schools about them in order to prevent their children from reading them. Censorship in general has been an intensely debated issue because it is considered

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    Book banning is an issue that is seen as archaic in today’s society. Between New Zealand’s right to the freedom of the media, and a generally liberal government, the idea of banning a book due to its content is unheard of. So, it is understandable that there was a massive uproar when conservative lobby group Family First managed to get the first book banned in New Zealand in 22 years in an attempt to “promote a culture that values the family” . In relation to this, recent statistics performed by

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    offend people. A lot of times they are in books and the music that we fill our head with. They can be filled with explicit conent that some people think will lead to corrupt our minds. So they try to get rid of them, especially in libarys. Personally I think explicit content in books should be allowed at any library for the purpose of history, character and to uphold the first amendment. History is one of the most important things that books represent. Books are the foundation of history, and without

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    Restricting books is restricting education. Books become banned for many reasons sex, drugs, profanity etc. In the book In Cold Blood the violence and profanity could be seen as banne worthy to some viewers. In Cold Blood gives its student readers a sense of freedom through its murderous plot line while also highlighting how the adult’s fear the book would beobstructing their pure children. Although adult books are banned, children's books can be banned also for the same reasons. Dr. Seuss has books banned

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    you have heard of the book The Lord of the Rings? Or how about Harry Potter and the Sorcerer Stone? Did you know that at one point in time for some reason or another these books were banned? They even banned a childhood classic Where The Wild things Are (TeenVogue.com). Even here in Pasco county Books like Looking for Alaska and Perks Of Being A Wallflower were banned from all school library shelves. The fact is since nineteen eighty two eleven thousand three hundred books have been banned due to

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