What Is Taboo And Obscenity?

Despite that students now use profanity in their public schools and even more out of school, this could cause more children and teens to use the offensive language around their peers.

Some connotative and denotative meanings of some words are “The room was filthy.” (71) Connotative- grossed out Denotative- disgustingly or completely dirty

Profanity should be the last reason a great novel should be banned. After all, it is reality, it is how people talk, and in the case of Harris and Me, its definitely how young boys talk to each other. The use of the language is hardly profanity at all. For example, Harris says, “Well you can just blow it out your butt you old cow, you ain’t no grown-up to tell me what to do. How the hell am I supposed to know things if I don’t go ahead and ask them? (Gary Paulsen, Harris and Me .7)” The words feel elementary to me, he says butt instead of ass, and old cow instead of old heifer. Maybe it’s not the actual words that parents are losing their minds about, but more about

There are many instances where taboo topics are mentioned, for example “naked men and women in cages together so that others can watch them having sex to God telling people that they better not mess with his loser, bum of a son, named Jesus Christ”(Morais 3). Just because it is depicted in the book, does not mean Vonnegut condones it. The vulgarity is a symbol like many others in his book. Critics and judges banned the book because it was, “depraved, immoral, psychotic, vulgar, and anti-Christian”(Morais). Those who call Slaughterhouse-Five immoral obviously have not read it through carefully enough. Slaughterhouse-Five is an advocate for anti-war, not pornography and nihilism. The vulgar manner of this book is used as a tool to make the reader laugh not to offend anyone. For example when Kilgore trout, Billy’s favorite author is announcing that the kid that sells the most subscriptions to a newspaper will win a trip to "Martha's fucking Vineyard"(Vonnegut 212). Then A girl asks Trout if she can bring her sister, and he responds by saying, "Hell no, you think money grows on trees?"(Vonnegut 212). In any other circumstance, using profanities when talking to children would be inappropriate, but because of the way Vonnegut sets up the situation and gives the characters important traits, this scene becomes humorous. Profanities and inappropriate situations do not always have to be followed by shun and contempt,

Profane language weakens a student's communication skills because they have limited vocabulary which leads to using improper language. Kim Asch, an author of an article writes profane language is over used in schools. The article states, "Swearing is not only bad manners, Mr. O'Connor says, it's poor communication that shows a lack of imagination and a limited vocabulary. And in a time when even students can be accused of sexual harassment, the earlier they clean up their vocabulary the better." In the moderate days, people has been very sensitive with many of these words used by students in school because many people do not appreciate this behavior.

Taboo as defined the dictionary is: “banned on grounds of morality or taste.” Taboo topics in cult film are often dealt with in an excessive manner. These taboos can include ideas about sex, family, and gender roles among others. They showcase these taboos in an excess manner. The following films have not only discussions of taboo subjects but depict taboo acts.

Besides literal uses for cuss words (as verbs), over two-thirds of all swearing is linked in expressing some kind of emotional connotation. These help with expressing the speaker’s anger, frustration, and surprise (“son of a bitch”, “f*ck me!”, “holy shit!”) which are done in emotional outbursts of these single words, also known as epithets. In addition profanity has a direct connection with emotional response in that when one utters one of these “worser words” it helps increase heart rate and work as an analgesic, showing how it can help manage emotional pain as it has a direct connection. One such emotional connection could be noted in the use of “FUBAR” (F*ucked up beyond all recognition) in the movie Saving Private Ryan to help the convey the soldiers emotions in how sick of they were of the war. Commonly physical fights take place to help express emotional pain or anger, these are normally avoided by voicing this anger through these taboo words. For example one can use name calling (bitch, asshole), or curse in the form of a put down (eat shit and die) all spur emotional responses and can help avoid physical confrontations by giving a voice to inner feelings. This is commonly seen in rap songs where many cuss words are used to unveil inner feelings. Such the rap group NWA used

There has been a lot of debate on the legal understandings of term obscene and its usage. Constitutionally, the term is used to define certain behaviors or expressions in motion pictures, art or literature. The law tries to look at the effects that obscenity would have on the morals of the people or on the minds of those that see the material. It also considered the effect some publications would have on the hands that they might fall in. There has been an evolution of the whole idea over the years since the inception and the legalities behind it.

After the European influence upon indigenous Hawaiian culture, “Hawaiians radically reinterpreted and transformed their culture… part of this transformation was the abandonment of the kapu system in 1819.” The meaning of the organization of architecture no longer reflects upon ideology of the Hawaiians, but the adaptation of more technological advanced living space. As a result, “many temples were dismantled or destroyed, leaving only he foundation stones” (Ladegoged, #).

In today’s society curse words and insults are used in many people’s regular vocabulary. Most of these insults, if not all, are being said without prior knowledge of the meaning behind the word. An example of an insult like this is porch monkey, a derogatory term for African Americans. The people that use derogatory terms like this are often ill-informed and unaccepting of other cultures.

Schools ban books containing sex and profanity because they do not want their students to get the idea of “another day, another blow job” (Anonymous 112). As well, they do not want their youth reading books that include “the dirty sonofabitches had taken turns raping us and treating us sadistically” (78). While this novel includes explicit aspects such as blasphemy and sex, the author never encourages doing either of these things. He or she uses these as a way to explain the negatives of drug use, meaning he or she is insinuating that both sex and profanity are sinful actions, as they are a result of

language is vulgar, lewd, and demeaning. As of 2015, all states in the United States, except for

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