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    are reading books that reveal unbefitting aspects. An organization called Banned Books Week, is trying to take a stand on this situation, by banning these books. These books have impacted the students negatively, to where they’re making bad decisions. Children are naturally curious about things. If they hear or read something, they’re more likely to try it. Putting themselves into harm's way. Children are exposed to graphic elements, profanity, violence, negativity, and witchcraft. Books should be

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    Books are banned for terrible things, the reasons why follow. Books contain LGBT content, which many people don’t consider healthy for a child’s growing mind. Also, racist comments are a leading reason in books being banned. As well, too much profanity can be seen as inappropriate. Therefore, books are being banned for many, and good, reasons. A select group of books contains anti-LGBT content. “The list of the 10 most challenged books in 2016 reveals much about the times in which we live. The

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    Banning Of Book

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    Should Certain Books Be Banned from the School Library? As a congregation of pupils from different age groups, the school is responsible for teaching and giving students the right information. There had been debates about whether specific books should be banned from the school library. Certain books shouldn't be prohibited from the school library because it has strong legal support (source 1), book banning censors information (source 2), and students will be tempted to access the banned

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    The Banning of Books

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    Books allow the mind to flourish, to wonder, to become the escape from reality that is desperately needed from time to time. Books can make no social comment, such as Dr. Seuss’s “Hop on Pop”, where the reader is just allowed to escape and go into an alternate reality. Books can also make a statement about social occurrences at the time, such as Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby”. Orson Scott Card‘s “Ender’s Game” falls into a category in between where it allows the reader into an

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    Banning Books

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    of Huckleberry Finn, Beloved, Gone with the Wind, The Grapes of Wrath, The Jungles, all of these books are vital to our lives. They shaped the good part of American that made people here now. These great novels both teach important values and educate children about world affairs and classic themes. Sadly, these great novels were soon banned from local libraries, schools and others. Most classical books and stories have been banned because of profanity, sexual ideas, racial, religious, and witchcraft

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    Book Banning

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    see the things that books, such as The Great Gatsby, To Kill a Mockingbird, and even The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, are banned for. I hear racial slurs, vulgar language, see violent video games, and even people being very sexual in public, and yet people are still banning books that are like the real world because they do not want the children of this nations to read about the things they see in their day-to-day lives. I find that preposterous. Oscar Wilde once said “The books that the world calls

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    Book Banning

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    remember that one book you read that really opened your eyes? Well the sad reality is that somewhere in the world that favorite book you read is either banned or challenged in a library. So it sits locked away never to open the eyes of another or help educate them further on its contents. Books should not be banned in libraries. We have the freedom of speech, so why take away or censor our freedom to simply read and consume literature? There are usually two ludicrous reasons as to why books are banned

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    The Banning Of Books

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    Have you ever needed to read a book about something but couldn't because of other people had distant opinions on the book and they didn't let you?When reading an article about censorship and books being banned and challenged, there will be many surprising facts ,important details ,keywords ,and connections made and different point of views from everyone. After reading an article in the afternoon at school about a book being banned some of the info in the article surprised me, however there was some

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    Book Banning for Protection v. Book Banning Hurting Students By definition, a democratic society in America is a form of society which favors equal rights, freedom of speech and a fair trial and tolerates the views of minorities. All students are entitled to intellectual freedom and by banning certain books in schools, the school system and parents are putting students at a disadvantage. While those who seek to ban books do so out of a desire to protect students, others believe that banning books

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    Banning Of Books

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    Books have been burned all threw out time one of the most recent events in history is the Holocaust but most people don’t know how many books were burned 2,000 books were burned On the night of May 10, 1933 Several German students threw them in the fire while singing Nazi Anthems. They did this because the books were against the Nazi regime, soon as the United States heard of this we complained vigorously. Thru history books have been banned and america has a free society, meaning we can

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