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experience as a narrator while he is receiving treatment in a mental institute. Vulgarity is one complaint and issue that The Catcher in the Rye receives numerous amounts of times. Throughout the whole book, the main character, Holden, uses profanity quite often. For example, Holden uses language such as "damn", "crap", "ass", and "hell". These words are not entirely the most vulgar words, but Holden is very repetitive with

Introduction For a person who wants to be an anchor of a news station like me, you think you can talk about everything and anything pertaining to the news, this is incorrect. Every show has regulations set by the Government. This goes for television, radio, newspaper, magazines and even for the internet. If any sort of media fails to abide by these rules, it is easy for the company to be sued or the network to become canceled. If you are part of the “television crowd” and want to go into this career

At some point in everyone's life they wonder what they are doing. They ask the question of “Why am I here?” “ What do I want to do?” And “Where am I going?”. These questions I began asking at an early age. As I have struggled to figure out who I personally want to be and accomplish what I want in life, my family has been a major influence in my life. My family is a part of the LDS faith, so that is the church I have always attended. As a young child, I attended purely because it was the expectation

more. The F-word is also mentioned six times in the book. Many people wonder that since the average adolescent uses roughly 80 to 90 swear words a day, why should it matter that they read about them? The point for books to be banned by their use of profanity is that reading bad words does have an influence on the reader especially at an age were they are very impressionable. Since many eighth grade students are not allowed to use these curse words in school or at home why should they be read them in

In J. D Salinger’s, Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caufield, the protagonist, is a 16-year-old boy who has been kicked out of three schools and is being expelled from Pencey Prep, a private school because he is flunking four out of five subjects. Holden decides to leave school three days early because he is depressed after he gets into a fight with his roommate, Stradlater. Holden does not decide to go back home instead he chooses to stay in New York and hang around until the letter is sent to his house

Censors have been trying to ban books for hundreds of years. They ban books with content that contains different and/or unpopular viewpoints. Censors not only ban books that are considered inappropriate but they have also tried to ban books and plays that are known as classics in today’s society. Famous authors such as William Shakespeare have had their work attacked and criticized by censors. Censors have even banned books like the dictionary and the Bible. Books have been banned for various reasons

For instance taboo words on profanity; secular and derisive language, blasphemy; anti-religion words like holy shit, what the hell, and sexual language. Taboo words are many ranging to referents such as disgusting objects, animal names, racial insults and psychological digressions such

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The Importance of Language in The Catcher in the Rye      J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye has captured the spirit of adolescence, dramatizing Holden Caulfield's vulgar language and melodramatic reactions. Written as the autobiographical account of a fictional teenage prep school student named Holden Caulfield, The Catcher in the Rye deals with material that is socially scandalous for the time (Gwynn, 1958). As an emotional, intelligent, and sensitive young man, Holden puts his inner

One of the main arguments against profanity on Television is that it will affect the minds of the children and the way they grow up. With all this said the parents can prevent their children’s from hearing profanity, or can show them from a young age that swearing is wrong and what context the words are used in. The fact that the FCC has a ban of 24 hours on the use of indecent language should not be enough evidence used to blame it on the children. In the article On the regulation of broadcast indecency