Should Alcohol Be Banned Essay

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    “Alcohol addiction stunts the spiritual, emotional and mental growth of a person”~Anonymous. Sherman Alexie’s novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian, is a book based off the author’s teenage life. The novel is about a poor 14 year old named Junior who faced numerous challenges in his life. Junior has experienced bullying, he was called a traitor for following his dreams, got in a huge fight with his best friend and lost three very important people in his life because of alcohol. Fortunately

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    Fahrenheit 451 has been banned or challenged throughout its existence, and students and parents alike met each act of censorship with strong retaliation because they know the themes and lessons the novel (independence, activism, and freedom of speech) will influence the reader more than the brief mentions of substance abuse, profanity, and anti-religious content. This novel, in its purest form, should be available to students all across the nation. There have been many cases of censorship for this

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    Books are banned due to many reasons including the American Library Association, parents, school administrators and teachers. There are many books in our school curriculum that have been banned or challenged in other places, but our school has never had this problem with any book. Many people are banning books to keep students from being corrupted by topics they may not understand. Yet this book, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, has a theme that can be tied in with our world today. The main

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    behavior cause violent incidents and many reformationists believed that alcohol caused this behavior. A popular historical example is the 18th amendment, calling for a complete ban of alcohol sales, transportation, and manufacture in the United States. The 18th amendment, also known as Prohibition was created in 1920’s and lasted for a little over a decade. Alcohol consumption was at an extremely high rate and many believed that alcohol was the reason for deviant behavior in society. This controversial

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    Books have been banned for many, many years. In history books have been burned do to the content of the book. In Germany, Adolf Hitler would burn books that went against him and communist ideaology. The First Amendment is now used to protects these rights. The First amendment was established because United State citizens demanded a guarantee of their basic freedom. The First Amendment allows a writer to write what they want and for a reader to read what they want. Freedom of Speech is protected

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    The Banning of Alcohol Stacy Rhymes was a 24-year-old woman from Britain. She had “drunk herself to death...She had started drinking at 17 and seven years later her body simply gave up under the constant assault from alcohol.” She had barely had a life before she died. In the end, “her stomach was like a balloon, as if she were nine months pregnant. Her long hair was falling out, her urine was coloured black and she could not eat. She was scared to look in the mirror because her eyes were yellow

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    to do with parents and their children. It is the government’s job to control and make decisions regarding the country, while it is the parents’ job to control their children. Firstly, I disagree with the point that was made saying teenagers should be banned from using smartphones until they are 18. “Remove smartphones from the hands of under-18s and maybe they will grow up to be less dumb.” I feel that it may be too harsh to do so as they are required some form of entertainment which is easily

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    twenty-one. However, in 1920 the United States banned the sale, production, importation, and transportation of alcohol. This era known as the Prohibition sparked the popularity of hidden underground bars and events. The Prohibition Era is a prime example of how people did anything to intake alcohol and eventually this led to the act of doing illegal things. It is obvious to say that many people in the 1920’s were going against the law and were consuming alcohol. Today, this age seems to be a topic

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    along with many other countries have criminalized marijuana. But it might not be as bad as people were led to believe. While some think that marijuana is a harmful and dangerous drug, the U.S. should legalize it because of it’s health benefits, marijuana has never actually killed anyone and the reason it was banned in the first place wasn’t even because the government thought it was harmful. Marijuana is beneficial to many types of people, patients going through chemotherapy, people with chronic pain

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    the country there have been issues with the use of alcohol on college campuses. The consumption of alcohol causes problems with the student’s education, health, and behavior. Many universities have had difficulties solving these problems. Alcohol should be banned from college campuses. First, alcohol effects the student’s education. Over half of all college students have reported drinking between the ages of eighteen and twenty-four (“Alcohol Fact”). Of that fraction of students, twenty-five percent

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