Banning

Banning cigarette smoking has been a topic of dicussion for so many years and still is today. So many people don 't realize the negative effect cigarettes have on the human body and yet it is still legal. Many people that inhale the harmful toxic from the cigarette you are proned to illnesses. Smoking cigarettes cause death, diseases/health issues, your appearance changes and it also effects pregnant women. Smoking cigarettes should be banned. There has been a dramatic change in cigarettes over…

“The Case for Banning Laptops in the Classroom” is a better source than “Transitioning to a More Digitally Focused Course Experience” because, even though “ The Case” is less reliable and has less objective, it is still more credible, up to date, and has better scope of coverage. As far as the objectives goes both source really don’t have much objectives in them but, they do have some. In “ The Case” It shows advertising throughout the article. In “Transitioning” there are no advertising…

Why is “Of Mice and Men” banned? Books are banned for many reasons, but why are they banned? Books are banned and challenged when someone or a group of people have an issue with the content of the book. A book that is on the banned book list is “Of Mice and Men”. There is controversy about whether this book should be banned. In my opinion it should be because of the racism, violence, and explicit language. racism although isn't the main reason this book is banned it has a major factor. For…

Novel Prejudice: Why To Kill A Mockingbird Was Banned To Kill A Mockingbird, written by Nelle Harper Lee, was published in 1960 and immediately became successful. However, starting in 1977, the book was challenged and even banned from many school districts due to the themes presented by the novel such as profanity, rape, and most importantly, racism (American Literature Association). Challenges and critiques of the novel were common up until the mid 2000s, but To Kill A Mockingbird was banned…

Marijuana: But Why? How many people smoke marijuana? Marijuana—also called weed, herb, pot, grass, bud, ganja, Mary Jane, and a vast number of other slang terms—is a greenish-gray mixture of the dried, shredded leaves and flowers of Cannabis sativa—the hemp plant, which people will mainly smoke to get a “high”. A survey that was taken in 2015 showed that at least 50 percent of Americans aged 12 and up have tried marijuana at least once (Pewresearch). People smoke marijuana for a number of…

Books, films, news and more! So many ways to get the word out there. But if it is politically unacceptable, considered indecent, or even a threat to society it needs to be prohibited. The novel Go Ask Alice by anonymous is an intense book about a fifteen-year-old girl who gets mixed up in the wrong crowd and wants so badly to fit in she does not care that her "friends" take hardcore drugs. She even started taking them herself. This novel without a doubt needs to be banned. It is not only…

Weed plays a big part in teens’ life. I want to tell every teen reading this that weed is not good for you. I am going to tell you three good reasons why you should not smoke weed. One it has a physical effect on your body. Two, it is hard for you to get a job. Three, you will go to jail! First, I want to tell you that weed does have an effect on your body. I know that a lot of you hear some of your peers say that weed does nothing to you, but it does. You will lack physical coordination. You…

With the enactment of House Bill Eleven or as many call Campus Carry in August 2016, I felt it was time to talk about this once and for all, but not on the lines of conservative or liberal. It will now be legal for anybody twenty-one or older with a concealed-carry permit to carry a handgun on campus this next August. For many this is a scary thought because of the numerous school shootings at campuses across the country. In fact I know that whenever there is a threat to campus, it usually…

will find out that people have been burning books almost since the beginning of time. Banning of books has also been a practice that has lasted for many years. The symbolism of burning and banning books represents that the people want access to information are denied free access to whatever type of information they want. Without the banning of books, people would be able to read about anything they wish. The banning of books also gives the idea that people are only allowed the knowledge…

on their criminal record (Hyde, 2015). Yet, I feel as though with this requirement removed from applications, it would help ex-offenders become more hopeful, confident, and joyful that they have a greater chance at obtaining a job. Nevertheless, banning the box from the application process is only the first step in businesses hiring an ex-offender (Hyde, 2015). No matter the criminal record the offender has obtained, the offender still has to take their own initiative to…