Banning

“Should colleges ban fraternities and sororities?” is a question that is frequently asked due to all of the controversy surrounding Greek life. It is also the title of Jake New’s InsideHigherEd article outlining the various instances of misbehavior by Greek organizations across America. One incident that is mentioned is when “the Texas Tech University chapter of Phi Delta Theta was suspended after displaying a banner that read ‘No Means Yes, Yes Means Anal’ ” (New). The banner obviously angered…

com). It is as if you are a boxer but you can’t throw punches to the face. So in all hindsight the risk of potential injury is very high in numerous activities, but why will we lose the integrity of American sport all behind the simple fact of banning tackling in youth sports. The article is very informative in the aspect of alerting the public to the injuries that can be obtained from playing this sport we call football. So what affect did the popularity growth have on the amount of…

things all correlate to the concern surrounding the book The Catcher In The Rye. According to the About Banned and Challenged Books Article, “A challenge is an attempt to remove or restrict materials, based upon the objections of a person or group. A banning is the removal of those materials.” The article also tells us, “Books are usually challenged with the best intentions- to protect others, frequently children, from difficult ideas and information.” But why should The Catcher In The Rye be…

Introduction Recently, there has been a rising concern regarding concussions and contact sports. Rudd, Hodge, Finley, Lewis, and Wang (2016) state that the World Medical Association claims that boxing “produces an alarming incidence of chronic brain injury” (p. 1). In addition to the prevalence of concussion in boxing, Moriarity et al. state that “amateur boxers participating in a carefully supervised competition can have cognitive impairment suggestive of a concussive injury despite the…

Book banning is not doing a greater cause. Book banning is when government or higher authority remove books off shelfs from school libraries for being political, religious, or offensive being too dangerous for young readers. People read books for adventure to discover a whole real world. Censoring books for being too offensive will not open reader’s minds for the real or creative world. Book banning challenges citizen’s freedom to read. Books are influence for new beginnings. Books support…

No, no way, the Canadian government shouldn't ban the seal hunt due to many reasons. I feel the main reasons are: we would lose resources that we acquire from the seals, due to the increase in population of the seals, fishes that we eat are decreasing in population some are even close to extinct, and that the media is going above and beyond by showing nonsense and causing people to act against the seal hunt which is hurting the economy, specially the fishermans. First of all the seals are…

The word ‘banning’ is associated with the words inappropriate, graphic, and uncomfortable, but is it really that they are all of those things or is it something the public fears. Banning books is distributors ways of hiding or protecting innocent minds from the truth or from explicit topics. Books are banned all around the world, but the most common place is in schools. High School students hear and talk about more explicit things than any book could ever teach them, so how is banning books…

past and fearing her future.” The first book in the Nightshade Trilogy involves a interesting love triangle involving Calla Tor, Ren Laroche, and Shay Doran. But why was this book banned? Does banning books make people want to read them more? What things could she have changed in Nightshade to prevent the banning? Andrea Cremer did an interview and stated that her book had been banned before it was ever released. Due to a parent reading her blog about Andreas’ support of Laurie Halse Andersons…

Despite the negative attention that college fraternities have received, Greek life is a very important and rewarding part of the college experience. Banning fraternities on college campuses could possibly lead to a higher risk of negative actions than were committed prior. Fraternities provide a home away from home for many young men (and women seeing how many sororities are technically considered fraternities) and guidance throughout the college years. Disassembling fraternities would lead to a…

way it is handled, because now over half of the dogs euthanized are pit bulls (O’Connor). “The difficulty with Breed-Specific Legislation is that it doesn’t address the root problem: dogs are bred and [handled] by people” (Mott). Instead of totally banning this group or dog, there should be laws and restrictions for those that own them, and who can own…