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    or the class itself. In Killing Mr.Griffin by Lois Duncan, a group of teenagers are not happy with the way Mr.Griffin is towards the class. They meant to kidnap Mr. Griffin just to spook him but, it ended with him dying due to his heart condition. Mr. Griffin is a strict teacher who has no exceptions, but, truly does care about his own students, Lois Duncan descriptions of the kid’s anger aren’t exactly realistic Student’s do get mad and do say words they don’t really mean but, most of the time they would never go out and intentionally harm the teacher. “As for those who have no paper to turn in, you may consider your grade F for this assignment (14.) Jeff Garrett was outraged. Jeff’s anger was the driving force behind the plan of kidnapping Mr. Griffin. It gave Mark Kinney, a mysterious, cool-calming character, a chance to jump on this plan. “Well. why don’t we then (17)?” Jeff know’s Mark is joking about the murder, not the kidnapping though. Students would never plan on kidnapping a teacher like Jeff and his group of friends did.…

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    or the class itself. In Killing Mr.Griffin by Lois Duncan, a group of teenagers are not happy with the way Mr.Griffin is towards the class. They meant to kidnap Mr. Griffin just to spook him but, it ended with him dying due to his heart condition. Mr. Griffin is a strict teacher who has no exceptions, but, truly does care about his own students, Lois Duncan descriptions of the kid’s anger aren’t exactly realistic Student’s do get mad and do say words they don’t really mean but, most of the…

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    that taking books off the shelves is a violation of a person’s first amendment right, their free speech. Lois Duncan’s Killing Mr. Griffin has been challenged countless times by many groups of people who feel that the book’s plot and language should not be something that people are reading about and the authors of the inappropriate books are to blame. When groups of people join together to try to get any book off the shelves and out of the minds of readers the first amendment becomes a…

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    curriculum. Also, the book can not be distributed by teachers in the school. After reading Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan, we believe that it should be censored because it involves bad role models and a lot of violence. To begin, this book should be banned because of it is bad role models. One troublesome character in the book is Mark. Mark demonstrates many traits of a bad person all while keeping an innocent and expressionless face. One example that exhibits Mark’s bad behavior is when…

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    Stereotypes In Family Guy

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    Stereotypes are a common occurrence in everyday life, but they show unreasonable expectations. It puts labels on a group of people according to their sex, race, religious views, or other facts. A group of people that is commonly stereotyped in the media today are Jews. When thinking of Jews, an individual may call to mind a few things, such as all Jews are obsessed with money, bad at sports, white, and have big noses. The television show on FOX called Family Guy does not help to contradict the…

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    Everyone sits still and silent in their seats the whole time she plays her list of stories. “I had liked her. She was strange. I thought I could nail him, ‘ If she was lying,’ I said, ‘What did she say that was a lie?’ ” (pg. 56 l. 413-415). After school, a classmate named Carl Whiteside tells Tommy Miss Ferenczi is lying about the extravagant set of stories she had told them. Tommy finds himself demanding proof that she lied. Carl says that there are no such things that are half lion and half…

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    Conventional Meets Interesting Gryphons, or griffons, are mythological creatures with the head and wings of an eagle and the body of a lion. The new substitute teacher talks about these in the short story “Gryphon” written by Charles Baxter. This new substitute teacher comes in and disregards everything that the class had learned and done before that. Within the few days that she is there, she goes on to tell the class wild things about mythological creatures and angles that she claimed to…

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    Sam, it is. All we had to do was find a wizard to threaten to give us one. Sounds easy, right? Not when they have magic and all we have are our fists. Apparently, wizards have a website where they can meet other wizards and talk about spells and potions and meet up at each other’s evil lairs. We went on a website and found a wizard selling the last griffins feather left! Luckily, she lived pretty close to the hospital so we could walk to her lair. An hour later we found her lair and threatened…

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    Family Guy is an animated comedy focusing on a dysfunctional nuclear family known as the Griffins. Peter is, in short, an idiot and the patriarch of the household. Lois, the mother of the family, is a stereotypical housewife with a wild side. Peter and Lois have three children named Meg, Chris, and Stewie. Meg is typically treated with a cold shoulder and is the black sheep of the family. Chris, much like his father, lacks common sense and dignity. Stewie is the youngest member of the family and…

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    Lois Griffin, Peter’s husband, is a typical American housewife that stays at home and raises the children. Brian Griffin is the intelligent family dog that knows how to speak English very well. Meg Griffin is the Griffin’s eldest child who receives little attention, and gets abused quite frequently. Chris Griffin is the Griffin’s middle child who gets picked on quite a bit at school. Stewie Griffin, a one-year-old prodigy, is the Griffin’s youngest child who wants to dominate the…

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