threat to their lives. Other people use guns as a toy which can result in accidental death;or time spent behind bars for using the gun to commit a heinous crime. There is currently a ton of controversy surrounding whether guns should or should not be banned. Guns should not be banned worldwide because they are used for self defense‚ part of the second amendment‚ punish honest citizens. Lastly‚ guns don’t kill people it’s the people who use them. Self defense is defined as the defense of one’s person
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Why The Giver? There are books being banned and challenged all over the country. To challenge a book means that a person or group of people try to limit its access to children/readers but are not successful. A banned book means that a certain book that had been challenged was successfully removed and prohibited from being sold. Lois Lowry’s The Giver tells a story about a young boy named Jonas who lives in a dystopian society. Everything in Jonas’s world is controlled‚ even death and emotions
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immoral subjects could make a good book? The Catcher in the Rye is a prime example. The book has been on the banned reading list since the days following its publishing. The book was said to be “immoral and inappropriate that in 1960‚ a teacher in Tulsa‚ Oklahoma‚ was fired for assigning the book to an eleventh-grade English class.” (“Banned Book: The Catcher”) The Catcher in the Rye should be read in schools because it gives a crystal clear image on how the world contains sex‚ violence‚ and motifs
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Why year round schooling should be banned As grades go down teachers‚ parents and educators are wondering how to solve this problem. One answer they have come up with much research is year around school. However‚ the potential benefits of year-round school are very little and are outnumbered by the cons. The raising utility bill‚ scheduling complications and ironically no academic improvement are some of the many negative outcomes of year round school. True‚ year around school has a lot of benefits
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It is not for the government or any third party to dictate whether or not a person should be allowed to smoke. However‚ smoking does not only affect the smoker negatively. It also affects all the people around those who smoke because when people smoke in pubic the smoke travels everywhere through the air‚ and the negative effects of this smoke affects all living‚ breathing creatures. Therefore smoking should be banned in all public places. People who smoke in public portray a bad example. Children
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Football is by far the most played sport amongst students: Over 1.1 million of them participate in football (Should Football Be Banned ? ). Football been around for decades and is one of the leading causes of injury among high school athletes. The older generations ( 35- 50) believe that football is too dangerous and should be banned‚ students contradict this because football is more than just a game for highschool and college students; whether a person is on the team or just a fan football plays
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Smoking Should Be Banned In Public Places In my opinion‚ smoking in public places should be prohibited. There are many reasons that support this point of view. Smoking is one of the leading killers in world. People shouldn’t die because of it. For years people have been smoking in public thinking ’it’s my body‚ I can do whatever I want to it‚’ but now that it has been proven that smoking not only harms the smoker‚ but also those around him or her‚ they should not be allowed to smoke
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while the Confederacy still relied on farms and slave labor (Confederacy). This led to the common thought that the Confederacy is racist‚ which caused hatred for the Confederate Flag. Most argue the Confederate flag is a symbol for slavery and should be banned‚ however‚ not only are the reasons for banning it wrong‚ this also violates the first amendment‚ freedom of speech. The Confederate flag is a symbol of the Confederacy‚ which was not what most people thought it was. Most think the Confederate
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Basketball Association‚ Major League Baseball‚ and the National Football League. When someone does do something‚ instantly people form their own opinion about what a proper punishment is and it seems to point too banning players. With that being said‚ should the National Football
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Expository Task - That the Sale of Cigarettes be Banned Altogether Smoking should be banned because it causes so much harm to our society. Smoking is known to cause several horrible illnesses such as cancer‚ long-term respiratory diseases‚ heart problems‚ strokes and of course premature death. Approximately 19‚000 Australians die every year due to cigarette smoking. Smoking causes 10% of the world’s deaths‚ making it the largest cause of preventable death in the western world. Smoking
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