book to the point where it offends them on one level or another‚ this is where challenges or bans against a book arise. More times than not‚ a book is banned/ challenged due to religious or spiritual reasons. This is exactly the case of the only reported challenge on The Lord of the Rings‚ the 40th most commonly challenged classic book on the ALA Banned and Challenged Classics list‚ written by J.R.R. Tolkien. Although the reasoning behind reported challenges against The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit
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Therefore cellphones should be banned during class time. Supporters of the use of cellphones in class say that the phones can be used as an educational learning tool in some lessons‚ but only when the teacher specifically asks for the use of it. Almost all modern smart phones have Internet access and the students are usually able to download some very useful learning applications‚ for example a graphing calculator app for math or an online dictionary for a different language. A high school in Winnipeg
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Imagine one night after school‚ you have a ton of work to do‚ and you’re looking foward to sports that night to take your mind of the stressful work. Then you find out that the school has canceled sports. Schools are wanting to get rid of sports! Sports can be fun‚ a chance to hang out with friends in a way you can’t in school. You don’t have to do any frustrating work. Now‚ schools want to take that away. Schools should keep their sports. One reason schools should keep sports is kids would be treated
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Is it okay for women to breastfeed their baby in public? Should breastfeeding be banned completely? Some seem to think this issue is entirely misunderstood and disrespectful to women and is an act of indecent exposure‚ unknowingly realizing that it is the most natural thing in the world. Breastfeeding is an intimate bond between a mother and her child and it is a private issue that should be handled as such. Nonetheless‚ all women should have the right to legally breastfeed their babies in public
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century‚ who masterminded the Bolshevik take-over of power in Russia in 1917‚ and was the architect and first head of the USSR. Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov was born in Simbirsk on the Volga River on 22 April 1870 into a well-educated family. He excelled at school and went on to study law. At university‚ he was exposed to radical thinking‚ and his views were also influenced by the execution of his elder brother‚ a member of a revolutionary group. Expelled from university for his radical policies‚ Lenin completed
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Should Schools Have Edays? Do you think schools have edays? Schools are starting to have e days instead of snow days. I think schools shouldn’t have edays. Schools shouldn’t have e-days because some students don’t have the internet to do it‚ some families might only have one computer and more than one child and some students might need help from teachers. First schools shouldn’t have edays because some students don’t have the internet. And the kids without internet won’t be able to do the assignments
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Kaitlyn Sebastian Cell Phone Usage in School In a Wireless survey‚ it has been said that 91% of Americans use a cell phone. These devices have majorly advanced within the years and can be used for many things. Although cell phones have many great and convenient features‚ their usage in school should be banned because teens ignore the enforced rules‚ it can be used to cheat‚ and most have a camera feature that can be used to take inappropriate pictures of others. Teens these days are
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The word “steroids” has more than one meaning‚ there are some steroids‚ which the body produces naturally as they are required through puberty and can help with stress management. Steroids can also refer to medicine taken for asthma‚ pain and skin problems. And then there are the steroids which are constantly being used in sport‚ they are synthetic drugs that are often used by professional athletes in order to increase the production of testosterone. They are available in pills‚ powder or injections
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A current problem I see that has not been fully aware or solved is vaping or the use of e-cigarettes. There are places where vaping is accepted but‚ there other countries that are trying to ban the use of vaping. Before vaping was getting popular there was no signs stating you can’t vape‚ like how there are signs for cigarettes. For those that do not know vaping is for anyone who is trying to quit smoking but‚ the tobacco companies are trying to discount the products of vaping. They are not interested
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Single-Sex versus Co-education Education is very important for both boys and girls‚ but the place they are being educated in is very arguable. Nowadays‚ it has been noticed that in a single-sex educational experience students exhibit an eagerness to participate in discussions. In Australia‚ the percentage of students attending single-sex secondary schools was 55% of boys and 54% of girls‚ in 1985. However‚ by 1995 the proportion of students attending had dropped to 41% of boys and 45% of
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