Once a person under eighteen checks out one of the controversial books, there is a high chance they can learn something from it. If the town council were to remove these books, knowledge will be stolen from many patrons. Stealing the chance to learn from books just because a few parents are complaining about the subject material of the books, does not seem worth it. Other than patrons under eighteen, adults may wish to check out the unacceptable books. If the town council discarded
The “Darkness” of Children's Literature Darkness, brutality, violence, disillusionment, are these the words that come to mind when the topic of children’s literature arises? There is much debate today on whether or not children’s literature is too “dark” for its intended audience. Some define “dark” as those words mentioned above while others believe that anything that doesn’t leave a child happy and smiling signifies “darkness”. As Andrew Levy (2007) stated in his article “Campaigning parents plan to burn children’s books with grisly endings”, “Children’s books that don’t have happy endings should be banned, it was claimed yesterday”. Darkness is part of our everyday lives; while every child will react differently to “dark” stories they should not be protected from the realities of life; they should be exposed and educated about those realities.
It should stay the way the author intended it to be. Racist language in old literature is very uncomfortable for many people to read. It can be offensive to African Americans. Many books are banned from schools just because of the racist language. We just need to understand that these books were written a long time ago and that was the language they used back then.
Should the CDs sold in stores that may be considered “offensive,” have any type of warning labels on? I feel that music stores should keep warning labels also keep warning labels off of every CD with profanity in it. First of all, many music artists are against the placement of warning labels on any of their CDs. They feel that these labels will negatively affect album sales because their work will essentially be marked as being offensive or dangerous. When popular musicians such as Kanye West, Maroon-5, Drake, etc.
While reading the article one of the more noticeable things is the list on the front page. The list consists of a few of the things that Amy Chua’s children were and were not allowed to do, things such as attending sleepovers, be in their school play and get any grade less than an A. By western standards, any of these things would seem almost ludicrous. Why would you not allow your children to be part of their school play if they so wish? While western parents argue that, stressing academic success is not good for children (ll.
One of the most important reasons to why library censorship is unacceptable is that it limits our information resources. In other words, we will not have the right to receive and source our assignments with quotes and information from banned books, nor will we have the right to read certain books from some of our favorite authors. There are many books that are banned from people or more likely students under the age of 17 (Koss 29). One of these books is
Should parents be banned from smacking their children??? Banning smacking would make parents feel like the Government is going too far, taking over the parental role...' Although I would like to advise the parents that the government is just trying to help them and their kids to be safe. I am Teen Thomas, who would like to prove that parents should not be smacking their kids and the government should make it illegal. I would like to acknowledge that smacking is generally not an effective means of discipline, as well as smacking can be a lead to more extreme forms of physical abuse. Indeed it is proven that smacking is a violation of the child's right to be safe and it could cause long-term intelligence or psychological harm.
Books are constantly being banned from all different places for all different reasons as well as from all age groups. Books are usually banned because of content such as profanity, sexual situations, or even witchcraft. But should they be banned to everyone just for these reasons? Books should not be banned to high school students and older. Student in high school are exposed to many different things, good and bad, as a part of growing up and maturing.
No books should ever be banned because for each book that is banned, there possibly could be one life lesson that will not be learned by the next generation. Censorship of books in schools and libraries is wrong for it limits what students can potentially learn. Books such as To Kill a Mocking Bird, Of Mice and Men, and others teach valuable life lessons, which is why they are considered classics. Books such as these are being banned for they have questionable material. In the same book introduction as the opening quote, Judy Blume wrote, “Those who were most active in trying to ban books cam from the ‘religious right’ but the impulse to censor spread like a contagious disease.
Music censorship has been a controversial subject for a long time. Many individuals believe that the words and phrases in songs are inappropriate; but every individual on this planet should have the ability to state his or her own ideas freely. The argument in music censorship is: are kids affected by inappropriate lyrics? My answer would be no, because even if you change the curse words in a sentence, the main idea would still be the same. There’s no point in censoring lyrics.