On 31 December 2007, Stephen Conroy announced the Federal Government's intention to introduce an ISP-based filter to censor "inappropriate material" from the Internet (mainly child abuse and terrorism). In this announcement he also stated that adults could opt out of the filter to receive an uncensored internet. The filter itself is flawed, so is met with strong opposition. Banning illegal content like child abuse and terrorism is inarguably a good thing. I welcome it.
Debating the Banning of a Great Novel Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, is responsible for the controversy caused by the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. This novel has been banned in many high schools across the nation for the foul language applied and the sentiment it brings to those who may relate to it. Yet many are unaware that the purpose of the novel is not to bring about resentment but to appeal the reader to the circumstances in which the characters lived. Some disregard the notice at the beginning of the novel, which contains an explanation for the dialect used. Many choose to find a plot in the novel, although the author clearly states that the novel purposely lacks a plot.
The book Fahrenheit 451 is a book about censorship that bans book from the world. Anyone that has books gets burned down by the firemen. The government controls everything in the society and clearly it does not work. Therefore you can tell that if you censor books and do not allow people to read and gain knowledge a scenario like Fahrenheit 451 could happen faster then we
About Holden Persuasive Essay Jimmy Nguyen Catcher in the Rye is by J.D. Salinger and is being taught in high school English right now, and it should be banned. It is a bad influence to readers that are younger and a lot of those people who are young might read this book because it is fiction. The first reason for banning the book is that it has a strong use of languages and vocabulary. Holden says cruse words alot throughout the book.
The Language Police Throughout “The Language Police,” the angered author, Diane Ravitch, speaks her mind on the issue of censorship. Censorship shelters students from the real world and gives them a false sense of reality. Ravitch believes that students are being censored to such an extreme that their freedom is being limited. The goal of the language police is not just to stop us from using objectionable words but to stop us from having objectionable thoughts (Ravitch 158). The language police are restricting what students learn by removing anything that may appear controversial.
The derogatory term makes it hard to appropriately depict the true meaning of the book to a group of children without raising countless unspoken questions. On the other hand, we have those that believe that the removal of Twain’s vernacular of that time takes away from the contextual essence of the novel leaving the youth “unaware that their people have overcome centuries of oppression”. (Schneider 3) Furthermore, censorship of Huckleberry Finn could depend on many other factors: fear of uneducated or insensitive teachers leading student discussions, school administrators who wish to avoid controversy and discomfort with acknowledging our country's painful history. “It’s true that people might now be offended by the portrayal of Jim, or the use of “nigger”, but times have changed and we don’t portray them that way anymore. You can’t just ignore what happened and people
Not only does she persuaded her audience to understand that PC is getting out of hand, but that she is using the fact that we have the right to a freedom of speech, yet we have PC trying to censor us to say things such as “happy holidays” and “vertically challenged.” But she also beings attention to the fact that it is slowly influencing our colleges, high schools and educational system, as a country of freedom, a country that stands for freedom is slowly censoring the young minds of the next generation to consider that what they are saying is not correct, but we are now being told to say what should
In this part of the novel, Twain uses satire to extremes when he satirizes that using violence against a parents own child is acceptable. In the next few chapters, Pap is found dead, which alludes to the fact that Twain believes violence is an unacceptable form of resolution. Twain characterizes Pap using satire to show that violence is not an acceptable form of
The apostle Paul wrote in the bible that some things are so shameful we should not even speak of them (Ephesians 5:12). Yet many of the degrading things to which Paul referred fill our print and electronic media. If we want good mental health, we should discipline our minds to avoid a degrading mental diet. The principle of "garbage in, garbage out" certainly applies with respect to our minds. The net effect of what occupies our minds-and often comes out of our mouths-will be as pure or as corrupt as whatever we let enter our minds.
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