In the course of discovery, the School Board members who voted to remove the books acknowledged that they had not read many of the books and that they removed them because they exposed students to the "religion of witchcraft." The ultimate questions: Do students have a right to read? Does book censorship violate the First Amendment and at the expense of who? As the final verdict on April 22, 2003, the Supreme Court ordered the return of the books back to library shelves. Background Information The Court cited the Tinker case and ruled that there was no evidence that reasonably showed substantial disruption or material interference with school activities if students were allowed unfettered access to the books.
The designated smoke areas sounded like a good idea at first so that smokers would have specific places to smoke under certain rules. No one wants a dirty campus that can be caused by careless smokers that throw their cigarette butts all over campus. Non-smokers can be affected by second-hand smoke and also the health of certain students would be at risk. With this being said it would work better if people would follow the rules and stop being careless. An opposing view might say that a smoke-free campus is not a big issue to deal with.
In today’s society children do not have the opportunity to participate in traditional rites of passage. Children nowadays will established their own rites of passage where it involves, sex, drugs, gang initiation, and tattooing or body piercing. Some of these types of initiation can be deadly or unhealthy. For examples; body piercing and tattooing can cause infection if equipment is not being sterile properly. For those adolescents who gets body piercing and tattooing will not be able to donate blood due to the scare of blood contaminations (McGuinness, 2006).
Do people want to shorten their lives? Do people want to risk the chance of getting lung cancer, heart disease, and other life threatening conditions? The production and sale of tobacco products should be made illegal in the United States because the use of these products reduces a smoker’s life span approximately fourteen years. One of every five deaths in the U.S. is related to smoking each year, due to conditions such as pneumonia, bronchitis, lung cancer and emphysema (Kavanagh). Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States simply because if someone never chose to smoke or dip, then they would not have the chance of shortening their life.
Years ago my marriage failed and I learned from the mistakes I made during that relationship how to approach future relationships. Same applies to when I attended college in 2004 and dropped out versus attending now and putting for 110% effort. Environmental health: One of the least important dimensions of health to me, but one of the most important to overall society. If everyone shared my belief that it wasn’t important, then years down the road our planet would likely end up barren and toxic. I do not intentionally sabotage the environment but also do not do anything specific to help protect it.
Gun laws pertaining to schools prevent people from saving more lives and stopping shootings in the making. The Virginia Tech shooting in 2007 goes down in history as the worst school shooting in U.S history. Seung-Hui killed “32 unarmed students on the campus of Virginia Tech” (McGrath), taking his time to go through the building as he “had no expectation that a fellow student or a faculty member might shoot back”(McGrath) thanks to Virginia Tech’s gun-free zone. If Virginia Tech hadn’t had that law, people like Tracy Bridges would have had their guns on them, saving some students that could be alive today “instead of having to sprint to their cars in distant parking lots.” (McGrath).The same happened in1997 when Luke Woodham, then 16, used and action rifle to kill two students and wound seven others at his high school in Pear, Mississippi. Joel Myrick heard the shots and sprinted to get his .45 that was “Prohibited by law” (McGrath) onto campus.
This is very unfortunate when most countries in Africa do not have clean running water and here Starbucks is washing it down the drain without thought. After being under fire for this incident Starbucks soon ordered the taps to be turned off. They did not want to risk any additional negative publicity about the company along with the information getting back to its stakeholders and consumers The U.K. public relations agency tried to warn Starbucks of doing such a thing and that the incident would threaten the companies’ ethical position, PR week reported. This is a very common way of hiding the truth when it comes to these big companies such as Starbucks. They hide the truth when it could really damage their image and the company can potential lose billions of customers.
The number of deaths reported annually for just the United States, that were smoking related, is 440,000(WD 1). With that just being the United States, think about the whole world all together. This advertisement shows people wanting to escape, but not being able to. With the cigarettes showed as being lit, it portrays that people are left addicted to smoking until they die. Because once you get to the filter, there is no tobacco left to smoke, and the people are being shown as the tobacco in this advertisement.
The inability for employers to have a drug free workplace, since they will no longer be able to give the employees drug test for marijuana. It would send a permissive message to young adults that drug use is acceptable. This creates to the public perception that marijuana is not a serious or harmful drug, when in fact, it lead to numerous mental and physical harm. Loss of control over medical marijuana by physician. In consistency with other laws for example, if a state legalizes marijuana, this conflicts with federal laws, and this leads to confusion in the public and among law
Dear Editor: Censorship in public libraries is inconsiderable, unreasonable, and absurd. It must be eliminated from the minds of our town council. If a book is not acceptable for patrons under eighteen, I feel either the patron’s parents or the patron himself should decide so. The town council and the public library have no idea whether a patron is responsible enough to read a book with possible adult themes. Censorship is also ridiculous because most classic novels involve questionable language, or somewhat violent material.