... television, on radio, read them in magazines, and a majority use profanities themselves in casual conversation. Students also hear profanities in countless movies. "Holden Caufield, the protagonist, swears steadily throughout the book. His curses are of the tamest kind, though, "damn", "hell", "crap", "ass", and he curses so self-consciously and so consistently that the words lose most of their vulgarity. Most of the cursing in the book would not even be ... expression is not limited to adults, minors too, have the right to freely express themselves and receive information. Therefore, m...

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... . Many reasons have been brought up for attempting to ban a book, such as violent, racial, and sexual themes ("About"). The list of books that have been banned is quite extensive, including Fahrenheit 451, To Kill A Mockingbird, Catcher In The Rye, Gone With The Wind, and many other classics that most former students and readers remember fondly (Frequently). Although books such as these are considered ... art can always inspire other forms of art. Many movies have been inspired by books, or are even adaptations of books themselves. Movies such as the Harry Potter series would not have be...

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... politics forever. Freedom of speech is constantly being challenged, this was just recently an issue in a court case where a Gloucester county school district censored reviews of two R-rated movies from a school newspaper, superior court Judge, Robert E. Francis ruled that the student's rights were violated under the state Constitution.(freedom in the U.S.) This is a major break through for students" rights because it limits editorial control of school ... of such censorship. Many banned books are literary classics, such as The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger, which was listed as th...

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... , thus blocking their employment in certain media such as movies, radio, and television. By doing this they accomplished the task of preventing the public from seeing what they considered to be objectionable material (Dubin 27). Who are they to tell the public what they can or can't read, observe, listen, watch, etc.? This is another clear example of an injustice towards the people in the subject of censorship ... increases by more than 50 percent. There were as many as 4,500 instances of book challenges in 1994 and forty-two percent of the complainants were successful in having the offe...

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