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3,195 | 2 | Library Censorship Everyone has their favorite book. But if it offended someone, should he be allowed to remove it? Offensive materials should not be removed from shelves. If we removed books that offended even one person, then no books would remain. As americans, we have the right to freedom of speech. Authors... | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
3,196 | 2 | Cencorship in books is one of the main concerns in @LOCATION1. If it was up to me to remove a book from a shelf, I would not do it, to my personal opinion, I think that we as @CAPS1's should just read over the probloms and quit complaining about it. Yes, we do have some books that people seem to not like, such as 'The ... | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
3,197 | 2 | I don't think censorship is right for our public libraries. In my opinion, it depends on what they are saying or what they are showing. Also, it depends on what what the ages the kids are or adults. People are different in many ways. It also depends on the way they take it in their signifaction. If they move book... | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
3,198 | 2 | If the library is in a highschool then we are all old enough that we have already seen or heard anything and everything offensive. In case we haven't though you can't shield your kids from offensive material. This @CAPS1 hurts them in the long run. Such as when your boss gets to work and you or someone around you mess ... | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
3,199 | 2 | Do we have the right to take books? Author Katherine Paterson proves a point by saying 'if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf, then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us.' @CAPS1 is saying that if everyone is able to ju... | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 |
3,200 | 2 | I believe that censorship should be allowed when it comes to certain things but I don't believe censorship belongs in public libraries. Books are wrote to stimulate the imagination of a persons mind and if they cannot read books that are the slightest offensive, then they will never know what it is like to open some o... | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
3,201 | 2 | Censorship in Libraries @CAPS1 are alot of things on the library shelves that you @MONTH1 be concerned about. You @MONTH1 be wondering why they don't take the bad stuff off the library shelves. On the library shelves it contains books, music, movies, and magazines. Some things are like what pictures it contains, la... | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
3,202 | 2 | Books that are found offensive should not be taken off of library shelves. Books tell stories fiction or non-fiction. Many books that @MONTH1 be found offensive are historical. These books could include topics such as wars, eras, people, ect. Everyone has the same rights to read any book they want. They also have the r... | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 |
3,203 | 2 | I believe that libraries should have more cencorship. Some books, magazines, and movies should be removed or grouped by age. From my own experiences of reading or seeing people read these books, I believe they should be removed because they influence violence, sexual activity, and drug use. Young children should not be... | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
3,204 | 2 | Dear newspaper and staff, @CAPS1 has came to my attention that @CAPS1 is being considered that most libraries in the community @MONTH1 have a removal and or censorship of some books in the libary. I find this not accepable; in my opinion this is a attempt to mislead or perhaps hide previous evidence of of... | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
3,205 | 2 | Everyone today gets offeneded daily. So to go to a library and see offensive material on the shelfs is no different than the rest of the day. However, there are those minds, which have not been poluted and influenced by these offensive materials, that should have a right to keep thier minds that way. One solution ... | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
3,206 | 2 | Have you ever found or seen books, music, movies, or magazines in a library that are offensive to you? If so, then would you have wanted to remove it off of the shelf so none of your children or anyone else that might have found it offensive, to see it? Well, I have actually gone to the library and seen some things tha... | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
3,207 | 2 | Should certain books, movies, magazines, music, etc., should be removed from shelves if they are found to be offensive. Books, movies, magazines, music are made to relay a message, express a point of veiw, or to perhaps state an oppionion, of which everyone has a different point of veiw. No, books, movies, magazine... | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
3,208 | 2 | If I could remove anything from shelves of libraries I wouldn't. Would you rather your kids to learn things from the facts or learn from friends? Censoring books, magazines, movies, etc and what goes onto the shelves are mostly for enjoyment or informational. Granted you wouldn't want a five-year old reading a book ... | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
3,209 | 2 | Hi my name is @PERSON1 I have a couple topics that I would like to talk to you about. I have been hearing alot of people talking about libraries taking alot of there stuff off the shelves well I think that that the libraries around the world have alot of information inside of them and if we s... | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
3,210 | 2 | You gotta admit, although you would like your kids to have freedom, @CAPS3 all of them are responsible enough to handle @CAPS1. You could blabber in their ear all day about '@CAPS1's responsible to do this and @CAPS3 do this.' and they will go out and do @CAPS1 anyways. Trust me, I'm a teenager. I know. So there are ce... | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
3,211 | 2 | All people have the same right to read, listion and watch different materials. To be censored should be no one choise but your own. For some one else to tell you what and what not to read is by my openion very wrong to do. If we would censore everything we did we would have a city and nation that would @DATE1 slowly. ... | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
3,212 | 2 | Censorship. It's a word that everyone has heard, but do people truly know what it means or how it effects them? In the past, books have been censured by rulers and leaders who thought that the material was harmful. How could they say that they knew what was best for their people? What gave them the right to decide what... | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
3,213 | 2 | I believe that some materials are offensive to some people, but that shouldn't give them a right to want to take it off the shelves. No, I do not agree with taking them off the shelves because people could easily over look them and not read them. Some people @MONTH1 think they are offensive but they should know that th... | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 |
3,214 | 2 | Censorship in the world we live in today is a very interesting concept. With the advent of social media, we now have thriving communities of people that want their voice to be heard, and people are listening. We now are able to tap into the huge ammount of knowledge from people all around the world, allowing us to see ... | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 |
3,215 | 2 | Do you believe that certain materials, such as books, music,movies, magazines, should be removed off of the shelves if they are offensive? My personal opinion is that they should not be removed. unless they are so inapropreate that children should not be avle to see. That is my opinion because if readers go into th... | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
3,216 | 2 | Libraries are a place that provides people of all ages the oppurtunity to read any book, watch any movie, or listen to any music all for free and for a certain period of time. When people grow up, they tend to start reading, watching, and listening to material that they would never let their children listen to. Since... | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 |
3,217 | 2 | Whispers and comments fill the room while people make their way throughout the library. The critialzing of books and materials that are neatly stacked in the shelves, are taken and miss treated from the harsh people that think they are offensive. In my point of view, I strongly agree that there is no right to argue abo... | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
3,218 | 2 | I believe that certain books, music, movies, magazines, etc. shouldn't be removed from the shelves. I say this because, what @MONTH1 be offensive to one person @MONTH1 not come close to being offensive to another. There are many different types of books, movies and even some music that have some history to it, it @MONT... | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
3,219 | 2 | I believe that libraries should provide any kind of book, magazine, music, and movies to the public, despite if they are found offensive. First, to support my position, we need to take into consideration that every person is different, and therefore reads and prefers different types of books and magazines. The same t... | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
3,220 | 2 | 'All of us can think of a book that we hope none of our chilren or any other children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf--that work I abhor--then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf.'( Paterson) Kat... | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
3,221 | 2 | Do you believe that certain materials, such as books, music, movies, magazines, etc., should be removed from the shelves if they are found affensive? No, I do not believe that. Simply because if one person is offended by a book and or materials in a library someone else will argue because they like the thing that was t... | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
3,222 | 2 | Do I think materials, such as books, music, movies, and magazines should be removed from the book shelve if they found offensive? Yes I do beause why keep it on ther if it's offensive to young kids and other people. If it dosen't have nothing do with learning then it shouldn't be on ther. Its sertin things kids sho... | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
3,223 | 2 | There are different types of books, movies, magnazines, and tape recorders in libraries. Books can be fiction or nonfiction. However, books or any other items can be offensive to people but to others it is just a book to read. So therefore, libraries should not remove books or any other items from the shelf. Who p... | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
3,224 | 2 | Why is censorship important in libraries? Why should we care if there is censorship at all? I am here to tell you today my views and opinions on cenership at the library. When you walk into a library I assume you would expect a public area where you can read books and check them out, but what happends when you brow... | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
3,225 | 2 | Some of the most interesting books that I have ever read are offensive in some way. I have even read excellent books that offend me. If we didn't have books and stories that offend us, then we would never really find out what offends us. That is why I don't think books, magazines, music, or anything of that nature that... | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
3,226 | 2 | Many places show and sell offensive material. It is found almost everywhere. Many people try to shelter their kids from it but the truth is if the kids really want to look at it they are going to find a way. So I do not think all offensive material should be removed from shelves but sometimes things can offend more tha... | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
3,227 | 2 | Censorship in libraries in my view isn't a good idea. Library now days have alot of offensive language in there books so if someone were to take all of the book like that out of the library then library wouldn't even have that many books in it. Music is the same way all music now days might have some offensve words in ... | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
3,228 | 2 | Censorship in libraries is a very contraversial. Many people believe that it is the right thing to do while many others strongly disagree with it. Censorship should not occur in libraries for several reasons. All people have freedom of speech in the @LOCATION1 and when books are taken off the shelf because they are ... | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 |
3,229 | 2 | Have you ever been looking for a book only to find it band from all local stores? Well I haven't had the misfortune of being in that situation, but I could only imagine the sheer distress of wanting but not finding that controversial book. I personally think that a young adult should be able to read any book or news ar... | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
3,230 | 2 | I thank that all of the books and movies and more should not be censorship because people have a right to no what they what to no or see. They need to learn from books so people can learn from history and so that @CAPS1 war @NUM1 want happen again. The libraries is for freeom to read to do want you want and l... | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
3,231 | 2 | I can think of several books that, I would not want a child of mine to pick up and read. I as soon as I seen what I was going to be writing about this one flashed in my head like lighting. The book that @CAPS1 choosing is called '@CAPS2 @CAPS3 @CAPS4.' The book '@CAPS2 @CAPS3 @CAPS4' is about a young girl that gre... | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 |
3,232 | 2 | Do you believe that certain materials,such as books, music, movies, magazines, ect., offensive? Support your position with convincing arguments from your own experince, observations, and/or reading. I do believe that if it's a book you not suppose to get, if it's not for age group, don't get it. Some librarie... | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
3,233 | 2 | Censorship In a library there are a plethora of books to choose from. Books ranging from children's to difficult adult ones. It's nice to know that you have many options and freedom to pick whatever book you would like to read. Censorship is the censoring of a piece of material so it is not legally or publically av... | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
3,234 | 2 | A library is a place to go when inneed of solitude and peace with researching or reading. There is no reason other than someones opion to why certain materails should be removed from libraries. We the people have a right to read what others have composed thourgh their thoughts and ideas. Certain materail @MONTH1 b... | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
3,235 | 2 | Why Censorship @CAPS1 @CAPS2? In our everyday lives, we come across many things that can be taken to offense. Some of these things we might not even realize, but they're out there. Everybody doesn't want there children getting into the wrong things early on, but we know it will eventually happen. We just have to... | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
3,236 | 2 | Books, books, and more books. There are so many of these spine bound papers, filled with everything from basic @CAPS1 about life, all the way to stories that capture the minds of faithful readers and take them to far off distant worlds. If we were to take all the books in the world and line them up in a perfect row, we... | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
3,237 | 2 | No I do not belive that certain materials should be removed. I belive that people should be able to have freedom of speech. I also belive that if somebody has something on their mind they should should be able to say it. I all ways tell peolple to mean what you say and say whay you mean. Now if its younger kids getting... | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
3,238 | 2 | I honestly don't think anything offensive should be removed from libraries, children don't really know what those offensive things mean.The library is the only good place to find information or to find a book that they enjoy. If you take things that @MONTH1 seem offensive to people; people are going to have a hard time... | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
3,239 | 2 | I strongly believe that books with offensive things should be pulled out the library. It not okay for you too say one thing and something your child found in the library say it okay. what if you were talking to your kids about not smoke and how it bad for them and could potentially kill them, would you like you child t... | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
3,240 | 2 | what i think about all of this? Is that to me i really don't care because that is like who i am. And its up the parents if they want the to remove the books off the shelf if they believe that a certain material as book, music, movies, and magazing should be remove off the shelves. Also i dont think a book will ever rea... | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
3,241 | 2 | yes i thinck they should take efence books off the shelf because little likd read the books then they will probley be tought rong from right. And if the books had vilance then they will thinck tkat is right to. | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
3,242 | 2 | Censorship is a big controversy in modern society due to the fact of so many opinions being conveyed through all the new medias in the modern world. When a person has a veiw they tend to want to share it with the world or defend it againts those who opose their opinion. Some people do not always like what is being said... | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 |
3,243 | 2 | Have you ever walked into the library hoping to find a good book, and picked up a very volgar and inapropriate article? Were you dissapointed to see what children could easily get a hold of, or did you just place it back onto the shelf just simple thinking it wasn't your style of book? In this essay I would like to dis... | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 |
3,244 | 2 | Some books are not suitable for kids. They could make a section for adults that includes books that are not censored. These books should not be aloud to be checked out by kids under the age of @NUM1 unless their parent or guardian allows them to. Some adults don't care what there kids read but the library should. I've ... | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
3,245 | 2 | I think as long as the book ain't offensive or bad then people should keep reading it. If its offensive I think they shouln't read it at all cause it would not be right to read such a thing. Also I think if there is bad music it should be taken off the shelves. Parents or teachers wouldn't want there kids finding out b... | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
3,246 | 2 | I do in deed believe that certain material should not be in public libraries, or places where young people can see it. Things, such as pornagraphic material should not be out in the open where kids can see it. I think we would all believe the same way when we say that kids do not need to be seeing these things. I p... | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
3,247 | 2 | Do you believe that certain materials in the library should be removed off the shelf if found offensive? I believe certain materials, such as books, music, movies, magazines, etc., should not be removed from the shelves if they are found offensive. Some of my reasoning is very logical and if you were a reader I'm s... | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
3,248 | 2 | No, I don't think books are offensive in librarys. Movies are a different kind of story if you child is under the age of eighteen they should not be renting a rated @CAPS1 movie, unless their parent approves of it. This is one reason why our public library should not have rated @CAPS1 movies. While i was in our pu... | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 |
3,249 | 2 | There is a type of boundary that @MONTH1 restrict readers from gathering knowledge about certain things in books. This is called censorship. However @CAPS3 you @MONTH1 not have known is that it is thought about in every school and every public library. @CAPS3 would you do if you saw your child reading a book that co... | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
3,250 | 2 | Some books in libraries offended some people. But other people want to read this book. None persone have right to say this book offended me so should the libraries removed it. If some book offend soome person that dosn't me all the people will offend by this book.My opinion is they should not removed this book, because... | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
3,251 | 2 | If everyone in the world could permantly take a book, movie,music, etc., off the shelf because they think it is offensive would there be any of those thing left for us to enjoy? I personally think that if people could do that they would, but is everything someone else finds offensive really offensive to you? No, i... | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
3,252 | 2 | The contents of the books in libraries vary in many way. Some are children's books, some are adult books, and some are in between. Libraries have books that spark interest in a reader. Not all books are made for a particular age group or gender. Which that should not mean that a library should be picked apart because o... | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
3,253 | 2 | If something offensive is found at the library, should it be taken off of the shelves? Some people might look at this question and instantly say yes. Others might not think anything of the item and move along. I disagree with those who believe the item should be remove. Instead, I believe the item should not be removed... | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 |
3,254 | 2 | Censorship, or the removing of material deemed inappropriate or offensive, has been used as a means of controlling people's thoughts and feelings for many centuries. The @CAPS1 used it in the @CAPS2 colonies during the @CAPS2 @CAPS4 to keep the colonists loyal to the crown. The @CAPS5 used censorship not just during th... | 6 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 5 |
3,255 | 2 | If any book, music, movies, magazines, etc. should be offensive to anybody don't even bother to look at the material. Even if you might find it interesting, in then end you find out that it is offensive to you then just take it the other direction. No material of books, music, movies, or magazines should be removed f... | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
3,256 | 2 | I myself beleves that censorship in libraries should not be aloud. If their was to be any cersorship it should be from the parents of a child or if your not a child then you dont need censored. By censoring something as small as books, movies, and so on I think it will give people a fake sense of what really happens. J... | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
3,257 | 2 | No because the writer is explain th way the story really happend.If ur kid ask u the word tell him/her it not a good word to say, r u can take the book back and get him/her a new one. Say him/her kids comes home from school and say a couse word and u asked him/her were they learned it from. An they said the te... | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
3,258 | 2 | Library @CAPS1: @CAPS2 or bad? It is a very rare occasion that i go to the library, i'm a typical guy, i like sports, video games, and hanging with my friends. When im not in school i try to stay away from everything that reminds me of it, like libraries. Those very rare occasion... | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
3,259 | 2 | I dont see any reason why to take books off the shelves. If someone doesnt like a book, then they dont have to read it. Books are ment to entertain or inform people. There are books that talk about black people in a bad manner, but they still need to be out there so that people will know. Libraries are out to make mone... | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
3,260 | 2 | '@CAPS1, @CAPS1, @CAPS1 I like @CAPS4 @CAPS5 and I can not lie, when a girl walks in with an itty bitty waste and a round thing in your face you get sprung.' @CAPS2 song in itself depicts a rather provocative tone towards women and men. While '@CAPS3 a'las what sorrows can be seen over yonder' tells us that love can be... | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
3,261 | 2 | The world today in the @LOCATION1 is hardly free. Everything that we see, hear, and read is censored. Is this good or bad? For the most part, it is good. Adults, teenagers, and young children all should only be allowed access to certain types of movies, music, books, magazines, radio stations, and so on. I don't be... | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 |
3,262 | 2 | How many of you have ever heard any offensive language? Seen somthing that you think no other kid should see? Im going to guess a lot. Almost every person in the world has heard, said, or seen something that they shouldn't have. Most hear curse words before they can even walk. If you can't keep kids from hearing or see... | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
3,263 | 2 | Censorship of @CAPS1 of @CAPS2 'All of us can think of a book that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf -- that work I abhor -- then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we h... | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 |
3,264 | 2 | I believe that everyone has the right to choose what book should be banned form their children,but not from the public. Everyonehas their owen belief in what he or she reads or rights even watches so the library is perfect the way it is . We can not through out books we find offensive because of our beliefs because som... | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
3,265 | 2 | A very wise man in @CAPS1 life once said, 'The only way to escape temptation, is to remove the temptation all together.' @CAPS1 @CAPS2, @PERSON2, while growing up had poor influences all around him. @CAPS4 went to a run-down school, lived in a crime torn neighborhood, had a drunk for a @CAPS2, had no mother around to h... | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 |
3,266 | 2 | When I was in seventh grade I had a mission to read every @PERSON1 book I could get my hands on. Some of the material in her books proved to be a little too racy for most middle schoolers and some parents had apparently deemed it inapparopriate and our school librarian had made the decision not to carry it in the schoo... | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
3,267 | 2 | In my opinion, they should not censor books. They should be read the way that the author intended for @CAPS4 to be read. I understand censoring songs and movies, though, so that they @MONTH1 be played on the radio and in the theaters. The books that are contraversial right now have great messages, and should not b... | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
3,268 | 2 | Books are books, and as well as magazines, music, movies, etc., therefore one purpose only right? To read them well thats what I thought. Even though books, magazines and even some movies might offend some people, that doesn't mean they should be tooken off the shelf. I think they shouldn't be tooken off the shelv... | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
3,269 | 2 | Typically when you walk in to a library there are books, magazines, movies, and cds everywhere. Most of the items in the library are appropriate for children, but some are for adults and teenagers. Many people struggle with the fact that there are items in the library that are offensive to religion, have offensive lang... | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 |
3,270 | 2 | I think that censorship should not matter in a library due to the fact that some of those books, magazines, music, and movies, are liked by different people everywhere. If you do not like something said or seen in some of the materials, then do not read or watch or listen to any of them. People have different tastes in... | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 |
3,271 | 2 | Censorship of books Should books, music, movies, magazines, etc., be removed from shelves if they are found offensive? Yes because certain things need to be removed from the shelves for example many things that don't need to be seen out in public. Personaly I think censoring certain things is alright because there ... | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
3,272 | 2 | libraries have tons...of books, cd's, movies, and magazines for people to read. they have all kinds for people who have intrest in certain things.and some might be offensive to some people...let me tell you what i think! Most people like stuff that is interesting to them and some like other things. There are ... | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
3,273 | 2 | I for one like books, movies, music, ect., without censoring. Sheltering the younge is not too bright because they'll get curious of things and sometimes they dont tell us they just find out for themselves. Most media and books have things uncensored for many different reasons and I think its going good. Yes there are ... | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
3,274 | 2 | In our world today, there is a way to find anything that you could ever want under one roof. People call these buildings libraries. Libraries hold almost every book ever writen and offer them to the public free of charge. If you can not find what you are looking for in a book, they also have many other resources: mo... | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
3,275 | 2 | Dear @CAPS1 @CAPS2 Newspaper, or to whom this article @MONTH1 concern. It has become quite aware to me the problem we face in our media today. Information and how individuals seek it has evolved and is still changing at a rapid pace. Technology and new information is so vast its extremely difficult to censor. ... | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
3,276 | 2 | That saying Katherine Paterson said 'All of us can think of a book that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off the shelf.' I disagree with that statement. I think it is the goverment's choice if these items should be taken out of libraries or not. So we will need ligitement reason's to take s... | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
3,277 | 2 | Censorship is a tricky concept. It is a word that can ban music from stores, books from shelves, and movies from theaters. Katherine Paterson, an author, said that if all things reading or listening materials were removed, nothing would be left. I thoroughly agree with that statement. If someone finds one aspect of a w... | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 |
3,278 | 2 | Everyone is different and unique in the world and they have their own unique opinions. Which brings us to the arguement of censorship on anything, because what some people find offensive others @MONTH1 not. The censorship that I am discussing is specifically about censorship in libraries. There are three main reasons ... | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
3,279 | 2 | Some people ask, '@CAPS1 books should be censored from libraries?' @CAPS2 are always parents who think that the libraries have books that are inappropriate for their kids, so they speak out against the library and tell them to censor or remove the books. I believe that in order for a library to censor or remove books, ... | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
3,280 | 2 | Today I am going to talk about certain materials, such as books, music, movies, and magazines. Should they be removed from the shelf if they are found offensive? In todays world it is hard to please every living soul. Every one is going to disagree about something in there life time. Life as we know it, everybody ... | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
3,281 | 2 | At a local library you can find hundreds of books, all of different matter, a different style and of different stories. Not every person enjoys the same type of topic to read about, not every person enjoys the same music style, nor does every person enjoy the same fashion in a magazine or the same articles written in t... | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
3,282 | 2 | Dear @CAPS1 @CAPS2 @CAPS3: @CAPS4 I am @PERSON1 and I have heard there has been a discussion about different things in libraries. And I would like to let you know what I think about the whole situation. There are many things like books, music, movies, magazines, etc. that people believe aren't appropriate. Many ... | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
3,283 | 2 | i think that the libraries in generally shouldn't take themusic,movies, or the magazines away. Because you never know what goes on at there home and they just want to get away and relax the self at the library to read. I think that they shouldn't take the books off the the shelves just for a reason because people lov... | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
3,284 | 2 | Are you offended when you read a book and your eyes cross over a swear word? Does it bother you to hear them with your own ears? No matter how hard you try, you can not avoid the harsh language of today's society. Have you ever walked into your library and started reading a book but decided to put it back on the s... | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
3,285 | 2 | I think that if certain materials are offensive that they should be taken off the shelf, depending on how they are offensive. If they are offensive by rachism or being prejudice i think they shouldnt be on the shelfs. Also if it is offensive to women or men then it should be taken off of the shelfs. People should be ab... | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
3,286 | 2 | There are people out there that think somethings should be taken off the shelves or not even made. But thats their decision and not everyone should listen to it or just try to do it. I think things that are offensive should and shouldn't be taken off. They should because it might offend someone and it shouldn't beacuse... | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 |
3,287 | 2 | Censorship in librarys could be useful so children and young people don't see what their parents don't want them to see. In the kids section, they have kid's books. In the adult section they have adult books. Those sections are there to keep children from reading or seeing things that @MONTH1 be what their parents don'... | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
3,288 | 2 | There are thousands of libraries throughout the world. All of which are filled with numberous books, magazines, music, movies, ect. for people of all ages to obtain. Some people think that materials in a library should be censored while others think everything should be allowed to be there. I do not think materials at ... | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
3,289 | 2 | In my opinion i don't really think certain items should be romoved from the library. I think this because many people have different kinds of interests in many things they love doing. In my personal opinion I never remove anything from a library because I know their are alot of people with many interests. At the same t... | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
3,290 | 2 | Books mean a lot to people that love to read. Books have pictures, or they @MONTH1 even be poem books. Some books should not be on the shelves in libraries. They have offesive language and not so well of pictures. They @MONTH1 be learning books but the little kids do not need to see that. I think books should be remove... | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
3,291 | 2 | Should public libraries have to censor some of the books, movies, and music they have on display? In my opinion they shouldn't have to. We as people have the right to learn, read, and expand our minds in whatever way we see right for us. There are three main reasons as to why I feel 'offensive' pieces of writing, movie... | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
3,292 | 2 | Katherine Paterson once said, 'All of us can think of a book that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf-that work I abhor-then so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us.' Katherine ha... | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 |
3,293 | 2 | Recently the growing issue of censorship in libraries came to my attention. This is unfortunent in the extreme. People have a right to unmolested knowledge and censoring libraries is a direct violation of that right. Libraries are meant to be a place of learning and they should be kept that way. History is filled w... | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 |
3,294 | 2 | I believe that if you hear or read something offensive they should stay for many reasons. I feel everyone should know the history of the world, whch means rascitism or being offended. I feel if you are reading a book or listening to music and you hear something offensive to you , just turn it off. You aren't being for... | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
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