Back to category: Novels Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper. Analysis for Hale For a long time, censorship has existed. In the ancient Egyptian empire, nothing negative could be said about the gods. When America was an English colony, if anyone spoke out against the King of England, it was considered treason. In the pre-civil war period, books like "Uncle Tom's Cabin" were banned in the south. And even today, censorship laws have been implemented on the internet. In all these cases ,it did nothing positive. The Egyptian empire collapsed, The United States had a revolution, the Civil War broke out, and pornography has spread even more across the internet. If there is nothing to gain with censorship, then schools shouldn't try to censor the books we read. Besides not working in the past, there are more reasons why books shouldn't be censored. First, if one can't read a book because it is censored, then he is losing some of his freedom. Imagine having to secretly get a copy of a book, just because the school deems it unfit. Als... Posted by: Alyscia Yellowman Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper. |
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