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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

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