Some cities have vehicle-free days, when private cars, trucks, and motorcycles are banned in the city centre. People are encouraged to use public transportation like buses, taxis and metros. Do the advantages of this outweigh the disadvantages? Give reasons for your answer and include any releva...
Why wasWatership Downbanned? Watership Down: Having been received with great acclaim,Watership Down, purportedly a children book authored by Richard Adams, soon found itself in the middle of several controversies. Answer and Explanation: Watership Downwas banned in certain schools and completely banned...
intense bullying and abuse (Lombardi, 2019). In one instance, Charlie admits that he fears women, an effect associated with emotional and physical abuse in his childhood. The instances of discrimination could also be why the book was banned in some libraries and schools. Throughout the story,...
It should be noted that the Stasi commission was not the first commission to be called to look atlaïcitéin France. In 2003 the Debré commission was formed which examined religious symbols in public schools. Other commissions looked at secularism in the workforce (Rossinot Commission in 2006)...
In 1997, a draft of California math standards written by acommittee of educational professionals was submitted to the State Board of Education for final approval. Finding that the draft was saturated with "constructivism" methods, incoherent, and full of mathematical errors, the State Board charged...
For example, in Washington State, it is illegal to attach a vending machine to a utility pole. I have no idea why anyone would even try, but the descriptor DOES say that it's because it's a danger to electrical workers. Well...yeah. I guess someone tried to do that and was, shall...
As for the reason, well we don't know, a call was placed to the administration of the school, but they have yet to return our call.Parents in the social media group said that several schools in the area have been operating students by gender while at lunch and recess, yet they still...
Fig. 1. Increase of parotid gland tumors relative to other salivary gland tumors in Israel. A newspaper in Israel reported “[S]alivary gland cancer, which researchers suspect to be linked to cellphone use, was disproportionately common among young patients. One fifth of those patients were unde...
In an overwhelming vote of 78-1 in favor, the Emergency Quota Act was passed and signed into law May 19 by President Warren G. Harding to restrict immigration in the United States by imposing a temporary quota system. The Act was the first federal law to limit European immigration. It cam...
This is often boiled down to a slim metaphor on book-burning—which is a thing that still happens—or a slightly more subtle hot-take on censorship, which by itself makes the book evergreen. After all, people are still fighting to have books banned from schools for a variety of reasons,...