Banned Books Awareness: “Lord of the Flies”

November 10, 2013 R. Wolf Baldassarro 6

William Golding’s debut novel follows a group of British schoolboys whose plane crashes on the shore of an uninhabited island. As well intentioned their attempt to cope with the situation and govern themselves may have been they instead regress to primal instincts and the mentality of humanity’s earliest hunter societies. […]

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Banned Books Awareness: The Holy Qur’an

May 2, 2011 R. Wolf Baldassarro 5

Recently I featured the New American Bible as a banned book, which was a shock to many and garnered some fairly strong opinions in the comments in the discussions that followed. But would that outrage be just as strong if it were someone else’s sacred text? I’m about to put […]

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Banned Books Awareness: The New American Bible

April 17, 2011 R. Wolf Baldassarro 1

Use of the Bible in American schools has been challenged as a violation of the First Amendment for decades; others have challenged the teaching of it as literature when they believed that it should be taught only as a sacred text- the “word of God” as they interpret it. Even […]