Book banning has been a familiar part of the educational landscape in the twentieth century, and even such literary masterpieces as Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn and Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice have not escaped the censor's wrath for their allegedly racist views. ... This new realism in literature for children and adolescents has explored topics formerly reserved for adult audiences. ... The comic books that children read and TV shows that were derived from those comics, such as The Adventures of Spiderman, reflected that belief in heroes. ... Programs reflected this n...

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