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  2. Mental disorders in fiction - Wikipedia

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    Thirteen Reasons Why, 2007 novel by Jay Asher. About a teenage girl who is suffering from depression which results in suicide. Many other characters are also suffering from mental illnesses including bipolar, anxiety, PTSD, and also depression. Saint Jude, 2011 [1] novel by Dawn Wilson. Suffering from manic-depressive illness, Taylor spends her ...

  3. Book burning - Wikipedia

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    Book burning is the deliberate destruction by fire of books or other written materials, usually carried out in a public context. The burning of books represents an element of censorship and usually proceeds from a cultural, religious, or political opposition to the materials in question. [1]

  4. Mental illness in media - Wikipedia

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    Mental illnesses, also known as psychiatric disorders, are often inaccurately portrayed in the media.Films, television programs, books, magazines, and news programs often stereotype the mentally ill as being violent, unpredictable, or dangerous, unlike the great majority of those who experience mental illness. [1]

  5. A flamethrower and comments about book burning ignite a ... - AOL

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    Talking about book burning enough can plant the idea in people's minds so that ”people think it’s actually a righteous thing to do." Ali added: “That’s a pretty dangerous game to play.”

  6. Writing Footloose ’s book-burning scene - AOL

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    Writing Footloose’s book-burning scene. The memorable scene highlights the evolution of antagonist Rev. Shaw Moore (John Lithgow), who convinces his congregation to shun anything he deems as ...

  7. Voices: Why books are essential to make us laugh and ... - AOL

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    Authors must remain true to their calling, unimpeded by those who may wish to impose limits on their imagination, writes Queen Camilla

  8. Bibliophobia - Wikipedia

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    Qin Shi Huang, the first Chinese emperor, ordered a mass destruction of books for fear of the Confucian ideas that they contained. Bibliophobia is the fear or hatred of books. [1] Such fear often arises from fear of the effect books can have on society or culture. [2]: 2 Bibliophobia is a common cause of censorship and book burning.

  9. Category:Book burnings - Wikipedia

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    The burning of books represents an element of censorship, and usually proceeds from a cultural, religious, or political opposition to the materials in question. Book burning can be an act of contempt for the book's contents or author, intended to draw wider public attention to this opinion, or to conceal the information contained in the text ...