In her essay “The North West London Blues,” Zadie Smith’s explanation about a library problem, the problem that libraries are shutting down. For example the setting or theme of the library to attract people, marketing won’t help libraries because now we have it online and still need it for social reality, and showing how people feel about the situation of libraries closing. Smith persuades readers to save Public libraries. Libraries have many sceneries all over the world like a big city, quiet cafe, a tropical resort, and etc. Smith’s point about this that libraries are not failing “because they are libraries.”…
Both articles, “The Information: How the Internet gets inside us” by Adam Gopnik and “Dead Again” by Leah Price, talks about the future of books and how technology and more precisely internet/ e-books will replace the hard covers. Adam Gopnik’s “How the Internet gets inside us” categorizes books into three categories: The Never-Betters, The Better-Nevers, and The Ever-Wasers. The Never-Better tells that internet is taking us to the free and perfect world of information. It is leading us to the new era of information democracy. The Better-Nevers hates the internet and new technology.…
It is my opinion that the local libraries are not pure public goods. They are considered a common-pool goods which have a public characteristic and exclusion is non-feasible with competing and exhaustive use because when used it becomes unavailable to others. In its natural state may not be valuable to others, but when used it becomes valuable to the others when used (Mikesell, 2014).…
Marc Prensk’s argument is that all textbooks should be banned and we should be using electronic textbooks. This way students and teachers will be able to access them from their iPad, iPhone, Tablet, or Nook. Prensky thinks that this would give the opportunity for more resources, and motivate the student to always read and refer to the textbook instead of just sticking it on the shelf where it would never be touched. “But I suggest that it 's time to go much further: to actually ban non-electronic books on campus.” (Prensky 1) He believed in freedom away from the page, and thinks that a collection of books and ideas in your pocket would be accessed more than books on a shelf. “Digital texts are also accessible anywhere, at any time, while…
Ray Bradbury once stated “ We don’t have to burn books to get rid of our culture, but yet get people to stop reading.” This quote is indicating that we don’t have to destroy something just for people to lose interest in it. But we can make a drastic shift in society in order for people to no longer see what is important. Bradbury has focused on how this society has evolved, and how the changes have been for the worst. In this text Fahrenheit 451 Bradbury has described a time where people no longer turn to books to obtain their knowledge, and this is because they as a whole no longer think for themselves.In Fahrenheit 451 Bradbury establishes a theme of which technolgy is a hindrance to literacy by highlighting the prevalence…
As Walter Cronkite once said, “Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.” This quote significantly displays the value of intellect and its comparison to the cost of being ignorant. Modern day society is retreating from it’s intellectual path causing the humans of today to be ignorant and unenlightened. IN the book “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury, the author exhibits the future in his lenses and portrays it with negativity. He gives a good representation of modern society and the path it is heading on. Although some may disagree that Ray Bradbury’s view of the future is a misrepresentation of today’s society, most believe it is a precise and accurate description given the relationships of…
Books are everywhere, with public libraries in every town and libraries in every school. And due to advancing technology, books are available on tablets and ‘ebooks’, allowing people to read great works of literature without wasting paper and killing trees. In contrast, in some places information is restricted. One great example is China and North Korea, where, similar to Fahrenheit 451, information is restricted to state propaganda, and the people don’t have access to information, but think they do.…
Things have been banned for centuries because of racial issues, encouragement of damaging lifestyle, blasphemous dialog, sexual situations or dialog, violence or negativity, presence of witchcraft, religious affiliations of unpopular religions, political bias, and age inappropriate (Butler University), the most common initiators of book challenges are parents, and the most common settings for book challenges are schools, school libraries, and public libraries (American Library Association). The first banned book was by William Pynchon and the book was called The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption, it was banned in 1650 right after its release (Stephanie Sylverne). This book was banned because Pynchon apparently “argued a point of Puritan doctrine that was opposed to the usual teachings of the ministers and leaders”, because he was a powerful member of the community, he was not convicted of heresy, but was instead sent away to Springfield to think about what he had done. (Stephanie Sylverne).…
Liesel Meminger once said: “I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right,” (538). Liesel Meminger (sometimes known as “The Book Thief”) is my hero. Liesel was girl in Nazi Germany who was given to a foster family when she was only nine. Her mother was a Communist and was taken away days after she was given away. Liesel is a brave, happy, and hardworking young girl that everyone should strive to be like.…
“Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion.” (Article18). In the book thief by Markus Zusak this article was violated many times by Hitler and other characters. Hitler and the torture that he brought to characters such as Max, Liesel, and Hans violate many articles such as article 18 in the UDHR. These characters were not given the right to freedom of religion. Or given the chance to stand up for what they believe is right. Or even given the privacy they deserve in their own homes. However all of these characters must learn to change and adapt to life in this new cruel world.…
In “The Northwest London Blues,” Zadie Smith conveys a strong stance against the closing of libraries. She believes libraries are more important than just the books read and implores the reader to defend their libraries. To bolster her argument, Smith deftly employs acknowledgement of counterarguments, word choice, and rhetorical questions to sway her readers.…
The second world war saw libraries everywhere, even in internment camps. The Americans tried to make the camps as similar to a small city as possible, and that included libraries. The war built libraries but destroyed many more; the Asian continent saw many a nation’s greatest collections burned by enemies. After the war was over, universities filled with veterans searching for higher education. The libraries at that institution not only processed the new information streaming in with the veterans but the requests that they had. The following Cold War sent parents into a panic. They feared that the Soviets were indoctrinating the children with communist propaganda through the books. This led to a complete stop in information from the USSR. That panic rolled into the desegregation of public libraries.…
Fay, J. (2012). After postmodernism: [electronic resource]: A naturalistic reconstruction of the humanities. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.…
QD Leavis’ essay mentions a statistic, “The investigation made in 1924 into the stocks and issues of urban libraries revealed that while they had 63% of non-fiction works on an average to 37% of fiction, only 22% of non-fiction is issued in comparison 78% of fiction.” This clearly ascertains the fact that a commodity that is in demand at a particular point of time is determined by the class or group that is ‘ruling’ or is in power.…
There are many students sitting in classrooms who possess problems ranging from family issues to drug and alcohol usage. Problems which one would think are far beyond a teacher’s control and fall more into the hands of a therapist. However, there are many different approaches to therapy and using books as a therapeutic measure happens to be one of them. Bibliotherapy is defined in simple terms, as the use of children’s literature to explore children’s feelings about self-esteem, the experience of living with a chronic condition, and the ability to relate to the main character with a similar condition. (Iaquinta & Hipsky, p. 209) It is defined in more complex terms as the use of literature to teach about the issues that one personally faces…