22June2012 Banned Books Banned books are becoming more current in this day of time. People often do not understand the challenge of books or why a book is being banned. Ken Petrilli‚ the author of “Banned Books Week: Celebrating You (and Celebrating Your (and Your Teens!) Freedom to Read” in the Young Adult Library Services summer of 2009‚ talks about how he understand‚ how the parents feel about some books being banned. He also advised ways to make displays for banned books week. Petrilli is a
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BOOK REVIEW THE THIRD SEX AND THE HUMAN RIGHTS By Rajesh Talwar The third sex and the human rights as the name suggests throws light on the plight of the third sex. In this book‚ Rajesh Talwar talks about not only the socio economic plight of the third sex but also discusses various problems faced by this community while struggling for their political and human rights at the international level. Many of us would be perplexed about the usage of terms like eunuchs/ transgender/
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Kayla Williams’‚ Love My Rifle More Than You‚ is unlike any war memoir I have ever heard of or read. Williams was part of the 15% of female soldiers in the U.S. Army. She shares her experiences in the war in Iraq in a courageous way. Everything she says in the memoir is straightforward. She does not hesitate to say anything about what it was like to be a female in the war. The memoir was not only written to inform society of what life was like being a female in the war‚ but it was also written to
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Introduction The book I am reviewing is called Matched by Ally Condie. Matched is a book which has an exiting futuristic theme. Matched is a book about a courageous‚ open minded girl named Cassia‚ a girl with two parents‚ a brother‚ and two best friends Xander and Em. In the book Cassia battles with society and not any type of society a new society. The society chooses everyone’s life they have chose that everyone should die at 80; they chose that there should only be 100 songs. Poetries‚ paintings
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old-fashioned‚ quiet and basic as reading a book. Or‚ at least‚ that used to be the case. But with the competitive flood of electronic readers‚ or e-readers‚ hitting the market as well as e-reader applications for smartphones‚ the reading experience has been getting a progressively modern makeover. The stats are in and the fight is on. Overall book sales have dropped in 2008 and 2009‚ according to the American Association of Publishers (AAP). While adult hardcover books actually increased by over 6% in 2009
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Each year‚ libraries across the United States report hundreds of challenges. The leading causes for contesting a book are sexually explicit content‚ offensive language and inappropriate subjects for minors [source: American Library Association]. Only a minority of the requests actually make it through to banning the book from its respective library. The Catcher in the Rye. The Scarlet Letter. Huckleberry Finn. Harry Potter. The Diary of Anne Frank. Animal Farm. To Kill a Mockingbird. The Da Vinci
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Book Thief Characters Essay In every story the characters are the ones who captivate a reader. In Zusak’s novel “The book thief” he makes an effort to create characters with enough personality that they didn’t even need to be described. There are many attitudes and reactions that characters have trough out the book‚ and they give away who they really are. The characters seem so real that at a certain point‚ the reader could forget the characters are not real. One example of that “reality confusion”
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to pay homage to heaven‚ pray to Kwannon‚ [God(dess) of mercy in Buddhism. - Slaegr] and kneel before Buddha. I am a warrior of Harima province‚ Shinmen Musashi No Kami Fujiwara No Genshin‚ age sixty years. From youth my heart has been inclined toward the Way of strategy. My first duel was when I was thirteen‚ I struck down a strategist of the Shinto school‚ one Arima Kihei. When I was sixteen I struck down an able strategist Tadashima Akiyama. When I was twenty-one I went up to the capital and
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Francisca Martinez Mrs. Smith Eng.9H Per.4 20 May 2010 Book Report 1. Things Fall Apart 2. Chinua Achebe 3. 209 Pgs 4. Tragedy 5. AP List 6. Although his father was a lazy man who earned no titles in the Ibo tribe‚ Okonkwo is a great man in his home of Umuofia. Okonkwo is selected by the elders to be the guardian of Ikemefuna‚ a boy taken prisoner by the tribe. For three years the boy lives with Okonkwo’s family and they grow fond of him. Then the elders decide that the boy must be killed. Rather
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Significant Passages Book One Chapter 1: "And now I am old" I have escaped violent endings even as they have surrounded me. But I never had the privilege of holding onto my children‚ living with them‚ raising them the way my own parents raised me for ten or eleven years‚ until all of our lives were torn asunder. 68 • The abolitionists say they have brought me to England to help them change the course of history. Well. We shall see about that. But if I have lived this long‚ it must be for
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