“Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight”‚ said Stephen Chbosky‚ author of The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Censorship isn’t needed because it limits children’s variety of books that they can check out and read. The idea of censoring books is odd to me. I don’t quite understand why people think it’s okay to take a book that was worked on hard by a committed author‚off the bookshelf‚ not allowing people to
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“A book is a gift you can open again and again‚” wrote Garrison Keillor. People read all the time. They read for information‚ for escape‚ for entertainment‚ for instruction‚ for guidance. They read recipes and tweets and texts. They read newspapers‚ blogs‚ and Facebook replies. In a recent survey by Pew Research‚ the number of people who actually read a book in the past year was 72 percent in 2015. I am one of those. As I consider my reading experiences‚ I realize they represent the journey I have
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How to create a smash book How to create a smash book‚ not a scrapbook. A smash book is a place where you can place the little things in life’ ticket stubs‚ magazine clips‚ recipes‚ snapshots‚ love letters‚ design ideas‚ pictures‚ and notes to self. It is faster than scrap booking and is portable too. A smash book can be made from a ringed binder or a note book or you can buy a book from k and company at a craft store or online. They are personal on each page with picture design on each that
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I think we should ban books because if we need to learn a subject that we don’t know then we can look that book up in the library. There’s lots of students that can learn by reading. We learn from different subjects.We should banned books that are not appropriate for ages 11 to 15 If we do have books we can look up any word we want and that would be cool for some kids because if they got a spelling test coming up they can get the spelling words list from there teacher and look them up before the
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Executive Summary: Over the last decade James Patterson has published an unprecedented number of best-selling books‚ cemented a powerful brand image amongst a loyal following‚ and redefined the process by which authors create content to meet reader demand. From November 2000 through June 2003‚ Patterson had cumulative sales of over six million dollars‚ trailing only John Grisham during that time frame. He has generated the majority of his sales through a loyal readership that consistently lines
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got older it was only going to get more complex. I never quite understood why books like Shakespeare were so important to my education but I was always told it was so I never questioned it. In The Lonely‚ Good Company of Books‚ I completely agree with Rodriguez on his claim about the disconnection of young students’ education and reading lists of books. A student’s education is based on way more than just reading books throughout their educational lives. From personal experience to claims made my
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Adults are the most dangerous predators of books. Parents have the natural instinct to protect their children when they see danger‚ but sometimes they don’t realize that they themselves are the danger. There’s parents that go psycho when they see their children reading BOOKS that involve sex‚drugs‚alcohol‚ or other delicate subjects‚ so then there they go and challenge or ban it! There’s also the question that goes with it‚ why did you just do that?? Parents often think that they are protecting their
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are so many smart reasons to buy e-books rather than paperback books. How we read books has been changing over the years since the advent of the computer and other gadgets. People are reading online text at an astonishing rate. One of my websites has over 11 million page views. That’s 11 million pages of text I wrote that nobody would have read without computers because it wouldn’t have been accessible. Here are some… You can password protect your e-books‚ keeping them private for you! You
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disadvantages of E-books over books E-books have been around for a few years and even though printed books are still very popular E-books are becoming more popular as well. To be able to read E-books people need to have a special device called the E-reader or a tablet. Printed books do not seem relevant anymore‚ but there are still a lot of people who hold on to or prefer the traditional books. Some people expected the arrival of the e-book to replace the use of printed books. It can be noted that
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Whenever the mention of banning books comes up in literature or conversation‚ most people picture the ancient times when books were burned in piles of thousands. While this is an event that only occurred at the beginning of the ban on literature‚ it is nowhere near the end; In fact‚ different works of literature are still banned today‚ whether the novella is a year old or one hundred. Piles of literature may not be destroyed in today’s century‚ but the inability to read everything published still
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