Books are an extraordinary thing. They are one of the closest things to a time machine as they can take you essentially anywhere in your mind. For many people‚ books are like a friend. Someone to comfort them when they are down and discouraged. Books are someone to teach you things you’ve always wanted to learn. Lately‚ however‚ schools have begun to ban many books making them unavailable for their students to read. This limits what students are allowed to read and essentially learn. Books have many
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MANAGEMENT BOOK SUMMARY The book I chose to read was “When I Say No‚ I Feel Guilty” by Manuel J. Smith. The first thing to stand out to me in this book was it seemed a little outdated. Even though the writing style and the examples appeared to be from a different era‚ I was still able to see how different points were relevant today and to me personally. This title screamed my name when I was browsing the list of choices because no matter what I am saying no to‚ I always feel guilty. From the
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About The Book: The Graveyard Book By Neil Gaiman The Graveyard Book is a children’s fantasy novel by the English author Neil Gaiman‚ simultaneously published in Britain and America during 2008. It is set primarily in a graveyard‚ where the boy Nobody Owens is adopted and raised by the occupants after his family is murdered. Gaiman won both the British Carnegie Medal and the American Newbery Medal recognising
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McCauley Amherst Writing Monday‚ May 12‚ 2014 In what Ways Books are Similar to Computers? In what Ways are Different? Where are the sources of information and knowledge for us? Books and computers are our information and knowledge‚ but they have some differences and similarities. We need to know what ways books are different from computers‚ and what ways books are similar to computers. It is very helpful when we use books and computers. Books and computers have some ways that they are different.
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Banned Books A Persuasive Essay Assignment Final Essay due March 24th Throughout history‚ books have been the target of censorship. At times‚ these books are even banned from schools and public libraries because the content in them is thought to be too offensive. For this assignment‚ you will be reading one of these banned books. Which book you read is your decision‚ however you should keep in mind the appropriateness of your choice- make sure it is a book that your parents would not
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What will happen to books? Will they disappear? If yes what will appear instead of books? To be a success at school an ordinary student has to do a lot of things: find information about something or somebody; find the word definitions; read different maps; read classics for literature lessons‚ etc. A few years ago people should go to the library and work with encyclopedias‚ dictionaries‚ atlases‚ books. They did a tremendous work Now we can surf the Internet and without leaving our homes we
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The Book of Life What is life? Some consider it just to be a living‚ breathing and moving organism. Others make life out to be a gift that humans can wake up happy every morning to loved ones without any worries. With all kinds of different life styles how do people really know the right way to live life? People learn to overcome obstacles that life contains thanks to different cultures‚ religions and more. Society learns from the pasts mistakes in order to get by in life. It is the life
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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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The book of Judges is the sequel to Joshua. It is the seventh book of the Old Testament. It recounts stories and events from the death of the hebrew leader and prophet Joshua to the birth of the hebrew Samuel. That is roughly‚ from the end of the Israelite conquest of Canan in the 13th Century B.C to the beginning of the monarchy in the 11 th century B.C. It tells about the hebrews from Joshua’s Death to the time of Samuel. It was written in about 550 BC‚ on tablets named the Ras Shamra tablets
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the monastery in their time periods. Around the seventh century‚ monks were dedicated to impressing such illuminated books to openly literate the word of God. In which throughout the time periods‚ the production of the artwork of manuscripts was displayed to symbolize religions and beliefs. The principal sacred manuscript text during the late fourth century is the Bible " The Book‚" written in Greek‚ corresponding of Hebrew scriptures including the "Old and the New Christian Testament." Although
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