Children all across the world read books at high reading levels‚ but some books at higher reading levels have inappropriate stories to tell. I strongly agree that certain books should be banned from schools because of racial themes‚ violence‚ witchcraft‚ negativity‚ profanity‚ and alternative lifestyles. Switching to a parent’s point of view I could guess that I wouldn’t want my child to be reading about demons or treating African-Americans like slaves and taking advantage of people who don’t look
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E-books E-books open up all kinds of new opportunities‚ especially in the areas of education‚ entertainment‚ and business. Schools around the country take advantage of E-books and other online materials. In most cases‚ the price to access the electronic material is much lower than buying an actual hard copy of the book. I have personally seen this model used in my courses at Penn State. Many of my classes require reading assignments that are in an electronic format. E-books have also revolutionized
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THE BOOK OF ELI MOVIE REVIEW The Book of Eli is a film directed by Hughes Brothers‚ Allan and Allen Hughes‚ the story was written by Gary Whitta. It was released on March 17‚ 2010 in the Philippines. The main characters were Denzel Washington as Eli‚ Gary Oldman as Carnegie‚ Jennifer Beals as Claudia and Mila Kunis as Solara. Denzel Washingtons acting was good enough‚ he portrays a man with a real personality of Eli in the story. A man who has strength to fight and survives all by
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*****Books and Authors***** Books by Award Winning Authors Books by Nobel Laureates Rabindranath Tagore Gitanjali Gora Gardner The Post Office Hungry Stones The King of Dark Chamber The Home and the World Chandalika VS Naipaul In a Free State A Bend in the River An Area of Darkness The Mystic Masseur India: A Million Mutinies Now Amartya Sen The Argumentative Indian Growth Economics The Idea of Justice On Economic Inequality Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny
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The Book Thief “Even death has a heart.” (The Book Thief‚ pg 242) The Book Thief by Markus Zusak is a book of death‚ love‚ and survival. There is the death of a friend‚ love of a parent‚ and survival of those who can take it. World War II was a devastating period and many did not have the mental strength to survive it. The Book Thief is about Liesel Meminger and all her accounts with death and how she coped with it‚ how she survives it all through words. The book is narrated by Death‚ and throughout
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hundreds of individuals attempt to take books off the shelves of school libraries. Banning books takes away our privilege‚ as American citizens‚ to read what we want (Source 1). If people are offended by a book‚ depriving the entire state of their ability to read that certain book is not the solution. There are various other ways to ensure that parents who do not want their children to read particular books without abolishing them from the entire school. Banning books from schools restrains students from
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It is called so because it is the tagline devised by the Department of Tourism‚ Government of Kerala to promote the tourism in the state and it is working well. It is from tourism point of view but then every state in India and for that matter in world have their problem when it comes to society and culture. Remember the Woodstock movement and hippie culture in US in 1960s. It’s because when lord Parasuram(one of the hindu incarnations) threw away his weapon parasu in the ocean after destroying all
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Book Review: The Magician’s Nephew This is a book review on‚ ‘The Magician’s Nephew‚’ which is the first book in the series of‚ ‘The Chronicles of Narnia‚’ and is written by Clive Staples Lewis. This story takes place in London where two small kids named Digory and Polly are normally playing and enter into the room of Digory’s evil Uncle Andrew. Uncle Andrew tricked and sent Digory and Polly to the World Between World’s. There‚ Digory and Polly entered into another world and brought
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Internet vs Books Internet and books are two very comparable terms as both provide valuable information‚ but vastly differ when we compare the time taken to provide the information by the two. Before the internet was available to us books were the only source we turned to for any bit of information‚ we used to flock to the library and searched for the book that contained relevant information. It is now thing of past to go to library as the whole library is now at our finger tips in the form of
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Books Books are valuable objects in our life. I had a friend who was very poor. He came from a family with little money. Though‚ he was a good reader and he read lots of books. He had a habit of reading all kinds of books. He could read the textbooks and apply what he learned from the books. He also liked to read for pleasure. When other kids watched television for entertainment‚ he read books for entertainment. My friend was a good
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