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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The poet Robert Southey has beautifully called books his never failing friends with whom he converses day by day. Books are true friends they can be by our side in whatever mood we are. They enlighten‚ give knowledge‚ entertain and inform us. Books are written with experienced people so we learn from their lives. We can carry books with us when we travel. They are our constant companions. when we are tired of reading we can close them‚ we can even read them at midnight. They fill our minds and hearts with
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BOOK REVIEW ON: Daniyal Mueenuddin’s “IN OTHER ROOMS‚ OTHER WONDERS” By Nayan Das Much like “tambola”‚ there are only a few happy winners from the hundreds that compete in Pakistan’s social lottery‚ and that is aptly brought forward in Daniyal Mueenuddin’s “In Other Rooms‚ Other Wonders.” Very unlike the Pakistan we have accustomed ourselves with‚ goaded by gloriously buttered food and hard-hitting Pathans‚ the book shows us how life is in Mueenuddin’s country for both the supremely rich and harshly
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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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down and arranged the material in the first person‚ and Malcolm X edited and approved every chapter. Thus‚ though Haley actually did the writing‚ it is reasonable to consider the work an autobiography. The work is one of the most important nonfiction books of the twentieth century‚ as it offers valuable insight into the mind of a key figure on a core issue of twentieth-century America. In 1965‚ a New York reviewer wrote of Malcolm X‚ “No man has better expressed his people’s trapped anguish.” The autobiography
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All writers are ‘book thieves’ for they discover secretive tactics for undermining the reader’s capacity to interpret a narrative‚ and steal into their hearts with their expression and style. Zusak’s way with words is singularly inventive‚ since he uses figures of speech in a totally original‚ cryptic and poetic manner. The narrator is so extraordinary because he is Death. Death is not a person but throughout the story‚ Zusak portrays him to have human-like emotions towards characters like Liesel
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Analyse how an important event at the beginning shaped outcomes in an extended written text. In the book ‘The Book Thief’‚ Markus Zusak the author has used the theme of colours in the prologue. The theme of colours has been used to show how Death sees colours and what these colours mean to Death in his perspective. Markus Zusak uses the techniques of imagery to show this. We also see Deaths perspective on humanity‚ how he dislikes humans‚ their behaviour‚ their thoughts‚ their actions‚ this is
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Book Reflection : The Book Of Negroes It ’s 1802 and Aminata Diallo‚ now an old woman‚ sits down to write her life story at the request of the Abolitionists in London. Abducted from her village in West Africa at the age of eleven and marched in a coffle (a string of slaves) for three months before reaching the coast‚ Aminata survives the voyage to America and ends up sold to an indigo plantation owner in South Carolina. She describes herself as lucky‚ because compared to the tragic circumstances
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to these questions‚ what general tendencies can you point to in the lesson that you observed? Does this surprise you? Does it confirm your expectations? Teacher is authority in the class which I observed. I expected that teacher shared the power with students‚ students and teacher made decision together. But in class teacher decided everything on himself. Teacher asked question to students. Teacher followed the course book. Actually the course book was the decision maker. It contains questions‚ activity
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really like this book because it’s romantic and meaningful. In fact‚ the most important here is about meaning of the story. This is the most valuable lesson that the author wants to give everyone. Janine Cole‚ who works in the Brenton College cafeteria‚ so she really likes cooking and wants to be a famous chef that day. She is the person that the author wants to tell you “Nothing is impossible”. If you have a dream‚ you can do it one day! But you must always try one’s best and you will definitely
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