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censorship is, provide examples of books affected by this censoring, and discuss the future of children’s literature. Prior to about the Renaissance age, there was no clear genre or set of standards for what made a piece of literature specifically for children. In the ancient world, children enjoyed stories about wars, quest, and greek and roman mythologies. Examples of such work include Odyssey, Fables, and Metamorphoses…

“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.” (Chbosky) .Many books get banned due to things like sexual situations, violence and negativity, age inappropriate and many other reasons. Some books are based off of real life complications, such as, family problems, drug or alcohol addictions, and many more drawbacks we face in the real world. Jodi Picoult's book, My Sister’s Keeper, should not be banned in High…

Books have been banned/censored throughout history. For example, the Catholic Church created the Index of Banned Books in the 1500s. The goal of the Index was to prevent the population from reading books that went contrary to the Church’s teachings. Anyone caught reading or selling these books was severely punished or even killed. However, book banning has been especially prevalent during recent times. This is due to the increase in both literacy and governmental control. With governments…

Everyone is trying to hunt Montag down. Montag doesn’t know what to do because he is sure this will lead to a manhunt and he doesn’t know that he can escape with everyone and everything coming after him, so he turns to Faber. Montag quickly retrieves books from his backyard, then sets off to Faber’s. This is when he realizes war has been declared on his town and knows that he can never come back. He runs and is close to Faber’s when he comes to a boulevard. Crossing the street is dangerous…

from whom they live around or their peers. When we keep ourselves from writing and expressing our creativity we become our own self-censors. In the poem, “Burning a Book,” by William Stafford, the reader is able to imagine the burning of a book in a creative way, and compare something that is thought to be a more severe situation. A book written by, Ray Bradbury, named, “Fahrenheit 451,” provides the reader with an understanding of the problems in a controversial society where someone would care…

children’s book that talks about two penguins, Roy and Silo, who raise a baby penguin together. The book sounds like any other children’s book, but what made it one of the most challenged books in the last decade? The two penguins are male. The fact that these two penguins are the same gender sparked countless numbers of complaints from parents all over the world, pushing for the removal of the books in their children’s school libraries. The two terministic screens of the argument are: the book…

On November 10th, 2017, I read “Stella Luna”, by Janell Cannon to a group of five second graders. In my group, there were two boys and 3 girls. In order to find the perfect book for the read aloud. I used reading surveys and interview questions to find the right match. I gathered a few different resources and ideas to create a survey for the children. The survey was called “What do you like to read about?”. The survey had varied genres and pictures to match, allowing the students to circle or…

Bibliography Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles Times. Web. 20 Dec. 2015. Putting restrictions on guns wouldn’t help anything in today 's society. Guns could still be bought illegally. On top of that criminologist have showed that there is almost just the same amount of death not involving guns as there is with. So there would be no difference restructuring guns. "BalancedPolitics.org - Gun Control (Pros & Cons, Arguments For and Against, Advantages & Disadvantages)." BalancedPolitics.org - Gun…

Persuasive Speech Analysis - Hillary Clinton Speech in Beijing (1995) On September 5th, 1995, Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered the famous line, " human rights are women 's rights and women rights are human rights once for all" (Clinton) during the U.N conferences set in Beijing, China. During her time as the first lady, Hillary Clinton gave this speech on Women Rights as it was leading concern to her. Furthermore, the historical significance, delivery, organization, and persuasive…

Ethel Waters was an american singer and actress born on October 31, 1896 due to her mother being raped at the age of 13. She died on September 1, 1977 due of a kidney failure. She frequently played Jazz, Pop, and Big Band music on the Broadway stage and in concerts. Although she began her career in the 1920s Singing The Blues she didn’t blow up until years later. Waters grew up in poverty and married at the age of 12, while she was still attending school. At 13 she became a chambermaid in a…