Book design

People express themselves through films, literature, and music everyday. Should their views be subject to censorship? There is no need to censor books as long as there are rules, laws, or other protections place to limit exposure to minors or those who feel the content may be inappropriate. Movies use a rating system based on the content of the film, access to websites are controlled and music stores inform you of explicit lyrics. Some literature, likeThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark…

people of your town suddenly decided to remove books that you value but they deem inappropriate? Would you feel angry? Shocked? Or perhaps both? These feelings are not without cause. It is against the basic freedoms of both the reader and writer to restrict, or more accurately, censor the texts that some may view as vulgar and unnecessary. Such acts are completely preposterous and against the things we value as Americans. The removal of these books must be prevented and while some will still…

suppression of works based on prescribed ideas/ideology?” Knowing me and how I feel and have argued about potentially banning books in the past, one would think my answer would be a simple yes. My answer is a simple one though it is not yes. When asked if governments should be able to ban a book, and that is what the question is asking, if a government should be able to ban a book based purely on ideology my response is a clear and resounding NO! While I have argued, successfully I might add,…

change and grow, and to make that work happen, we have to develop disciplines that will take root in our lives, so that Christ will ultimately change us and grow us as we seek to follow and please him. This paper is going to be a book review of Donald S. Whitney’s book, “Spiritual Disciplines of the Christian Life”. Whitney dives into the subject of spiritual disciplines and looks to scripture bringing up many key points that make the easy to understand for the reader and he gives practical…

they are in the transition period of becoming more independent. When two students, one being Angelina, were struggling to get their books on the correct shelf. Ms. Collman used verbal…

Chris Crutcher argues in his article, “How They Do It”, that school systems should not become easily persuaded by the parents’ complaints to censor books that should be a part of the curriculum that their children benefit from due to the fact that the students can relate, learn, and build off of the books that are censored. Crutcher builds his argument throughout his article by including the use of personal anecdotes, pathos, and repetition. Due to the fact that Crutcher includes the use of…

Being part of a library means you spend your time helping others and sharing knowledge for a specific reason requested, whether you are assisting a patron or a colleague. One of the primary goals of being a part of a library, whether it is public, academic, special, or other types, is to be able to freely share information, resources, and access with people across the spectrum, regardless of who they are. In addition to these aspects being a part of our job, we respect the notion of learning and…

Reading the chapters for three books, Modern Archives Read, Developing and Maintaining Practical Archives, and Providing referees services for Archives and Manuscripts talked about the same things in a different book. Before I summarized the chapter from the three books. I’d First would like to tell you the definition of the words archives. Pugh states that the word Archives mean the record of organizations in which was created or accumulated in the course of daily activities, and save by the…

To Ban or not to ban books? That is the question Should people be able to ban books because they think that the situations are to complex for younger children or to “inappropriate?”Should books be banned because kids are too young to understand things?Should books be allowed to be banned because an adult will think its to harsh about reality, or that the past is too horrific?Some people believe books in schools and libraries should not be banned because they are important parts of our history…

paperbacks on the rotating display racks. I was a voracious reader of authors in the order of V.C. Andrews, Lois Duncan, and S.E. Hinton. My books of choice were accessible and largely for entertainment purposes only. I loved inspecting the cover art and flipping through the pages. The internet was not around to occupy my time in the early 80's. I employed books to escape from my reality. I was a typical teenager living in an isolated Texas town with few distractions.…