Book of Jonah

Within the past decade we have had lots of issues with people being offended. Now we are at the peak of that moment where we have to censor more things than ever because people find it offensive. That is not fair for the rest of us. There is an easy way of handling this than removing works of literature. You can chose to ignore it. That is the bottom right most easiest way to deal with things you don't like and here is why. When there is something someones doesn't like they want it to…

Textbooks are heavy and ipads have more technology but should they switch textbooks out for ipads? Although, people want ipads instead of textbooks I think they should not replace them. To begin with, schools already have chromebooks to use. “They live in the world where they have distractions where they have an ipad on their desk or a smartphone in their pocket “ said Dirk Delo. This shows that people have phones wherever they go. It also explains that how they need to use electronics for…

I was 12, it was raining. I leaned into the broad shoulders of my favorite armchair, and watched the raindrops race down the pane and onto the sill. My fingers absently traced the spine of The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien; the book was my father’s copy, illustrated. Opening the book, the pages unfurled like an eagle taking flight. Fantastic images flew by as I scanned the interior. I took a few more moments to watch the raindrops, and then I turned to the beginning chapter “An Unexpected Party”.…

Today I was going through the attic in my house and I found this old trunk with the name Alexi Iavok painted on the side. When I opened up the trunk I found several pages written by Russian peasant living in St. Petersburg during the Russian Revolution. This man was there to experience the March Revolution, the attacks in Petrograd, and the beginning of War Communism by the Bolsheviks. I was amazed by all of the things he lived through and what he experienced, and how lucky I was to find these.…

Are Banned Books good or bad? Mark Twain once said, “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy coincidence is the ideal of life.” Books help people escape the harshness of life. If that’s what they really desire. Or, books can bring people together. They spark creativity, and ideas. You know why they made book clubs? So that we can discuss what books represent and what their thoughts about how the book made them feel on the inside. Books have meaning, but some of these meanings aren’t meant to be…

Imagine a world where books are banned and restricted from schools just because someone gets offended about the content in the books. The sad truth is that this is a real problem in America today. Some school boards are banning the book To Kill a Mockingbird for the “offensive language” that it uses. The reason that books like this should not have a moratorium placed on them, is because these books are just showing a part of history not trying to offend anyone with a few words. The first…

In eight numbered sentences, write a “history of the book” from the late medieval manuscript to about 1800. (You are starting before Gutenberg’s contribution and going up to but not into the industrialization of printing and graphic design.) Use eight numbered sentences, including a comparison of two images of your choice from the slide presentations. 1. Before the ability to print, all documents and books were called manuscripts because they were handwritten. 2. Scriptorium, a room used during…

In my opinion, the book was fair. Though it has an exciting climax and detailed events, the ending was confusing because the book ended in the second year of world war two. I really wanted to know what is going to happen to Sophie and her family because if you know very little about world war two you would want to know when did the Allies free France. In other books, authors tell you about the whole years of world war two with important details. In this book, I think there are some parts that…

The Renaissance brought many inventions to life, but one of the greatest creation is the print and press created by Johannes Gutenberg. Johannes was born in Mainz, Germany in 1395. Before his creation of the the print and press, he printed cards, pictures, designs, and patterns on clothes. Gutenberg never married nor did he have kids, his life was surrounded around his business. His printing experience started in 1438, created the press in 1440, and printed the 42-Line Bible in 1454-1455.…

This essay is about the topic and argument on which of the books are more enjoyable to read. The comparison of Dance of the Banished written by Marsha Skrypuch and Graffiti Knight written by Karen Bass. The two books have similarities such as The first point to highlight is the character development and how they represented them. In Graffiti Knight, Wilm is shown to be very adventurous and risk taking and he has personality. They show this having Wilm show his feelings against the Soviets.…