Books of Kings

banning of books is wrong. Yes, the book may have a controversial or offensive content, but the books can have good themes. Some about growing up and about the troubles we have to go through while growing up. Books can also teach us about past events, like wars, they can also teach us how people were treated back then. Like stated before, certain books can teach us what growing up is like. For example, “Junie B. Jones” taught me what it MIGHT be like in kindergarten and first grade. Those books…

will not take a class unless it is necessary, that requires an expensive book with a access code. Students are constantly confronted with extra costs and struggles because of rising cost so providing a lower cost option is important. Factor 2: Digital or hard copy of a book seems to also be a factor. Personally, it doesn’t matter to me if the book is digital or hard copy. Some students seemed to prefer a hard copy of the book because they don’t have to pull out their computers to read the…

Banned Books in the United States of America Books are usually discriminated against with good intentions. But books shouldn’t be banned because of fear of what someone will eventually find out. Research shows that the practice of banning books is a violation of the First Amendment to the Constitution. In 2012, there were a total of 464 attempts to ban books. Does this benefit us? Citizens in the U.S. should have access to banned books because they provide us with knowledge and information, the…

P148#1. The “Trends in Book and Literary Reading” table concludes that there are 10 percent more of the U.S adult population read any book than the U.S adults read literature. Also, the percentage of adults read literature declined 7 more percent than the percentage of adults read any book from 1982 to 2002. The “Literacy Reading by Gender” table shows that men generally read less than women, and the percentage of American men reading literature has declined about 3 percent more than American…

As a young girl, I was entranced by the stories that my sister read to me. These stories allowed me a form of relief and comfort, for when I was younger my family and I did not have much. We lacked clothes and money, being teased for our disadvantaged lifestyle. However, when my sister read to me, my mind sunk into an exhilarating, vivid place where stories bloomed, sending me into a world of boundless possibilities in face of our pressing hardships. These stories engaged my imagination through…

re-read pages or take a moment to stop and think about if what I was reading could be of importance later on in the story, if I thought it was I wrote it down. I would rather take a longer time to read my novel so I can remember the details of the book and make sure I understand the plot as well. This also benefited me later on when analyzing the novel because I was able to remember details within the story that I may not have noticed if I did not stop to understand them. Another strength I…

the movie, The Book of Life we see one perspective of the day of the dead from the life of one people. And in the article, Dia de los Muertos, we see a history and reality of the day of the dead. While they both inform us of the same topic, they have similarities and differences. In both platforms of media, they describe to us a little bit of history of Dia de los Muertos. They give us a little bit of similarities in them such as the colorful scenery of the setting. But unlike The Book of Life,…

Censorship of Black like Me Roman, Y, Shemakov McClintock High School Abstract This report goes on to examine if the banning of the book "Black Like Me" was based on a reasonable grounds, and how censorship should be approached in the modern day and age. The paper concludes that the banning of the book was merely arbitrary, and the idea of censorship is an unnecessary evil that should be avoided at all costs, no matter how pejorative or invidious the language is, it has the right to exist and…

Reading a book can often be taken for granted, yet not everybody in Africa can have this privilege. Often times Children and adults go without books for most of their life. Yet the organization Books for Africa can change that. They have a simple goal, and it is to end the book famine in Africa. They’ve decided to help do this by collecting sorting the shipping the books to Africa. They help kids who can’t attend school at least get to read and learn. They give many types of books like French,…

her locker grabbing her chunky chemistry book. She tucked it under her arm and shut the door, ere the girl left to her following class. Janie made sure to preset her locker and proceeded to punch in the three-digit code. She then made her way to the dreaded room, 193. She walked into the fluorescent-lit cage and sat in her designated seat. The clicks from her shoes against the linoleum echo throughout the room. Mr. Bernol stood at the front of the room, book in hand. He went on and on about…