Books

Mikayla Duvall What is a banned book? A banned book is a challenged book that was removed from shelves at certain places for various reason. Water For Elephants happens to be a banned book. The book was banned by parents at Bedford High School. By examining the graphic sexual content, foul language, and the circus life, it is clear that this book is still worth reading. The books graphic content doesn’t overshadow the literal merit in my opinion. On page 135 the book describes in great detail…

There are a lot of books banned from the United States ( over 300 to be exact), but no one knows how many times a certain book or book have been challenged against the American Library Association. 11,300 times a certain book has been challenged and those challenged books were soon censored and banned. Censorship is any prohibition of any book that seems inappropriate or promote violence or a threat to children of age. So books have been banned that contain anything that could provoke their…

Over the past month i have read two books, which both are in the same series: The first book is “Middle School, The WORST Years of my Life”, The second book is “Middle School, SAVE RAFE!”. Both books have a amusing plot. Nevertheless, they both have major differences and similarities with the plot, conflict, setting, and characters. The plot in both books is extremely different but has a couple similarities throughout. In the first book, “Middle school, the worst years of my life” The main…

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,…

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…

some interesting books. Books are important for expanding our knowledge and help to develop our ability to make rational decisions. Reading different types of book can open our minds and prevent us from being frogs in the well, someone who cannot see a big picture since he or she is a close-minded. “American libraries should be open to all – except censor. We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticism. Let us welcome controversial books and…

The book I read was Stolen Children, by Peg Kehret. This was one of my favorite books to read, there was always something new going to happen and I didn’t want to put it down. It was also so realistic, like I would think of myself in a type of situation like this and it’s just unreal to imagine it. Also, if you thought something was going to happen, you would be totally wrong and you wouldn’t believe how off you were in guessing what would happen next, which is why I liked this book so much.…

Preferences of Using Paper Books than Electronic Books among Students Do students prefer feel books in their hands or see them on a computer screen? Can they concentrate better using e-books or paper books? E-books came to existence before World War II with an American Engineer Vannevar Bush, who imagined the “memex” as a way for people to store and read great amounts of available information, but printed books began 560 years ago; memex is a device in which someone stores all his/her books…

Some people believe that books should be banned because of bad language or scenes.Banning books is bad because protecting children from difficult realites is uneed. Also, just because some people dislike these books others like them.Last of all, some of these books give us feelings,emotions and experiences that we need to have.Overall, no book should be banned for any reason. One reason banning books is bad because protecting children from difficult realities is unnecessary. Something to think…

Banned Book Should people be allowed to rate a book because they feel it is not appropriate for a certain age group? Whether it goes against your religion , view of violence, drugs and deaths, the book has the right to be sold and read by the people around the world. The book should save a section of the book that warn the reader of which ages that will be able to handle it. But nobody should be able to censor a book because it takes away freedom of speech. Religion is one of the top reasons…