Books

Banned book week What you think about books being banned in a free country?while you're pondering about books being banned lots of books across the US have been banned for so many reasons like sexually explicit ,unsuited for certain age groups,drugs ,alcohol ,smoking ,homosexuality and these are mostly banned in public school and libraries. Thanks to American library association for defending the writers to promote the freedom of writing and expressing them selfs in their books. The perks of…

advice, and have morals, which teach you lessons. Even if you read a book for the hundredth time, when you finish it, it might teach you something new, or a new way to look at it. It gives different point of views. So then you might ask why read books? Well, reading books improves your imagination, it helps expand yourself as a person, and of course simply to have fun, after all reading is just another…

In the chapter “The Floating Book (Part II)” of the novel The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, Rudy and Liesel stroll around town, with Liesel holding the stolen copy of The Whistler. The pair run into Viktor Chemmel, the most recent hated leader of the apple stealing group, and Viktor takes Liesel’s copy of The Whistler. He offers it back if Rudy and Liesel give him a large amount of money. However, once he understands how much it truly means to Liesel, he throws The Whistler into the Amper River…

adults prefer to read an electronic book and the majority of them choose Ipads or tablets to read instead of personal computers. They show that the number of e-book read by year is 24 compared with 15 printed books. Furthermore, Lee and et illustrate with their survey in 2012 on Americans readers that. Initially, 83 percent of them prefer e-books for a fast access, meanwhile only the 13 percent prefer printed book. Secondly, the 73 percent decided to read e-books for traveling…

Banned Books: A Girls Life Online. Everyone loves to read a good book once in awhile. Some people may tell you they hate to read, but chances are they're lying. but what if some of our favourite books gets banned? some books just aren't suitable for stores to sell. I'll go over a book called A Girls Life Online, And show you why some of these book don't need to be read. So lets get to it! This Story takes place in Connecticut, with little Katherine Tarbox as the main character.…

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…

Why books are banned? Why are books banned? There are so many banned and challenged books we do not know why all of these books are banned? Some of these books are banned because of religious purposes or inappropriate scenes in the book. Scary Stories to Tell in The Dark: More Tales to Chill Your Bones is the book that me and my fellow peers chose to do the book report and this book has been banned because of the gore, cannibalism, and horror. The first reason this book is banned is because of…

Half-Priced Books The children’s and young adult’s section at half priced books is not everything that one would expect it to be. Both sections were at the back of the store stuffed into a small corner area which made each section feel very small. There were also more parents in these sections than children, but my description of these areas may explain why this is so. Overall, I felt that these sections were more laid out for adults to buy books for their children than for children to come…

act of banning books with the following statement: “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” (“A Quote by Stephen Chbosky”). Challenging books usually comes from trying to protect people, mainly students, from “inappropriate” material found in the book. This can effect teachers by making them lose their flexibility to teach of teaching subjects to their students (“About Banned & Challenged Books”). Even…

The first banned book was Thomas Morton’s New English Canaan. Now, According to the American Library Association, more than 11,300 books have been challenged since 1982. Why are people so against books? The reason lies in the “ideological threats” that books contain. People will ban books if there is sexual content, violence, contrasts to religious beliefs, vulgar language, or contrasts to beliefs in general. For example, The Art of Racing in the Rain, about a dog with a dream of reincarnating…