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Books have been banned/censored throughout history. For example, the Catholic Church created the Index of Banned Books in the 1500s. The goal of the Index was to prevent the population from reading books that went contrary to the Church’s teachings. Anyone caught reading or selling these books was severely punished or even killed. However, book banning has been especially prevalent during recent times. This is due to the increase in both literacy and governmental control. With governments…

Everyone is trying to hunt Montag down. Montag doesn’t know what to do because he is sure this will lead to a manhunt and he doesn’t know that he can escape with everyone and everything coming after him, so he turns to Faber. Montag quickly retrieves books from his backyard, then sets off to Faber’s. This is when he realizes war has been declared on his town and knows that he can never come back. He runs and is close to Faber’s when he comes to a boulevard. Crossing the street is dangerous…

from whom they live around or their peers. When we keep ourselves from writing and expressing our creativity we become our own self-censors. In the poem, “Burning a Book,” by William Stafford, the reader is able to imagine the burning of a book in a creative way, and compare something that is thought to be a more severe situation. A book written by, Ray Bradbury, named, “Fahrenheit 451,” provides the reader with an understanding of the problems in a controversial society where someone would care…

On November 10th, 2017, I read “Stella Luna”, by Janell Cannon to a group of five second graders. In my group, there were two boys and 3 girls. In order to find the perfect book for the read aloud. I used reading surveys and interview questions to find the right match. I gathered a few different resources and ideas to create a survey for the children. The survey was called “What do you like to read about?”. The survey had varied genres and pictures to match, allowing the students to circle or…

children’s book that talks about two penguins, Roy and Silo, who raise a baby penguin together. The book sounds like any other children’s book, but what made it one of the most challenged books in the last decade? The two penguins are male. The fact that these two penguins are the same gender sparked countless numbers of complaints from parents all over the world, pushing for the removal of the books in their children’s school libraries. The two terministic screens of the argument are: the book…

Special Collections Visit The three-hundred and ninety-five-page book that I surveyed, titled Della Espositione Sopra L’orlando, was published June, 1550 (originally written in roman numerals MDL) by a person named Lorenzo Torrentino. A person by the initials of “U.R.S” was the author and the colophons, mentioned the printer’s name, “DV Cale”. This book was written in purely Italian and was paginated, and its size was fairly small, identifying it as an octavo. The title page included the…

middle school and once I got to high school I learned how to deeply analyze a book. Learning how to pick apart a novel gave me a whole new insight on the importance of novels and what type of knowledge those novels could give me. For example, I didn’t realize that stories had symbolism and held deeper meaning that could reveal truths about human nature. This opened my mind and gave me a new insight on how to properly read a book. Now, whether it’s a novel or textbook, I do not mind spending…

got up, she wrote down what she remembered of the dream, and titled the printer-paper booklet 'Rodot Lizard '. This would be her first of many small, sloppy stories. If you look back at that story, it seems a little far-fetched. A child writing a book?....for her own amusement?.....it can 't be real, right? Well, let me be the first to tell you, it is very much real. I am that little girl, thirteen years in the future, and I still have a copy of that booklet I wrote. Given, it 's not exactly…

some articles online and went to two local libraries. I used the search engine Google and at the libraries I used Destiny Library Book Search, which is the system both libraries use to catalog their books. At my high school’s library, our librarian helped me find the two books I wanted. At the public library in town, I had no help from the librarians finding the book. Gregory, Andrew. "We Don 't Let Our…

my future classroom, plan to give my students choices of books to read, take field trips to the library, and if possible have authors come speak to…