Cochrane Library

From 1964 to the current day, approximately 2.5 million people in the United States have died due to health problems caused by secondhand smoke, and millions more have had their lives hindered by it. While exposure to secondhand smoke has decreased each year, this rate is too slow to prevent thousands of more deaths from being added to this number, or to keep thousands of more people from suffering due to it. The suffering doesn’t end with humans; animals are being harmed from cigarettes in…

The organization’s new name embodies the general mission it works to accomplish. LAND is an acronym that stands for landscape, art, and neighborhood development (LAND, n.d.b). Today LAND studio is an urban development oriented nonprofit organization located in one of Cleveland’s historic neighborhoods, Ohio City. Here is where twenty talented staff members contribute daily to improving Cleveland’s public spaces in hopes of helping people connect with one another and boosting the city’s economy.…

Women in Literature and the Effect Men Have on Them Men have a negative effect on women in literature in terms of oppressing their sexuality and leaving them devastated at the end of the story. For instance, Addie Bundren from William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying, was an unhappily married woman whose sexuality was oppressed, by the constraints of a male dominated society and husband, despite her affair. In comparison, Blanche DuBois from Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, was a widow…

Mark Twain and Jack London both write about an earthquake which took place in San Francisco. Twain wrote a narrative in order to demonstrate that when life or death situations occur, that is when people are at their worst. London writes a descriptive piece that demonstrates the destruction of an earthquake that creates a relationship between humans and earthquakes to express that they are both destructive. Although both writers write about a similar situation, they do so differently…

Harry Potter series. These are only a couple of the famous classic books in our time. They are usually read in school or can be picked up at the local library. These books are popular because of their individual lessons and unique stories told through their many pages. Unfortunately, many of these books have been banned from many schools and libraries throughout the United States at some point in time. Books should never been banned from the public because everyone deserves an open education, it…

Banned books are books that have been banned for certain reasons that may argue against a certain group of people’s beliefs. Books around the world should not be banned because you can learn from what the book tells you. I read My Sisters Keeper by Jodi Picoult, which was a very informative book that gave me a lot of information that I could hold on to. My banned book should not be banned because I learned a lot and it was a great story about a cancer patient and her family. There are multiple…

claim, the author refers to an incident in Wettuckett, Ohio where an increase in students cutting class and a decrease in students attending college dropped occurred after books such as Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn were introduced into the school library. However, the author failed to cite the source where he pulled this example from. For all we know, he could have made up the story himself. Even if the incidence in Ohio was true, the author makes an ill-logical assumption that the student's…

Banned Books Have you ever heard of a banned or challenged book? If so, you would know there are a lot of them. There are also a lot of opinions as to whether books should be banned or not. Some books are understandable but sometimes I think this is taken a little overboard. By examining the difference between a banned or challenged book, the most common reasons a book is banned or challenged, and why “Night” was banned or challenged, it is clear that the message from the book outweighs the…

At Crossroads middle school received a complaint about the book “A Stolen Life.” by Jaycee Dugard. The superintendent read the book and decided it will be a banned book becauses of its graphic nature. It wasn't allowed in the 7th grade classroom libraries. It also wasn't a 7th grade elective reading. Even though the book was banned for 7th graders, the book will be on Northview Public High School shelves.…

A white scalloped shelf in the corner for as long as I can remember holds all the books I’ve ever read. From books I learned to read with to the ones my mom has tried to get me to read for years. Over the past fourteen years my taste in books has evolved from Daisy Meadows fairy stories, to young adult books, to ones with more serious and realistic topics. Ever since I read my first Dr. Seuss book aloud in class, I have loved reading. I would spend hours in my room reading then march downstairs…