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In the book The Outsiders by S.E Hinton, the story has a rivalry between the socs and greasers. The story takes place in the 1960’s in a small town in Oklahoma. The main characters are the socs and the greasers. The setting affects the characters by changing the mood and storyline. It also affects the story cause it matters where you live. Johnny is one of the main characters and is a greaser. “ If you can picture a little dark puppy that has been kicked too many times and is lost in a crowd of…

Day by day, new technology and different ways of using it is being thought of. The way technological change is developing many people find themselves struggling to keep up or deciding if they even want to adjust to the change taking place. In the article “Apocalypse Soon” by Jon Evans, and the novel Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robert Sloan, the rapid change in technology is shown as both a positive and negative development. It is up to individuals to decide if they would rather adapt to…

Will textbooks and books in general become obsolete anytime soon? Technology is quickly advancing and becoming more widely used throughout the world. 42% of US adults own a tablet, as tablets have become more popular, a debate has formed on wether or not they should replace textbooks. Proponets of having tablets say they are supported by most teachers and students, they are much lighter than textbooks, tablets can hold hundreds of books, and that digital textbooks are cheaper than print…

Mark a Book” by Mortimer Alder and “The Joy and Enthusiasm of Reading” by Rick Moody, both address how the use of books changes during your life. I feel that the way Americans read has changed since these essays were written. In today’s technology driven world, reading and interacting with a book does not require “cracking a spine” of a traditional book. Today more and more Americans read “books” on iPads, Kindles, and electronic readers. As electronic sources book replace paper bound books, the…

The Book Thief Summer Reading Assignment Theme: Words have the power to heal, the power to hurt and the power to change people’s lives. Passage: “ ‘Liesel, if you tell anyone about the man up there, we will all be in very big trouble.’ He walked the fine line of scaring her into oblivion and soothing her enough to keep her calm. He fed her sentences and watched with his metallic eyes. Desperation and placidity. ‘At the very least Mama and I will be taken away.’ Hans was clearly worried that…

In “The Book Thief”, A young Girl named Liesel Meminger, is taken to a foster family. The Hubbermans. They then teach Liesel how they go about their household and the responsibilities. On the way to the foster family’s house, Liesel and her brother took the train. Werner Meminger, Liesel's Brother, died on the train due to a “spurt of coughing”(7 pdf). He was lying sideways. When Liesel would go to sleep at night she would nightmare her brother on the train. Liesel has a tough life, she is 9…

Reading the chapters for three books, Modern Archives Read, Developing and Maintaining Practical Archives, and Providing referees services for Archives and Manuscripts talked about the same things in a different book. Before I summarized the chapter from the three books. I’d First would like to tell you the definition of the words archives. Pugh states that the word Archives mean the record of organizations in which was created or accumulated in the course of daily activities, and save by the…

beliefs across to hundreds of thousands of people in Germany. According to Document D between 1518 and 1525 a third of all books were produced in Germany were by Luther himself. An example of what was published in a Lutheran Booklet are seen in woodcuts in Document E expressing the pope as the “money changer” Jesus chased out of the temple. With the popularity of such books, there was a backlash from the pope himself calling Luther a “wild boar”. Although Luther never intended in using the new…

Know a man in the early 1900’s known for his poems written with incorrect spelling and punctuation? Then you would be thinking about E. E. Cummings! E. E. Cummings was birthed upon the world as Edward Estlin Cummings in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1894. He developed a unique style of writing at an early age, being influenced by both Impressionism and Cubism, and grew up to study at Harvard University. The poet would become a famous writer, but while he was alive, his work was mostly left…

banning books? I don’t think that's The Call of the Wild book is violent for 8th graders. I had read the first chapter of the book I don't think that the book is violent for 8th graders. A school board may say that they think this book are violent for students. Libraries should not ban the books because they are not violent for 8th graders. Don’t ban the book because how you will ban the books people will choose that book to read because they want to know why libraries had banned this book.…