E. E. Cummings

Writing and marking up books is a very strange and uncomfortable concept to many people. From a very young age, people have been taught that writing in a book would take away from the literature. However, after reading “How to Mark a Book” by Mortimer Adler, I feel differently about what I was once taught. Adler makes it known that by marking books will help us all become a better reader by being more engaged with the literature. Adler coins the term “writing between the lines”. This to me is a…

more technical knowledge jobs, save our trees from being cut down and used for paper, and still be able to send and receive mail. There is also a drop in mail delivery because of how expensive it has become, but proven over and over again electronic e-business has been told by clients to be more cheap and easy (Source…

A book and a movie are so much more different than each other a book has more detail. The text was so much better than the video it is basically comparing a book to the movie made the book has much more detail.Why it is better is you can read your own pace and understand what you are reading than what you are hearing from someone else.It took me about One Hour showing that Al gore didn't describe anything or the story at all.To read the book it took about twenty mins to view the video showing…

It’s a well-known fact that books have the power to transport you across time and space, but sometimes you finish a great read and you aren’t quite sure where it’s taken you. While this trippy sensation probably isn’t for the Jojo Moyes lovers out there, it is a thrill for readers who crave the bizarre, the outlandish and the flat-out confusing. If you’re all about absurdists like Beckett, Murakami and Pynchon, then you need to get to a bookstore (or open Amazon in a tab if that’s your…

1st Year Sound Design Film Essay – Wall-E Noah De Villiers (21800270) – 12/02/2018 ‘Wall-E’ is an animated film produced by Disney and Pixar that was released with the intention of being entertainment for young children. Despite this target audience, the film exceeds and defies all expectations by transforming this seemingly simple story, which centralises around a trash collecting robot named Wall-E chasing down a scout droid, EVE, who he views as the love of his life, into a tale of heroism…

When asking a group of people whether they prefer reading books or watching movies, the responses will vary. In any case, some people will prefer reading books, and some will prefer watching movies. While reading books and watching movies are both entertaining pastimes, it is certain that they are exceedingly different. Although books and movies have many differences, they have many factors that are alike, as well. In the world today, book reading is not as popular as it once was. Reading an…

The digital revolution, which started in the 1950s, has introduced us as to the cyber world. Thanks to the Internet and wireless technologies, the information-sharing has revolutionized the world, made significant enhancements in science, engineering, and medicine; created a large number of billionaires and has a tremendous impact on our daily life. It also rendered the physical boundaries between the countries less significant because most of the mankind is now very well-connected and interacts…

presented E-books (Collings). Thus, legitimacy is an important concern as the deluge of deficient E-books further complicates matters for those seeking to establish themselves as a professional author. In his blog, Keith Martin-Smith explains, "Anyone can self-publish,…

These reasons include having access to all of my teacher or counselor’s e-mails. By having access to all of these e-mail addresses I will be able to keep up to date with all of the assignments I may need to turn in or that I may have coming up. Thanks to this class I am also able to function Microsoft Word much more efficiently than I was able…

Over the last twenty years, reading in America has drastically changed. The essays, “How to 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…