Great Books

Dr. Seuss created a book that every single person can read with only a small knowledge of words. One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish is one of the very few books that has been read by the majority. I believe I haven’t found someone who hasn’t read the classic.Yes, the story doesn’t contain the greatest amount of logic, if I remember correctly…

MY SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN When I was a little kid, if we got in bed quickly, my mom would read my brothers and I a part of a book as we went to bed. Books like The Great Brain, Call of the Wild, Where the Red Fern Grows, The Enormous Egg, and, yes, My Side of the Mountain. It has been a long time since hearing the book read, so at first I wasn’t even going to read it. I had read the list and was going to read Huckleberry Finn, but by brother suggested I read My Side of the Mountain instead.…

advances of our modern history. A printing press was obviously used as a faster alternative to make copies of important documents. To us the thought of painstakingly writing out every page of a book seems absolutely unnecessary and a pain. Before the printing press there were scribes that would copy each page of book neatly. Johannes Gutenberg a German craftsman using a measly grape press revolutionized the world during the 1450’s by inventing the printing press. The convenience of the printing…

For most people, reading is an essential part of daily life that is often taken for granted. The wealth of knowledge that is available through books can be easily accessed if an individual possesses the capability to read. Ray Bradbury's classic dystopian novel, Fahrenheit 451, demonstrates what happens when such access to books is cut off. Similarly, the memoir of famous abolitionist Frederick Douglass shows that it is even possible to restrict an individual's ability to read, and therefore…

Introduction: The great American author, Jack London, wrote many novels and short stories, but his writing was heavily affected by his adventurous life. The early life of Jack London played a huge role in his writing. Jack, through rough times, found reading as a way to get through the tough times. 1. Jack’s reading led him to becoming a reader that studied and focused on the text. He wanted to understand what he was reading, not just having fun while reading. He wrote, [I] was an…

Books, Pages, What a Wonderful Thing (Comments on Three Favorite Books from AP Lit. First Quarter) Remember of a time, you first explored the Earth, all those others humans were so much bigger than you. There were scratches all over the walls, on paper, even on your television screen. Yet, one fateful day you began to decipher these strange hieroglyphic type symbols and discovered all these stories with them. What was the first words you read, novel you completed. All throughout life you will…

There has been a grand total of 129,864,880 books published ever. All of these fall into the category of essential questions that I have learned. Some of the books also contain some of the essential questions that I have found interesting. This year in english class we read Night by Elie Wiesel and the novel contains the essential question of seeking justice and bearing witness about terrible things that have happened like the holocaust and to promote what happened so the act can be prevented…

The book, Library: An Unquiet History, by Mathew Battles, discusses the history of libraries and books and how they have shaped the way, we as people have advanced throughout history. The destruction of books throughout history has been pretty common. The dozens of political brawls and genocides in history of mankind have proved that books are a sign of freedom that isn't seen highly by war mongering generals and power hungry dictators. Yet, Battles repeatedly explains that although history…

and scripted dialogues are taking over the minds of the masses. Books have slowly evolved into work, not pleasure. It is hard to find children who spend their time reading a Dr. Seuss book rather than playing Flappy Birds on an iPad. People used to line up to snatch a newly released novel; now people wait in line to watch the next Fast and Furious movie. As other forms of media become more and more popular, the importance and use of books are becoming less and less significant. The saying…

went on to develop his press in the Holy Roman Empire. He saw the printing press as a financial opportunity, due to the high cost of books at the time. Prior to his groundbreaking invention, knowledge was very much limited to the royalty or the religious order because attaining access to any sort of literature was a painstaking task. In order to have a copy of a book, including the bible, each word had to be copied into a second version which led to extreme inefficiency and transcription errors…