Great Books

Why E-BOOK? We all know that textbooks are one of the main concerns before classes start. In fact, virtually every college student has experienced how difficult can be when carrying textbooks from one class to another. Textbooks are big, heavy, bulky and take up space. Some textbooks have more than a thousand of pages and are very expensive to purchase. The e-book is the best alternative for college students. It has great choices for all college students which can help, solve problems and save…

technology. It’s everywhere, some of you are probably holding your phone in your hands right now! The effect of technology in our lives is beyond words. For this reason, it can be found humorous how some people prefer “paperback books” over state-of-the-art, cutting edge electronic books. These amazing instruments of technology are monumentally better for a plethora of reasons. I could potentially stand here all day and go over these reasons, but really all what’s necessary is three: they’re…

holding several hundred books in a small electronic tablet. Though many people enjoy using these tablets for reading, there has been a large and vocal percent of readers who refuse to forsake the world of rustling pages and bound covers. I, personally have no issues with this and indeed would prefer Ink and paper to the electronic copy if I had a choice. Because of this stance I find it particularly discouraging when readers are…less than kind about another’s choice of eReader or book. There…

hand, is action-packed and dramatized to give the viewer a more captivating experience. Some of the most notable differences are; character development, scenes and dialog, and how the end has been changed to make the movie more engaging. While the book goes into more detail with certain characters, the movie is more condensed and often more dramatic than the original novel. The first difference between the novel and the movie is how Jordan and Daisy are developed while both the novel and the…

Preferences of Using Paper Books than Electronic Books among Students Do students prefer feel books in their hands or see them on a computer screen? Can they concentrate better using e-books or paper books? E-books came to existence before World War II with an American Engineer Vannevar Bush, who imagined the “memex” as a way for people to store and read great amounts of available information, but printed books began 560 years ago; memex is a device in which someone stores all his/her books…

People aways say don 't judge a book by its cover, but if you think about it book covers are very important. Book covers need to be intriguing to the reader to make the reader want to read the book. Throughout all of my schooling have found that most of the books I need to read have horrible covers. You have to ask yourself, Will I even read this book? Or does this cover make me what to read this book? I believe that when you buy something you have to have a personal connection to enjoy it fully…

freshman year in high school I ran for my Cross Country team. I went out first thing in the morning to buy running shoes. It was the worst thing I could've done. I did a test run up and down the aisles and jumped up and down in place. The shoes felt great in the store and I left happy.…

physical book. I enjoy feeling the weight of the book in my hands, the smell of the pages and the feeling of physically turning to the next page. I…

Kaitlyn Mendoza Mrs. Tobias English GT 2 - 6th Period 12 January 2017 Comparison In this essay, it will compare and contrast on the book and film of the novel The Great Gatsby. There are many differences and similarities when comparing both the novel to the movie. Due to the fact that when trying to make a movie off of an novel they try and portray the messages and every important detail but sadly not everything can be exactly the same. But I will only be stating only 3 similarities and 3…

In the chapter “The Floating Book (Part II)” of the novel The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, Rudy and Liesel stroll around town, with Liesel holding the stolen copy of The Whistler. The pair run into Viktor Chemmel, the most recent hated leader of the apple stealing group, and Viktor takes Liesel’s copy of The Whistler. He offers it back if Rudy and Liesel give him a large amount of money. However, once he understands how much it truly means to Liesel, he throws The Whistler into the Amper River…