Open Book

For the purposes of this paper, I will analyze and discuss seven different children’s literature books that depict people of different cultures and identities. I chose these books because these books challenge children’s preconceived notions about certain groups and help them change those. These books encourage children to not only understand the diversity in the classroom but to appreciate and accept them too and apply this mindset in the classroom and their community as well. In an inclusive…

around a 16-year-old basketball star, Daniel Williams, who was shot and severely wounded in 2003 by a firearm that was purchased through negligent firearm dealing. Sonner writes on the important firearm case, “If the plaintiff wins this case, it will open the floodgates of [gun] litigation. Trail lawyers will go crazy. They’ll bankrupt the gun industry” (Sonner 969). A threat of this magnitude, litigation, would definitely change the gun industry for the better. The gun dealers who are not…

save as much money as possible. An average college student racks up thousands of dollars in just textbook costs by the end of their college career. We believe we have reached a decision on how we plan to improve and ultimately change the nature of book buybacks and managing course…

Reasons Why was the third most challenged book in 2012 according to the American Library Association, "A challenge is defined as a formal, written complaint, filed with a library or school requesting that materials be removed because of content or appropriateness" (Top Ten Frequently Challenged Books Lists of this the 21st Century). Thirteen Reasons Why should not be banned. The American Library Association (ALA) has some very good points on why this book should be banned, but I personally…

Over the summer I chose to read the book “The Time Traveler's Wife” written by Audrey Niffenegger. This book was very interesting to read and opened up my mind to see love in a completely different way. The main character, Henry, meets this girl, Clare, at a library in Chicago. At this time he is 28 years old and he doesn't know is that he's met her before in the past due to him having a time traveling disorder. Clare remembers meeting him at age 6 while Henry was 43 years old. She has a diary…

feeling excited about my new hunger for books. I went straight to my hiding place, sat down, and began to wonder about what to do next. “Should I tell someone?” I thought to myself. I decided to just wait until the next morning and go back to the graveyard to see if I could find Draculink and ask him about my newly developed book issue. Besides, it was getting really cold and dark outside anyways. All I could think about was getting my hands on another book. When my Dad called out “Toby are…

In the sports of women’s professional tennis and U.S. college football, athletes can often times be constructed as a body with a talent in athleticism, and at the same time be neglected in the acknowledgment of their citizenship through discourses, language, and institutional networks. In the sport of U.S. college football the athlete that is constituted by the network of institutions discourses, and languages as an overworked and underpaid laborer who is denied their ability to exercise their…

Open Source Software Projects: A Balance of Trust and Control According to Jones et al. (2005), trust is the single most important driver for the success of virtual teams. However, as a result of Michael Gallivan’s (2001) case study on open source software projects, he now believes that there is another variable to this movement that can be found in control. He presents the McDonaldization theory by identifying four aspects of modern organizations: efficiency, calculability, predictability and…

Despite the fact that it is a constitutional proper for american citizens to have and possess handguns and stricter legal guidelines and licensing could no longer always retailer lives, placing much fewer restrictions on the ownership of firearms nonetheless, will inevitably develop crime rate in the us. The structure was once made to be slightly malleable relying on the social tradition of its persons. The united states is a revolutionary location and the population makes up is always altering.…

All it took for my friends to lure me into tennis was to suggest that I join the team with them sophomore year. At first it started out as something to do with my friends, but soon became a hobby and passion of mine as I learned more about the game. Tennis is a sport that involves two players hitting a ball back and forth across a net to each other using a racquet. It may sound simple, but decades have passed since the game was created and has given people time to turn the game into a highly…