People of the Book

E-book Is Better Than Paper Book Bill Gates once said “We’re changing the world with technology.” Some people think Bill Gates’ advanced technology might ruin our society. On the other hand, some people think his technology create a new world. In fact, technology is changing our world day by day. E-book is one of the examples. Nowadays, you can see people reading books with different devices, such as phones, tablets, or e-readers everywhere. Once you have one of those devices, you can read…

I volunteered at Book Thing, which is a non-profit organization that gives away donated books to the community. I chose Book Thing because I was interested in what the organization does and giving them a lending hand. Before I visited I was apprehensive about going because I didn’t know what to expect. I thought I would physically be handing books out to people, and interacting with people making personal connections. I expected it to be little to no organization, just volunteers willing to lend…

Some people believe that books should be banned because of bad language or scenes.Banning books is bad because protecting children from difficult realites is uneed. Also, just because some people dislike these books others like them.Last of all, some of these books give us feelings,emotions and experiences that we need to have.Overall, no book should be banned for any reason. One reason banning books is bad because protecting children from difficult realities is unnecessary. Something to think…

world, Fahrenheit 451 Through reading and studying books people gain knowledge. The book is a dystopian world. It is a dark and terrible world that everything they do they shouldn’t. They burn books as a cleansing source to get rid of knowledge that is in the books. Montag a character in the book hides books and get colt and has to run away. He ran away and he meets up with these other people and the city got boomed, and Montag and the people went back to the city to rebuild it. To make it a…

Ethan Hastings Book Banning Censorship is defined as “...When individuals or groups try to prevent others from saying, printing, or depicting words and images.” (Purdy “Censorship”). Books are one of the largest sources of information in the world. They can provide thought-provoking information. Often books are banned due to “inappropriate content.” Or “controversial material.” Books began getting banned in the US in 1624. Some examples of banned books include To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee…

that people can read on their Kindles and other reading devices. They pay a commission if people buy your book, but now they are rolling out a subscription service where people get to read books based on the money they pay for their subscription. An author signs up for the subscription service, which means people with a Kindle Unlimited subscription can read their book without paying for it. Readers that subscribe can use their Kindle Unlimited all-you-can-read subscription, or read books via…

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.…

Banned Book Should people be allowed to rate a book because they feel it is not appropriate for a certain age group? Whether it goes against your religion , view of violence, drugs and deaths, the book has the right to be sold and read by the people around the world. The book should save a section of the book that warn the reader of which ages that will be able to handle it. But nobody should be able to censor a book because it takes away freedom of speech. Religion is one of the top reasons…

In the book “Fahrenheit 451” people were burning books because society says that books are dangerous and could lead to serious harm. The main reason people read books in “Fahrenheit 451”, it’s that they know it’s illegal but they still want to read because they feel that it’s a way to express their thoughts and feelings about who they are in the world. In our modern society it is very illegal to burn or rip books and could get in trouble and put in jail for a very long time…

Bradbury expresses what could happen in future society and what if people can’t or not going to read books anymore in metaphorically. Importance of books has been mentioned since people had invented writing skill. Do books deserve to be saved? If so, why do we need to save books? Answer always going to be ‘yes, because books are sources where we can get knowledge from.’ There is similar story with this book in china called Burning of books and burying of scholars. After the first emperor of…