People of the Book

Ann Bausum’s book, Stonewall: Breaking Out in the Fight for Gay Rights, covers the events of the Stonewall Riots and other important topics brought up by gay rights. The book goes through events going a bit farther back than 1969, when Stonewall occurred, until 2013 in modern times. Bausum recounts the events leading up to the Stonewall Riots, the riots themselves, what it was like to be gay at the time, the aids epidemic, and where we are now in modern day with gay rights. Besides the events…

Book burnings has a long history of this happening some date all the way back to 213 BC in china. A recent time that book burning took place in the United States was in 1948. That year the residents of Binghamton, N.Y.were going house to house to gather books, But not any book they were focusing on one type and they were comic books. The people that were doing this were students there reason was that they felt the comic books were going to cause depravity to the youth. The American Library…

science fiction novel written by Ray Bradbury, was published in 1953. The book 's tagline is ‘the temperature at which the book paper catches fire ' in the 50th-anniversary edition. This book revolves around the American society where the government outlaws the publishing of books and orders the burning of the same. The irony of the plot of this book is that the firefighters trained to put off fires are responsible for destroying books by burning them. The characters of Fahrenheit 451 include…

the book It’s Kind’ve a Funny Story By Ned Vizzini, feels throughout the book. In the book Craig Gilner instantly emerges as the main character. He’s a very intelligent teen with a bright future. His problem is that he can’t handle his high expectations or the fact that the girl he’s obsessed with is dating his best friend, Aaron. Craig wants to die. Instead of killing himself he checks into a psychiatric ward. There he’ll meet a girl Noelle who will change his life. The cover of this book is…

Controversial Book The book that I will be doing is And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell this book talks about two male penguins that are in love. The two penguins Silo and Roy wish to have a family like the other Penguin families. They realize that they can't because they are different from the other family penguins. But their desire for a family was the same. Silo and Roy make their own nest as the other family penguins, they saw how the family penguins were having…

All books have useful information where people can learn from historical mistakes and learn the deeper meaning in books. No one should have the right to take away one’s right to read or write what they want. One of the main reasons that many books are banned, is because they are about horrible events and despicable history. This includes things such as slavery, segregation, and anything else that people deem wrong. A commonly banned book is The Color Purple by Alice Walker. This book is…

inappropriate subjects showcased in books and almost every form of media. In the novel, Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, censorship is deeply rooted in its society and has wholly banned books in order to promote ignorance in the mind of its people, as well as equality among its citizens. Censorship is a major theme in Fahrenheit 451 and is deeply explored and practiced. The novel demonstrates a totalitarian government which burns books because of the threat it presents. Books encourage critical…

Books can supply people with knowledge. Knowledge can give people the ability of power, hence the saying knowledge is power. In our society, America has created a constitution, where the government is not given too much power. If our government had made it illegal to buy, sell, or write books, then the people would have less knowledge and less power, and giving the government more power, and destroying our rights highlighted in the constitution. The book, Fahrenheit 451, in the near future, our…

Their book gives an overview of the events of the French Revolution which perceives as the dawn of the Modern Era for France. It also emphasis on the importance of Louis XVI for the revolution which had the intention to begin a new world.…

The book “Slaughterhouse- Five” written by Kurt Vonnegut published in the year 1969 is a story about the second World War. The author Kurt Vonnegut is an American soldier placed in Dresden, Germany during the bombing of the city. He writes down all his feelings and emotions together with his friend Billy Pilgrim. The novel’s protagonist Billy Pilgrim is stucked in time, so during the whole book the author is jumping back and forth in time. Billy Pilgrim is born 1922 in New York, went to High…