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Books and thinking and talking, OH MY! Reading can take you to a new world. Reading can benefit you in many different ways. Not only does it make you more knowledgeable and widens your vocabulary, but reading makes you think. Is reading always the answer? In Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 when technology twists society people can not gain knowledge. No books are to be read in this horrible and dark dystopia. Which limits the people to not be able to talk with one another that much. Everyone…

Chapter one when I ment Thomas Edison,I was wearing a lab coat.Thomas asked,”why I was wearing a lab coat.”I said”Because I like to invent things and make inventions.Thomas said”So do I!”I had to go home,so then I told my parents about who I ment and that we have a lot in common.So the next day I went to Thomas’s house.We were plainning to build a lab.Thomas went and got the blue prints as I was getting the wood,lights and tools. Chapter two When Thomas and I were looking at the blueprints,are…

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…

always have my pajamas lying in my bunk bed in my blue paint colored room. Every night before bed I would curl up next to her in bed and pick several books for her to read. As I got older, I would pick bigger, harder, and longer books to read. One of my favorite books to read was Cloudy with A Chance of Meatballs. Even though I pick several enjoyable books to read my mom would always read me a Bible story at the very end. I loved to spend time at night reading with my mom. How did this have…

textbooks I think they should not replace them. To begin with, schools already have chromebooks to use. “They live in the world where they have distractions where they have an ipad on their desk or a smartphone in their pocket “ said Dirk Delo. This shows that people have phones wherever they go. It also explains that how they need to use electronics for school. Another reason to not trade out textbooks out for ipads is because it is a lot of money to waste on electronics that eventually going…

When reading books and fairy tales, people more often than not learn many things. Not just crazy facts about dolphins, but real things that can be useful in everyday life. Stories are told every day by people for many different reasons. They are often told to give people hope when times are tough. They can also be used to give a message to a reader like how actions have consequences. Greek Mythology is no exception to this theory. Many messages and lessons could be learned from these myths like…

Printing Press Assignment Printing presses have increased drastically by 1,260% from 1471 to 1500 due to a drop in the price of printing press and an increasing interest in spreading more ideas through books and other documents. Printing press has influenced both the Reformation and the Age of Exploration in different ways. It helped influence the Reformation by how Martin Luther posted his 95 Theses on a church wall in Wittenberg, Germany on October 31, 1517. His ideas were spread throughout…

Lottery Many people pick stories with themes and symbols that smack them in the face. It is true that these are nice to read because it does not take much brain power to understand every bit of what is going on. Other people, however, may enjoy a book the is more of a hidden gem, with meanings just as hard to find as the story itself. Many people claim that Shirley Jackson’s, “The Lottery” to be a hidden gem. “The Lottery” is considered a hidden gem because the author creates a story filled…

READING ANALYSIS REPORT: POPULAR MAGAZINES COMPARED TO ACADEMIC JOURNALS Name: Zachary Junzheng Wang Student Number: 101022583 Course and Section: ESLA 1500 D Date Submitted: 2015/09/23 Assignment Type: Report essay Introduction In university life, the students will contact many types of articles especially journal articles. Journal articles are different from popular magazines by many points. It is important to recognize different types of articles for university students, if you…

Co-Dependent Novel Imagine you are in a bookstore and it is overflowing with amazing literature. How many of these novels can stand on their own as a story to tell? Do some of these novels require prior text to understand certain aspects, such as a second book in a series? This brings forth the idea of intertextuality in which it is defined as reference of a text which is mirrored and reflected in another text (Eyvazi 155). Jean Rhys took it into her own hands to create a novel on Bertha Mason…