...great books and their ability to capture a reader for days at a time and leave the reader speechless for days after, examining the details and considering the epiphanies found within dog-eared pages. According to Ephron, books have been the only constant throughout a life filled with years of love, sorrow, and new couches; she recalls times of personal upheaval and the specific books that first comforted her with their dazzling plots and dreamy characters, then prompted her discovery of unhappy or exhausted...
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...Clifford the Big Red Dog written and illustrated by Norman Bridwell is my favorite childhood book. This was my favorite childhood book because when I was four years old I got a new puppy and she was very small, but it did not take long before what I thought what was huge. She was the biggest dog on my road like Clifford was the biggest dog on Birdwell Island. My dog’s name was Lucky and she could do tricks, fetch, and scare off the bad guys, just like Clifford. She would chew shoes, chase animals, and dig up flowers. I would keep Lucky over any dog, just like Emily Elizabeth would keep Clifford. The illustrations in Clifford the Big Red Dog caught my attention as a child because the pictures were very bright and happy. I enjoyed how Norman...
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...Final Reflection Paper By Jessica Krick The first week I learned that children's books aren't as a genre an indication of readership. I enrolled in this class because it is required. According to my guidance counselor, it is to 'diversify my learning'. Now that I have finished the course, I couldn't agree more! I started this class thinking that children's books are simple and sort of primal. When in fact, there are a lot of literary elements involved; and the illustrations tell the story as much as the text. It has taught me to look deeper into everything, that nothing is simple. I plan on using this newly acquired skill in the future. Also during this week, I got to analyze and enjoy "The Giving Tree". It is such an exemplar picturebook, that I just had to buy it (along with "Wild Thing") to read again and again with my nephew. I typically favor the moral lessons provided in these books. With that said, I honestly didn't like the book "Millions of Cats", I guess it just rubbed me the wrong way, plus I'm a dog person! Being an artist myself, my favorite part of this class was the multitude of illustrations involved in my class work. Home work became fun. You always seem to provide extra handouts just to further our knowledge, like the 'handout of illustration styles' and I read quite a bit of the Grim folktales. Folklore revisits popular childhood folktales or how I have always known it as 'fairytales'. I found it interesting that they have survived centuries by word...
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...the story seemed very familiar. The fact that the books’ features had remained in my head for so long displayed that the story must be a successful children's novel; therefor, my excitement to read it was high. Having stored opinions and details of the book was useful while interpreting the written work. The ability to anticipate the story’s key points from childhood exposure, reminded me of times I had once battled with elementary teachers over how to correctly spell my name. After learning that the letters “C” and “K” have the same sounds, it seemed acceptable to change the beginning letter of my name to “K”. After battling the teacher for weeks over if there was a “Carrington” in her class or a “Karrington”, the war was ended after a phone call to mom. The phone call had come just hours after the idea of changing “Kissner” to “Cissner” appeared in my head. Having the experience of once being a 5th grader was beneficial to...
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...**Part #1 violent video games and their effects on children source list** Book #1: Grand Theft childhood Author Kunter Lawerence Book: Grand Theft childhood City of publication: New York Book #2: Violent video games and their effects of children and adolesents Authors: Craig Anderson, Douglas Gentile, Katherine Buckley Book: Violent video games and their effects of children and adolescents City of publication: New York Part #1 questions: What did you know about this topic before you started your research? Before I started this project I knew little to nothing about violent video games and how they were linked to violent behaviors and school shootings. Why were you interested in this topic to begin with? I was really interested in choosing this topic because I really enjoy playing video games and when I saw this topic I felt like a lot of people feel differently about if or if not games can affect a person’s actions. I also have a passion for Criminal justice and have heard of several school shootings that have fallen under this category (list the examples and explain the details) I play several violent video games such as (GTA 5 , Call of Duty modern Warfare 2 and 3 Gears of war 3 and Fallout 3) bring in the games and ask how many people have seen or heard of these games* What are some questions you are trying to answer during this project? Some questions I’m trying to answer is do video games really have an influence on a teens mind and how they...
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...Reading a book was always tiring to me because if it is fiction then it is not real and even if it is a non-fiction book, it is still boring to read about other people's lives. Although reading isn’t a fascinating thing for me, during the “Launching Independent Reading” week, the Book Pass, Book Interview, and Quindlen Anna’s “How Reading Changed My Life” changed my attitude towards reading. Through the Book Pass, it gave me an opportunity to read some of the books from different genres such as mystery or suspense and I figured that it is actually not that boring. Also, I learned that reading helps a stressed mind to relax which also enhances your brain’s connectivity. The Book Interview helped me determine the level of difficulty of that...
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...Themes and structures in Midnight’s Children View Chapter PDF By: Abdulrazak Gurnah Chapter DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CCOL0521847192.007 Online Publication Date:November 2007 Print Publication Year:2007 Hardback ISBN:9780521847193 Online ISBN:9781139001670 Chapter Description Table of Contents Midnight's Children is a grand book, in the ambition and the scope of its subject, and in the daring and dynamism of its method. It is also an intimate book, attentive to childhood memories of people and neighbourhoods. In both these respects, subject and method, the novel has sources which influenced and informed its construction, and these will be discussed in more detail below. One of them is the novel The Tin Drum by Günter Grass, first published in German in 1959. In 1985, Rushdie paid this tribute to Grass and to the novel: In the summer of 1967 . . . when I was twenty years old, I bought from a bookshop in Cambridge a paperback copy of The Tin Drum . . . There are books that open doors for their readers . . . And then there are readers who dream of becoming writers . . . [For them] there are (if they are lucky) books which give them . . . permission to become the sort of writers they have it in themselves to be. This is what Grass's great novel said to me in its drumbeats: Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars. Keep grinning. Be bloody minded. Argue with the world. This...
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...“Amazon.com Reigns Supreme” Since childhood I have always been a big fan of music. Two of the companies I have purchased music from have been Amazon.com and Borders Book Stores. Before the big wave of internet retailing started Borders seemed to always have the hard to find CDs that my local Best Buy didn’t carry, which was basically the only store in my town that had a decent selection of music. Now that I am able to browse the internet on my smart-phone just about anywhere I go an online retailer, such as Amazon.com, is much more suitable for me. Borders was a chain of stores that specialized in the sale of books and music in a wide variety. The first store started in 1971 by two brothers, Tom and Louis Borders, while studying at the University of Michigan. It was an 800 square foot store located at 211 South State Street in downtown Ann Arbor, Michigan. The store specialized in mostly used book sales at the time. In the 1970’s, Louis Borders created an innovative software to keep track of inventory and project future sales accurately (Bomey, 2011). In 1988 the company hires Robert DiRomualdo to try to improve the leadership of the company. With the addition of Robert DiRomualdo the company wanted to try to have him lead the planned expansion the company had in mind. Later on, DiRomualdo is coined with the success that Borders had in going national in the 1990’s. He was later appointed the positions of Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of The Borders...
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...Paper Towns: An Analysis There are three types of books in the world. There are the ones that leave you emotionally numb. These are the types of books that you read, the books that occasionally make you smile, chuckle a little, finish them, close them, and then eventually place them in your bookcase never to be read again. Then you’ve got the books that you don’t read. You read them, but you don’t really read them. You do not care for the story. You do not relate to the characters. You do not feel that moderately pleasant feeling when a character does something adorable. You do not need your highlighter to highlight inspirational or well executed quotes. In many cases, these books are never finished. Then, on some very rare occasions, you...
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...We’ve known each other for a very long time, since early elementary, so I certainly know a bit about you. One thing I have learned is that you are an avid reader. Because of this, I would like to recommend Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children because I think it would be right up your alley. You already saw me reading it in House & Seminar and mentioned that you had an interest in it, so I’d like to tell you why I think you should finally pick it up. You were the person who actually got me started with young adult fiction with the Percy Jackson series, so you probably have some idea as to what I like. I enjoy books with a dose of action with detailed and sometimes intense overarching plots. A book really gets good if this is combined with a unique and memorable group of characters with engaging subplots mixed in. One thing that I enjoy in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is the variety in the main cast. Everyone is unique and no one succumbs to what I like to call “protagonist syndrome” where one character, typically the main, is simply too strong in all available aspects and seems able to consistently accomplish any feat no matter the odds. The author does a very good job...
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...I was blessed to be able to choose a story from hundreds of books on my bookshelf, and one night, I asked my mom to read Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown to me. It is a children’s book about a little bunny saying goodnight to everything in her room. Although Goodnight Moon has only 130 words, it taught me life lessons that I, otherwise, may not have ever learned. Gratitude and “goodnights” became very important to me that night. The bunny in the story said goodnight to all of the immense and tiny things in her room, and I began to do it, too. However, the book also allowed me to appreciate something that I had taken for granted before. I look up to my mother, a lot, and she would come and tuck me in every night. I don’t think she ever...
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...Reading autobiographies can bring a sense of dread to a number of people within the reading community. Although to some, they are the only style of book to read. Autobiographies have a connotation of being a chronological retelling of the author’s life, full of intimate details of the struggles they encountered and they share the commonality of upbeat undertones suggesting that they are in fact successful, which is why they are writing this autobiography. Our brain has been trained to associate these assumptions with autobiographies. When we examine a novel like Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson, our assumptions of what an autobiography is becomes challenged. Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson is not typical life-writing story using opening...
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... The first indication that kids need more from the adults in their lives is obvious by the way the adults portrayed in the books. For fans of Dav Pilkey’s Captain Underpants books, most children, could not expect this children book to make number one of the most challenged book of 2012. Dav Pilkey’s Captain Underpants has been frequently banned due to concerns over subject matter, slang/ bad grammar and dangerous amount of laughter. The subject of censorship is a very controversial one, especially banning books in school library of it content. Most people believe they must protect children from the evils of many classic...
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...through the tireless efforts of monks. This long and tedious process caused the price of these manuscripts to be ridiculously high compared to the average family income of the time. Also, only a couple thousand copies could be produced each year. An incredible innovation came while Gutenberg was still young, known as the fixed type printing press. This new method of printing allowed print workers to carve by hand each page of a book into a block of wood. From here, the block could be reused continuously to print that page as many times as needed. This dramatically reduced the errors that had been common in manuscripts, and created a uniform type for each page. However, this was inefficient as it still required a ridiculous amount of time to be spent carving away all of the wood around the letters for each and every page of the book. Still, this new technology allowed mass production to begin. This improvement over the manuscript method was widely welcomed and increased literacy and access to books for the public, although it did this in a very small way. These books were still extremely expensive and widely unobtainable for a vast majority of the public (Duke...
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...Reading and Writing Development As a future educator I believe that reading and writing is the utmost import thing in a child’s education. Without these two skills a child will not be able to succeed in school. For my essay, I chose two age groups that I want to teach; middle childhood, ages six through ten, and early adolescence, ages ten through 14. The reason I chose these two developmental ages is because I believe that children enjoy learning; they are like sponges, always trying to absorb as much as possible. The reading development in middle childhood children and early adolescent childhood children seem somewhat different. Middle childhood children start by identifying letters and matching letters with individual sounds, knowing what a word is, and interpreting spaces and punctuation are the earliest building blocks for reading skills (www.education.com). Early adolescent childhood children, usually do not have an issue with reading; they can identify vocabulary words in a book and sound out the words. Children of this stage usually enjoy reading. Writing skills for both middle and early adolescent children develop in the same way as their reading skills. Middle childhood children are more focused on what they are writing, their spelling, spacing, punctuation, and coherence has improved (www.education.com). As for the early adolescent children, you can understand what they write, their words are spelled correctly and are in standard form. As you can...
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