Banned Books Week celebrates the freedom to read. Many books have been banned or challenged throughout the years, including many children’s books. Books are banned for a variety of reasons. The history of Banned books Week begins in 1982, when it was founded. Many believe that banning books is going against the First Amendment, otherwise known as one of the most important. Even one of the most important books known to mankind has been challenged and banned. So what are we, the next faces of America
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Reading books is one of the most popular hobbies in the world. Books allows the readers to utilize their mind as they try to imagine sceneries when they read the words on the pages. Many individuals purchase their books so they can read them whenever they want, but some people are not as lucky so they go to libraries and borrow books they want to read. As time goes on, there are fewer people who reads during their free time due to being interested in participating in sports or wanting to play video
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The book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury has a complex plot filled with various devices and themes, with the most common themes being censorship and what makes humans human. Censorship is the most prevalent theme due to the fact that the book’s plot is about a dystopian future where books are thought of as evil and are burned. They say that this is done because no book can not offend anyone. There will always be someone who finds a book offensive, and the government thought it would be easier and
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already begun the arduous task of reading and re-reading books as well as studying for my preliminary exams this fall. I’m going to try to post reviews of some of the books periodically. This week I’m trying to get through a few fun and interesting titles to ease into it and give myself the illusion that I’m doing some pleasure reading. I spent most of today reading Glenn Altschuler’s All Shook Up: How Rock ‘N’ Roll Changed America. It’s a book I saw on several of my colleagues’ reading lists and appeals
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While researching the different amount of book covers, one distinctively stood out. On this book cover, a man can be seen who appeared to have a good amount of unexplainable tattoos placed on his body. This book cover allows an individual’s curiosity to spark at first sight. At a glance, one may say that the tattoos seem very mysterious and colorful. Which causes one wanting to know more. For instance, a viewer of the cover may say to themselves “why would a man have such a variety of unusual tattoos
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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
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Growing Up a Book Worm My love for reading began when I was introduced to my grade school librarian. Mrs. Nish, truly brought the books to life for her students. As a young reader, she opened my eyes to a world of fiction, nonfiction, fantasy, and mystery. At St. Vincent de Paul, students were encouraged to read a certain number of hours each year. This is when my love for reading flourished, because we had the opportunity to choose our own reading material. In having the opportunity to choose our
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blacksmith, goldsmith, printer, and publisher”. Gutenberg started the Printing Revolution by introducing printing to Europe after he invented the printing press. Many people in Europe were unable to read, but after the invention of the printing press, many books became available and literacy levels rose. This invention also lead to the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. The Enlightenment was a time when people could think for themselves and new ideas were expressed. Without the printing press to publish
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Many books have been written with open minded opinions describing some of the events that occur on a day to day basis. There are even some books that have shaped and America and have created the foundation to American Literature that have been banned. Everyone should be able to read about various situations even if it’s alarming and shows the reality of life itself, they would rather not to share the harsh reality of life or any mature content such as violence. In order to embrace the truth of life
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I began my search process through the EBSCO Discovery Service bar on Clarion University by starting with the keywords “LGBTQ AND librar*” in order to receive library and libraries in the results. This brought up over 32,000 results - I narrowed the search down to 2012-2017, Full Text, and Academic Articles to start - which brought it down to about 4,600. I knew that I did not want young adults or children, nor did I want collection development articles, which unfortunately consisted of many of the
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