in June 2002, Ephron reflects on her lifelong love of 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
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Books: The Martian by Andy Weir, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Phillip K. Dick, Stuff Matters by Mark Miodownik, Rick Riordan’s books, anything by Malcolm Gladwell. Movies: All three Monty Python films, Interstellar, Groundhog Day, Ocean’s 11. My favorite TV show of all time is Mythbusters. I read Popular Science (I love seeing potential innovations and breakthroughs), National Geographic (we live on a beautiful planet and Nat Geo shows the need to preserve it), and Sports Illustrated (sportswriting
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a kid friendly book that shouldn't be banned from any library. A Michigan elementary school has banned the latest "Captain Underpants" novel from its book fair.This school has sighting of why they think the book is bad. “The decision to ban the book, which the School Library Journal considers the book suitable for children in grades 2-4, was made by the school's parent-teacher organization, according to Monroe Public Schools Superintendent Barry Martin”. This was a very popular book that shouldn’t
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Reflective Paper #1 This paper was very interesting for me to read. Growing up I was never really into politics or the like so reading this was very interesting. I would have friends who love that stuff and was always surprised by the numbers of what they talked about. After reading the prologue and chapter 3, it is very clear that the statistics the news present are not always what we think they are and are often not as bad as they proclaim. This is reassuring to me because all the topics on the
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them. In this novel, books are considered to be a sin and no one is allowed to have them. Throughout the novel, there are many things to pick out to be a life lesson. Many people have self-censorship in the time because they didn’t want to stick out being a person with a book. Characters are being distracted from being happy and forced to not feel emotion. Mass culture took a huge part in this by controlling everyone's day to day lives. People didn’t stop reading books because the government
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Does the book smell like a dog…or does the character smell like a dog? The answer is neither! Smells like Dog is book full of adventure, friendship, and treasure! My reading frenzy started back in the fourth grade at Haley Morgan’s house. We were playing in her room and I needed a book to take to school the next day, so she offered me her selection. I thumbed through them all, and being a fourth grader, I picked the book with the best cover. The cover had a picture if a droopy dog and a few tick
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Harry Potter novels “attempt to make their own ingenious appropriation of the quandary of consumer goods and media” (inquiry. 548). Teare also explicates how children would rather watch movies or play video games than read books in which these mediums derived from. Teare indites, “Books have lost children’s attention … to other media that present narrative fantasies” (inquiry. 548).Teare utilizes the Harry Potter novels to illustrate how the characters face the same challenges we do when it comes to consumerism
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“I Can Only Cry My Eyes”, in this chapter, Carl Hoffman talk about Dhaka, Bangladesh. He talks about a lot in this chapter about the country and he also talks about very small details of Bangladesh. This chapter starts with a quote saying about a plane condition. I have never visited Dhaka and Bangladesh but I have heard about it a lot. I was shocked when the Carl Hoffman talk about the incident on page 180 about the 20,000 ferries that got sank and which killed more than 1000 people per year because
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Why does the school board ban educational books? Not a lot of people know that during WWII Japanese Americans were held in camps after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor taking away Farewell to Manzanar is not going to help. Without Farewell to Manzanar kids at Larkspur middle school will still be without that knowledge; This book can also change the way people look at certain things. Farewell To Manzanar should not be banned because it will take knowledge away from people. In chapter two Jeanne Wakatsuki
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to pick up a self-help book, let alone purchase one, but when I was given the book list for this independent study course, something about Brené Brown’s The Gifts of Imperfection spoke to me. I have always struggled with feelings of imperfection and finding a way to overcome my own issues with worthiness. I never thought a self-help book could change my life, but having read The Gifts of Imperfection cover to cover, I find myself being a firm believer in their power. This book is nothing like what
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