... , and thought provoking escapes for children and the authors of them, despite what many people think, are not out to corrupt children. Some people take a different view on this issue and believe that many books, from classic novels like the "Catcher in the Rye" to the recent award-winning "Harry Potter", have objectionable subject matters that should not be used in the ... American Library Association, sixty one percent of challenged or banned books are because of parents (uakron.edu). I agree that many books are unsuitable for certain age groups, and if parents have a problem with the m...

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... voices in my head. It was hard for me to comprehend what I was reading. I would have to read sentences over and over again just to understand what was going on in the story. I disliked reading books because of that reason, but I was introduced to audiobooks in elementary school. My class read a book together while we listened to an audiobook and I was astonished ... what others do. We imitate each other and that's how trends are started, that's how people learn. To tie all my learning skills and habits together, I would say that taking notes is very effective. If an instructor is in ...

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... me, so I would not read those assignments After high school I attended Oakton Community College. I still didn't like to read much there. But I made an attempt to focus on improving my reading habits. I read several books for class and earned fair grades. I excelled in the History classes I took. I think being able to choose the classes I wanted to take helped improve my reading habits ... earn an "A" in that class, so I must have done something right. For my other classes I rarely read the material. I would go to class and take notes on the lecture. When it was time for the test I would...

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... night at the station, they are called by Mildred to burn his house down with the books. Captain Beatty wants to arrest Guy, so Guy burns Beatty to death with a flamethrower. Montag then had to go on the run from the police. While running from the police he finds some men along the ... timber for a large amount of money (pounds). After all of the timber is moved to the Fredrick farm, Napoleon figures out the bank notes were forgeries. "The bank notes were forgeries! Fredrick had got the timber for nothing!" (106) Adolf Hitler lied to Joseph Stalin (like Fredrick lied to Napoleon) when ......

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... of collecting quotes from various articles and books read in class. It helped me understand and have my own approach to all the topics discussed in the classroom. I was the author of my own thoughts. I picked out quotes that related to me or that I felt really highly about. Instead of taking dialectical notes, I wrote paragraphs on how the topic affected me and how ... to incorporate free write with school work. We had the freedom of expressing what we really felt about the article and the books. Time to time I did not agree with the article but usually I agreed with the article or book...

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... school. The second step is making the book a part of you by marking in it. You cannot mark in a book that you do not own. Books must be "absorbed", in order to get the full learning experience. This can only be done so through active reading. Active reading means marking up the ... book five years ago and went back to it then you could remember exactly what you had been thinking when you first read the book through your margin notes. Reading a book is like a "conversation between you and the writer". Active reading allows you to pick up this conversation wherever you left off. Also a .....

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... to develop an enquiring mind, as they question what they"re hearing or seeing on the page" (Britain's best weekly magazine 2002:35). They also have to accept reading as a joy and books should be a source of great enjoyment and pleasure. "Children can quickly learn "reading behavior"-how books work, turning pages, following pictures and print, flow of text from left to right ... and (not always but usually) top to bottom, by sitting on an adults lap and following a finger along the print or pointing to pictures" (Bruce et al 2000:163). "Children need to be ... given the chance to handle...

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... , it causes more negative than it eliminates. Censorship is very evident in literature, and more and more books are being banned each day. This is a major problem because of the effect it has on the children that will not be able to read the banned books. First of all, one person or a group of people, such as a government or a community, should not be ... American Library Association supports free speech and argues, "The freedom to read is essential to our democracy" (American Library Association 383). There should be no limit on the range of temperate discussion, or no limits on thought...

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... also censored if it showed too much of the truth, moreover not even soldiers letters were left to the way they were written even these personal notes were censored. This is an example of the way the government used propaganda to keep the public happy about the war and get normal men to ... sign up for the war. However in 1916 the first reporters were allowed to go and report their findings on the front line but only the good news for e.g. how well the soldiers were fighting and the heroism that was being showed by the army. ... suffered during that battle. The government also used book...

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