Prose also says that the students are, "...handicapped not merely by how little literature they have read but by their utter inability to read it." The students loathe literature because they have never been taught how to read and comprehend it correctly. Finally, Prose also states that the books taught are, "... taught for reasons that have nothing to do with how well a book is written," and that, "every opportunity to instill adolescents with a lifelong affinity for narrative... is being squandered on regimens of
Also, Freeman seemed hesitant to take questions after her reading was over. Tim Seible had to be cut off because he wanted to keep answering questions. This makes me think that Freeman isn’t such a people person and would be hard to approach. I would feel more comfortable asking Seible a question or talking to him than I would
Why Zeitoun is my favorite book What do you do when you’re bored or need time to yourself? Most people find a nice quiet spot and pop open a good book. I’m someone who never really liked reading books. When I was younger my parents and previous teachers would always try to get me to read. I thought reading was boring and I could never get into any book I would read.
They might instead skip around, scanning for pertinent information of interest… I can’t get my students to read whole books anymore…” (318). Students are not focusing on reading a book from beginning to end. Instead, students tend to skim through and miss the important information which is a negative impact on them. Carr agrees that using the Web so often is having a negative effect on him because he is having a harder time focusing and reading articles which are more than a few sentences. He points out, “When I mentions my troubles with reading to friends, many say they’re suffering from similar afflictions.
Usually to keep children from certain ideas and/or information. (About Banned and Challenged Books.) You might be wondering, “What are banned and challenged books?” Well, challenged books are books with attempts to be removed or restricted. Like if a parent tried to ban a book but the request did not get followed up or backed up. The parent might have thought the book was bad but others did not so it just stayed at challenged.
Most christian colleges and 7 other schools offer the option as a strategy boost enrollments in tough economic times. In last fall’s survey, 62 percent said the economy affected where they enrolled. Amherst and Pomona, and other wealthy colleges have eliminated loans from financial-aid packages. Private schools with a little endowment rarely have the option and would lose students to lower-priced public universities. President Peter Samuelson, of a 3 year-old company called LRAP Association uses pooled funds to repay loans for graduates who qualify and that no more than 20 percent of participating students will need the money or for more than a few years.
Carr said that “ People who are continually distracted by emails, alerts and other messages understand less than who are able to concentrate.” (qtd line 9). I agree with that the net slowly damages our brains. For example, my friend who spends a lot of time to do nothing important things on the internet, can’t deeply focus on one thing. When we together read a book, she can’t focus her mind only in the book. She gets easily bored and tries to do something different thing when she reads books.
Ray Bradbury talks about Fahrenheit not so much being about censorship but about being a society that didn’t read. People in the story are not intrested in reading because they think books are the cause of depression and how books carry on myths and legends. Also how technology has replaced books and that it has also affected relationships. To begin with people are siimple and unquestiong. They depend upon technology so much they think is a waste of time to open up a book.
This book is actually banned from some schools in the United States. In finish if I had the choice of not reading it I wouldn’t, 1) it is inappropriate, rude disrespectful. 2) A flaw about me is if it doesn’t really interest me or it doesn’t affect me I don’t care to read or learn because after this I will forget about and never pay attention to it again. One day it might change but this boo had no affect on me nor did it change my perspective on first nation’s
The parents of these children have read these book and most likely learn things the don't even relies came from the books they do not want the kids to read. banning books is one of the worst things that could be done; moreover, it is unlawful and takes away from learning. In this day and age if the