Censorship of School Libraries Every minor has the right to read about reality. In today’s world, library censorship has caused a lot of arguments. One of the most debatable forms of censorship today is the banning of books in school libraries. Banning books that educate students is wrong and selfish. Books with artistic and cultural value are still challenged every day by those who want to control what others read.
What’s the point of using books when you have technology to teach children the things that need to be learned? What’s the point of turning a page in a book when you can easily slide your finger across the screen and there the page goes? In this society there are plasma screen televisions that take up the entire wall, if that doesn’t scream high-technology then I don’t know what does. Then there is Captain Beatty who doesn’t believe that books are “good” in this community because they do more harm than help and they don’t even teach you anything except random, useless knowledge. Without books there is no reason for people to question the world that they live in because there is no kind of knowledge that anyone would know about, and nobody could be more knowledgeable than another.
Under the retail method, retailers only have to keep track of retail value of goods available for sale, retail value of goods purchased and total costs. CAUSES FOR STORE’S OBSOLESCENCE PROBLEM Some major causes of the store’s inventory obsolescence problem deal with supply and demand. The University Store never knows what book a professor may recommend or require in following years; therefore, all those books are then futile because there is no demand for them. Books are always changing and become easily outdated, which means bookstores have to be careful when ordering a large number of books. Another cause could be that those books can be found elsewhere online for cheaper.
Paulo Freire was a Brazilian education philosopher and in his 1970 excerpt, “The Banking Concept of Education”, Freire describes his view of education in two drastically opposed points of view. Education, as the “banking concept” is different than the concept of “communication” between teacher and student as Freire argues. Then on the other hand, you have James Loewen, an American professor of sociology for over twenty years with a focus on history and sociology of U.S. race relations. “Loewen is an expert at surprising his readers and audiences with historical facts most of us never learned and teaching us what history books get wrong and why we should care.” (332) In the excerpts from one of Loewen’s well-known books, “From Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong,” you can see how Loewen views the inaccurate facts for history and how they are taught to students. In Freire’s essay, his viewpoint in general terms, is that the education as the world knows it to be, is nothing more than information provided, memorized, and then
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely,” said by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton describes exactly what happened in George Orwell's world of Nineteen Eighty-Four. In today's modern society one can see some of the characteristics of Orwell's dystopia. These characteristics suggest that while many saw novels like Nineteen Eighty-Four as, "attractive to the primarily fringe thinkers" (Science) they are still relative to this day. In essence Orwell gave signs through his novel so that people of the world can avoid destruction brought on by their own government like that of Hitler and Stalin. Gwyneth Roberts says in her article about Nineteen Eighty-Four that, “Some of Orwell’s Newspeak vocabulary (Newspeak itself, Big Brother, doublethink) has entered the English language; certainly his vision of a drab totalitarian future has entered the general consciousness, although it is difficult to know whether his warning [have] been fully understood” (Roberts).
Kasey Cleveland Mrs.Kimber ENG4U 15 January, 2013 Life Without a Human Journey is not a Life Worth Living Every being has basic rights and free will, however there are governments that in our world that take advantage of our basic human rights sometimes to the extreme extents. Some countries take it to the extent where ones grocery intake is tracked per week, and when free will and simple things like grocery intake is monitored so intently people often lack a real human journey. In George Orwell’s novel “1984”, the Party’s ability to corrupt the citizens leaves them unable to embark on their human journey. This is demonstrated through examination of thought crime, doublethink and newspeak. The inhabitants of Oceania are persistently being under observation leaves them unable to embark on their human journey.
Standard abbreviations have always been used by booksellers to describe out-of-print books. The question is, do we continue using the same standard abbreviations on the internet? The internet has certainly changed the way we do business, and as the internet drives prices to unrealistic highs in some cases, and reaches the general public, it may be useful to have a reference one can turn to to minimize the risk of error. In addition to raising prices, some prices are now lower due to easy access to more common titles. In the not-so-old days, having only one copy available in the state of Massachusetts would have been thought to be quite scarce – now it’s possible to have 20-30 copies of the same title available at your fingertips due to the internet.
A according to the article by Strauss claims schools in poor and low neighborhoods like Harlem ,the south Bronx and central Brooklyn are not founded and receiving grants. On the other hand, schools in provided neighborhood receive opportunities like experienced teachers and other resources as a result; they are viewed as more successfully. The second problem face school system in USA is poor student and their income is low. Also, these students don’t have enough money to buy supplies that students need during in school. Also, poor students don’t have enough money to buy new computers or new programs to join with society, and this problem reflects in schools such as knowledge and experiences, too.
Elena Choy, an economics professor at several community colleges, wrote the essay about if laptops should be in the classroom as seen in The Little, Brown Reader. While Choy gave her reasoning for both being for the laptops in the classroom and banning them out of the classroom, I’d have to say that I agree with her for many reasons but on the flip side, I also disagree with her. The use of laptops by students within a classroom setting is a distraction for several reasons. They are not vital to the learning process or note taking in class. The whole purpose behind classes at college or even in some high schools is for the student to write their own notes based on the teacher's lecture or lesson.
“Why We Hate Politics”: A New Twist on the Perception of Politics Name: ******* *** Professor: **** ****** Course: Political Science 1020E Date: 18 November 2008 “Why We Hate Politics”: A New Twist on the Perception of Politics Collin Hay’s “Why We Hate Politics” appears to be the new twist on the political environment of democracy or a democratic country. It renders some vivid portrayal of the political disengagement that shows how “neo-liberal ideas and public choice theory” (Hay) contribute to the alienation of a population from the democratic process. In his book, Hay attempts top draw arguments against the assumption "citizens get the politics they deserve" (Hay). He calculates the evidences in a convincing way to prove that the assumption should be "democratic policies get the levels of political participation they deserve" (Hay). He delves deep into the cause of the public disengagement from politics that is considered to be detrimental to zeal of democracy.