J.D. Salinger Marquis Castro May 3, 2010 Biography Jerome David Salinger known for his best story written The Catcher in The Rye was born on January 1, 1919 in New York City. His dad was Jewish and his mom was Christian, just like the main character in the story The Catcher in The Rye. As a child he grew up attending public schools and military academy in New York. He first started writing in magazines in New York but he also wrote several stories in his early times like A Perfect Day for Banana Fish.
Disney’s Father – Elias – acquired shares in the O-Zell jelly factory in Chicago and moved his family back to the city in 1917. Disney began his freshman year at McKinley High School and took night courses at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. By this time he became the cartoonist for the school newspaper. Walt had hopes of joining the army, and had dropped out of high school at 16 years old. However, he had been rejected for being under aged.
The two writers I included in this paper Andrew Ofstad and Ursula Le Guin have similar and different ideas on how technology can affect literature, but also if reading maybe declining in society. I don't focus so much on if reading is declining; I focus if technology is really detrimental to reading and learning to society. I think it is important to see that reading is important for learning, but technology also has a way for people to read and learn as well. I don't expect you as the reader to agree with my own conclusion, but to decide on your own opinion on the matter after reading my essay. Andrew Ofstad's "America's Decline in Literacy Reading: Grappling with Technology's Effects on the Print of Culture" and Ursula Le Guin's "Staying Awake: Notes on the Alleged Decline of Reading" are both essays that focus on the decline of reading in society.
The Stranger by Albert Camus Albert Camus' cultures consist of being a novelist, literature and short story writer of many books. He wrote an essay on the state of Muslims in Algeria, causing him to lose his job and he moved to Paris. Albert Camus also joined the French resistance against the Nazis and became an editor of "Combat", an underground newspaper. He was dissatisfied with the editorial of the Board and left the underground newspaper. Albert Camus is a on of a working-class family, He was born in Algeria in 1913, in an extreme poverty area.
Dear Editor: Censorship in public libraries is inconsiderable, unreasonable, and absurd. It must be eliminated from the minds of our town council. If a book is not acceptable for patrons under eighteen, I feel either the patron’s parents or the patron himself should decide so. The town council and the public library have no idea whether a patron is responsible enough to read a book with possible adult themes. Censorship is also ridiculous because most classic novels involve questionable language, or somewhat violent material.
We have seen the case for not banning guns where the author tells us how taking guns away from the people will not stop the other majority of mass killings and we have also seen the point of view from the author of banning guns where the author says that he necessarily states that he doesn’t want to just ban guns, but limit who we give the guns to. Now that both sides have been shown and talked about I have gotten a better understanding on which side is in my preference and that would be for banning guns. I don’t want to sound like I hate guns, but I do love my country and the ground I stand on, and I would hate to see it crash because a few people are too ignorant to accept that we need limitations to protect the ones we
MLK advocated for civil disobedience and positive tensions within a community to create a basis for negotiation. Socially he wanted people to be able to communicate their opinions and views across without coming off as a physical or violent threat to the public. He believed in peaceful protesting and boycotts which acknowledged the fact that there were also white Americans who fought and marched right along them for the same cause. Unlike MLK, Malcolm’s view was quite different in contrast because he believed that one should fight fire with fire, which only burns both parties. His teaching could not be as effective because he neglected the influence the white members would have on the movement, by resenting them as a race, therefore handicapping his popularity and likelihood of success within the various white communities.
Kerouac lived in Lowell Massachusetts for his childhood, where he attended Lowell High School. Then he moved to New York City in 1939 and attended Columbia University. After a while he dropped out of Columbia and moved around the country for different temporary jobs and sees what he wanted to do because he didn’t really know. He also joined the army during the World War II, but was discharged 10 days into training. A couple years after he moved back to New York and with few of his college friends defined a literary movement known as the Beat generation created in the 1950’s who was a group of writers and that movement influenced Kerouac’s writing he was the symbolic head of the Beat Generation (The Beat Generation).
This day was portray in one of his essays called, “Notes of a Native Son”. When Baldwin was fifteen, his high-school friend, Emile Capouya, skipped school one day and, while in Greenwich Village he met Beauford Delaney, a painter. Emile gave James the address, and suggested a visit. James, who worked at a sweatshop nearby and dreaded going home after school, visited Beauford. He became a mentor to Baldwin, and Beauford’s influence brought him to his first realization that a black person could be an artist.
This experiment shows and proves that people will do anything for money even if it means hurting innocent people like what happened in the Holocaust. I decided to agree with John P. Sabini and Maury Silver because they give good points and proven facts using Milgram’s Obedience Experiment to back them up. They show you how people will follow the rules and do what they are told, even though they are hurting someone just like in the Holocaust. Many German soldiers would hurt and kill Jews because they were just following orders and getting paid to do so not thinking they were hurting innocent families. “In both cases the evil they did was not intended; it was perhaps easy to “feel” that the evil was not their doing, to feel that it had an accidental quality.” (p. 233) many of the people that participated in the experiment and the German soldiers that participated in the Holocaust believe that they are not responsible for what happened they were just following orders and doing what they were told to do.