What Are The Positives And Negatives Of Educational Books

Books were like a chore to me. I preferred to be outside playing with my friends, then cooped inside the house reading a book

Everyone has encountered a problem during their life whether a book had made them think about it or not! Some have bullies that won’t leave them alone others have who knows what kind of problems. However a book can make you think differently about yourself as you are and it can make you see things and feelings toward how other people feel. If you have never read something,

Books open your perspective about life, they give you different perspectives and points of view. They carry knowledge and it

Newspapers and other forms of news are very vital communication methods in the world today. The goal of news is to sell us their ideas by being biased and talking about how their idea is best. News can give us biased information although, the viewer could do further research on the

One positive aspect is that this book taught me a lot about the first presidential election of the 1800’s. There a lot of more details that occurred during the election that we do not learn about in school. I think that is important because it is easier to understand when you receive a lot of details on how things really happened, and why did people react the way they did and the actions that they took. For example, before reading this book I did not have any idea that Jefferson and Adams were close friends before they became enemies. The book gave me all the explanations and details I needed to understand why their friendship turned out the way it did, and that is something I really enjoyed. Another positive aspect that I have about the book is the way that Larson also detailed with they way he explains the electoral votes. He also mentions for who did each stated for and he also shows if a state would have voted for a member, how many votes did that member gained or lost. Larson gives us exact numbers and that gives us a better understanding about the electoral votes in the

All newspaper articles have an author and all authors are human, just like the rest of the people in this world, so they are bound to have an opinion. Therefore the presence of bias, even in the most credible of sources, is inevitable For example, in one article about the repeal of Obamacare it will go on and on about how the repeal is great for those with pre-existing conditions. On another hand other article will be extremely against the repeal because it’s going to really hurt those with pre-existing conditions. Another example, would be the story of the doctor being dragged off a United Airlines plane. Some newspaper will just tell you the fact that he was dragged off the plane in a brutal way and some newspapers will tell you how he was escorted off and then snuck back onto the plane and then resisted to leave the second time he was asked to leave. If someone only hears

Books allow us to learn more. For example, in the article, The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to our Brains By Nicholas Carr, he says, “What really makes us intelligent isn’t our ability to find lots of information quickly. It’s our ability to think deeply about that information.” Google allows us to have the information right in front us, and we just write or read about what it says. It’s not only Google, it’s anything with a screen. A book makes you

Another con to the text that must be pointed out is the author's ongoing-ness to refer to later discussions rather than elaborating and explaining within the same chapter. This makes the reader have to search and or read all the way through the text (sometimes through many chapters) to get the "whole picture" that the author is trying to make. There are some instances where he leads you to reading other books. This leads the average reader to not being able to understand the best concepts discussed in this text.

Books are not becoming banned because the authorities want to protect the public from certain beliefs, violence or language. Books are becoming banned because those books contain something in them that a higher authority, such as the government, doesn’t want released to the public. It is for the good of the people to have higher authorities agree to a more diverse selection of books open to the public. Censorship is something that the government and institutions created to deny access to something, whether it be a book or video game or music. It contains a message that isn’t meant to be heard.

Imagine analyzing a character within a novel, but being restricted to only exploring that characters meritorious actions and thoughts. Correspondingly, then being unwillingly forced to disregard the unfavorable and often deleterious characteristics possessed by a character, and only being permitted to examine the qualities of an individual that makes he or she virtuous. While this extreme limitation of character observation seems redundant and radical, novels worldwide are banned daily in high school curriculums for containing sexual content viewed as "problematic" and "distasteful". This banning is credited to individuals who fail to recognize that the inclusion of banned books in a high school curriculum containing obscene aspects would not

Picture Books are widely used by children in order to introduce certain topics and lessons. Children in general do no attain the necessary attention span needed to read non-picture books. The bright colored pictures and easy to read words make it easy for children to understand what the general idea of the book it about. Certain kinds of children books get recognized by different types of medals to show that an author or illustrator did an outstanding job. “Working Cotton” by Sherley Ann Williams and illustrated by Carole Byard, “Rosa” Nikki Giovanni and illustrated by Bryan Collier, and “Seven Blind Mice” by ED Young, was awarded the Caldacott Medal for “most distinguished American picture book for children”(ala.org). “The Tale of Despereaux”

Books teach things. That is what they are inherently made for. Textbooks can teach Math science and English; but those aren’t the kind of books and lessons I want to talk about. I want to talk about books with themes and motifs, characters and plots. From To Kill a Mockingbird to Of Mice and Men to The Great Gatsby the lessons here I would argue are superior to lessons learned in textbooks. First and foremost I learned that the only lessons in books are not just in headings and glossaries.

As a parent, what would you do if you walked in on your 8 year old son playing Call of Duty? You would tell him, “Turn that off right now!” Now what would you say if you saw your 10 year old daughter reading Fifty Shades of Grey? You would be furious. No 10 year old should be reading that kind of book just like no 8 year old should be playing Call of Duty. In my opinion, books shoulds be rated using some type of scale. Using this scale, books could be better judged as to whether they are appropriate, help teachers figure out if a book is suitable for a certain grade level, and help parents better understand what their child is reading. This scale would be an advantage for everyone.

A book review would be better because you would have had a greater comprehension of what the author was trying to portray. Better connection to a text is done with traditional books instead of ebooks. “In this study, we found that paper readers did report higher on measures having to do with empathy and transportation and immersion, and narrative coherence, than iPad readers,” said Anne Mangen of Stavanger University in Norway, an author of the study, according to The Guardian.” (Bushak 6). Reading with a physical book gives a better experience of reading to the reader, and if ebook readers are not getting that full experience than reading could transform into more of a tasking activity instead of a joyful hobby. Being able to connect to the story makes for better book recommendations. Better book recommendations are made when you are able to connect to the story more because the books will either relate and touch you personally, or not which would help someone decide whether they enjoyed the book or not. “Mangen sees a relationship between reading comprehension and one’s ability to mentally reconstruct a text: “. . . the fixity of text printed on paper supports a reader’s construction of the spatial representation of the text by providing unequivocal and fixed spatial cues for text memory and recall” (Tanner 6). In simpler terms Mangen views that being able to see if the text is one the right or left page, top or bottom of page, and any

During the development of technology, most people have shifted to use electronic books to read both academic and non-academic texts. However, despite the technological changes, there has been a wide debate about the benefits of paper books over the e-books. It is important to understand that various reasons are suggesting why people should shift back to using the traditional books rather than the electronic ones. Even though some think that e-books are better that traditional ones, I believe that readers should return to traditional books because of various reasons.