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A, With the invention of the printing press, the demand for books skyrocketed, and led to the creation of pulp magazines. To some these magazines were not “serious” literature standard, as often times they were printed on low quality paper, sold cheaply (dime magazines), and in locations like drug stores and train stations, instead of the traditional book store.

I will activate my book buddies’ prior knowledge by asking them the following questions: “What would you do if you ever got lost?” and “Have you ever taken the bus alone? If so, have you ever been scared about taking the bus alone?”

The thin rustic pages scrape past my loose fingers as I sit engaged. My heart pounds harder and faster with every word my eyes pass over. My ears hear nothing, even within booming noise. My complete focus is on the book that lays in my hand with a laminated cover, and I have no choice but to submit to the content. My breath tastes of spearmint and the aroma of fresh paper floats past my nose. I couldn’t resist but delve into the worlds and mysteries that books hold. Once opened, everything around me becomes a distant blur. I am hooked. Books have always created an escape for creativity and fancies to run free. Books are used as a medium for reason. Books are formative to the development of human beings. In my instance, books changed my life.

The cover of a book is the first tangible reflection of what a reader may encounter when they pick the book up. Greg Camfield says, “the physical presentation of a piece of literature gives us essential clues about how we are intended to read it” and as I hold all three chapbooks the first thing that strikes me is that “The Branches, the Axe, the Missing” by Charlotte Pence does not have the same inviting tone that the other two books possess. Pence’s chapbook is presented in the shape of a novel and has a slick cover. The graphic on the front lacks the color that would invite a reader to investigate the contents. The other two chapbooks are awash in color and context that is alluring and inviting. When the chapbooks were first handed out my

In the story “The Scarlet Ibis” James Hurst tells a story of how a young boy, Doodle, was mentally challenged and was expected to die. The story is narrated by Doodle’s older brother who tells the reader what he did with Doodle everyday. The story begins when Doodle was a baby and wasn’t expected to live but he did. From there the narrator starts teaching him how to do normal things like walking, running, and swimming to protect his pride from the fact that his brother wasn’t normal, however, Doodle was every fragile and when he was pushed too hard to do something he ended dying. In the middle of the story a bird called the Scarlet Ibis comes into their yard and dies from exhaustion much like the way Doodle did. The theme of the story is don’t push delicate things too hard. Within the story there are several literary devices Hurst used to focus on the theme throughout the story like symbolism, foreshadowing, and flashbacks.

James Rosenquist is an influential American artist during the late 20th century. He is considered today to be one of the most well known visual artists in the world. His career began with painting large billboards and commercial signs. Later, he used the techniques he learned from commercial painting, and his inspiration from popular culture imagery, to create large-scale paintings. Because his pieces include references to mass media and popular culture, and his use of vivid color, he is considered a leading artist of the Pop art movement. In 1978 the Florida Legislature commissioned Rosenquist to create two extensive murals that were to be placed in the new state’s capitol building. When I went to visit the murals in the capitol building, my experience was not what I expected.

What I have noticed through most of the entries in my commonplace book (especially the two stated above) is that I mostly write down something when it induces a negative emotion from me—the quotes that rile me up and make me upset. And usually these are the quotes that remind me of the hardships faced by women. As a woman, sexism is a prevalent issue in my life, so when I fight against it, I am fighting for myself.

For my book report, I read the 1987 Newbery Honor-winning novel called Hatchet. This wilderness survival novel was written by Gary free_paper_graderPaulsen. This young adult fiction novel took place in the Hamptons and north woods of central Canada.

The prices of college textbooks have increased more rapidly than tuition, health care expenses, and lodging fees. All of these have elevated beyond inflation (huffingtonpost.com). Students around the nation have been facing the daunting task of deciding whether or not to buy a textbook or take a class. Why is this even happening? The textbooks that professors are assigning can cost at least two to three hundred dollars (huffingtonpost.com). Along with tuition, housing fees, and other expenses, students are now paying outrageous amounts for textbooks. Textbooks should be free to college students because the prices are outrageous, there are high consequences for opting out, and there are ways to give students free books.

Many great books have been written, but few have lasted and passed the test of time. Core books provide rich culture, strong principles, and clear guidelines for the peoples of civilization, making them a strong influence in every society. The definition of scripture is the text of a religion, and I will define a core book as the text of a nation. Core books have influenced societies and determined civilization for a very long time. From the Bible to Shakespeare’s play’s, core books have influenced and changed civilizations for good and bad. Books seem to be the only thing that really lasts throughout time, so without core books, civilizations would simply change and decay once a few generations

This etude book by Berdiev is a collection of 17 etudes that can be used for intermediate to advanced trumpet players. This book covers a wide variety of musical styles and techniques ranging from complex rhythms, articulation, dynamics, range, and different key signatures. Due to its interchanging styles between technical and lyrical phrasing, this book can be used in a plethora of ways to advance a trumpet player’s technical ability.

For the scholar Benedict Anderson, the development of a prolific printing culture, what he refers to as the development of “printing capitalism,” is essential to the formation of imagined communities, creating far-reaching channels of communication and aiding in the spread of ideas. Aligning with Anderson’s arguments, the emergence of the imagined communities of the dissenters coincided with a printing revolution within seventeenth-century England. Throughout the 1640s, the works of religious dissenters, specifically pamphlets, tracts, and broadsides, rapidly saturated the English literary markets. This saturation was due to the emergence of a vast network of English book trading. During the seventeenth century, the number of book-selling

This was a very interesting piece to read. This source is a news report dialogue between the reporter, a former Green Piece activist, and an economics professor. Discussed in the dialogue between the three of them was one main topic; stuff. More importantly, stuff that isn’t used by humans anymore. This stuff is thrown away and dumped in landfills. They start by talking about “The Book of Stuff” written by Annie Leonard who also is the former Green Piece activist. She wrote this book about all the stuff that Americans throw away and don’t always deteriorate. The other person is Russ Roberts who is an economics professor from George Mason University in Washington. He counter-argues Leonards’ topics with saying that the “stuff” made by humans

This course will focus on the methodologies of book history as they are applicable to the Anglophone written tradition,

Reading has at all times and in all ages been a source of knowledge, of happiness, of pleasure and even moral courage. In today's world with so much more to know and to learn and also the need for a conscious effort to conquer the divisive forces, the importance of reading has increased. In the olden days if reading was not cultivated or encouraged, there was a substitute for it in the religious sermon and in the oral tradition. The practice of telling stories at bed time compensated to some extent for the lack of reading. In the nineteenth century Victorian households used to get together for an hour or so in the evenings and listen to books being read aloud. But today we not only read, we also want to read more and more and catch up