Cited: Lowry‚Lois. The Giver. New York: Dell Laure-leaf‚ 2002 ----------------------- 1
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Caldecott Award Winners Locomotive Written and Illustrated by Brian Floca This book tells the adventures of a family on a journey across the transcontinental railroad. The author/illustrator‚ Brian Floca‚ gives the reader a look into the past‚ describing what it was like to ride a locomotive in the 19th century. He used muted colors which I found beautifully soft and feel the illustrations would draw the reader into the pages. My favorite part of the book is the book flap‚ when opened kids will
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going to happen before it even happened. For Instance‚ when he had a dream that he saw Julia in the Golden Country. Then‚ later on in the book Julia gave him directions to the golden country. The insight that is given is kind of like The Giver by Lois Lowry. In the giver the man gives his dreams to the main character. He lets him know that things that are supposed to be unreal really are real. Winston dreams and slight memory lapse he have let him know about a past that he should not know‚ because
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The Urge For Banned Books Second-wave feminism. The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. The base of evolutionary biology. All of these major changes in the world were products of books. People that read these influential pieces of literature went on to change the world and make history. Often‚ banned books lead the standings of contributors‚ as many of them become world renowned names such as To Kill A Mockingbird. Without these books‚ this world simply would not stand where it does today. People ban
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Bonnie 1 Bonnie Mrs. Piro Humanities October 10‚ 2011 Euthanasia... Crime‚ or Not? Imagine living in a community that claimed to be perfect‚ where people were regularly euthanized‚ but had done nothing wrong? In The Giver ‚ by Lois Lowry‚ a boy named Jonas lives in a Utopian society where there are no choices or feelings. Jonas is chosen to be the Receiver of Memory‚ which means that he is the only person in the community who knows what pain‚ fear‚ hunger‚ happiness‚ and love is. The
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all survive when each played a role in society and contributed towards a common goal. The elders in the community also erased their emotions and took away colour from their society so that there will not be any emotional trouble or prejudice. (Lowry‚ Lois. The Giver. Boston: Houghton Mifflin‚ 1993. Print.)The people in the police force could be taught new and improved versions of training courses to ensure there will not be any unnecessary deaths. This is to promote peace and non-violent methods
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What Type of Reader are you? What is your favorite type of book to read? Or do you even enjoy reading? No matter how much a person likes or dislikes reading‚ every person in today’s society has to read at least once a day. There is so much material to read‚ one cannot avoid reading something. Not only are there many different types of material to read‚ but there are also many different types of readers. Readers can be labeled either by what they read‚ or why they read. There are the people
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unexpected friend Shmuel‚ a Jewish boy who lives in a concentration camp on the opposite side of the forest that Bruno and his family live at. This is a very unusual friendship as it can be related to other holocaust novels such as “Number the Stars by Lois Lowry”‚ but because of the two boy’s naive and kind hearts‚ they physically and emotionally break every barrier in their way that stops them from being best friends. In this Film it begins with Bruno and his family living securely in Berlin‚ happy and
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“The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour‚ pain or past” (Lois Lowry). Pleasantville is a 1998 American fantasy comedy-drama film written‚ produced‚ and directed by Gary Ross. A brother and sister‚ David and Jennifer‚ are sucked into their television set and suddenly find themselves stuck in a 1950’s television show called “Pleasantville.” David and Jennifer suddenly find themselves in this strange city‚ as Bud and Mary Sue Parker‚ completely
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The Influence of Altruism Against the Evil of the World A civil rights activist named Martin Luther King Jr. once declared “He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.” King contemplates the issue of those who choose to condone the evil and injustice they see in the world‚ stating that those who grow complacent with the evil are comparable to those who cause the evil themselves
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