... Jonathan Kim, Ph.D. 11-12-2010 Books of Wisdom Literature Wisdom Literature is a style of Hebrew literature. It was originated from 6th century BC, when the Israelites in exile after being swept into the AD era. These literary works are such as "Wisdom books." "Wisdom literature" has four main characteristics: 1. The writing time should be after the Israelis were swept and before the birth of Jesus Christ; 2. The contents should focus on ethics, but not designed to focus on theology; 3. The way of expression are mainly the maxim, aphorism, metaphor, fables, poems, eulogy, etc; 4. The writing object is not only limited to Jews. There are five main books of Wisdom Literature, Book of Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Psalms and Song of Songs. First, Job is a faithful servant of God who is known for piety and patience. At that time, the Israelites were polluted to worship the Egyptian demons, but only Job is adhered to worship the God purely. The most ancient tradition believed that Moses is the author of this book. Many Jewish and early Christian scholars also agreed with this proposition. It is because the style of Job is very similar with the Pentateuch. So, the time of writing should be estimated around 1500 BC of the Patriarch Period. Most of this book (3:1-42:6) is a form of play or epic written. The front (1:1-2:13) is a prelude and (42:7-17) is the end. These two parts is written in prose form. Job not only teaches a great truth. “The Book of Job deals with one of man's oldest...
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...Censoring Literature High school books and literature should not be altered from the original text. It limits the opinion of the reader and the reader misunderstands the true meaning of the literature. Books should never be censored from adult reading or young adults to get the full experience from a book. The benefits to censoring books is that young adults wouldn’t get the idea that burning is a good thing or murder is ok. It takes the violence away from the text and replaces it with non-sensitive words that won’t influence young readers to do harmful things. The drawback to censoring books are that books make people think and ask questions. Students wouldn’t be able to have class discussions on what happened in chapter because censored books don’t have debating sides of the content. They wouldn’t be able to understand the full meaning of the piece of literature and would limit young readers’ opinion on the topic. Also, censored books suppress the new and different views of young adults and the creativity of authors because of the suppressed ideas. Young adults will start to question why...
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...have to admit, going shopping for books can definitely be entertaining, but I must also confess that when it comes to buying books, I am a little bias toward novels with pretty pictures on the cover. Maybe it is because in today’s society we are taught to judge everything by appearance, but maybe it is really because growing up my dad read me books with lots of colorful images before bedtime and usually the prettier the pictures in the story the better it was. In books for younger kids most books contain extravagant images accompanied by a few simple words. The artist’s job for children’s books is, in my opinion, is more important than the author’s. I relied on the artist to tell the story, like Mozart relied solely on music to get across his story. When I started to move on to chapter books such as the Cam Jansen series, I would flip through the book, letting the pages fly underneath my thumb, and be disappointed at the lack of color. Not a single picture appeared. I thought that it was the worst thing in the world because it meant from then on I would be forced to read dull pages. Contrary to my initial thoughts, when I cracked open that first book I was unable to put it down until I finished. I was amazed at how I had just seen into another person’s mind and lived with a different identity for that hour. I was no longer Sam Maxwell, I was Cam Jansen the crime solver. I had my own private movie showing in my head. I read lots of Cam Jansen books following the first one and really...
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...great books and their ability to capture a reader for days at a time and leave the reader speechless for days after, examining the details and considering the epiphanies found within dog-eared pages. According to Ephron, books have been the only constant throughout a life filled with years of love, sorrow, and new couches; she recalls times of personal upheaval and the specific books that first comforted her with their dazzling plots and dreamy characters, then prompted her discovery of unhappy or exhausted...
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...this company could use the Internet as an information and sales channel for products and services. The students in GRA2329 had chosen a wide variety of businesses and organizations. Dagfinn had been a member of a group working with Norsk Rikstoto, the company administering nationwide equestrian sports gambling. What interested Dag, however, was another aspect of the course: When GRA2329 was started, the required books had not been available in the bookstore, but had first started arriving several weeks into the course. Normally, in situation like this, the professor would have postponed the discussions over the delayed literature until later in the course. However, for GRA2329, things had been different. Several of the students had bought the course literature over the Internet, from a bookstore called Amazon.com, located in Seattle, Washington, USA. Some of the students had also tried Blackwell's, a bookstore web site in England, but had been less satisfied. Dagfinn found it impressive that these book shops could deliver American and English literature in as...
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...analyze how this company could use the Internet as an information and sales channel for products and services. The students in GRA2329 had chosen a wide variety of businesses and organizations. Dagfinn had been a member of a group working with Norsk Rikstoto, the company administering nationwide equestrian sports gambling. What interested Dag, however, was another aspect of the course: When GRA2329 was started, the required books had not been available in the bookstore, but had first started arriving several weeks into the course. Normally, in situation like this, the professor would have postponed the discussions over the delayed literature until later in the course. However, for GRA2329, things had been different. Several of the students had bought the course literature over the Internet, from a bookstore called Amazon.com, located in Seattle, Washington, USA. Some of the students had also tried Blackwell's, a bookstore web site in England, but had been less satisfied. Dagfinn found it impressive that these book shops could deliver American and English literature in as little as four days, at prices close to those of Juul Møller. One student had also tried to buy other products,...
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...Frindle Literature Response Personal Response While I am not able to recall if I had read Frindle previously, or if knowledge had gained awareness of the story through word of mouth, the story seemed very familiar. The fact that the books’ features had remained in my head for so long displayed that the story must be a successful children's novel; therefor, my excitement to read it was high. Having stored opinions and details of the book was useful while interpreting the written work. The ability to anticipate the story’s key points from childhood exposure, reminded me of times I had once battled with elementary teachers over how to correctly spell my name. After learning that the letters “C” and “K” have the same sounds, it seemed acceptable to change the beginning letter of my name to “K”. After battling the teacher for weeks over if there was a “Carrington” in her class or a “Karrington”, the war was ended after a phone call to mom. The phone call had come just hours after the idea of changing “Kissner” to “Cissner” appeared in my head. Having the experience of once being a 5th grader was beneficial to...
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...Themes and structures in Midnight’s Children View Chapter PDF By: Abdulrazak Gurnah Chapter DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CCOL0521847192.007 Online Publication Date:November 2007 Print Publication Year:2007 Hardback ISBN:9780521847193 Online ISBN:9781139001670 Chapter Description Table of Contents Midnight's Children is a grand book, in the ambition and the scope of its subject, and in the daring and dynamism of its method. It is also an intimate book, attentive to childhood memories of people and neighbourhoods. In both these respects, subject and method, the novel has sources which influenced and informed its construction, and these will be discussed in more detail below. One of them is the novel The Tin Drum by Günter Grass, first published in German in 1959. In 1985, Rushdie paid this tribute to Grass and to the novel: In the summer of 1967 . . . when I was twenty years old, I bought from a bookshop in Cambridge a paperback copy of The Tin Drum . . . There are books that open doors for their readers . . . And then there are readers who dream of becoming writers . . . [For them] there are (if they are lucky) books which give them . . . permission to become the sort of writers they have it in themselves to be. This is what Grass's great novel said to me in its drumbeats: Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars. Keep grinning. Be bloody minded. Argue with the world. This...
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...Chapter 1 Introduction Background of the Study In the world of reading, our interest is one of the most salient factor that needs to be consider. It depends on the reasons why we read a certain material. We read because we are force to do so, for school requirements or we read we like it. If we like to read, reading materials matters most. Among the four macro skills in learning, Reading is the most important that a person needs to acquire because it is a vehicle that can be used to know and discover the world of learning and experiences. Reading defined as the process of decoding the printed materials. It is the very important aspect in education. It is basic tool of all subject areas. As stated by Santiago (2003) of Department of Education, National Capital Region. Reading is the mother of all skills. Reading is one of the myriad vehicles that provide readers with opportunities to anchor their spaceship of eagerness and interests – to know and discover the secrets behind the wonderful planet of vision and ideas. (Violesa S. Adrian) However, students nowadays, reading is taken for granted. They access to almost anything electronic such that old habits like playing street games or even reading have almost gone extinct. And one important educational issue is to increase the amount of interesting reading that students engage in. The bulk of the research in this area examined text characteristics that contribute to making reading materials more interesting. Gregg Schraw...
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...“Dark” literature for young adults is not a problem, teens can pick their own books and if they don’t like it they could just leave it alone. The real issue here is that there are people who agree with Meghan Cox like the article that Ru Freeman wrote, “I’m With Meghan Cox Gurdon.” Just the fact that she thinks that books for young adults should be banned is annoying. When she was young, she probably wanted to do things she liked without being told what to do, and if not, there were other people. So when young adults want to read a book about vampires or zombies, then nobody should stop them, because they are not little kids and start acting like the people in the book, and they won’t start crying, and they won’t start to get scared of the dark. If they don’t like the book they will know what to do....
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...Throughout his novel Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Dai Sijie illustrates the powerful influence that books have on their readers. Through his narrative, he establishes his stance on the controversial issue of whether or not storytelling is good.He combines countless events and feelings to create a novel that demonstrates the good of storytelling and the iniquity of book banning and burning. In the end, Sijie portrays storytelling as a means of good entertainment, enlightening experience and positive encouragement. In the beginning of chapter one, Luo and the narrator were sent to be re-educated and learn new topics about life. Ever since the two boys got re-educated, their lives had change in many good and bad ways. According to Dai, he describes in chapter four part one how Luo and the narrator were assign from their master to work in coal mines for their re-education. Dai continues on explaining how the narrator and the Luo dislike the working in the coal mines and wanted to do something else. However, Dai mention in his book about how Luo suffer from a disease called Malaria. Luo had a hard time working in the coal mines and got punish by getting whip. Even though the narrator was able to withstand working in the coal mines Luo was at a disadvantage. Working in the coal mine at a young age is dangerous because they are more at risk on getting a disease and getting physical injuries than adults. I think that the master should assign landscaping work to Luo and...
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...BSHS 441 Week 1 DQ 1-1.doc BSHS 441 Week 1 DQ 2-1.doc BSHS 441 Week 1 Individual Assignment Paper on a Specific Population and the Advocate Role-1.doc BSHS 441 Week 2 DQ 1-1.doc BSHS 441 Week 2 DQ 2-1.doc BSHS 441 Week 2 Individual Assignment Literature Review of Mediation and Advocacy-1.doc BSHS 441 Week 2 Team Assignment Interview of a Social Service Agency Using Advocates-2.doc BSHS 441 Week 3 DQ 1-1.doc BSHS 441 Week 3 DQ 2-1.doc BSHS 441 Week 3 Individual Assignment Paper on the Challenges.doc BSHS 441 Week 3 Team Assignment Interview of a Social Service Agency on Their Use of Mediation-1.doc BSHS 441 Week 4 DQ 1-1.doc BSHS 441 Week 4 DQ 2-1.doc BSHS 441 Week 4 Individual Assignment Paper Based on Literature Review-1.doc BSHS 441 Week 4 Team Assignment Interview With a Social Services Lobbyist 1-1.doc BSHS 441 Week 5 DQ 1-1.doc BSHS 441 Week 5 DQ 2-1.doc BSHS 441 Week 5 Team Assignment Presentation on the Use of Mediation within an Agency Setting-1.pptx General Questions - General General Questions BSHS 441 Week 1 Individual Assignment Paper on a Specific Population and the Advocate Role BSHS 441 Week 2 Individual Assignment Literature Review of Mediation and Advocacy BSHS 441 Week 2 Learning Team Assignment Interview of a Social Service Agency Using Advocates BSHS 441 Week 3 Individual Assignment Paper on the Challenges of Being an Advocate and Neutral Facilitator (Mediator)...
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...Many books have been written with open minded opinions describing some of the events that occur on a day to day basis. There are even some books that have shaped and America and have created the foundation to American Literature that have been banned. Everyone should be able to read about various situations even if it’s alarming and shows the reality of life itself, they would rather not to share the harsh reality of life or any mature content such as violence. In order to embrace the truth of life itself, you must be knowledgeable on the things that go on or have occurred. Books should not be banned, everyone should be able to read about various situations even if it’s alarming and shows the reality of life itself. Everyone should be able...
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...The Value of Literature Literature can be used to place value on a wide span of topics. From books that may break our hearts to one’s that make us laugh uncontrollably. Even though literature is only written in words, it is our imagination that makes those words come to reality, by the way we see the words in our imaginations. Whatever literature that is read, it is in the perspective of the author and you are reading through the lens of the writer. Philip Marchand said “Not to understand the disposition of things is the fate of children or slaves. Imaginative literature is the race's best tool for acquiring such understanding. This is the childishness and slavishness in the soul of someone who cannot respond to great literature.” Marchand talks about how our imagination is one of the most important tools that an individual can have. Ultimately, with the way literature uses up the creativity side of the brain, it truly helps expand our imagination. From a very young age, many of us were introduced to books with big pictures and little words. These simple little books were meant to teach us the names of colours, the alphabet and what noise animals made. While continuing to grow older, individuals starts to explore more genres of literature to find what they enjoy. For example, in the last couple years of high school, I have really gotten into the horror/mystery genres of book which is the reason I chose The Shining as my ISU novel. The fact that I had read The Shining before...
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...IPL -- Arts and Humanities -- Literature 189 resources Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day Information including pronunciation, definition and background about words from Merriam-Webster Subject: The Penguin Podcast Book extracts, author interviews and other information, including links to purchasing sites from Penguin Books, UK Subject: Literature; NPR: Book Tour Podcast Modern authors read and discuss their work Subject: Literature; PRI: Selected Shorts Podcast Actors reading short stories, described as "story time for adults" Subject: Literature; World Book Club A discussion with world authors about their most famous works Subject: Literature; The Canadian Literature Archive A comprehensive collection of information about Canadian writers, novelists, poets, and playwrights, as well as books, archives, publications, and literary organizations. A good place to go for information on the Canadian literary scene. Subject: Literature; Dictionary of Symbolism Explanations for commonly used symbolism in literature. Searchable. Subject: Literature; Encyclopedia.com -- Flood This Encyclopedia.com entry on floods includes information about the flooding process, historical floods, and floods in myth and religion. Click on the tabs to find information on these different topics. Subject: Literature; Favorite Poem Project Robert Pinsky, a poet and the author of this site says, "If a poem is written...
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