When Ray Bradbury wrote Fahrenheit 451, he was living in a time of the rising Cold War and the end of Nazism. The novel is a futuristic look (in 1950) into what society might be like if reading books were banned by the government. Firemen, who were the government workers who burned rogue books, would use … Continue reading Censorship and the Fear of Free Thought – Dropping Great Books From Curriculum
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An Unsolicited Book List For My Daughter – In Case She Never Asks
Mck, Your love of reading is one of the most endearing qualities that you possess, not because your father is an English teacher or that your mother is the most voracious reader I know, but because you are curious and allow yourself to listen with your eyes to the words of others. You, your mother, … Continue reading An Unsolicited Book List For My Daughter – In Case She Never Asks
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