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COMPARATIVE NEWSLETTER TOPIC: COMPARING FICTION TO NON-FICTION INFORMATIVE NEWSLETTER TOPIC: THE IMPORTANCE OF LITERACY

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READING IS LIFE Reading is important in our life, we gain more knowledge by reading various books. Some persons write their personal experience as their book and share a lot of ways to solve various problems. We will find solution for our problem while reading this book and process it in our real life to come out from our problems. With different technologies arising day by day, we people tend to be more searching the internet for some new ideas and information well in fact it is still much more efficient to search what you are looking for in a book. The internet is not organized many ideas are still not verified or sometimes we are getting tricked by false information or fake news to avoid that instead of looking it up on the internet, if you have the privilege to seek the info's in the library, then grab that opportunity and start looking. The quality of information in the internet is not really that qualified to be considered reliable. Quality control is not achieved on...

1. Guide Questions: 1. Why did the  Noli Me Tangere  have such a big impression on the narrator? Could you relate to the narrator's experience of reading? Why or Why not? Answer:  It had such a big impression to the narrator after reading it for he felt that he needs to be compassionate about what happened way back then. There are also kinds of people who can easily relate to some experiences and I'm one of them because me as a person could easily relate to some relative experiences. 2. Have you ever felt the same about a book that you had read? What book was it? Why did it leave such a huge impression to you? Answer: I haven't really read a book or any kind of literature work of art but if I do, I can say that I could relate to it if its aligned with my type of interest when choosing a topic. 3. Do you think a book can ever elicit such a strong response in the Philippines? Answer: I think that it cannot elicit such a strong response mainly because if we would...

Examples of a Book that was banned. \ 1. The Call of the Wild Jack London's 1903  Klondike Gold Rush-set adventure  was  banned  in Yugoslavia and Italy for being "too radical" and was  burned  by the Nazis because of the author's well-known socialist leanings. -I cannot totally agree with banning of this kind of book but one thing for sure there would be still a positive and negative effect either we ban it or not. 2. The Grapes of Wrath Though John Steinbeck's 1939 novel, about a family of tenant farmers who are forced to leave their Oklahoma home for California because of economic hardships, earned the author both the National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize, it also  drew ire  across America because some believed it promoted Communist values. Kern County, California—where much of the book took place—was particular incensed by Steinbeck's portrayal of the area and its working conditions, which they considered slanderous. - I wo...

Flash Fiction a style of fictional literature or fiction of extreme brevity Example of a Flash Fiction is a written work of  Cecilia Manguerra Brainard entitled, "A VERY SHORT STORY" VERY SHORT STORY  Cecilia Manguerra Brainard Your world -- or your mind -- does not allow for an afternoon walk to the museum, nor a stop at the chapel for silent prayer, a glass of halo-halo under the ipil-ipil, laughter and stories, for old time’s sake.             It allows for a few hours at the Hilton. Face like stone you give a false name to the man at the registry, pay in cash, and ascend to the sun-streamed room, for an afternoon of sad, hot-blooded lovemaking.             Face like stone, you tell your wife whom you have long-ago stopped loving, that you had a late business meeting with some Japanese clients. (It’s the same story you had left at your of...