Penguin random house jobs11/25/2023 ![]() ![]() Business/Data Analyst Intern - Fall 2023. With a remote mechanical engineering Software Engineer Intern (Real Time Communication) - 2023 Summer/Fall (BS/MS) ByteDance 4. Fall 2023 Legal Intern, Voting Rights Project. Experience & ability to apply to product line. Strong communication and time-management skills, as well as knowledge of virtual collaborative platforms, are key to succeeding in a remote software Ap10:10 AM. We’ve refrained from partisan battles preferring to provide diverse content and allow readers to pursue ideas and consider opposing viewpoints as a healthy and appropriate outcome of reading and learning.īut when it comes to real freedom - the kind where you exercise the sovereignty of the individual while others are fully allowed to do the same - there can be no compromise. We’ve worked hard to be a place where everyone, of every background and political persuasion can gather to read, think and share. Recently someone asked why our bookstore Midtown Reader in Tallahassee has made banned books a regular topic of discussion. Book banning says that one group has the power to define “freedom” as the requirement that you conform to our beliefs. ![]() Book banning is a method by which one group proves its control over another. Banning books does not reduce this exposure, but that’s not why books are banned.īook banning is a not-very-subtle way of telling groups of people that if your stories don’t belong in the officially approved public realm, then neither do you. It’s about power.ĭoes anyone realistically think that children who spend hours a day on their phones or computers are not bombarded with every form of word, image or behavior? Of course they are. We need to understand that today book banning is not really about identifying inappropriate content. More than 350 books have been removed from school shelves in Florida over the last year. We have arrived at the Orwellian moment when under the ironic cry of “freedom,” Florida government has effectively empowered extremist groups and outliers to become censors for everyone, pulling literature from public bookshelves if just one parent finds a book offensive. Yet, today this is the stark new reality in Florida and increasingly across America. Never did I imagine that other children would not have the power and solace afforded by an unfettered access to books. It was among those bookshelves that I found the power to see into a world beyond my own experience to understand the far-ranging thoughts of others and to find comfort in the knowledge that people can become extraordinary despite the trauma and challenges they endure. I rushed to volunteer when I was old enough at my own school library. I loved the sound of the librarian’s stamp in a book’s jacket pocket. I couldn’t wait to get lost in the stacks by myself - away from my mom for just long enough to imagine I was a grown up with the power to choose my own adventure. Then, I was on to the next book, and the next.Īs a bookworm growing up in a small Southern town, books were my portal to worlds very different from my own. I immediately made a mental note to visit Camelot one day. The protagonist faced a curse of imminent death should she gaze at Camelot. ![]() Was this an appropriate story for a second grader? What thinking adult would include Alfred Tennyson’s dark poem in this collection for a young, impressionable reader? It spoke of magic. ![]()
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