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AP F451
1. Read "Does Censorship Matter" and construct a rhetorical précis of the article.
2. Write an interpretation of one of the following quotes:
"Every burned book enlightens the world." —Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame." —Oscar Wilde
"Fear of ideas makes us impotent and ineffective." —William O. Douglas
"You have not converted a man because you have silenced him." —John Morley
"Only the suppressed word is dangerous." —Ludwig Byrne
"Free speech is life itself." —Salman Rushdie
3. React (in outward emotion, not writing) to the following words of Jamaica Kincaid: "No word can hurt you... No idea can hurt you. Not being able to express an idea or a word will hurt you much more. As much as a bullet."
2. Write an interpretation of one of the following quotes:
"Every burned book enlightens the world." —Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame." —Oscar Wilde
"Fear of ideas makes us impotent and ineffective." —William O. Douglas
"You have not converted a man because you have silenced him." —John Morley
"Only the suppressed word is dangerous." —Ludwig Byrne
"Free speech is life itself." —Salman Rushdie
3. React (in outward emotion, not writing) to the following words of Jamaica Kincaid: "No word can hurt you... No idea can hurt you. Not being able to express an idea or a word will hurt you much more. As much as a bullet."
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