A Paper on Censorship (part 3)

This is it! The final draft of my little paper on censorship! Thanks for all of your help and hindrance along the way! As the semester draws to a close most of the authors will begin fading out of writing as our self-directed learning shifts in different directions. Hopefully we'll all help you to continue to follow us on our adventures on the web.

Thesis: Print and Reform Movements

As you know, our class was assigned a paper for the unit capstone project. I am trying to come up with a thesis and was wondering what you guys think about this, or if you have any other ideas. My bibliography can be found here.

Posiible thesis: Though the Catholic Church had powerful leverage, the printing press limited the influence and allowed the spread of many reform movements.

Book binding paper

Well, that was unexpected! This morning in our Civilizations class at BYU we were assigned a paper for our final! (A more detailed description of the assignment can be found here.) How unconventional of Zina Peterson and Gideon Burton to do something as conventional as a paper. It's so filled with irony.

Alright, so it won't be so bad, but what

do I argue?? The paper is supposed to be about the recent bibliography assignment where we had to find 5-10 books about a certain topic revolving around printed books. I picked the "art" of book binding because I'd never thought of book binding in this way, and it interested me. I'd never really considered it an "art", let alone given much thought to the binding process at all.




So near the end of class I decided to have a little talk with Dr. Peterson, and see if she had any ideas on the pretty straight forward topic. She reminded me to search the Harold B. Lee Library website for sources, and told me that, although it doesn't seem so, there are many people who feel strongly about what book binding has brought about. Bound books were more durable and cost efficient, but more specifically, they could be used to do such things as missionary work abroad since they were more cost efficient, durable, and compact. This is what I plan to do my paper on. I'd love hear suggestions, and if anyone has any ideas on what I should write about or what they might like to know more about concerning book binding, please, do tell. I'd also love to hear what you guys are planning for your papers.

Ancient Paper-making

Paper is, today, one of the most ordinary of products, used for everything from reading, writing, wrapping, and even cleaning. In the past, however, it wasn't such a common commodity.

Paper-making in China began in between 200 BC and 100 AD. In about 200 BC, the Chinese were using paper for wrapping packages. Writing on paper probably began around 8 BC, as paper has been discovered with Chinese writing on it dating from that time. In 105 AD, a man named T'sai Lun made a piece of paper out of plant fibers, old rags, and fishnets, and by about 200 AD, paper was beginning to be widely used for writing. Toilet paper began to be used around 500 AD.

In Europe in 600 AD, however, paper was not even widely used as a writing medium, let alone for waste. Paper was not widely manufactured in Europe until around 1000 AD. Italy and Germany began to produce paper on a large scale in about 1200 AD and 1400 AD, respectively.