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    “It was a pleasure to burn.” (3) Guy Montag lives in a society where firemen burn books, ‘family’ are projections on a wall sized TV, and people are considered crazy if they have opinions other then the norm. This dystopian life is controlled by the ignorance of the people and the censorship from the government. Owning books and reading are against the law and the people are drugged into compliance through sleeping pills. In the novel Fahrenheit 451 the author Ray Bradbury portrays the idea that…

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    In the music video Pink Floyd’s Another Brick in the Wall, Pink Floyd is attempting to bring into light the cookie cutter education system that, to many, seems to make the children into a design that sometimes is often not made for the children themselves. It seems to be a cry for reform in the way that children are raised so that those that do not fit into the design are not cast aside. Before the modern education system currently implemented student were often forced into a system lacking in…

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    Beatty forces Montag to burn his own home. He instead burns and kills Beatty, becoming independent and unrestricted psychologically. Ultimately, Montag sends a flamethrower at Beatty “And then he was a shrieking blaze, a jumping, sprawling, gibbering mannikin, no longer human or known, all writhing…

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    station gets another call and they end up in front of Montag’s house. Millie flees from the house and Montag never sees her again. Montag and Captain Beatty are standing outside of the house and Captain Beatty gives Montag the flame thrower and makes him burn down his own house. Captain Beatty then continues to antagonize Montag to the point where Montag turns the flame thrower on his boss and sets him afire. At this point everything that Montag stood for was gone. He went from being a feared…

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    When Beatty and the rest of the 451 fireteam arrive to burn down Montag’s house, he treats Montag with a malicious attitude. He taunts Montag and even forces him to burn down his own house. Beatty attempts, and succeeds, of causing Montag to snap and lose his judgment. Eventually when faced with his own arrest, Montag decides to escape by turning the flamethrower…

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    Love is known as the strongest involuntary force in the world. Being so powerful, it can make many of us do things we never had an intention of doing. Love may have the ability to win against wars, hate and violence. It can also have the ability to emotional hurt individuals if the love is interfered in some way. In other words, love can be dangerous when things make an unexpected turn. A breakup or a loss of a loved one can make many people hurt deeply. When a tragic situation like this occurs,…

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    A president by definition is an individual that is the elected head of a republican state. All countries in this modern era have presidents, prime ministers, or leaders. Unfortunately, not all of them are fit or qualified for acting as a representative of their given republic. Through differentiation, we can determine what a “good” president is qualified. To be a good president one must have intuitive decisiveness and be extremely disciplined because of the wide range of issues they have to…

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    into a liquid at -183 C (-297.4 F). Then he had to take gasoline and put that and the oxygen into fuel tanks. After that the two propellants are pumped into a combustion chamber where they combine and heat up causing an explosion. This is called a controlled explosion. This explosion creates hot gases that then shoot out of the nozzle at the bottom of the…

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    about to disintegrate from the flames of the fire. Granger is telling Montag how important it is to experience life and what happens in the world. The government they live in is very controlled. Montag has never experienced anything other than the government drilling the idea that books are bad and everyone needs to burn books into his head. Granger gives him guidance and tells him that there is a completely different world out there and Montag needs to find it out for himself. Once Montag does…

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    sensible measure of research before obtaining a home theater framework. Elements that ought to be considered incorporate wanted quality and spending plan, as well as the space inside which one needs to work. It would be disastrous, for instance, to burn through $5,000 on an untouchable framework just to find that there is no place in your sanctum for a twelve-inch…

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