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    Imagine a world where books are forbidden, everything is fast paced and firemen don’t put out fires they make them. In the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury published in October of 1953, there is a main character named Montag. The book is about how Montag learns to like books. The characters in the book try to either teach Montag to like books or steer him away from books. One of the characters, Clarisse teaches Montag that not everything has to be fast paced or you don’t have to follow…

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    In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury introduces two women who influence the life of the main character Guy Montag, a firefighter whose job dedicates to destroying books. The seventeen-year-old neighbor Clarisse McClellan is mentioned first and provides the stimulus for Montag’s new outlook on life. His wife Mildred, whose personality differs completely from Clarisse’s, portrays the second woman who impacts Montag. With their differences, Clarisse and Mildred influence Montag in opposite ways with…

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    1. Beth's and Mary's car is in the shop. In this sentence there’s one car. To show joint ownership an apostrophe plus “s” is only needed at the last part of the compound noun. The apostrophe plus “s” needs to be omitted after the word Beth. Beth and Mary’s car is in the shop. 2. Tom smoking bothered the residents. The word smoking is a gerund. When a noun is used immediately before a gerund the noun must be possessive. An apostrophe plus “s” is needed after the word Tom. Tom’s smoking bothered…

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    “Current Science Event: Drone-Stunning Device Industrialized” An innovative AUDS (Anti-UAV Defense System) has the ability to detect, track, and disable drones. Opposed to Boeing’s Compact Laser Weapons System, which fires concentrated lasers to melt drones out of the sky, the AUDS identifies the radio signal that the drone uses, and then fires the same frequency at the drone to command to cease operating. AUDS essentially jams the drone’s communication with its original signal from a remote…

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    The film Bowling for Columbine by Michael Moore was an impactful documentary about gun violence in America. Made in 2002, this documentary focuses on why the United States has more gun violence than any other country in the world. Many people blamed the violence on television, movies, and music, but Moore blamed the lack of gun control for being the main cause of gun-related deaths in America. The film used many argumentative tactics like showing the other side, asking questions in ways to get…

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    1 : Introduction 1.1 General Background Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 (1953) is a dystopian novel, set in a world where the ownership of books is illegal, and firemen burn books instead of putting fires out. The protagonist, Guy Montag, is a fireman. He decides to investigate the loyalty some in their society have for books by reading some he kept in secret. He is then discovered by his captain who reports him, and is chased by the government until he escapes in a river. In the end, he washes up…

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    Fahrenheit 451 took place during 1966, and opens up with Montag as a firefighter who lives in a small society where books have been outlawed by the government fearing independent thinking. As a firefighter it is their duty to burn any books in sight or any that have been reported by information. People in this society including Montag’s wife are drugged into television screens to get their information. After Montag falls in love with book-hoarding Clarisse, he begins to read continuously. He…

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    Before explaining the setting of the interview for the ethnography, I must first introduce my friend Roger, who will be my main participant in this process. Roger and I first met at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg during my first semester and we soon became friends, due to the fact that the both of us loved critiquing movies. Although his major is in Anthropology, he stated that the Big Bang Theory was one of his favorite sitcoms. Despite the series based on the physics and associated…

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    In the novel, Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, Montag, the book-saver, tried to escape the world of the overwhelming technology. Social activities were replaced by inane TV shows where clowns tear their limbs apart, families are replaced by the “family” on the television, and where thoughts are stopped by deafening TV commercials. Bradbury’s vision of today seems to be precise seeing that people started to care less about each other, people stop thinking due to the overload of technological…

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    Although many underlying messages are prominent throughout this novel the main overlying theme is that blind acceptance of societal norms is a catalyst for the loss of oneself .This is expressed continuously by the action taken by characters throughout the novel. At the start of Fahrenheit 451 Montag seems perfectly happy accepting his occupation of destroying literature as a fireman. This false sense of happiness begins to come unraveled as Montag meets Clarisse. Clarisse helps to establish…

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