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    Dental Nursing 5234 Unit 307 Written Questions Q1) How you might support patients during the taking of radiographs? There are a few ways how we can support patient during taking radiographs: - Reassure them (same patients can be very nervous) - If the patient attends with child or escort, nurse has responsibility to move everybody, except patient, out of the room during taking radiographs - Dental nurse may back up dentist when he is explaining what is going to happen - Assure patient of…

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    Can Graffiti Ever be Considered Art Banksy, an English-based graffiti artist, once wrote, “ TV has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress. Negative things are expected to come from graffiti. Even though it simply elaborates in wall painting. Everything around us is art, so why exclude graffiti. Graffiti is similar to art but better. A dot on a piece of paper shouldn’t be considered as art nor cost…

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    One of the topics throughout Anthem is the importance of knowledge. This is mentioned throughout the whole book, subtly and boldly said. The government leaves out important education and technology from before the “Great Rebirth”. (Rand, p. 19) This creates a lack of knowledge. Equality 7-2521 fills this void of knowledge through his own experiments in the tunnel. In the end knowledge fuels the climax. The importance of knowledge is important to the book. The government withholds important…

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    Claim: In the novel, Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood writes about a post-apocalyptic wasteland that the main character Snowmen faces. In the text she warns that if we control knowledge, value technology above all else, and refuse to tolerate critical thinking in education systems or in society at large, the world as we know it could be in danger. Many things in the novel support this theme including, controlling knowledge and its effects on society, valuing technology above arts and literature,…

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    This censorship is not fair nor equal. People enjoy inappropriate lyrics, not because they’re bad people but that’s their favorite genre of music. We have all have different style of music because it reflects the type of people we are, how we cope with things, and how it can relate to us. We’re allowed to make music that helps us relieve some pain or any kind of emotion we’re trying to let out. Artists shouldn’t have to worry about what will be taken off the shelves of stores because of their…

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    Fahrenheit 451 While researching the text of Fahrenheit 451, the author Ray Bradbury writes of the future which seems to be the present. The similarity between the world in the book to our own is very breathtaking because if you think about it the book was written in the 1950’s in which they had just gotten TV’s,video recorders, and radios etc. The reason being that they had just gotten that type of technology there was no way of him knowing that the technology would escalate like…

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    “Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.” (Kofi Annan) A dystopia is a futuristic, imagined universe in which people lead dehumanized and often fearful lives. After reading the dystopian novel Gathering Blue, I discovered that the setting also lacked the powerful knowledge described in the quote by Kofi Annan. Through analyzing other dystopian novels, I noticed the majority of the societies were lacking in citizen…

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    What’s really the difference between want and need? Do you really need that $700 iphone, just because other people have it or you want to fit in. When you want more than you need tragedy ensues. Some people want more than they need, others are okay with just what they have. I am going to tell you about both kinds of those people from stories we have read in class and they are “The Golden Touch”, “The Necklace”, and “Civil Peace” In the story “Civil Peace” by Chinua Achebe, he was happy with…

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    could affect others in the future; although the ironic factor of these widely read books written almost sixty-five years ago has identified our world today and showed us how dangerous our simple actions could affect us over time. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury has enabled us readers to acknowledge the effects of technology's advancement by showing us how something as valuable as classic literature, music, and art can begin to lose meaning as presented in their society. Considering how literature…

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    phone with them, all the time. This relates to Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 through his writing of a technology filled dystopia. In Bradbury’s science fiction novel, he creates detached humans living an inconsequential life, and a few outlaws also known as intellectual people. In this…

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