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    Fahrenheit 451 Like many book the book “Fahrenheit 451” is set in the future. The character that Ray Bradbury portrays is Guy Montag he is a fireman but fireman in this book are not the ones putting out fires they start them. The reason they start the fires is because book are illegal and anyone who is found possessing them will get their house burned. In the story Montag starts to realize that book aren’t bad but the government doesn’t want people to get ideas. In this story Montag changes in…

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    Magnetic resonance imaging uses non-aggressive magnetic imaging technology to produce a three dimensional image of a bodily part. This is similar yet different to the use of x-ray imaging for similar purposes, however, MRI has no trace of the damaging ionizing radiation given off during the use of x-rays and CT scans. MRI is generally used for inspection and detection in the muscles, ligaments and soft tissue through the human body and can be used to monitor treatments, diagnosis of a patient…

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    Farenheit 451 In the beginning, Montag loved his job, he enjoyed burning books. Montag loved “to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed”(pg.3) He was proud of being a fireman, of wearing the symbolic symbols, it truly made him happy. Montag was contempt with his life and never questioned anything, until he met Clarisse. She made Montag realize things he had never thought about. In the book “Fahrenheit 451” Montag learns that his perfect world is corrupt, he goes through a…

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    desk doing the clerical work I was oh so familiar with yet now I am doing it for a radiology office. Since being at Bay Radiology I have had the opportunity to talk to the technologists about their different fields of work. I have seen and used an x-ray machine before and observed a few ultrasounds but what fascinated me was seeing the MRI machine and how it functioned. I’ve been a test patient a few times and was a bit wary about laying on a table and being slid into the center of this…

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    Montag is being attacked by Beatty, but gets out of his grasp and burns him to smithers. He is escaping on foot from everyone in the city, trying to not look suspicious. Montag is being hunted by the hounds, and unfortunately gets his leg numbed by one before he destroys it. He hides the books in a coworkers house and goes to Faber’s home. Faber tells him to go and follow the old railroad tracks to some people out in the forest. Montag runs to the river as to escape sight from people and to not…

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    There seem to be numerous things that are specifically for women, whether pleasant or not. It appears as though women require a little extra work in a few regions. One example of this very thing, is a minor surgical procedure known as a Colposcopy. A colposcopy is a procedure done on women to better examine the cervix, vagina, and vulva. This is generally done if a pap test or pelvic exam came back with any abnormalities. It can be used to diagnose and analyze numerous conditions such as:…

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    Uglies Chapter 7 Analysis

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    Manipulation of citizens by the government is corrupting civilizations as a whole. In the book Uglies the government brainwashes the citizens into thinking that being pretty is better than being ugly, the government has also physically and mentally enhanced their agents to be improved in every situation to control all civilizations. During the story Tally thinks that “99% of humanity has had something done to their brain and only a select few know exactly what” (273). This quote states that the…

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    At this point, I have encountered all of the possible characters that one can encounter in this novel. While I have met all of them, I cannot say I remember them all. All weren't interesting to me; either due to the lack of time the narrator and the character spend with them, or that they were introduced at a time in the novel where I was much more preoccupied by the difficulties encountered by the protagonist and whether or not he would survive. The protagonist's name is Guy Montag. He's…

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    Guy Montag is a fireman who lives in the 24th century. At those days, being a fireman requires burning books and the houses of the owners' of those books. At the beginning, Montag meets with a 17-year-old girl, Clarisse McClennan who is his new neighbor. As the girl is beautiful and young, Montag begins to hate his wife and likes this girl. His wife, Millie is an addict of television. She even sees the life like the television programs and one day it's said on TV that an atomic war will…

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    Book Burning

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    My first thought is that they had to burn books to believe then it would be a perfect community. Like everything that wasn't German was wrong. Also the fact that This Heinrich Heine determined the outcome of the burning of people by saying “they will end in burning human beings.” The Germans thought that they could have a Utopia by burning the books of the Jews, Communists, socialists, and other Degenerates. They thought these books made Germany look like a bad country from like safety standards…

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