Edgar Ray Killen

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    Human’s greatest achievements have brought progress to others, but this “progress” can seldom lead others to melancholy in the future. The book Fahrenheit 451, published in 1953, is about a potential future that awaits us. The book deciphered how people don’t read books due to the technology made for them. The more prominent the technology was, the more others can read other commodities online. Although people do not read books, it shows how people are not “in play” to interact with things other…

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    Ray Bradbury's Analysis

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    The content in the authors book is a surge of energy behind his words and a contagious optimism in his writing, he is realistic about some of the challenges, but there is still an undertone of positive lightning. Bradbury offers a ton of takeaways and recommendations to his readers by giving reasoning to help improve their writing. Topics of invention in the authors writing is to help his readers in their writing suggesting things such things as: read and write every day, get out in the world…

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    Many people often wonder if anything really lasts forever. In Ray Bradbury's There Will Come Soft Rains, Bradbury reflects on the questionable structure of permanence. Though things can be built to last forever, invulnerable, should they be? The house, or the main character in Bradbury's story, spirals on unaware of the destruction of humanity. Bradbury’s use of setting, imagery, suspense, and tone instill a mood of fear and loneliness in the reader. There Will Come Soft Rains takes place in a…

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    “ Stand up for what you believe in, even if you are standing alone.” In,”F-451,” by Ray Bradbury talks about a dystopian society run by the government. Strict laws, especially about books. Books aren’t allowed in this society, they’re forbidden. Only two men can change that. Faber and Granger are the only hope for this chaotic society to end. Only they can stand up and take action and change the future for the sake of their society. Bradbury illustrates that man's complacency leads to…

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    The experiment investigates a GM tube and a GM counter and the relationships of radiation. The experiment uses a GM tube to detect radiation coming from a source. This is done by the decay particle ionizing and causing the charge to build up in the tube, which is discharged and the discharge is counted by the counter and added to a display. The GM tube must be calibrated at the best voltage so that the count rate is independent of the voltage. A test was done to find this value by changing the…

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    but most the tumor, so the cancer cells now dies. So we need radioisotopes to cure cancer because we haven’t found anything else that can. But here the problem is the cure and the discovery of cancer can cause cancer again, we are using this (x-rays, gamma-rays, treatment) well knowing that the risk of getting cancer again later in life increases a lot, which then makes less sense. We cure someone who is going to die maybe next year. This is an ethical question. Radioisotopes can make life…

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    The increased use of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) has contributed to the rising cost of imaging expenses. The availability of technology, the increased demand for patients and doctor, and advanced technology are factors that have contributed to the increase. Hypothesis: The increased use and availability in MRI imaging has increased the cost in MRI imaging procedures by approximately 33 percent from 2011 to 2013. In an attempt to identify the connection between increased use of MRI…

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    The Journey of Rebirth There are two elements that stand out to me the most when reading Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, Fire and knowledge, whether knowledge of self or of the truth of past or present. Fire represents a lot of different things, but one of the main things is renewal and rebirth on one’s self, like a phoenix rising out of the ashes. In Campbell’s Monomyth, rebirth and knowledge are key to finding one’s self. Although, knowledge and fire are used for such good, they can also be used…

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    Krakauer’s novel Into the Wild, he showcases a similar opinion on solitude through the story of Chris McCandless. Chris McCandless runs away from his family and former life to start one of his own, by himself, in the Alaskan wilderness. Similarly, in Ray Bradbury’s novel The Illustrated Man, the idea that solitude plays a huge role in the self destruction of man is shown through a mans magic tattoos that have been haunting him with their stories ever since they were first drawn. In one story,…

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    On August 29, 2005 Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast of the United States causing destruction to hundreds of thousands of homes. Multitudes of families were left homeless on the streets searching for a safe haven as chaos slowly started to rise. As the streets of New Orleans were flooding various news stations rushed over to the take note of the disaster stricken area. While the families of New Orleans suffered over their loss the media started to benefit off of the disaster caused from…

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