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This novel received the Nebula Award for Best Novel of the year, which was awarded by the Science Fiction Writers of America. Additionally, it is acknowledged as a work of science fiction. Yet, nowhere in the book does it mention aliens, outer space, or mutated superhumans derived from a science experiment gone wrong. Unlike the typical science fiction story, Daniel Keyes focuses on the impact that science and technology has had on the protagonist, rather than the world. Though this story does…

Computed tomography (CT) is a computerized method that uses a computer to process the data collected from the passage of x-ray beams through the region of interest. The multislice CT (MSCT) means CT that the system equipped with multiple rows of CT detectors to create images of multiple sections. The data obtained from the patient will be transformed into “cuts” or cross-sectional slices of the human body (Romans, 2011). In early 1970, they use a single slice CT scan that contributes too many…

1. In the case of Century Insurance Ltd v Northern Ireland Road Transport Board the vicarious liability applied, where the lighting of a match to light a cigarette and throwing it on the floor while transferring petrol from a lorry to a tank was held to be in the scope of employment. It is observed that, where an employee is acting in a manner which is expressly prohibited by the employer, but acting in his everyday tasks and duties then the employer is vicariously liable. 2. In the case of…

One major theme that is predominantly shown in chapters two and three of Nineteen Eighty-Four is that individuals do not have any control over their own destinies as they are being oppressed by a totalitarian party. This theme is clearly demonstrated when Winston can hardly recall anything of his childhood: “…he was struggling to think his way backward into the dim period of his early childhood…. When there were no external records that you could refer to, even the outline of your own life lost…

Night and The Book Thief are closely related works of literature. Both illustrate the challenges of prejudice through religious intolerance. Yet, these stories are shown through the eyes of totally different perspectives. Both books have countless struggles that happen simultaneously during time. Max Vandenburg, from The Book Thief, leaves his mother and other family to hide away with one of his father’s closest friends. Before going into hiding, Max was a fist fighter. His first taste of a…

Albert Einstein once said, “I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.” Einstein indirectly referred to the society in Ray Bradbury’s novel, Fahrenheit 451. In this story, the protagonist, Guy Montag, is a “fireman” that sets homes on fire if it rumored to have a book in it. The society that Montag lives in is completely dependent on the use of technology. This story shows just how powerful technology can be. Though today’s…

Society is a difficult concept to grasp and understand well. Society has a set of rules that isn’t really spoken or written down anywhere but everyone automatically knows what’s acceptable and what’s not. Conformity in society is clearly something that you have to do in order to be seen as normal and socially acceptable. But the real question is, in order for society to prosper must we conform? Is conforming really doing us any good? Conformation in society isn’t something that’s really…

1. Symbolism: In the passage, “But every time he burnt himself up he sprang out of the ashes, he got himself born all over again. And it looks like we’re doing the same thing, over and over, but we’ve got one damn thing the phoenix never had. We know the damn silly thing we just did,” (Bradbury 163) the phoenix is a symbol of the human race. However, unlike the phoenix, who forgets its mistakes, the human race remembers and repeats all its failures. This symbolism shows how the human race will…

The First Amendment states that “Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech or press….” It is our right to read and write as we please; therefore the concept of book banning is preposterous. For children, ruins authors emotionally and economically, intrigues kids to learn about inappropriate ideas, and book banning restricts the use of books as teaching tools. Lastly, banning a book absolutely destroys the author emotionally and economically. For starters, when a writers book…

is equal in every which way. Nobody is smarter, prettier, stronger, etc, than anyone else. Diversity isn’t allowed. That’s when Harrison Bergeron comes along and tries to show everyone that diversity is NOT a bad thing. Another example of this is in Ray Bradbury’s “The Pedestrian”, which is about a world that’s overrun by television. Nobody ever leaves their houses because they’re always…