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    A long time ago, there was a fire that killed about 146 immigrant woman. What had happened was that these women had been working, and every time they had to empty out their purses to make sure they weren’t stealing. The day the fire broke out, they were checking the purses. The fire started on the 8th floor and spread upwards. The whole story was written some months later in one of the most popular journals called the “McClure’s Magazine.” The buildings were made out of wood, it was obvious that…

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    “When one person suffers from delusions, we call it a mental illness. When society suffers from them, we call it being normal” (Unknown). Do you ever wonder how humans in society seem to stray away from each other? I believe it is due to the fact that technology advances day by day. It is becoming to the point where technology seems to be taking over our social life. I feel as if the advancement of technology will take over our lives completely, just like it does in the novel “Fahrenheit 451” by…

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    From the start of the book of “Fahrenheit 451,” till the end there were subtle hints of the various roles that the fire had throughout the story. In the first place, the reader sees how the firefighters used fire as a way to burn the books to keep anyone from reading them. In doing so the firefighters are not only burning the books, but also the people's opportunity to be able to independently think for their own and having a chance to flourish with knowledge of the past life. Having the books…

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    Johna skidmore feels like a average kid ,complete with a smart but annoying sister hetr name is katherine.their parents say they are special and loved. This family lives in Ohio. Sometimes johna feels like a out cast because he is adopted johna has a friend named chip him and chip hang out a lot and they go on adventures with each other and go on adventures so this book starts by starting off were the last book leaves off..As they land the gravity of the earth forses them to their hands and…

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    Victorian Time Travel

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    1890 Victorian England was a time and place where gentleman smoked their cigars in the light of a gas lamp and spoke about topics such as; the possibility of a fourth dimension. The time traveller lived in this world, a world where no one had thought time travel was possible, even through his efforts of trying to prove time travel possible, they continue to disbelieve it. The time traveller feels that as time goes on man should make great improvements to humanity, but, when he travels to the…

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    At some point Prospero claims that he enlightened Caliban from his primitivism and illiteracy to the modern lifestyle. However, Caliban immediately respond that “[Prospero] didn’t teach [Caliban] a thing! Except to jabber in your own language so that [Caliban] could understand your orders…All your science [Prospero] keep for yourself alone, shut up in those big books” (Cesaire 17). Cesaire also states that between the colonizer and colonized there is room only forced labor, intimidation,…

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    XIV The plan is coming together. I believe that I now know what to do about the ever looming problem of the others. The others that have lost what is now so important to my life. The words of individualism. The word "I". The word that is now so sacred to Gaea and I. The word that has been lost since The Unmentionable Times. I am planning the journey back to The City from which I have not been back to in over three years. I wonder how much has changed since I have escaped with my beloved Gaea.…

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    “ From Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century” Jeanne Arnold, author of the “ From Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century” describes what a team of archaeologists uncovered about TV’s when they examined the daily lives of 32 California families. this is about tv and our culture, the author talks about we don't share our ideas by talking, we get it by the airways, we contact with each other through tv and get tons of more ideas.television is present everywhere during any moment. for an…

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    In the story “Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury it talks about the life story of Montag. In this story it talks about how the world is without any books. But in this story it talks about firemen who cause fires to people's houses for having ownership to books. It talks about the story about Montag who changes his whole opinion about having ownership to books. Montag ends up caring about people which at first he did not care about anyone. Without doubt, Montag changed for the better in the story…

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    Montag has many regrets to being a firefighter when he realizes that his job should be the illegal one. Montag comes home after a tough day at working of having to watch a woman burn herself with her books, and he just breaks down and cries in his bed. Montag lays down in his bed and does not move for a very long time. “Montag said nothing and after a long while when he was only making small sounds, he felt [Mildred] move in the room and come to hid bed and stand over him and put her hand down…

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