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Imagine a world where books are forbidden and thinking is prohibited. Imagine a world where television is our only form of having a “family,” and conversing with others is deemed foolish. Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 science-fiction novel explicitly illustrates this imaginative dystopian life. In the novel, Bradbury develops an atmosphere where a government enforces strict laws in an effort to create a highly technologically based community. Set in the twenty-first century, the setting brings…

I. SUBJECT Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five is a cheerless tale of young Billy Pilgrim’s crusade through World War Two. Billy Pilgrim was an ordinary youth who went on to optometry school and was drafted into the United States Army. However, his life is turned upside down when he is captured by German soldiers during the war and he experiences his first journey through time. Years later, Billy claims to be abducted by the alien creatures from the distant planet of Tralfamadore. They reveal to…

join the formation. The formation flew backwards over a German city that was in flames. The bombers opened their bomb bay doors, exerted a miraculous magnetism which shrunk the fires, gathered them into cylindrical steel containers, and lifted the containers into the bellies of the planes. The containers were stored neatly in racks. The Germans below had miraculous devices of their own, which were long steel tubes. They used them to suck more fragments from the crewmen and planes. But there were…

Caramel colored curls hung on both sides of Gabrielle’s face from the small pigtails atop her head. She slowly positioned her thumb in the center of her palm, to show me the number 4; that’s how old she turns in November. Her mother, Faye, and my brother married in Mixtlan, Jalisco, Mexico in early 2012. On November 11th that same year, one week before her third trimester, she gave birth to her first and only daughter, Gabrielle. Today, September 18th at 1:30 pm in Oakland, California, nearly 3…

Have you ever heard of a Utopian society? Believe in it? Dont? Don't know what it is? well a Utopian society is a “perfect” place or world, where everything is ideally perfect. One perspective on it is that, people aren't perfect so how can a world filled with imperfect people be perfect? In the book Fahrenheit 451 the author Ray Bradbury made the world in the book a Utopian society. The “in charge” people in the book tried to get rid of all sad things so everyone would be “happy”.They also…

Due to the fact that your fate is chosen the very moment you are born, one can’t simply work hard to move up in the social classes which is a idea in the philosophy of Naturalism. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby was unable to move up in social classes. The novel makes a Naturalism argument about the movement in social classes and how it’s impossible to do so because, in Naturalism it is thought to be impossible even if it might seem as if it has been accomplished.…

Strength, determination and devotion are a couple of samples of attributes, which a leader ought to have. Attributes of a decent leader may differ subjective depending on each person 's preferences, nonetheless, I trust that generally speaking there are a couple of characteristics that are basically imperative. All through a man 's life, the encounters they continue shape them and incorporate them with a person. Like the lugals in Mesopotamia, it is a leaders commitment to ensure and serve. In…

Things have taken a dark turn since you went away. You have opened my eyes to see what atrocities the firemen let transpire. Just recently, we let a woman burn alive in her house. (hsdjfd) She was too attached to her books to let them go, so she too went up in flames alongside her treasures. Before meeting you I never would have understood this passion to take your own life in the name of books, though you have set a fire of curiosity within me. I sometimes even find myself speaking like you,…

After World War I, the US came into an era known as the Roaring Twenties. During this time, many Americans dedicated their time to buying consumer goods such as cars, telephones, and radios. This in turn led to a period of great prosperity in the United States and Americans were more geared to letting loose and having fun. Americans had so much fun, they spent money they didn’t have. However, a large segment of the population did not get to share in the wealth as the gap between the rich and…

took. At 14 he quit school to escape poverty and gain adventure. He explored San Francisco Bay in his sloop, alternately stealing oysters or working for the government fish patrol. He went to Japan as a sailor and saw much of the United States as a hobo riding freight trains and as a member of Kelly’s industrial army (one of the many protest armies of unemployed born of the panic of 1893). He saw…