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    Janisse Ray, author of Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, highlights her experiences as a child growing up in rural South Georgia, bringing attention to the extreme poverty surrounding her, as well as the gender expectations she faced from her religious family. Similarly, in Warren St. John’s novel, Outcasts United, the life of Luma Mufleh, a soccer coach to a refugee team, is also highlighted, and issues of gender inequality and religious expectations are also addressed. Despite their different cultural backgrounds, Janisse Ray and Luma Mufleh experienced similar hurdles in life regarding gender roles and what was expected of them. Those experiences and the way they were handled provided both women with places that hold extreme significance in…

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    Despite all the financial difficulties, Janisse Ray embrasses her childhood. Her family went through a lot of difficulties, that had an enormous effect on Janisse and her sister. At that time not every family had a lot of financial sources, so most of people were living in the same conditions. What made Janisse’s and her sister’s life different than others was their father’s strong religious believes. He was a really strict man under the influence of Apostolic church. Due to their father,…

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    Yotat Embassy. When he tells Tyler that he won’t be in work for a while, Tyler finds out that it’s because his sister Laposha is in trouble (again). He quickly decides to help with the case as well, wich leads him to find out Laporsha secret. Laporsha was quiet around Tyler and got mad at Dominque for telling Tyler what happened. Tyler takes one look at Laporsha son, Todd and sees Shawn Grayson's face in him. “You.. and shawn?” he says as he gives Laporsha dirty look. Laposha looks at the ground…

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    structure. All members of the plagioclase series usually display lamellar twinning called "Albite Twinning". The twinning is caused by an error in the crystal structure during its growth....Whew... Why does Labradorite look so pretty and have so many colors?? Well that is what they call Labradoressence... What is Labradoressence? The Labradoressence color display is from lamellar inter growths inside the crystal. These inter growths result from compatible chemistries at high temperatures…

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    AP Language: Major Works Data Sheet Title: Fahrenheit 451 Author: Ray Bradbury Date of Publication: 1953 Genre: Dystopian Fiction Biographical information about the author: Ray Bradbury was born on August 22nd, 1920 in Waukegan, Illinois. His mother, Esther Bradbury was a Swedish immigrant and his father, Leonard Spaulding Bradbury, was an English power and telephone lineman. Bradbury loved the town he grew up in so much, when he began writing he used this setting under the name “Green Town” as…

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    “It was a pleasure to burn” (Bradbury). That succinct, introductory statement represents the arsenal act that firemen perform when burning books in the name of censorship in Fahrenheit 451, a fictional novel in which the author Ray Bradbury ironically depicts firemen as pyromaniacs whose main duty is to burn books in order to censor ideology and conflicting beliefs. Now one may rightfully assume that such a book with make-believe characters and settings has no resemblance to reality, let along…

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    In a society where nobody is smart, all people are dominated by one force: technology. Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, expresses the various themes of societal domination, individuality, and great realizations of rights and wrongs. Guy Montag, a fireman, burns the homes of those who own any type of book. He becomes obsessed with breaking away from the status quo and exploring books in order to expand his mental abilities and knowledge. His wife, Mildred, is addicted to technology and is very…

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    Society has been altered tremendously from the time period that Fahrenheit 451 and Anthem were published to present day. Ayn Rand and Ray Bradbury provide predictions of the future of how they thought society would develop. Evidence from both novels suggests that corruption and immorality have affected society immensely causing it to fall into the trap of the authors’ warnings. It is astonishing to think that these prophetic authors were correct in many ways. Fahrenheit 451 shows similarities…

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    The purpose of conformity and cooperation revolve around the idea of people being each other 's equal and everyone following the rules laid upon them, but when their is a resistance the result could be catastrophic. Guy Montag is a man who embraces his job of burning books and is too ignorant to see what he is actually doing, but when he meets his neighbor she opens his mind to see what his life actually consists of and alters his awareness towards what is occurring all around him. In Fahrenheit…

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    When a novel or movie is classed as being fictional, it is automatically assumed that the content inside is not related to our society today even if it is set in places or times different from our own. In the fictional novel Fahrenheit 451, the author Ray Bradbury is able to display ideas and problems that occur in our everyday lives even though it was written during the 1950’s. Bradbury is able to show the impact of technology on a society which includes the advantages that it has on that…

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