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    American economy demands recognition. He took advantage of the loophole in the Union draft law by purchasing a substitute to avoid military service. In the 19th century. Rockefeller introduced techniques that totally reshaped the oil industry as Kerosene and how can crude oil be converted to it. He used all methods to reduce the price of oil to his consumers as rebates. He gained many profits and his competitors were crushed one by one. Most of his business were fair business competition.…

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    The world has solely relied on fossil fuels to supply us energy. Alone petroleum, coal, natural gas, and oil makes up eighty-one percent of the United States of America’s energy. If the world does not push to use alternative energy, eventually completely switching to alternative energy, leaving fossil fuels in the past, we will never stop some of the environmental problems contributed with burning fossil fuels. Some of the harsh environmental problems are air pollution, water pollution, and oil…

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    under the 1947 the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act. The Long Island Spray Trial that went through a number of phases in order to end the spraying of DDT and Kerosene oil to eradicate moths in the northeast United States, gained national interest when it made it to the supreme court. The DDT and Kerosene fight was lost in Supreme Court but it gained public attention because of the mootness of the case and having the President’s son as a plaintiff, Archibald b. Roosevelt.…

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    They find that there is a bunker right beneath the ground; something that Alex had never known about. After the family is taken away and the soldiers have left, Alex discovers that the bunker had running water, plenty of food, a shower, kerosene burners, and takes it before the soldiers or looters would take it all. While hiding for five months Alex gives up hope that his father is coming back. But one day Alex was on his way to the cellar and had already raised the ladder behind him hears…

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    discover the thing that we use today and that we need in our day to day lives in order serve. Vanderbilt discover the train industry and wiped out every competition that tried to enter the train business. Rockefeller discovers the oil business and kerosene and made it easier for Americans…

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    Montag had enjoyed the feel of a cold, heavy brass nozzle in his hands, spewing kerosene on the leather bound books, followed by a blazing fire that turned their yellowed pages into black smoke. Dickens, Shakespeare or Doyle. He burned the books, then burned their ashes with a proud glint on his face, a smile plastered for forever. Montag was addicted to the adrenaline that surged through him, the smell of kerosene that followed wherever he went, a drug he never wanted to let go of. Until now.…

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    Fahrenheit 451 takes place in a world where books have been banned and are burned by firemen if they are found. The story begins by describing the pleasure the protagonist, fireman Guy Montag, experiences when he burns books. He spews the volumes with kerosene and they are engulfed in flames of black, red, and yellow as “the flapping pigeon-winged books died on the porch and lawn of the house” (Bradbury 3). The description in the opening connects to the story’s overall theme of the death and…

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    Johnson go to jail and be a criminal for burning the American Flag. Gregory Lee Johnson and others protesters marched through the streets of Dallas, Spray-painting building’s and causing others property damage. Johnson doused an American flag in Kerosene and set it on fire. It was a criminal offence in Texas federal law. Argue that the right to burn the American flag is fundamental to the first Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of speech. The Supreme Court was to hear Texas v. Johnson in 1988.…

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    in the book is Guy Montag. He works as a fireman. He burns books, because they are illegal in the futuristic city. Montag takes pride in his job. he enjoys dressing up in his uniform, and direcings the nozzle toward illegal books, and smelling the kerosene that raises the temperature to 451 degrees Fahrenheit. Montag has a job as a fireman. He burns books at 451 degrees fahrenheit. The books in the…

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    In the book, Fahrenheit 451 Montag is the main character and he was once like the majority of people in his society, who had negative views about books because the government banned them and they hired firemen ,like Montag to burn books and people's houses who secretly stored them. Montag first started changing his attitude toward books when he got sick from burning a woman alive for having a library in her house and Montag couldn't understand why she would want to die with the books,this made…

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