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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury takes place in the United States and features an utopian society in which knowledge is seen as a power that people cannot handle the responsibility of. To prevent the abuse of power, firemen like the protagonist of the novel, Guy Montag, are hired to burn any books they can locate. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley focuses on the happiness of its people by providing them with the constant comfort of drug use and judge-free sex. People are decanted in petri dishes…

Four months after the accident and we are back at the same place, Point Nepean. Kip and Grace are becoming closer and are going out on a date this afternoon. Kip invited me to come down to the beach with them if I wanted to but I am still a little unsure. Grace asked mum if she could go to the surf shop to get some togs. Mum and grace come back and grace has three pairs of togs two pairs of bikinis a blue and black diamond one, a purple and black and a one piece which is pink and black. She…

to a maximum level. These day, even teenage girls and boys have also become conscious about their health, skin care, beauty and wants to take advice from experts to prevent skin problems like rashes, pimples, acne, sun tan etc. You can see beauty parlours are occupied by ladies who are very much interested in face massage, clean up, manicure, pedicure, waxing and shampooing of hair followed by a hair massage. Carrying off beautiful skin has become the rule of modern times. People are ready to…

Culture can be broadly defined as the signs, objects, activities, structures, and institutions through which we take meaning and pleasure from our social and material environment, express and define ourselves and communicate with others. Culture evolves, in part, through our creative interaction and engagement with cultural commodities. Matthew Arnold (1822-1883) saw the forms of mass culture that emerged after industrial revolution and urbanization in the nineteenth century as homogenized…

the important role of the “family” in the characters lives. Not far into the novel, readers learn that the “family” he references is not family in a traditional sense at all, but rather a self-addressing, viewer-involving TV screen built into the parlour walls. These screens do more for the characters than just provide entertainment, they serve as a replacement for any form of relationship or engaging conversation. With such an immersive experience just waiting in the living room, the…

Local Flavour. Exploring the changing face of Panmure’s Town Centre. As oversized malls alter our shopping habits and immigration and the housing boom change our suburbs, what 's going on in our town centres? At ten am the suburb that nearly became New Zealand’s capital is blearily rubbing the sleep from its eyes, shuffling from slippers to shoes and getting ready for a day of business. Panmure’s shabby shopping stretch contains a mish-mash of unlikely bedfellows; a seemingly awkward ménage à…

Montag feels hopeless about understanding the books even though he has read through each one multiple times. He doesn't know how to read between the lines and tell what emotions the author is trying to portray. The sieve has mesh around the entire circumference of the utensil and cannot be used to hold substances. The sand will never be filled and the boy will never receive his dime. A sieve is a kitchen is a kitchen device used to strain foods. This object allows for the separation of…

(MIP-2) This control, although empowering additionally causes people to lose vital parts of what makes them human. (SIP-A) Due to the restrictions on knowledge, citizens of the society have lost some of their humanity and respect for human life. (STEWE-1) This inadequacy of respect can be directly attributed to the restrictions set by the government. These restrictions have left people with a deficiency of caring and humanity, and thus have caused people to hurt each other, “beating up one…

The American author, Ray Bradbury, addresses this question in his book, Fahrenheit 451. Through Montage's self discovery the symbolism of the fire shifts from a destructive force to a nourishing flame. Bradbury first portrays fire as a powerful and destructive force, starting the book with this image Montag burning books. Montag found pleasure in burning them, (it was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed" (Bradbury 1). While this totalitarian society…

There is magic in New Orleans. Not the magic found in a Disney movie, or the magic shown in parlour tricks common in cities such as Las Vegas or Los Angeles, but a magic much more real and substantial: the magic of possibility. This realization dawned on me in the most abnormal way as I was watching a Disney movie. A girl in New Orleans spends her whole life idolizing her father and working towards the dream they shared together- owning their own restaurant. When her father dies, that dream…