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    Interest in dystopian fiction has surged in recent years because of the popularity and astonishing success of dystopian movies such as The Hunger Games (2012), The Divergent (2014) and The Maze Runner (2014). All three movies focus on the struggle of a community which is forced to conform because of a powerful governing system. Individuality as such does not exist due to the restrictions imposed on society. Readers and spectators alike are intrigued by tales of oppressive societies which deal…

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    during the Roman’s navy attack to the port city of syracuse 2200 years ago. It is illustrated in the reading that the Greeks could not have been using an inventive weapon called ''Burning mirror'' which was a clear surface of cooper to direct the sun's rays towards Roman's ships. In order to question the tale, three different evidence have been provided by the author which the lecturer finds all reasons false and provide solid proofs for each of them. First, the professor claims that, in order…

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    The knowledge and ideas from books attribute to whom a person becomes. In Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, Montag is questioning the way he lives his life. He is a fireman, but he burns books instead of put out fires. Clarisse McClellan plants the seed in his head that there was once a time where people would read books and see everything from the ideas that come from the books, instead of television, that everyone uses now. Montag becomes very curious as to what’s inside these books, so he…

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    The novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury revolves around a thirty-year-old fireman in the twenty-fourth century, Guy Montage. It introduces a new world in which is mostly controlled by the mass of media, and the censorship has taken over the general population. The individual in that society is not accepted by the government and the retaining knowledge is now considered an outlaw. Television has replaced the common family time like talking to each other to playing a board game. In that society…

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    Fahrenheit 451 Like many book the book “Fahrenheit 451” is set in the future. The character that Ray Bradbury portrays is Guy Montag he is a fireman but fireman in this book are not the ones putting out fires they start them. The reason they start the fires is because book are illegal and anyone who is found possessing them will get their house burned. In the story Montag starts to realize that book aren’t bad but the government doesn’t want people to get ideas. In this story Montag changes in…

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    Magnetic resonance imaging uses non-aggressive magnetic imaging technology to produce a three dimensional image of a bodily part. This is similar yet different to the use of x-ray imaging for similar purposes, however, MRI has no trace of the damaging ionizing radiation given off during the use of x-rays and CT scans. MRI is generally used for inspection and detection in the muscles, ligaments and soft tissue through the human body and can be used to monitor treatments, diagnosis of a patient…

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    Farenheit 451 In the beginning, Montag loved his job, he enjoyed burning books. Montag loved “to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed”(pg.3) He was proud of being a fireman, of wearing the symbolic symbols, it truly made him happy. Montag was contempt with his life and never questioned anything, until he met Clarisse. She made Montag realize things he had never thought about. In the book “Fahrenheit 451” Montag learns that his perfect world is corrupt, he goes through a…

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    desk doing the clerical work I was oh so familiar with yet now I am doing it for a radiology office. Since being at Bay Radiology I have had the opportunity to talk to the technologists about their different fields of work. I have seen and used an x-ray machine before and observed a few ultrasounds but what fascinated me was seeing the MRI machine and how it functioned. I’ve been a test patient a few times and was a bit wary about laying on a table and being slid into the center of this…

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    Montag is being attacked by Beatty, but gets out of his grasp and burns him to smithers. He is escaping on foot from everyone in the city, trying to not look suspicious. Montag is being hunted by the hounds, and unfortunately gets his leg numbed by one before he destroys it. He hides the books in a coworkers house and goes to Faber’s home. Faber tells him to go and follow the old railroad tracks to some people out in the forest. Montag runs to the river as to escape sight from people and to not…

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    There seem to be numerous things that are specifically for women, whether pleasant or not. It appears as though women require a little extra work in a few regions. One example of this very thing, is a minor surgical procedure known as a Colposcopy. A colposcopy is a procedure done on women to better examine the cervix, vagina, and vulva. This is generally done if a pap test or pelvic exam came back with any abnormalities. It can be used to diagnose and analyze numerous conditions such as:…

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