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Since the world has entered into the industrial period, the advent of a new version of industrial system in which coal, metallurgy and chemical engineering dominate has not only greatly facilitated people’s lives, but also brought a series of environmental concerns that influence the ecosystem. At that time, air and water pollution have been regarded as two major environmental impacts resulting from the high-volume discharge of chemical toxins, owing to the development of mining industry that is…

Just average is good enough. No one should be smarter, faster, stronger or more attractive than the next. This is the extremist view that the author, Kurt Vonnegut, was trying to portray in his short story “Harrison Bergeron.” The year is 2081; the United States has elected a “Handicapper General” (or HG) to dole out restrictions on the general population to restrict free thinking, beauty, and athleticism. It’s not addressed however one could assume the HG does not have any handicaps; this…

Fahrenheit 451: Montag’s Emergence as a Leader The Greek philosopher, Heraclitus once said, “The only thing that is constant is change.” In everyone’s lifetimes, facing stepping-stones that will either make or break us is a constant. Whether it is originally a cause or an effect, change is almost always the outcome in every situation. Even in the simplest things such as buying clothes to interacting with people, every action has an endless amount of possibilities. In Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit…

The meaning of freedom is self-explanatory when first mentioned, however it has a deeper meaning for an individual rather than a group of people. “Harrison Bergeron,” by Kurt Vonnegut, is dystopian fiction, in which the story takes place in the future, but society is broken. Kurt Vonnegut based his story on a society that had attempted to create the perfect world of equality, but it went awry. In the short story, “A&P,” by John Updike, 19-year-old Sammy works as a grocery store clerk in a small…

They developed for not only aesthetics but to be more efficient. Then there came wall mounted phones with long cords attached to the receiver and transmitter. Which set that image of a typical teenager twirling her finger in the cord, smacking her gum, and gossiping to her friend on the other line. Then came the handheld, which was a huge phone. Peopled carried them in suitcases with big batteries and…

The introduction of psychoactive substances into human society dates back as far as humanity has kept records. Through the practice of medicine and spiritual perception of reality within society has moved mankind from altering the physical nature of the body or seeking a perceived understanding of self through a change introduced by chemicals, it was quickly found that mood and behavior are severely impacted as well. This process of change does not come from a physical change necessarily but…

Imagine a world where everyone is being constantly watched by the government through hidden cameras in everyone’s own house and the only source of news comes straight from the government. People’s only source of news is controlled and regulated to make society comply with the government no matter what. That was an example of a dystopia, dystopias are societies that usually are futuristic and an illusion of a perfect society made by several things. Corporate, religious, technological, and…

Pertussis, has proven itself to be an enigma to sustain protection against this acute respiratory infection in the world of epidemiology and remains endemic to the United States. There has been a vaccine for pertussis in widespread use for over sixty-five years. However, the incidence of pertussis remains high with teens to adults and proves itself deadly to infants under 8 weeks of age when intractable pulmonary hypertension leads to cardiac failure (Carrico, C, 2013). The lowest report in the…

starting to make everybody equal. The government was enforcing handicaps. The thing that helped them enforce the law was the 213 amendments. The handicaps included weights to slow the people down, masks to make the citizens not beautiful, and transmitters in the citizens ear to erase their thoughts. In spite of the handicaps it could not slow down one young man. The protagonists in the story was Harrison, the man that could not be slowed down by the handicaps. The antagonists were George and…

Assistive technology covers a wide variety of devices that allow disabled children to engage in more classroom activities. In addition, assistive technology has evolved from a few simple mechanisms that were not always reliable to devices that can help the student hear exactly what the teacher is saying and be able to effectively communicate with other classmates. One example of these innovative devices is a speech board in which there are pictures on a touchscreen board where the student can…