...When people overuse technology, it negatively impacts society. This idea is seen in literature, through Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and in today’s society, through “Digital technology can be harmful to your health” by Jia Rui Cook. In the fictional story Fahrenheit 451, the main character Montag experiences many different effects of technology. He realizes how it impacts people and makes them believe strange things, all while recreating their personalities.There are many instances in the book where Montag sees the changes and learns how he is different than the other people who have been affected by the ever so common technologies. At one point in the novel, Montag loses a close friend named Clarisse, who is a very important and relevant...
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...In the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, there is a strong dependence of technology. In the book society has a new level and dependance of technology. People and family members are being replaced by “parlors”. To many people consider these “parlors” are considered and treated like their family. In the world of Fahrenheit 451 many of the characters are given a sense of replacement from their loved ones, and aren't even treated like family anymore. Technology including parlors and robots are changing the culture and society in the book. In the book many people in society are being replaced by machines and other devices. When Mildred (the main character's wife) overdoses on her sleeping pills and has to get her stomach pumped the operator...
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...Compare and Contrast Essay Have we become so dependent on technology today that it has destroyed our relationships? This essay will shed some light on the similarities and differences to the story of Fahrenheit 451 and our culture today. For instance, face to face communication has become less important in our world where devices are used frequently to make contact. We are also still able to write and read books, but could eventually become more like Bradbury’s classic if our dependence on technology continues to grow. In Fahrenheit 451, the characters have relationships with technology instead of each other; however, people today often get too fond of technology as well. In today’s society, the main way to communicate is through technology, just like in Fahrenheit 451. This is apparent throughout the novel, where technology has become the primary means of communication. Montag specifically mentions this in the book, “and in her ears the little seashells, the thimble radios tamped tight, and an electronic ocean of sound, of music and talk and music and talk coming in on the shore of her unsleeping mind” (Bradbury page 12). There is also less face to face communication, which is evident in the amount of time that Mildred spends watching television in the parlor and listening to the radio. The book also highlights this with Montag’s thought, “wasn’t there an old joke about a wife that talked so much on the phone that her desperate husband ran out to the nearest...
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...Essay Draft Ray Bradbury’s warning American society in his book, Fahrenheit 451 still exists today and is more relevant to our current habits. Fahrenheit 451 is a book set in the future and acts as a warning to people of the 1950s. This book could potentially be a warning to current American Society because we are using technology more and are becoming attached to it. In the book, the parlor, a virtual reality television, is considered as ‘family.’ “‘Will you turn the parlor off?’ He asked. ‘That’s my family.’ ‘Will you turn it off for a sick man?’ ‘I’ll turn it down.’ She went out of the room and did nothing to the parlor and came back. ‘Is that better?’” (48-49). This quote shows that Mildred thinks of the parlor as ‘family’ and is reluctant...
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...Fahrenheit 451 Censorship Censorship has a major role in the book Fahrenheit 451. Ray Bradbury criticizes the censorship of the early 1950's by displaying these same themes in a futuristic dystopian novel called Fahrenheit 451. In the early 1950's Ray Bradbury writes this novel as an extended version of "The Fireman", a short story which first appears in Galaxy magazine. He tries to show the readers how terrible censorship and mindless conformity is by writing about this in his novel. Bradbury develops the theme of censorship by gradually introducing the ways in which society chose to neglect literature and the government's reasons for censoring intellectual thought.Initially, Bradbury describes how the government decided to censure knowledge by destroying books. As the novel progresses, Captain Beatty explains to Montag how society's wish for immediate entertainment and the population's distaste for criticism led to the censorship of books. Essentially, the dystopian society sought to eliminate any type. Ray Bradbury wrote "It didn't come from the Government down. Beatty explains that the censorship did not come from the government, it came from the people. People...
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...Kevin Kim Mr.Cimetta ENG 4U 13 May 2015 Fahrenheit 451 Essay The society of Fahrenheit 451 is filled with corruption and betrayal. Governments use technology to control over their people but as the novel shows, it is almost impossible to keep everyone in control. Through Montag’s meeting with Clarisse, Montag’s betrayal against the government, and government’s use of technology thoroughly showed the corrupted society created by the government in the novel, Fahrenheit 451. The protagonist, Guy Montag, also spent his entire life in the corrupted society created by Bradbury. He worked for the government since he was twenty years old for ten years as a fireman. In the novel’s society, fireman’s job was to burn down books. Montag says, “Books make people unhappy, they make them anti-social”. This quote shows how Montag is also part of the corrupted society. “As they walk home together, Clarisse asks Montag about being a fireman. At first, he laughs at her questions, like when she asks why has never read a book. “That’s against the law!” he laughs” (Bradbury 5). This scene shows how books are forbidden from the society. As mentioned above, Montag worked for the government as a fireman since he was twenty years old for ten years. He never questioned or thought about why books were...
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...In this essay I’m going to talk about how entertainment is addictive like a drug. Also how too much entertainment can control someone's life and the effects of too much entertainment. I will also talk about what Fahrenheit 451 says about entertainment and about how entertainment ruined their lives in society. I define entertainment as anything that is considered enjoyable that you can act in your free time. A majority of people use technology as entertainment. Technology is an acceptable object that is abused that made it a concept that ruined our society. My opinion is that the entertainment is similar to drugs with different consequences. Once it’s abused then it can ruin someone's life and become an unacceptable concern. In Fahrenheit...
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...Medi Altakawy Altakawy 1 Ms. Kurtz ENG2D1a 2 October 2013 War Against Society In this modern society we as people interact and witness other people to have a better understanding of themselves. In Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 the main character Montag is still in a slump trying to find his personality. Three of Montag’s many personalities that will be said throughout the essay are rebellious, courageous and anti social. Bradbury uses Montag’s apprehension of both Mildred and Clarisse as an indirect way of conceding Montag’s personality. Montag throughout the book was not all that courageous. At first he was with the crowd not really having his own mind, society was his mind. He was brainwashed by society and by all the technology that surrounded him. When Clarisse tells Montag “They want to know what I do with my time. I tell them that sometimes I just sit and think. But I wont tell them what. I’ve got them running. And sometimes, I tell them, I like to put my head back, like this, and let rain fall in my mouth. It tastes just like wine. Have you ever tried it?”(Bradbury 23). This shows what Montag wants to be and at the end of the novel he does change into surveying the area and his surroundings and to really understand that the world is beautiful, not something to just look briefly at. When Clarisse says that Montag goes through his own courageous journey into...
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...measly caterpillar that could get swept off its feet in just one breath. This year specifically, I have seen significant growth in my abilities, and have begun to grow my wings to fly to the next level of writing. Although I have written my essays to the best of my abilities, there are still some things I need to work on. I’m not perfect and never will be, but I hope that I can expand my strengths and minimize my weaknesses. By viewing my strong and weak points in my writing this year, I can make goals for next year and better myself in the art of writing. Strengths Heading towards Honors SLC next year, I can expand my growth as a writer by looking at my strengths and weaknesses. Throughout the year, I have noticed...
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...Cedar Behnke Lisa Martin (please give me a A+) English 111-(green) 21 April 2016 Technology and How It Helps People Read Better Most people use or have used technology, and even many of them using tech daily, hourly, or more often. Even with the large amount of people who use technology, they don’t commonly think about if or how technology is affecting us, but recently, the effects of technology on reading have come up and been debated if they are either mostly positive or negative. A comprehensive view of what technology does to our reading retention, access to information, speed of reading, new and struggling readers, perception of good work, lateral reading, and a person’s relationship with reading is important to come up with a solid conclusion. Why does knowing the effects matter? They are important for humanity, if they are negative people need to know how to prevent them; and if positive, then how to use them more for humanity’s benefit. While National Endowment for the Arts argues that people are reading full works less in their free time, and Nicholas Carr argues that the internet is making people lose the ability to read long articles, the effects of technology on reading are mostly positive because the ease of reading laterally is more accessible, helps struggling readers to learn, and promotes people to read more on the internet. To begin, Mathew Kirschenbaum argues “that reading is being both reimagined and re-engineered” (para 2). In his article “Reading is...
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...Our world has been developing over the years, but no one has stopped to considers how it’s shaped our world. Fahrenheit 451 is a book by Ray Bradbury who describes the life of a ordinary fireman doing his job, his name is Montag. He isn't an ordinary fireman, instead of putting fires out he makes it by burning illegal books that are hidden in houses. He lives with his wife Mildred who is too distracted from the t.v parlors which she calls her ‘family’, her nor Montag feel no affection towards each other. One day a young curious girl who seem to be different and questions him about his life, and happiness which he became angry since he never thought about it, which leads him to question everything and look for happiness. After reading the book I think...
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...The SAT Essay: Building a Repertoire of Examples The SAT essay is intended to measure your writing skills, not your knowledge of any specific subject. Therefore, the essay prompts given on the SAT must be fairly open-ended, so that anyone with a highschool education and life experiences common to all teenagers can respond to them. Most of them deal with basic philosophical, psychological, moral, or social issues. In my experience as a teacher, I’ve seen that the biggest challenge students face in writing the SAT essay is coming up with rich and relevant examples to discuss within the twenty-five minutes you’re given for the essay section. Quite often, students end up using examples that are inappropriate or superficial, or they don’t know enough about the examples they’ve chosen to write about them in detail. The way to combat this problem is to create your own repertoire of examples that you are well prepared to write detailed paragraphs about. Then, when you read the prompt you’re given on the day of the test, you can simply choose the examples from your repertoire that are most relevant to that particular topic. (Of course, this method isn’t fullproof; it may happen that you are unfortunate enough to get a topic that your prepared examples aren’t really appropriate for. If that’s the case, don’t try to force your examples to fit the topic. The process of coming up with these examples and writing several practice essays will also help you learn how to come up with new examples...
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...Senior English Curriculum Map: 2010-2011 School Year English IV * Note: “Sacred Book List” Addendum is at the end of this document Quarter #1 August 23 to October 22 Essential Questions: 1. How do writers and artists organize or construct text to convey meaning? 2. What does it mean to be a stranger in the village? Unit Goals 1. To understand the relationship between perspective and critical theory. 2. To apply critical theories to various texts studied and created. 3. To control and manipulate textual elements in writing to clearly and effectively convey a controlling idea or thesis. Student Published Portfolios: For each of the first three quarters, students are required to complete three to four published writing portfolio products. Quarter 4 is devoted to completion of the Laureate Research Project. . Pacing: This map is one suggestion for pacing. Springboard pacing guides precede each unit in the “About the Unit” sections and offers pacing on a 45-minute class period length. Prentice Hall Literature – Use selections from Prentice Hall throughout the quarter to reinforce the standards being taught as well as the embedded assessments within the SpringBoard curriculum. QUARTER #1 SpringBoard Curriculum Pacing Guide August 23 – October 22 Standards and Benchmarks | Unit Pacing Guide | SpringBoard Unit/Activities | Assessments | SpringBoard Unit 1Literature * The students will analyze and compare significant works of...
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...American Pop: Popular Culture Decade by Decade. Ed. Bob Bacthelor. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press 2009. 978-0-313- 34410-7. 4 vol. 1,604p. $375.00. Gr. 9-12. This four volume set gives students a broad and interdisciplinary overview of the many and varied aspects of pop culture across America from 1900 to the present. The volumes cover the following chronological periods: V 1. 1900-1929, V 2. 1930-1959, V 3. 1960-1989 and Vol. 4. 1990-Present. There is an Introduction for each volume focusing on the major issues during that period. There is a Timeline of events for the decade which gives extra oversight and content to the study of the period and an Overview of each dcade. Chapters focus on specific areas of pop culture (Advertising, Books, Entertainment, Fashion, Food Music and much more) supplemented with sidebars containing stories, photos, illustrations and Notable information. There are endnotes for each decade and a Resource Guide and Index. Volume 4 also contains a Cost of Products from 1900-2000, and an Appendix with Classroom Resources for teachers and students and a Cumulative Index. Students, teachers and the general reader will love sifting through the experiences of Americans as they easily follow the crazes, technological breakthroughs and the experiences of art, entertainment, sports and other cultural forces and events that influenced each generation. Reference– Popular Culture ...
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...Дневник читателя READER’S JOURNAL Ernest Hemingway. The Old Man and the Sea (1952). Joseph Heller. Catch-22 (1961). Tennessee Williams. A Streetcar Named Desire (1959). Iris Murdoch. The Black Prince (1973). Jerome David Salinger. The Catcher in the Rye (1951). Michael Ondaatje. The English Patient (1992). Ray Bradbury. Fahrenheit 451 (1953). Ken Kesey. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962). Edward Albee. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962). Arthur Miller. Death of a Salesman (1949). ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Ernest Hemingway. The Old Man and the Sea (1952). ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- FULL TITLE · The Old Man and the Sea ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- AUTHOR · Ernest Hemingway ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- TYPE OF WORK · Novella ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- GENRE · Parable; tragedy ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- LANGUAGE · English ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- TIME AND PLACE WRITTEN · 1951, Cuba ------------------------------------------------- ...
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