...What are you willing to do to survive? Maybe more than you think. In Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” the main character, an automated house, just goes through its every-day routine. But, what will happen when it faces something far beyond its limited control? Additionally, in “Civil Peace” by Chinua Achebe, Jonathan, the father of the family in the story, is stuck facing the aftermath of a destructive civil war. Luckily, he has quite a few things going his way regardless of various the trials he, and his family, face. Desperate times call for desperate measures, but these efforts may end up being a hinderance rather than a help. War and destruction are inevitable, and the mess after the fact can be horrible. the Question...
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...independent life away from nature, living on artificial intelligence and man-made power. Yet, this power could lead to the destruction of man-kind itself. In the story There Will Come Soft Rains, Ray Bradbury illustrates how man will not be able to contend with itself and nature, leaving nothing behind but nature alone. Throughout the story There Will Come Soft Rains, Ray Bradbury weaves the theme of man verses nature into the lines to show the fall of man when nature reclaims the world. Man-kind has taken much from nature to build technology and a world of their own to live in. In the story, everything in the house is automatic, the cleaning, the cooking, running a bath and even closing the blinds is done by artificial...
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...There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury Ray Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains” is a story set in 2026, of a futuristic and obliterated Allendale, California. The tale is composed of a lonely house that still stands upon the ruble of the town. Throughout the silence is a lone voice of an automated home system. Day after day the automated home system follows the same routine even though there are no tenants in the house. The ultimate destruction of the seemingly indestructible house was a house fire caused by a fallen tree limb. Although this story was written 1950, many of Bradbury’s futuristic visions are already happening today. One of the most relevant ideas that Bradbury has that the 2017 society has today is a house that cleans itself. For instance, Bradbury states that tiny mice darted out of the walls sucking up dirt and other particles to clean the carpet (Bradbury 323). Due to technological innovations, scientists have been able to formulate numerous types of automated cleaners. Anything from dish cleaners to carpet cleaners, there is a machine that cleans everything. Another example of Bradbury’s ‘effortless...
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...Author Ray Bradbury wrote stories about people and the way science and technology can benefit us in many ways, however – he seemed really afraid of the malevolent side where tech either turns on us or is used against us. In Bradbury’s short stories The Veldt, There will come soft rains, and The Murderer, they all have a common theme where technology has a very twisted way of intersecting with humans: a nightmare come to life, life-ending technology and resisting technology. Instead of writing about fantastic, futuristic scenarios, Bradbury creates world and characters that the reader can imagine living in and relating to – which makes their stories so scary. In The Veldt, the story is about the family’s relationship with each other and the way technology interferes with these relationships. For example, George and Lydia Hadley and their two children, Wendy and Peter, are all crippled by technology; they don’t function on their own any more. George and Lydia bought an expensive house that cooks, cleans and even ties their...
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...There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury – 1950 Questions: 1. What is missing from the story? What is thriving? 2. What is the main character? 3. Give examples of personification. Why does Bradbury use personification? What effect does it have on the reader? 4. Give examples of imagery. Why does Bradbury use imagery? What effect does it have on the reader? 5. Give an example of irony in the story. What is Bradbury’s message? How does irony get this message across? 6. Give an example of allusion. Why does Bradbury use this piece of writing? 7. What would you say is the theme of this story? 8. What other post-apocalyptic stories do you know? What does this remind you of? ideas • • • • • • • • • • • • • “Reckless folly of thoughtless technological development” Martian Chronicles – expansion to mars, wild-west like American Dream can equal misunderstandings and waste Ray Bradbury concerned with the loss of freedom of thought and the clash between individuality and a highly technological society Setting as a character. How is the house personified? The fire? Context – Hiroshima 1945, 1950s bomb shelters, Cold War 19471991, bomb drills, nuclear fallout shelters, nuclear devastation Russia, Cuba Contrast between the destruction of humanity and the survival of nature “altar” “ritual of religion” the poem – Sara Teasdale, nature will prevail without humans WALL-E Contrasts the beauty and eternity of nature with life that is subject to the technology and vulnerability of machines...
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...their freedom to think by constantly exchanging their time for amusing distractions. When people look for distractions instead of time to think, they begin to expect immediacy. In time, society changes to reflect what people want. In the case of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, society changed and the government followed -- people endangered their freedom, and now that freedom is gone (54). One section of the book, Beatty’s Diatribe, showcases the idea of endangering freedom to think through the voice of the head of the fire department, Beatty. In the section, Beatty discusses how society dictated how it wanted to be (thoughtless and happy), and governments merely adapted. People wanted to be happy, so distractions were made available at every time so that nobody could have time to think, since thinking causes comparisons and arguments -- which do not make people happy....
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...like. Only two decades ago, there was no such thing as a cell phone or at home computers. Now, the cell phones that even children have are equipped with Internet and have touch screens. Technology is starting to advance faster and faster as companies try to out do one another with the latest and greatest invention. In two years technological equipment has evolved faster than it has in the previous ten years. Now the question is, will it advance to the point that is passes us? Can technology possibly take over because humans are creating them to be better and smarter than we could ever be? There have been numerous movies and TV shows based off of these concepts. People wonder everyday if this can actually happen. In Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” a nuclear war causes destruction. In one specific neighborhood, one house survives and shows what life and technology was like in the time period that this took place. Even though there were no people living in that house, there was still breakfast on the table every morning, dishes were still being cleaned, and the house was kept in order. The house went on “living” just as if there actually were people there every day. This short story expressed the idea that technology could possibly soon go on without us. It could even be technology versus humans. Yes, technology can be amazingly beneficial, but only if we’re careful. People need to start realizing that they don’t need a computer that can think and make decisions...
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...made these destructive devices. We are all humans, and it is our natural thing to survive and progress. So why then, are we creating things to make murder easier? We need to be a united world, with one thing tying us together, to survive, and to make our home a safer place for us all. Are we going to let this destructiveness represent us, the human race, or are we going to prosper among the beautiful, and life giving resources that we create and Earth provides? In the poem by Sara Teasdale ‘There will come soft rains’, it says that “no one would mind, neither bird nor tree if mankind perished utterly. And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, would scarcely know that we were gone.” This quite apparent reality is that the earth herself or anything else that we had not killed, would not bat an eye when we die. Earth would reclaim herself, if there is anything to reclaim. Birds and trees when we are gone will never know anything again. Because if we are gone, everything comes with us. Unlike the previous two world wars where millions were killed, if world war three ever did happen, we would all die. Nuclear bombs, radiation, terror, disease, global warming, pollution. These things will destroy everything; wildlife, marine animals, plants, and us. At the rate at which we are going with mass militarisation and extremely bad pollution and CO2 emissions, one or both of them will kill us all if we don't have enough global partnerships, and sustainable programs to counteract what we...
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...Artificial Intelligence Artificial intelligence is evolving every day, however this technology is erasing the future of mankind all together. An example of artificial technology diminishing our future in stories would be in “The Pedestrian” and “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury. “The Pedestrian” shows the government diminished the entire police force to only one artificial intelligent police car which could not react rationally to Leonard Mead which was simply walking. “The Veldt” also glorifies the downsides of artificial intelligence. It does this by showing how a “nursery” can replace neglectful parents of the children. “The Pedestrian” and ”The Veldt” fictional stories by Ray Bradbury, show how artificial intelligence is unhealthy for the future...
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...Copyright Salman Rushdie, 1988 All rights reserved VIKING Published by the Penguin Group Viking Penguin Inc., 40 West 23rd Street, New York, New York 10010, U.S.A. Penguin Books Ltd, 27 Wrights Lane, London W8 5TZ, England Penguin Books Australia Ltd. Ringwood, Victoria, Australia Penguin Books Canada Ltd, 2801 John Street, Markham, Ontario, Canada L3R 1B4 Penguin Books (N.Z.) Ltd, 182-190, Wairau Road, Auckland ro, New Zealand Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England Published in 1989 by Viking Penguin Inc. For Marianne Contents I The Angel Gibreel II Mahound III Ellowen Deeowen IV Ayesha V A City Visible but Unseen VI Return to Jahilia VII The Angel Azraeel VIII The Parting of the Arabian Seas IX A Wonderful Lamp Satan, being thus confined to a vagabond, wandering, unsettled condition, is without any certain abode; for though he has, in consequence of his angelic nature, a kind of empire in the liquid waste or air, yet this is certainly part of his punishment, that he is . . . without any fixed place, or space, allowed him to rest the sole of his foot upon. Daniel Defoe, _The History of the Devil_ I The Angel Gibreel "To be born again," sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, "first you have to die. Hoji! Hoji! To land upon the bosomy earth, first one needs to fly. Tat-taa! Taka-thun! How to ever smile again, if first you won't cry? How to win the darling's love, mister, without a sigh? Baba, if you want to get born again...
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...10000 quiz questions and answers www.cartiaz.ro 10000 general knowledge questions and answers 10000 general knowledge questions and answers www.cartiaz.ro No Questions Quiz 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 Carl and the Passions changed band name to what How many rings on the Olympic flag What colour is vermilion a shade of King Zog ruled which country What colour is Spock's blood Where in your body is your patella Where can you find London bridge today What spirit is mixed with ginger beer in a Moscow mule Who was the first man in space What would you do with a Yashmak Who betrayed Jesus to the Romans Which animal lays eggs On television what was Flipper Who's band was The Quarrymen Which was the most successful Grand National horse Who starred as the Six Million Dollar Man In the song Waltzing Matilda - What is a Jumbuck Who was Dan Dare's greatest enemy in the Eagle What is Dick Grayson better known as What was given on the fourth day of Christmas What was Skippy ( on TV ) What does a funambulist do What is the name of Dennis the Menace's dog What are bactrians and dromedaries Who played The Fugitive Who was the King of Swing Who was the first man to fly across the channel Who starred as Rocky Balboa In which war was the charge of the Light Brigade Who invented the television Who would use a mashie niblick In the song who killed Cock Robin What do deciduous...
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...SECOND DRAFT Contents Preamble Chapter 1 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Background Rationale Aims Interface with the Junior Secondary Curriculum Principles of Curriculum Design Chapter 2 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 1 Introduction Literature in English Curriculum Framework Strands and Learning Targets Learning Objectives Generic Skills Values and Attitudes Broad Learning Outcomes Chapter 3 5 7 9 10 11 11 13 Curriculum Planning 3.1 Planning a Balanced and Flexible Curriculum 3.2 Central Curriculum and School-based Curriculum Development 3.2.1 Integrating Classroom Learning and Independent Learning 3.2.2 Maximizing Learning Opportunities 3.2.3 Cross-curricular Planning 3.2.4 Building a Learning Community through Flexible Class Organization 3.3 Collaboration within the English Language Education KLA and Cross KLA Links 3.4 Time Allocation 3.5 Progression of Studies 3.6 Managing the Curriculum – Role of Curriculum Leaders Chapter 4 1 2 2 3 3 13 14 14 15 15 16 16 17 17 18 21 Learning and Teaching 4.1 Approaches to Learning and Teaching 4.1.1 Introductory Comments 4.1.2 Prose Fiction 4.1.3 Poetry i 21 21 23 32 SECOND DRAFT 4.1.4 Drama 4.1.5 Films 4.1.6 Literary Appreciation 4.1.7 Schools of Literary Criticism 4.2 Catering for Learner Diversity 4.3 Meaningful Homework 4.4 Role of Learners Chapter 5 41 45 52 69 71 72 73 74 Assessment 5.1 Guiding Principles 5.2 Internal Assessment 5.2.1 Formative Assessment 5.2.2 Summative Assessment 5.3 Public Assessment 5.3.1 Standards-referenced...
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