...` In The Veldt and There Will Come Soft Rains, Ray Bradbury suggests that machines can serve as both a help and a hinderance. Some people believe that technology can help the world develop and is able to help everyone's lives “better”. What they don't’ think about is the long term effects of overuse of technology. Bradbury explains what he believes to be a consequence of the over development of technology through two short stories that will be described in this essay. The two stories have many differences as well as similarities. However, all together they both explain what life could be like if people let technology “take over”. In the story “There Will Come Soft Rains”, Ray Bradbury writes about a house that has survived a nuclear war....
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...The realization of technology one day parenting a future generation is frightening. In addition, technology becomes further involved in people’s lives everyday. Ray Bradbury writes about the future role of technology in society with apprehensiveness through short stories. He demonstrates through “The Veldt” and “There Will Come Soft Rains” that humanity’s further dependence on technology will be detrimental to society. “The Veldt” depicts the Hadley family as slaves to their reliance on technology, only to find it more harmful than beneficial. Lydia alerts George of her suspicions about the nursery, “They walked down the hall of their Happylife Home, which had cost them thirty thousand dollars installed, this house which clothed and fed and rocked them to sleep and played and...
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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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...fiction Professor Eli Ryder. 4/24/17 Final Assessment Essay The apocalypse is a concept that many of us at some point or another in our life will get obsessed with. The thought of what we know and love to be destroyed by a nuclear war or a natural disaster, or a zombie apocalypse is intriguing. Our minds have a defense mechanism in a way to think about the “what ifs” of a situation so that if they do happen we are not as disappointed or shocked. And I guess that is why thinking about different ways that an apocalypse could happen is our brain in a way getting prepared for that which may happen. Over our lifetimes we see a lot of apocalypse books or movies that peek our imagination and make us ask ourselves if we would...
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..."August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains" By Lasse Lundqvist What would the world look like in the future, if nuclear bombs were dropped in the United States of America? One option for that answer is to find I the short story “There will come soft rains - August 2026” by Ray Bradbury. This essay will deal with the human technology development, which is a threat for the. Nevertheless, the nature will always recover from the destruction of technology. Through the narrative we get to know the routine of the everyday life in an empty house, with the only purpose of serving the gods; the humans. The story takes place in the year 2026, and mankind has invented a house that is capable of working on its own. In the town of Allendale, a house stands alone in a city of rubble an ash. The city is the outcome of an exploded nuclear bomb and lies in ruins. The atmosphere is very cold due to the lack of humanity, but the narrator manages to make the reading experience energetic by giving the robots human characteristics. “An aluminium wedge scraped them into the sink, where hot water whirled them down a metal throat which digested and flushed them away to the distant sea.”(Bradbury l.20 p.1). By using the word “digested” the story becomes more alive. With its humanlike features, the house has become controlling and demanding. Everything has to be done in an exact point of time. All the tasks the house has, must be carried out to the fullest. “In the kitchen the breakfast stove… eight...
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...Mahindra Persaud May 5, 2014 Expository Writing UA1: Writing the Essay Brian Schwartz Finding Yourself With an expansive memory and imagination, the mind grows and constructs images, snapshots, of the everyday life and stores them in the mind for later access. Sitting on the number one train in uptown New York, Colson Whitehead looks out of the subway window as the train rises out from the tunnel as it head towards the next stop. It is the early ages of the city, when “everything is filthy.” This is where he started creating his own private New York (City Limits). “Never listen to what people tell you about old New York,” he says since you were not there to see it for yourself you cannot include it in part of your own New York (City Limits). This is why the Met Life building will always be the Pan Am building to him. He does not call it that “out of affection” but because “that’s what it is” to him (City Limits). To anyone seeing the Pan Am building for the first time will call it the Met Life building because “That’s what it is” to them (City Limits). “The city knows you better than any living person because it has seen you when you are alone” (City Limits). It knows the kind of person you are who you will become. The way you live your day-to-day life, permanently brazened onto your record by the “neon footprint” that is left by “every step” that you make (Broadway). Each person in the city “track [themselves] through city and years” as they walk their familiar paths...
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...Put these verbs in the present simple form: 1. We our dog. (to call) 2. Emma in the lessons. (to dream) 3. They at birds. (to look) 4. John home from school. (to come) 5. I my friends. (to meet) 6. He the laptop. (to repair) 7. Walter and Frank hello. (to say) 8. The cat under the tree. (to sit) 9. You water. (to drink) 10. She the lunchbox. (to forget) 1. I good marks. (to get) 2. Rita exercises. (to do) 3. We often the table. (to lay) 4. Tim and Pat pictures. (to upload) 5. Oliver always fun. (to have) 6. Maria sometimes their room. (to tidy up) 7. He often new shoes. (to buy) 8. The dog never out of the house. (to run) 9. You your glasses. (to need) 10. She snakes. (to touch) 1. Tom stamps. (not/to collect) 2. You songs in the bathroom. (not/to sing) 3. Julie in the garden. (not/to work) 4. I at home. (not/to sit) 5. Tina and Kate the windows. (not/to open) 6. Adam French. (not/to speak) 7. His sister lemonade. (not/to like) 8. We to music. (not/to listen) 9. My father the car every Saturday. (not/to clean) 10. Johnny and Danny in the lake. (not/to swim) 11. We handball at school. (not/to play) 12. Laura her room. (not/to clean) 13. Mark his homework. (not/to do) 14. Susan and Jerry TV. (not/to watch) 15. They at 6.30. (not/to wake up) 16. You shopping. (not/to go) 17. Mrs Smith a big box...
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...Matthew Chick Language Arts Mr Shulist Grade 11 Language arts final exam essay We can create the most amazing, beautiful, and wonderful things ranging from arts to medical supplies, but the evil that lurks within the destructive devices which we also create will destroy everything beautiful and peaceful in a blink of an eye. We 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...
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...Unit Title: Communications in Business 100 Assessment: Critical Essay Company: Pepsi Company Ltd Essay Title: Corporate Environmental Obligation: An examination of the performance of Pepsi Co Student Name: Chomansingh Mareachealee Student Number: 15570501 Semester: 1 2011 Campus: Charles Telfair Institute Tutor’s Name: Sarita Ramanan Tutorial Day and Time: Tuesday (11:30-13:30) GP 4 | | | | | | | Table of content | | | | | Content: | | | | | | Introduction | 2 | | | | | The case against Pepsi Co and its impact & implication: | | | | | | (A) Achieving positive water balance | 2&3 | | (B) Land & Packaging- Moving towards zero landfill | 4 | | (C ) Climate change- reducing the carbon Footprint of operations | 5 | | (D) Protecting Natural resources and health | 6 | | | | | | | | The case for Pepsi Co and its impact & implication: | | | | | | (A) Pesticide controversy in India and Carbon dioxide emission | 7 | | (B) Using Tap water for Bottling | 7&8 | | (C )Health issues and Recycling problem | 8&9 | | | | | | | | Conclusion: | 9 | | | | | References: | 10&11&12 | | | Re: Corporate Environmental Obligation: An examination of the performance of Pepsi company Introduction: Modern organizations have high considerations for societal contribution. Nowadays...
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...Since Datuk Seri Najib Tun Abdul Razak became the sixth Prime Minister, he introduced a concept of solidarity, which is One Malaysia. It is not a new concept. In fact, he states that it is the goal of national unity envisioned by past prime ministers of this nation with a different approach and method according to the current condition of the world. In the other words, he updated the concept which is brought by the previous Malaysian leaders. The Prime Minister also states that the 1 Malaysia concept is the guideline on how to achieve bangsa Malaysia, which translates into English as a “Malaysian race”. Nowadays, certain of Malaysian citizens sort theirselves according by their races. Thus, it will lacerate the solidarity and create a gap between races. Furthermore, some of our people are only socialize with their own race and they were unlikely to be friendly to the other races. These factors are also adapted into our local economy sectors. For an example, The Chinese employer will only hire chinese employees to work in their company. As a result, Chinese are now dominating the commercial fields in Malaysia. Plus, it also caused other race such as Malay and Indian to have less opportunity to work in this field. Besides, it also causes our country become divisible and are not completely united. With this One Malaysia concept, it helps to terminate this bad perspective and reunite the human races in Malaysia. This idea consists of two aspects, the application of solidarity...
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...Year Nine English AEP Frankenstein/Science Fiction Essay (Reading and Writing Task) Topic: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is the Science Fiction text that allowed all other examples of the sub-genre to follow. Discuss this proposition with specific reference to the Drama Script and Film versions of the novel, along with any other relevant Science Fiction texts you have read or viewed. * Your essay should especially consider Shelley’s context and that of other writers you refer to, as well as your own context as a reader. * You should make specific reference to the texts you are discussing via both direct (quotations) and indirect (explanations) evidence. * Be sure to plan your response so that each paragraph has its own unified idea. A sample paragraph structure might look like the following: 1. Introduction – Thesis: e.g.: “Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is the first text which uses scientific experimentation as the basis of its plot. In doing this, it paved the way for all Science Fiction which followed…” 2. Body P1 – Author context + sub-genre features – what changes have occurred over time as a result of context? Consider Mary Shelley, H.G. Wells, Ray Bradbury 3. Body P2 – Discussion of Frankenstein 4. Body P3 – Discussion of other text e.g.: War of the Worlds (make some reference to Frankenstein as well) 5. Body P4 - Discussion of other text e.g.: There Will Come Soft Rains (make some reference to Frankenstein as well) ...
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...ENC1102 Spring 2014 — Class Schedule |Tuesday, January 14th | |Introduction to the course, syllabus, schedule, materials, and peers. | | | | | |Thursday, January 16th | |In class we’ll read the poem, “My Papa’s Waltz” by Roethke (274), practice textual analysis, and work on an | | | |outline. | | | |Homework: Pg. 276, questions 14-16, and “making an argument” 4; | | | |Read the poem, “Those Winter Sundays” by Hayden (13) and answer | | | |questions 1-6. | | | | | |Tuesday, January 21st | |In class we’ll re-read the poem, “Those Winter Sundays” by Hayden, look at an earlier...
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...all have a roll of thread. On this thread lays the decisions we’ve made, make and will make. So yes, on it also lays the decision I’ve made to wait 2 weeks to do my essay the night before This thread is our lifeline with fate, destiny and whatever else you what combine. It determines the people we’ll meet, the places we’ll see, and who we become. It determines if you passed that exam or whether he’s going to ask you to that dance. But you see, you don’t know your mark until you hold it in your hands or he’s interested until he asks about your weekend plans. This all-mighty roll of thread makes us wait, anticipate. I didn’t know I didn’t know when I waved goodbye it would be the last time I looked into his aged eyes. I didn’t know that the call would come before my flight and before I could even pack his heart monitor beep and went flat. I didn’t know, and I’m so sorry I didn’t show Because the roll of thread made me wait, anticipate I’m don’t even know that I’m waiting for Because I don’t know if it’s rolling down a busy street or somewhere only the birds can soar I don’t know if it’s floating down a steady stream or being tossed in an angry ocean where the gulls cry and the waters roar I don’t know if it’s up a soft, green hill kissed by raindrops or tumbling down a sharp, jagged mountain where the rain never stops And I can’t calm down because no matter how many times you tell me to, I can’t tell it to go with the flow, drift wherever the wind blows because it knows...
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...The Importance of Rewriting Storm Water Regulations Danielle Nielsen Goochland High School Abstract This paper observes the negative and harmful effects of water pollution and storm water runoff on the environment and the surrounding community. The most common form of water pollution is sediment runoff. It then goes on to explain the research and effectiveness of Best Management Practices (BMPs) and their positive effects. BMPs are conservation practices that can preserve or improve the state of the environment. The argument stated in this essay refers to the use of storm water regulations in the United States. Most regulations are too strict to allow for any conservation practices because they can be very costly and ineffective if carried out improperly. If the storm water regulations are rewritten to allow for BMPs, then the state of commercial and non-commercial water sources could be greatly improved. The Importance of Rewriting Storm Water Regulations Think about all the bodies of water on our planet. Every river, lake, stream, and is essential to the way our world functions. Unfortunately, our society has done very little to preserve these water sources and as a result, our rivers, lakes, streams, and oceans are suffering from many forms of pollution. Every oil spill, discarded water bottle, and obstructive dam continually add to our already-polluted waters, and very little is being done to reverse this problem. The most prominent issue...
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...FINAL DRAFT CHAPTER 9 – NARRATIVE ESSAY LINDA TANDJUNG After a five hour journey from Jakarta to the country side, nearly 80 students finally arrived at the remote spot, full of towering and mysterious trees and without knowing what wildlife actually lived in there. All the students were still in-a-fog, recalibrating themselves from sleep on a long drive in the car and feeling surprised out how primitive the place was, where they would spend the next three nights. I was the chief of the Student Government for my major, Information Systems, called HIMSISFO. One of our program was an outdoor orientation for new students to learn how to survive in the wild by using only very basic tools without any electronics and also how to work in a group. They would learn lots of soft skills, like communication, leadership and other topics which varied every year these were performed by the alumni or the Information system’s dean. As city slickers, who are much more adapted to modern, appropriate and convenient amenities, like warm running shower water, clean restrooms stocked with toilet paper, or fluffy, comfortable feathered beds, we expected the new students to have a little taste of great outdoors with clean and fresh air and also got introduced to the beautiful painting of God. We instructed the new students to unload their stuff from the gigantic truck we came with and to build the tents. We constructed several large tents, like the meeting place for the coordinators, the area that...
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