...The society of Fahrenheit 451 and our own share many similarities, such as social tendencies and individuals devolving into fantasies, but differ regarding governmental control and the right to action. Ray Bradbury correctly theorized the epidemic of short attention spans and devolving social interaction in Fahrenheit 451. When Montag claims that he is sick and asks Mildred to bring him water and an aspirin she leaves the room, then comes back without either item. When he asks “Where’s the aspirin?”, she leaves the room again and only gets him water (Bradbury 46). This is a nod to to the seemingly shrinking attention span that people have today. During breakfast, Mildred has sea shell ear thimbles on her ears. She has “both ears plugged with electronic bees that were humming the hour away.” (16). Many people today don't take out their earbuds when talking to someone. These are examples of the current shrinking attention span and lack of social engagement. There is a blurred distinction between life and death in Fahrenheit 451 that can be seen in our own society. Clarisse McClellan is a character in Fahrenheit 541 who is described as having “eyes...
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...personality completely. There is a book, Fahrenheit 451 that connects to our society through the extremely limited emotional expression they have in their world. Even other novels have emotional issues based on whether or not a boy likes them or whether or not they will be in trouble with the authorities for being different. Men, women, and children...
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...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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...A Study of the Allusions in Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 Author(s): Peter Sisario[->0] [(essay date February 1970) In the following essay, Sisario examines the source and significance of literary allusions in Fahrenheit 451 and considers their didactic potential for the beginning student of literature.] Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 is more than just a readable and teachable short novel that generates much classroom discussion about the dangers of a mass culture, as Charles Hamblen points out in his article "Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 in the Classroom." It is an excellent source for showing students the value of studying an author's use of specific allusions in a work of fiction. While writing excellent social criticism, Bradbury uses several direct quotations from works of literature, including the Bible; a careful analysis of the patterning of these allusions shows their function of adding subtle depth to the ideas of the novel. Fahrenheit 451 is set five centuries from now in an anti-intellectual world where firemen serve the reverse role of setting fires, in this case to books that people have been illegally hoarding and reading. Literature is banned because it might potentially incite people to think or to question the status quo of happiness and freedom from worry through the elimination of controversy. "Intellectual" entertainment is provided by tapioca-bland television that broadcasts sentimental mush on all four walls. The novel, first written in a shorter version...
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...“Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquents.”(Bradbury 89). In the novel Fahrenheit 451, the main idea centers around the importance of human connection. Bradbury stresses this idea by allowing fire to take away the idea of building relationships with others. In turn, the society begins to collapse and literally ends with the city in flames. He also illustrates how much the real world relates to the crumbling world in the novel through technology, their current events, and the way the people treat certain issues. In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury through his use of literary terms exposes how literature saves society from its inevitable demise by revealing today’s society’s weaknesses, challenges readers to connect the dystopian society in the book to reality, and demonstrates how human connections give people a reason to live and love. Even when Bradbury was a child he was interested in literature. In the article “Ray Bradbury: Martian...
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...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 Changing” he critic’s points of a NEA (National Endowment for the Arts) research report. One of the points he argues against is that reading is only useful if it is comprehensive. He explains that well known people in the past were depicted with many books about them. If reading one book at a time is the correct way, then why is reading laterally (reading many sources at once) shown to be the...
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...In Fahrenheit 451 I think this first stage starts out when Guy meets and talks to Clarisse. Clarisse is an important character in this stage because she helps Guy realize that he needs to open his eyes to a different kind of thinking. He loved that he can have an intellectual conversation with Clarisse because she thinks in a way that others in this society do not. When Guy saves a book that he got from a woman’s house that they set on fire, he hides it and reads it the entire next day. By doing this, he realizes that there is more to what their world has to offer, and that they are missing out on amazing things. When he goes to Faber and talks about books Faber says, “Do you know why books such as this are so important? Because they have quality. And what does the word quality mean? To me it means...
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...Fahrenheit 451 revolves in the bizarre era where everyone and everything is controlled by the government. From the beginning, since Montag and Clarisse met, he thought that Clarisse was different from the rest of the people even himself. He mentioned that Clarisse had a very thin face like the dial of the small clock which tells the time, the hour, minute, and second. Clarisse knows the time, she knows the truth, the facts, and she is like a mirror that reflects deep thoughts of the people. She made Montag curious about what happiness really is, true love, pure emotions, and knowledge, in which is not embraced in their society, making him the outsider. In this society, ignorance is a bliss;reigning across their culture, and what is thought to be the answer for happiness. There are many reasons why ignorance revolves in the society where this story took place. The fireman's job is to burn books, which contains the facts and the information, therefore burning knowledge. Books are no longer able to be read, not only because they might offend...
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...(AGG) Nobody has ever paid attention to humanity, nor what does it means to truly be human? Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury answers this question. (BS-1) At the start, before Montag wakes up and realizes his corrupt society, he agrees with his society, and thinks like everybody else. (BS-2) However, when Montag meets Clarisse, this results in him beginning to question the inhumane society, and his individuality. (BS-3) In the end, Montag knows how wrong and inhumane his society is, so he rejects it’s values. (TS) In this book, characters, especially Montag, values his individuality more than anything else, which drives him to reject his inhumane society. (MIP-1) At the start, before Montag wakes up and realizes his corrupt society, he agrees...
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...outstretched, desperately trying to reach the green light. The green light symbolizes how desperately Gatsby want Daisy back in his life- however, his failure to reach the green light demonstrates how Daisy is ultimately gone from his life forever. 2.)Chapter 1: Every trip is a quest (Except when it's not) Story I have chosen is Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief A.) Our questor: A young boy with dyslexia and ADHD who finds out he is a demigod and that his father is poseidon. B.) A place to go: Percy and his friends must go and try to find the master lightning bolt that someone stole he also has to find and try to save his mom C.) A stated reason to go there: Zeus thinks percy stole the lightning bolt and wants him dead so to stay alive he must find out who stole it and give it back to Zeus. He also has to try and find his mom and...
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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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...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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...Adlerisms 1. “I can think, I can wait, I can fast…” –Siddhartha 2. “Fate will unwind as it must…” -Beowulf 3. “A mistake is repeated until it is learned…” -Confucius 4. “My worst enemy, my best friend – myself…” -Henry Reyna – Zoot Suit 5. “Tender yourself more dearly!” -Polonius, Hamlet 6. “If you fail to prepare – prepare to fail…” -Steve Prefontaine, Olympic Gold Medalist 7. “Our intentions are far more different than our actions…” -Coach Adler LQHS 8. “Defeat distraction, or distractions will defeat you…” -Coach Adler LQHS 9. “Those who settle for less end with less…” -Coach Adler LQHS 10. “A good fall makes one wiser…” -Aesop 11. “If I were you I would turn back now and save some time and grief. Believe me; you’re heading in the wrong direction…” -Coach Adler LQHS, The Two Ants 12. “In the middle of the journey of our life – I came to find myself in a dark woods where the straightway was lost…” -Dante Alighieri 13. “Acta non verba” (Actions not words) -Latin Idiom 14. “Carpe diem” (Seize the day) -Latin Idiom 15. “A good student only needs to be told once!” -Coach Adler LQHS 16. “Every day wasted is another day you’ll never get back!” -Boyd Grant, Fresno State Basketball 17. “A future filled with regret is not a bright one…” -Koby Serreitelli 18. “If you remain organized you stay in control” -Elise Alverzez 2013 19. “Impossible is just a big word that gets thrown around by small...
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...and Practical Techniques in Health Care F0K9 34 Acknowledgements No extract from any source held under copyright by any individual or organisation has been included in this publication. © COLEG – Material developed by Cardonald College. This publication is licensed for use by Scotland’s colleges as commissioned materials under the terms and conditions of COLEG’s Intellectual Property Rights document, September 2004. No part of this publication may be reproduced without the prior written consent of COLEG and SQA. © COLEG 2 Calculations and Practical Techniques in Health Care F0K9 34 Contents Section 1: Introduction to this teaching pack Information about the HNC Health Care Group Award Information about this Unit Why the packs have been written How the pack is organised How to use the pack Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework (SCQF) and the HNC Health Care Section 2: Session Plans Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10 Week 11 Week 12 Week 13 Week 14 Week 15 Week 16 Introduction / Mentor / Holistic care / Models Roper-Logan-Tierney Model / Safe practice in placement Respiration / Peak flow / Oxygen saturations Blood pressure / Pulse / Temperature Height / Weight / Body Mass Index / Fluid balance Specimen collection/ Urine testing Explanation of Skills Booklet Calculations between different units of measurement Calculating decimals, fractions and percentages Administration of medicines Recording of results Interpretation...
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...Mythological and Biblical Characters The Titans According to Greek mythology, the Titans were a race of primordial, powerful deities that ruled during the legendary Golden Age. The Titans were created by Gaea and her surrounding Uranus (Heaven), who embraced her strongly with his starry mantle and they became the first divine couple of the World. The Titans were first dwelling in Mount Olympus in Ancient Greece, but were overthrown expelled to the lower basement of Hades, the Tartarus, after their defeat in a huge battle with the Olympian Gods. The Superior Titans are Gaea, Mother Earth, and Uranus, Ruler of the Heaven and the Sky. The Main Titans are Atlas, the Titan of Astronomy, and Prometheus, the Titan of Wisdom and Forethought. There are also several Titan Couples. These include Cronus and Rhea, the mother and father of the Olympian Gods, Coeus and Phoebe, the Titan of Intelligence and the Titaness of Brilliance and the Moon, Hyperion and Theia, Titan of Life and Sun and Titaness of Sight, and Oceanus and Tethys, Ruler of the Waters and the Seas, and Titaness of the Wet Element and the Oceans. Other Titans of Ancient Greece include Crius, Titan of Leadership and Domestic Animals, Iapetus, Titan of Morality, Mnemosyne, Titaness of Memory, and Themis, Titaness of Law, Justice and Order. The Twelve Olympians The Olympian gods were the main deities in Ancient Greece. All gods were associated with birth myths, but they were unaging. After overthrowing their ancestors...
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