Once known as the ninth planet of the solar system‚ Pluto is now the second-largest dwarf planet. Composed primarily of ice and rock‚ Pluto took part of our Solar System for 76 years. It was discovered on January 23‚ 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh. Tombaugh was an American astronomer who worked at the Lowell Obeservatory. Tombaugh had been working on a project when he came across a moving object in photographs he had taken of the celestial sky. After observing a lower quality picture taken of the mysterious
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Clarisse then disappears and Captain Beatty ‚ ( Montag’s boss ) grows very suspicious of Montag. He proceeds to lecture him and tells him how dangerous books are.Although Montag decided to disregard what his boss has said to him and decides to spend the rest of the afternoon with his wife reading
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and memories in society‚ so‚ many students lost the opportunity to have those jobs. Beatty explains how classes and jobs like that one became less popular‚ "With school turning out more runners‚ jumpers‚ racers‚ tinkerers‚ grabbers‚ snatchers‚ fliers‚ and swimmers instead of examiners‚ critics‚ knowers‚ and imaginative creators‚ the word ’intellectual‚’ of course‚ became the swear word it deserved to be" (55). Beatty is explaining to Montag how the lack of books‚ and therefore knowledge and memory
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Clarisse’s effect on Guy Montag and her purpose in Fahrenheit 451. In the story Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury‚ the main character in the story‚ a firefighter named Guy Montag‚ makes a transformation from disliking books with to a craze to adoring them and what it carries inside of them. He changes from a zombie like character‚ incognizant of the activities in his society‚ to a person conscious of everything‚ so enlightened by the new world he is exposed to. Many aspects in his society helped this
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important things in a person’s life would be like. He’s created a society sometime after 1990‚ in a place called Elm City. It is a place where every one is equally ignorant‚ where the government tries to brainwash everyone to not question anything. Beatty quoted‚ “The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school. That’s why we’ve lowered the kindergarten age year after year until now we’re almost snatching them from the cradle” (Bradbury 60). In order to make sure people grow up the way
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World War I was mainly a land based war‚ however there was one major battle that took place in a part of the North Sea called Skagerrak (97 km off the coast of Jutland‚ Denmark) between the British and the Germans called the battle of Jutland. Britain being an island‚ needed a great navy in order to protect itself from threats and protect its imported of food and other materials. During World War I‚ the British Navy planned to destroy the “German High Seas Fleet” in a quick battle and remain in control
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The Irish were the largest group of immigrants to settle in Scotland and from the early 1800s tended to be mostly on a temporary cyclical basis that peaked during agricultural harvest time. However in the wake of the 1845 Irish Potato Famine – An Gorta Mór‚ there ensued a mass exodus of Irish fleeing their native land to seek a new life in countries all over the world. The census of 1841 revealed that the Irish born population of Scotland stood at 4.8% a figure that in the following ten years had
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that. It is this that causes some of the social criticism in Fahrenheit 451. Bradbury also criticizes the fact that people are only given one right answer to every decision and question through Captain Beatty. A passage that deals with this is when Beatty and Montag are at Montag’s house and Beatty says “If you don’t want a man unhappy politically‚ don’t give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one.” What Bradbury is trying to say in this passage is that America is creating all of
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killed Captain Beatty when Beatty tries to burn Montag’s house‚ “You always said‚ don’t face the problem‚ burn it. Well‚ now I have done both” (147). Montag commits the first physical act in the rebellion against the government. In truth‚ throughout the novel Montag and Clarisse‚ a character readers meet in the beginning‚ and Professor Faber are reading and memorizing books‚ which can be seen as an act of rebellion. The burning of Beatty is the first major act of revolt. After Beatty is gone‚ the society
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There are just some things that distinguish the good authors from the bad ones. Those things include character development‚ language choice‚ plot development‚ and making a story relate to everyone. Because Paul Beatty has all four of these in his book‚ "The White Boy Shuffle"‚ he must be classified as a good author. Now I realize he has other books and they could all be horrible‚ or even better than this one‚ so you can’t base talent of an author on one book(if that were the case and you based my
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