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    are responsible for burning books. This brings us to our main character‚ Guy Montag was a man who had been a firefighter since the age of 20‚ Guy Montag was part of society dumbed by the government. The TV had controlled people‚ prevented them from thinking‚ had taken away all ability to reason. Montag was well lived believing his life was normal and that burning books gave him happiness he needed. One day he met Clarisse McClellan‚ a girl who had a different view of the world‚ she knew something

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    During the course of the assignment I hope to describe and discuss the methods you would use to address the following research question. Should there be further investment in sports within Plymouth Secondary Education. Developing the research question. After the group had been decided we got together to brainstorm some topics that we may all be interested in to see if we could agree on one we were all interested in. We came up with the following * Health * Sport * Curriculum

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    instead. Guy Montag was a firefighter himself. In a world where fire and the smell of kerosene bring pleasure‚ Montag needed someone like Clarisse to introduce him to happiness. While coming home from work one day‚ Montag runs into Clarisse Mcclellan. He notices her because she is doing something very different. She was enjoying the rain‚ thinking‚ asking questions‚ and doing things that people in this society would never do. From the first moment they meet‚ something sparks inside Montag‚ changing

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    The novel’s protagonist‚ Guy Montag‚ takes pride in his work with the fire department. A third-generation fireman‚ Montag fits the stereotypical role‚ with his "black hair‚ black brows...fiery face‚ and ...blue-steel shaved but unshaved look." Montag takes great joy in his work and serves as a model of twenty-four century professionalism. Reeking of cinders and ash‚ he enjoys dressing in his uniform‚ playing the role of a symphony conductor as he directs the bass nozzle toward illegal books‚ and

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    effort into helping others but majority of his personality comes out as cruel and selfish‚ making him a bad character. Guy Montag has influenced Faber “I feel alive for the first time in years.” (pg. 131) Faber wasn’t true to himself for years and finally felt some joy. As well as Clarisse when she said “social to me means talking to you about things like this. (pg. 29) Clarisse‚ so queer compared to the other did not have many people to be “social” with. Regardless‚ this character is quick tempered

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    In “Still I Rise‚” Maya Angelou uses similes to delineate how no matter what oppression she faces regarding her ethnicity or gender‚ she will rise. Maya Angelou was born in 1928‚ in St. Louis‚ Missouri. Her mother and father divorced when she was very young‚ which forced her and her brother to go live with her grandmother in Stamps‚ Arkansas. She saw firsthand racial discrimination being in Arkansas. At the age of 7‚ while visiting her mother‚ she was raped by her mother’s boyfriend. Seeking revenge

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    Ray Bradbury portrays how Montag likes to burn and change things with fire. Montag can be compared with fire in many ways. Fire to him is pleasure‚ power‚ warmth‚ and happiness. Throughout the book‚ Bradbury demonstrates how Montags’ personality mirrors fire. Montag felt good when working with fire he did not care about anything else. He felt pleasure seeing things deformed “It was a pleasure to see things eaten‚ to see things blackened and changed.”(Page 3) Montag felt full of life and good about

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    he gave her no reason to be. She gives a description of him including his feet‚ shoes‚ clothing‚ and the emotion she perceives is on his face but for some reason doesn’t give an actual description of his face and body type‚ which I find strange. The speaker’s similes and metaphors are very disturbing because she seems to like to allude to death and pain. For example‚ she says that the laces on his sneakers are”…in a complex pattern like a set of intentional scars‚” and “he is wearing red‚ like

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    Scheme of Work Please use these guidance notes as a checklist against your scheme(s) to ensure they are sufficiently detailed and specific.| 1. In the overview‚ have I adequately described the: ? location and resources being used? ? arrangements for individual and group tutorials? ? assessment arrangements‚ eg Awarding body‚ methods‚frequency and timing of assessments? ? ways in which the themes of Every Learner Matters are addressed?2. Have I clearly identified and well-planned induction

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    around his long‚ dreary face with its small eyes and hooked nose." The poetic device of simile used to describe Monsieur Binet helps the reader visualize how meticulous he is. A meticulous man is the last thing a person wants in a small and very interconnected village. The reader after such a brief description becomes aware of this character and his possible significance in the later on affair. Chapter 2 page 96: "She was wearing a little blue silk scarf that held her pleated batiste collar

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