Atomic Number: 8 Group: The chalcogen group Chemical formula: 02 Melting point: 54.36 k (-218.79 C‚ -361.82 F) Boiling point: 90.188 k (-182.962 C‚ -297.332 F) State at room temperature: Gas 2. What do we use oxygen for? Describe two common uses of oxygen in our world‚ that do not take place within
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As the main protagonist of the book‚ Montag portrays a dynamic character‚ whereas his perception of society around him changes throughout the book. Not only did he question their actions‚ but also his own happiness. This showed that he was‚ in fact‚ more intelligent than the others. This is significant because society is administered by a single lie that happiness should only exist. Clarisse is open minded because she thinks distinctively from society. She does not believe in violence that of which
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Montag is going through a major transition at this part of the novel. He is actually thinking critically about why things are instead of how things are done. Montag is losing the fake sense of security and happiness that the government has instilled upon him. Clarisse‚ the girl who is mentioned in this quote‚ is the one who gets Montag thinking. She asks Montag if he is really happy and he responds that he is‚ but he later comes back to that question and thinks about it. Montag realizes that he is
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boring‚ ignorant world. My life was always the same. I never really saw the world until I met Clarisse McClellan. She was not like the others. She didn ’t follow their mindless routine. She didn ’t just exist like everyone else; she lived. She didn ’t just look; she observed. She thought. She felt. Clarisse gave me something to live for. She showed me how to live and not just exist. Ever since Clarisse disappeared‚ life has felt empty. She was my life because I had no life before her. But even
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of mature students entering higher education has risen significantly since the 1980s‚ as successive governments have sought to widen participation to a diverse group of students (National Audit Office‚ 2002). Whilst in the past it was possible to describe a typical university student‚ today the student body is much more diverse in terms of both age and social background. The government’s widening participation initiative‚ driven by the Dearing Report (Dearing‚ 1997)‚ has developed an agenda for lifelong
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Aeneas and Mezentius Book ten of The Aeneid incorporates varied similes on the heroic figures of Aeneas and Mezentius. These similes further illustrate to its audience the character and nature of Aeneas and Mezentius. Lines 778 to 783 offers an epic simile of Aeneas‚ “Just as Aegaeon‚ who had a hundred arms and hands-they say-and fire burning from his fifty mouths and chests‚ when he clanged at Jove’s thunderbolts with his fifty shields‚ each one just like the other‚ and drew as many
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Case 2: Find somebody else Question 1: What principles of supportive communication and supportive listening are violated in this case? During the conversation between Ron Davis – the relatively new general manager of the machine tooling group at Parker Manufacturing and Mike – a plant manager who reported to Ron‚ Ron had violated some principles of supportive communication and supportive listening. First of all‚ Ron had violated Descriptive and Problem-Oriented principles. For example‚ Ron expressed
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Lee’’ Edgar Allan Poe uses repetition with Annabel lee’s name creating a more peaceful‚ catchy rhythm. Giving the poem a more song like quality when you read the poem out loud. The first five stanzas mention Annabel Lees name either in the fourth or last line of each stanza except for the last stanza. Where it mentions her name in the first line and the fourth line. He wrote‚ ’’For the moon never beams‚ without bringing me dreams…/ Of the beautiful Annabel Lee…/And the
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Guy Montag‚ is a fireman. But in his world‚ a “fireman”’s job is to burn houses that contain the burden called books. He quickly becomes eager to learn‚ and begins to steal books. He tries to share them with people he loves‚ but then the firemen came for his house. Because of his anger towards his job‚ wife‚ Beatty‚ and the fireman‚ he leaves the dystopian society. In the book Fahrenheit 451 the “known” for society is a government that controls the information that the public receives and gives
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Montag‚ the main character in Fahrenheit 451 changes drastically by the end of the novel by changing from someone who “loves” his job‚ to someone who doesn’t want to be a fireman and who changes his whole life in the search of happiness and what is right. In the text it says‚ “It was a pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten‚ to see things blackened and changed” (Bradbury 7). Montag’s love and passion of burning books is seen here as he describes the pleasure in which he gets
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